Visual Studio Magazine

VS Code Python Team Improves Interactive REPL

Microsoft's dev team for Python in Visual Studio Code updated its tooling to improve working with the language's interactive REPL functionality. Standing for Read-Eval-Print Loop, a REPL provides an ...
Visual Studio Magazine

VS Code Preview: Python in the Browser, Executed by WebAssembly

In the December update to Python in Visual Studio Code, developers can experiment with a new preview feature that lets them run and debug Python code in the browser. What's more, developers have to ...
Dark Reading

Python-Based Malware Slithers Into Systems via Legit VS Code

A known Chinese advanced persistent threat (APT) group known as Mustang Panda is the likely culprit behind a sophisticated, ongoing cyber-espionage campaign. It starts with a malicious email, and ...
InfoWorld

Visual Studio Code improves tools for agents

VS Code 1.127 enhances agent session management, introduces per-site browser permissions, and makes browser tools for agents ...
VentureBeat

GitHub confirms 3,800 internal repos stolen through poisoned VS Code extension as supply chain worm hits Microsoft’s Python SDK

GitHub confirmed on May 20 that a poisoned VS Code extension installed on an employee’s device gave attackers access to roughly 3,800 internal repositories at the Microsoft-owned code storage and ...
Tech Times

GitHub Closes the Agentic Loop in VS Code: Browser Tools Go GA, Sessions Run in Parallel

GitHub Copilot VS Code browser tools are now generally available and enabled by default for all paid Copilot subscribers. The ...
InfoWorld

Pick your Python accelerator

With lazy imports, JIT compilation, Python-generated C, or the Python-esque Mojo, it has never been easier to make Python go ...