MCP, short for Model Context Protocol, allows AI assistants like Anthropic’s Claude and OpenAI’s ChatGPT to directly connect with the apps and retrieve real-time information. This allows any AI ...

The Contagious Interview campaign weaponizes job recruitment to target developers. Threat actors pose as recruiters from crypto and AI companies and deliver backdoors such as OtterCookie and ...

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Microsoft's AI Toolkit extension for VS Code now lets developers scaffold a working MCP server in minutes. Here's what that looks like in practice -- including the parts that don't work, and a simpler ...

Overview On February 11, 2026, NSFOCUS CERT monitored Microsoft’s release of its February security update patches, addressing 59 security issues across widely used products such as Windows, Azure, ...

VS Code's AI Toolkit and Microsoft Foundry can speed up agent development, but real-world success often depends on picking the right runtime and region, keeping tool-driven context under control, and ...

A Python library for generating unique, distributed IDs using a modified Snowflake algorithm. This library allows for easy generation of Snowflake IDs, encoding/decoding to Base62, and extracting ...

The Container Tools extension makes it easy to build, manage, and deploy containerized applications from Visual Studio Code. It also provides one-click debugging of Node.js, Python, and .NET inside a ...

Vulnerabilities with high to critical severity ratings affecting popular Visual Studio Code (VSCode) extensions collectively downloaded more than 128 million times could be exploited to steal local ...

Has AI coding reached a tipping point? That seems to be the case for Spotify at least, which shared this week during its fourth-quarter earnings call that the best developers at the company “have not ...