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 ...

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Latest VS Code update introduces prepackaged bundles of chat customizations that can include skills, commands, agents, MCP ...

Microsoft's February 2026 Foundry update includes broader platform changes, but the most immediate developer-facing news for VS Code users is an AI Toolkit refresh centered on tool discovery, agent ...

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 ...

Manufact, a Y Combinator startup, raised $6.3 million to build open-source tools and cloud infrastructure for the Model Context Protocol (MCP), the fast-growing standard backed by Anthropic and OpenAI ...

It's more than just a code editor.

Asynchronous programming with async and await has existed in .NET for years. Now Microsoft is delivering a new runtime environment for asynchronous execution. Dr. Holger Schwichtenberg is Chief ...

Extracellular vesicles (EVs) loaded with customizable anti-cancer antisense oligonucleotides suppressed cancer growth. Lung cancer, specifically Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC)-the most common ...

Dubbed InstallFix by Push Security, the scheme inserts instructions to download malware during the Claude Code install process on cloned websites.