Malicious Claude Code extension on Cursor planted SSH backdoors

A malicious version of Anthropic's Claude Code VS Code extension was distributed through Cursor's extension marketplace for ...
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Claude Code extension poisoned with persistent SSH backdoor

According to Cursor, turning on SSH requires admin rights the extension lacks on most Mac and Windows hosts, and on those machines the attacker could not have logged in through the tunnel. The company ...
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GitHub Lets Developers Control VS Code AI Agents from Their Phones

New Agent Host functionality lets developers direct agents running on their own machines through GitHub Mobile, while maintaining sessions across VS Code windows and custom clients.
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VS Code 1.144 Unleashes Copilot Fusion, AI Image Generation and Computer Use

Microsoft's latest Visual Studio Code release expands AI agent capabilities with multi-model orchestration, cloud automations, desktop control and a marketplace for agent customizations.

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Visual Studio's latest update brings several welcome changes, and developers may find one new feature especially useful when ...

Visual Studio Professional 2026 drops to $29.97 for a lifetime license

The 64-bit IDE comes with hot reload, IntelliCode, CodeLens, Live Share, and support for GitHub Copilot Free. One payment ...
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I tried VS Code with AI and Claude Code side by side for a month, and VS Code is now my fallback editor

I still need VS Code, but Claude Code gets most of my development work now ...

If you're building things with AI, make VS Code your editor ── 6 reasons I arrived here after changing my approach 12 times in 8 months

When you start having AI build apps or tools, the first thing you get lost in is "where to use AI from".You can use AI ...