Everything you may have missed from the past week.

Pixel Agents integrates animated pixel art characters into Visual Studio Code (VS Code) to create a virtual workspace for managing AI-driven workflows. Demonstrated by Nate Herk , this extension ...

North Korean hackers exploit VS Code tasks.json auto-run since Dec 2025 to deploy StoatWaffle malware, stealing data and ...

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 ...

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 ...

So, you want to get into Python coding online, huh? It’s a pretty popular language, and luckily, there are tons of tools out ...

I'm taking the road less traveled.

JavaOne Oracle has shipped Java 26, a short-term release, and introduced Project Detroit, which promises faster interop between Java, JavaScript, and Python. Java 26 will be supported for just six ...

Threat actors are publishing clean extensions that later update to depend on hidden payload packages, bypassing marketplace ...

AI Toolkit for VS Code v0.30.0 adds a new Tool Catalog for discovering, configuring, and managing agent tools, including local stdio MCP servers and tools from the public Foundry catalog. A new Agent ...

eSpeaks’ Corey Noles talks with Rob Israch, President of Tipalti, about what it means to lead with Global-First Finance and how companies can build scalable, compliant operations in an increasingly ...

At embedded world, on the DigiKey booth, Lucy Barnard speaks with Marta Barbero at Arduino, about the new Arduino product announcement.