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By exploiting how AI coding agents retrieve and verify plugins, researchers were able to execute malicious code even when the agent was told to use a trusted, approved version.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Sep 18, 2026 6 mins

Code EditorsDevelopment ToolsVulnerabilities

MSBuild explained: Understanding Microsoft’s build platform

MSBuild is more powerful than you might think, as it’s usually hidden behind an IDE. Here’s a peek behind the curtain.

By Simon Bisson

Sep 17, 2026 8 mins

Development ToolsLibraries and FrameworksMicrosoft .NET

Exposed Vite servers are being probed for AWS and Azure credentials

Attackers are scanning internet-exposed Vite development servers for environment files, cloud credentials and infrastructure configuration.

By Shweta Sharma

Sep 15, 2026 4 mins

Code SecurityDevelopment ToolsSecurity

The best IDE for agentic AI may not be an IDE at all

Developers are scrambling for tools to help them manage multiple coding agents, and coming up with useful tools of their own.

By Matt Asay

Sep 15, 2026 7 mins

Development ToolsGenerative AIIntegrated Development Environments

The five important tools for controlling AI costs

Large language models are miraculous tools until the cost hits you like a city bus. Fortunately, we have a few good levers to control the spend.

By Matthew Tyson

Sep 9, 2026 11 mins

Artificial IntelligenceDevelopment ToolsGenerative AI

AI won’t kill SaaS

SaaS companies that allow customers to use AI for customizations increase customer interest in the original SaaS product.

By Matt Asay

Sep 8, 2026 7 mins

Development ToolsSaaSTechnology Industry

Visual Studio Code 1.136 introduces agent merges for pull requests

Preview feature directs an agent to review a pull request and iteratively fix failed checks and conflicts until the pull request is ready to merge.

By Paul Krill

Sep 4, 2026 2 mins

Development ToolsIntegrated Development EnvironmentsVisual Studio Code

OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra, its first model to cross a critical cybersecurity threshold

The rollout comes with a safety disclosure that could reshape how CIOs think about model governance.

By Gyana Swain

Sep 4, 2026 5 mins

Artificial IntelligenceDevelopment ToolsGenerative AI

Meta upgrades Muse Spark for long-horizon coding without raising API prices

Muse Spark 1.3 promises to complete complex software development tasks with fewer tokens and tool calls while keeping the same per-token pricing as its predecessor.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Sep 3, 2026 5 mins

Artificial IntelligenceDevelopment ToolsSoftware Development