NPM Safety Guard, a comprehensive npm security scanner available as a VS Code extension and JetBrains plugin, detects supply-chain threats that npm audit misses. It employs 23 detection layers includi…
Microsoft is cutting Claude Code access for 5,000 engineers on June 30, citing cost overruns after spending an estimated $5 million per month on the AI coding tool. The move reflects a broader industr…
Claude Code, an agentic coding tool from Anthropic, excels at autonomous multi-file tasks when used with proper planning and review, but fails when treated as an inline editor like Cursor. Users must …
JetBrains' Katherine Druckman, Head of Community and Partnership Engagement, argues that open collaboration is essential for building trusted agentic AI, emphasizing the need for vendor-neutral spaces…
A 2026 survey of 906 software engineers reveals that senior developers now average 2.3 AI coding tools, with the most common pairing being Cursor and Claude Code. Cursor serves as an IDE for inline ed…
GitHub Copilot for JetBrains IDEs now supports organization and enterprise agents from GitHub, allows queuing and steering messages in CLI sessions, introduces an agent debug logs summary view, and br…
Augment is sunsetting its IDE extensions for JetBrains, giving users about a month's notice, and moving upmarket to enterprise teams with its Cosmos agent platform. The decision has disappointed many …
A developer's 2026 guide compares GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Windsurf, Tabnine, and Amazon Q Developer across real codebases. The analysis highlights that context windows now hold entire repositories, mo…
Microsoft released VS Code 1.125 on June 17, fixing the remote browser proxy for SSH tunnels, adding a two-hour delay for extension auto-updates to improve security, and introducing a Copilot budget d…
Microsoft's MAI-Code-1-Flash, a small coding model, is now available on additional GitHub Copilot surfaces including Copilot CLI, GitHub Copilot app, Copilot Chat, Visual Studio, GitHub Mobile, JetBra…
The Continue plugin v1.2.20 patches memory leaks, unhandled exceptions, and JCEF message chunking crashes across JetBrains and VS Code adapters, fixing crash vectors that cause sidebar hangs and autoc…
Node 26.3.1 patches 11 CVEs in TLS and WebCrypto, requiring immediate updates for untrusted code execution. Ruff v0.7 fixes inconsistent pytest rule defaults from v0.6, with auto-applicable fixes via …
Kilo Code launched an open-source agentic engineering platform that integrates with VS Code, JetBrains, and the CLI, offering specialized AI agents for coding, planning, debugging, and code review. Th…
A developer built NPM Safety Guard, a free IDE extension that scans package.json and lockfiles for malicious npm packages across 22 detection layers. The tool catches typosquats, AI-hallucinated packa…
Researchers at Aikido Security discovered 15 malicious plugins on the JetBrains Marketplace that stole AI API keys from approximately 70,000 developers. The plugins, posing as AI coding assistants and…
Security researchers identified 15 malicious JetBrains plugins masquerading as DeepSeek AI assistants in a supply chain attack. The plugins harvest API keys, exfiltrate LLM chat sessions, and establis…
A coordinated malware campaign on the JetBrains Marketplace has compromised at least 15 IDE plugins, installed nearly 70,000 times, that steal AI provider API keys entered by users. The plugins, posin…
Aikido Security identified at least 15 malicious plugins on the JetBrains Marketplace that steal AI provider API keys from developers, with close to 70,000 total installs. The plugins, targeting DeepS…
JetBrains open-sourced Mellum2, a 12B Mixture-of-Experts coding model under Apache 2.0, designed for air-gapped and compliance-locked environments where external API calls are prohibited. The model us…
A developer built a Visual Studio extension that integrates Claude Code's CLI, adding native diff viewing with accept/reject functionality, automatic compiler error sharing, and a dockable panel for c…