Trae is ByteDance's take on Visual Studio Code, but some digging raised some questions, which the company has now responded ...

A hacker planted data wiping code in a version of Amazon's generative AI-powered assistant, the Q Developer Extension for Visual Studio Code.

Had Q executed this, it would have erased local files and, under certain conditions, dismantled AWS cloud infrastructure.

AWS has launched Kiro, a spec-driven, agentic AI IDE based on Visual Studio Code. It joins a growing lineup of VS Code forks built for AI-assisted development, and it arrives just as Microsoft pushes ...