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ByteDance clarifies concerns over Trae, its fork of Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code

Trae is ByteDance's take on Visual Studio Code, but some digging raised some questions, which the company has now responded ...
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VS Code gets AutoML Embedded plugin for automated model tuning, deployment, and benchmarking

AutoML for Embedded, developed by Analog Devices (ADI) and Antmicro, is an open-source plugin for Visual Studio Code that ...

Amazon's AI coding assistant exposed nearly 1 million users to potential system wipe

The attacker was able to inject unauthorized code into the assistant's open-source GitHub repository. This code included ...

Amazon AI coding agent hacked to inject data wiping commands

A hacker planted data wiping code in a version of Amazon's generative AI-powered assistant, the Q Developer Extension for Visual Studio Code.
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Forked Again: AWS's Kiro Is Latest AI Assistant Based on VS Code

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 ...