GitHub confirms 3,800 internal repos stolen through poisoned VS Code extension as supply chain worm hits Microsoft’s Python SDK

GitHub confirmed attackers stole 3,800 internal repositories via a poisoned VS Code extension. The same threat group, TeamPCP ...
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Microsoft's Python Environment Tool Finally Tackles Developers' Biggest Headache

Ask any Python developer about their least favorite part of the job, and environment management will top the list. The endless juggling of virtual environments, dependency conflicts, and version ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Dedicated Python Environments Tool Rolls Out in VS Code Update

The Python team at Microsoft is continuing its overhaul of environment management in Visual Studio Code, with the August 2025 release advancing the controlled rollout of the new Python Environments ...
Bleeping Computer

Microsoft Excel to let you run Python scripts as formulas

Microsoft is adding the Python programming language to Microsoft Excel, allowing users to create powerful functions for analyzing and manipulating data. The public preview of the feature is now ...
TechCrunch

Microsoft CEO says up to 30% of the company’s code was written by AI

During a fireside chat with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg at Meta’s LlamaCon conference on Tuesday, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said that 20% to 30% of code inside the company’s repositories was “written ...
Visual Studio Magazine

VS Code Python Team Improves Interactive REPL

Microsoft's dev team for Python in Visual Studio Code updated its tooling to improve working with the language's interactive REPL functionality. Standing for Read-Eval-Print Loop, a REPL provides an ...