Flaws in popular VSCode extensions expose developers to attacks

Vulnerabilities with high to critical severity ratings affecting popular Visual Studio Code (VSCode) extensions collectively downloaded more than 128 million times could be exploited to steal local ...
GitHub

Drswith/vscode-json-string-code-editor

Choose from auto-detected languages Edit in a new tab with syntax highlighting Press Ctrl+S to save and sync back Note: Language detection is built into the extension and cannot be customized by users ...
IEEE

Prompt Engineering for Python Code Debugging with Large Language Models: A Comparative Analysis of Zero-Shot, Few-Shot, and Chain-of-Thought Approaches

Abstract: This paper presents a comprehensive comparative analysis of three distinct prompt engineering strategies—Zero-Shot, Few-Shot, and Chain-of-Thought—for Python code debugging applications ...
GitHub

Running commands, ignoring configuration

I have auto-approve command execution set to absolutely not. After the last update today, VS Code Copilot started ignoring my configuration. I will stop using this today, and will stop paying for this ...