GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 internal repos after employee installs poisoned VS Code extension

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Tech Times

GitHub CISO Names Nx Console as Root of 3,800-Repo Breach: OpenAI, Grafana Also Hit

GitHub CISO Alexis Wales confirmed Thursday that a poisoned build of the Nx Console Visual Studio Code extension — live on ...
Tech Times

500 Poisoned Packages, Hundreds of Companies: TeamPCP’s Worm Just Reached GitHub

A GitHub employee installed a routine VS Code extension update, handed cybercrime group TeamPCP enough access to exfiltrate ...
GitHub

Python extension for Visual Studio Code

The Python extension will automatically install the following extensions by default to provide the best Python development experience in VS Code: If you set this setting to true, you will manually opt ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Python in Visual Studio Code Gets a Start Page

Among the improvements to Python functionality in the open source, cross-platform Visual Studio Code editor is a new start page. That functionality comes with the Python extension in the VS Code ...
Visual Studio Magazine

VS Code Python Tool Does Multiple Interactive Windows

On Halloween 2018 a developer filed an issue in the GitHub repo for the VS Code Python extension, asking for the ability for users to "spin up multiple 'Python Interactive' windows." In August 2020, ...
GitHub

Python Pydantic support of TypeScript-style utility types, including Partial, Required, Pick, and Omit. Useful for PATCH endpoints driven from BaseModel / SQLModel classes.

Python is missing a key feature of modern day dynamic programming languages. Namely, TypeScript supports these utility types: https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs ...