Cloud outages expose identity systems as critical failure points, turning infrastructure disruptions into major business continuity risks.
The Eclipse Foundation, which maintains the Open VSX Registry, has announced plans to enforce security checks before Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extensions are published to the open-source repository to combat supply chain threats.
The move marks a shift from a reactive to a proactive approach to ensure that malicious extensions don’t end up getting published on the Open VSX Registry.
“Up to now, the Open VSX Registry has relied primarily on post-publication response and investigation. When a bad extension is reported, we investigate and remove it,” Christopher Guindon, director of software development at the Eclipse Foundation, said.
A new brain imaging study reveals that remembering facts and recalling life events activate nearly identical brain networks. Researchers expected clear differences but instead found strong overlap across memory types. The finding challenges decades of memory research. It may also help scientists better understand conditions like Alzheimer’s and dementia.
Clinical gene therapy has seen a lot of big wins and a lot of big setbacks over the past few years. To help myself keep track of recent important events in the field, I decided to write up this catalogue of key happenings. Though the landscape is ever-evolving, this resource should nonetheless be useful in the relatively near future and perhaps serve as a historical record later on. It has been fascinating to read up on the industry’s dynamics! I hope any readers out there who encounter this page will find my catalogue similarly interesting and valuable.
My website version: [ https://logancollinsblog.com/2026/02/03/notable-recent-event…uary-2026/](https://logancollinsblog.com/2026/02/03/notable-recent-event…uary-2026/)
Substack version: [ https://loganthrashercollins.substack.com/p/notable-recent-e…ne-therapy](https://loganthrashercollins.substack.com/p/notable-recent-e…ne-therapy)
PDF version: Notable Recent Events in Gene Therapy Translation January 2023 to January 2026.