Visual Studio 2026 has further integrated GitHub Copilot's cloud agent to its Copilot Chat picker -- catching up to VS Code -- and the async workflow it enables, where a task runs on GitHub Actions ...

The April update suppresses Copilot completions while IntelliSense is active, addressing a long-running editor conflict.

Attackers continue to scale a campaign to seed Open VSX with seemingly benign VS Code extensions that spread self-propagating ...

VS Code extensions since Dec 21, 2025 fuel GlassWorm v2, installing cross-IDE malware and stealing credentials.

Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code 1.118 update broadens Copilot agent capabilities with remote session control, semantic code search, and improved efficiency. The release also enhances the preview Agents ...

Microsoft has released Visual Studio Code 1.118, adding remote Copilot session control and stricter enterprise AI ...

Team wins praise for adding 'disable all AI features' setting for devs who want a code editor to be only a code editor ...

Visual Studio Code 1.118 now stamps a Copilot co-author trailer on Git commits by default after PR #310226 flipped ...

The threat actor seeding the Open VSX code marketplace with fraudulent extensions that download the GlassWorm malware has ...

SAP npm packages poisoned on April 29, 2026 + AES-256-GCM encrypted credential theft + AI coding tools abused for spread.

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