Microsoft shipped four VS Code releases across May and early June 2026 — versions 1.120 through 1.123 — that together crossed a threshold the company had been approaching for more than a year: ...

Security researcher Ammar Askar disclosed a critical vulnerability in Visual Studio Code on June 2, 2026, revealing that attackers could steal GitHub OAuth tokens through a deceptively simple ...

Microsoft is shipping GitHub Copilot as a built-in VS Code extension starting with version 1.116, eliminating the manual install step that separated new users from AI coding assistance. Published on ...

VS Code Extensions have transformed the code editor into a productivity powerhouse. GitHub Copilot enables AI-powered autocomplete, multi-line code generation, and ...

Critical and high-severity vulnerabilities were found in four widely used Visual Studio Code extensions with a combined 128 million downloads, exposing developers to file theft, remote code execution, ...

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered two malicious Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extensions that are advertised as artificial intelligence (AI)-powered coding assistants, but also harbor ...

An experimental feature in VS Code 1.108, Agent Skills are folders of instructions, scripts, and resources that GitHub Copilot can load for specialized tasks. Visual Studio Code 1.108, the latest ...

A Visual Studio Code extension (available on the Marketplace) that allows Claude and other MCP clients to code directly in VS Code! Inspired by Serena, but using VS Code's built-in capabilities.

Popular artificial intelligence (AI)-powered Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) forks such as Cursor, Windsurf, Google Antigravity, and Trae have been found to recommend extensions that are ...

Microsoft is previewing a new AI-assisted tool for Visual Studio Code Insiders called the JavaScript/TypeScript Modernizer. It's designed to help developers modernize older JavaScript or TypeScript ...

Microsoft expanded its browser-based development tooling with recent updates to VS Code for the Web -- Azure, introducing faster entry points for moving AI-generated code into an editable, ...