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GitHub Expands Copilot Enterprise Search in Visual Studio and VS Code

GitHub supercharged search for its Copilot Enterprise AI assistant in both Microsoft's Visual Studio IDE and Visual Studio Code so developers can now get results from well beyond local codebases, ...
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Hackers just walked off with 3,800 of GitHub’s internal code repositories — smuggled out by a single poisoned plugin a GitHub developer trusted

Somewhere inside GitHub, a developer installed a Visual Studio Code extension. It looked like any other productivity plugin in Microsoft’s marketplace. It wasn’t. That single installation gave ...
Neowin

Microsoft open sources GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code

Microsoft has decided to open source its GitHub Copilot tool in Visual Studio Code. It has also shared some exciting developments. On the opening day of its BUILD 2025 conference, Microsoft has ...
InfoWorld

Using Visual Studio Code’s ‘air-gapped’ AI model mode

VS Code can use LLM models other than GitHub Copilot’s built-in providers for AI-assisted development, including local and ...
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VS 2026 Joins VS Code with Integrated Cloud Agent: Assign a Task, Close the IDE, Get a PR

Visual Studio 2026 now surfaces a "Cloud" option in the Copilot Chat agent picker, bringing it in line with VS Code, which has offered cloud agent delegation for longer. The cloud agent runs on GitHub ...
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GitHub's internal information was leaked, resulting in unauthorized access to approximately 3,800 repositories via a Visual Studio Code extension.

On May 20, 2026, GitHub announced that employee devices had been compromised by a 'VS Code extension containing malicious code,' resulting in data from internal GitHub repositories being transmitted ...