Microsoft's May 2026 VS Code update makes BYOK usable in restricted environments while adding agent, browser and issue-reporting updates.
Microsoft highlighted Copilot planning, context visibility, diff review updates and MSVC Build Tools v14.51 in its May Visual Studio update.
Morning Overview on MSNOpinion
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 ...
New and improved: Computer-using agents, a new workflows experience, and real-time voice experiences
Explore what's new in Copilot Studio, May 2026: computer-using agents are now available, plus redesigned workflows and Work IQ extensibility.
XDA Developers on MSN
A poisoned VS Code extension led to a GitHub breach, and Microsoft owns every link in the chain
Microsoft has had a VS Code extension for a long time, and it finally came back to bite them.
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