My old editor learned new tricks ...

Microsoft's June 2026 VS Code update turns on Autopilot by default and adds background sending for agent sessions.

VS Code might be what you're used to, but there's a lot more to see when it comes to code editors. Here's a few options.

VS Code 1.125 adds in-editor visibility into additional Copilot budget usage as GitHub's AI-credit billing model continues to draw developer scrutiny.

Visual Studio Code 1.124 brings more autonomous AI agents, cross-device session support, browser history, and new enterprise controls.

Hackers injected malware into 73 Microsoft GitHub repos on June 5, 2026. The attack targeted AI coding tools like Claude Code ...

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: ...

VS Code 1.102, otherwise known as the June 2025 release, builds out GitHub Copilot Chat capabilities and finalizes support for the Model Context Protocol. The latest update to Visual Studio Code, ...

Preview of new companion app allows developers to run multiple agent sessions in parallel across multiple repos and iterate on human and agent reviews. Visual Studio Code 1.115, the latest release of ...

Of all the programming-related announcements at Build 2024, this is the one that could have the most impact on mainstream users. Microsoft is adding the ability to extend Copilot. Developers using ...

A security researcher has released exploit code for a Visual Studio Code (VS Code) zero-day vulnerability that allows attackers to steal GitHub authentication tokens by tricking users into clicking a ...