VS Code 1.123 adds a two-hour delay before extensions auto-update to newer versions when automatic updates are enabled.

About three years ago Microsoft released a new source code editor for Windows, Linux, and macOS. This was named Visual Studio Code. It is way lighter IDE than various editions of the legendary Visual ...

GitHub has confirmed that a recent breach into its internal repositories was caused by a vulnerability in a Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extension called ‘Nx Console.’ The security team at ...

A researcher has disclosed details of a severe VS Code vulnerability that can be exploited to steal GitHub tokens and access ...

VS Code 1.121 was released May 20, 2026, featuring yet another update to Claude Code, becoming more and more a first-class citizen in the VS Code ecosystem. Remote agents can run over SSH or dev ...

Microsoft's May 2026 VS Code update makes BYOK usable in restricted environments while adding agent, browser and issue-reporting updates.

With Microsoft's new Dev Configs, a Windows installation becomes a ready-to-use developer workstation with a single command – ...

Claude Code plugins now have an official Anthropic-managed directory at github.com/anthropics/claude-plugins-official, consolidating 30-plus internal and 15 vetted external Claude Code extensions behi ...

A script is just a collection of commands saved into a text file (using the special .ps1 extension) that PowerShell understands and executes in sequence to perform different actions. In this post, we ...

For more than a year, a self-propagating worm rode VS Code extensions, npm packages, and stolen developer credentials through ...

GitHub confirmed on May 20 that a poisoned VS Code extension installed on an employee’s device gave attackers access to roughly 3,800 internal repositories at the Microsoft-owned code storage and ...

Update May 21: GitHub has now linked this breach to the TanStack npm supply-chain attack and says the employee installed a malicious version of the Nx Console extension. GitHub has confirmed that ...