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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, ...

GitHub outage disrupts developers worldwide in latest setback for Microsoft coding platform

GitHub was down for more than three hours Monday morning, breaking the website, code review tools, automated build systems ...
InfoWorld

Getting started with GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio or VS Code

The way software is developed has undergone multiple sea changes over the past few decades. From assembly language to cloud-native development, from monolithic architecture to microservices, from ...
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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 ...
GIGAZINE

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 ...
Computing

GitHub outage exposes flaws in autoscaling and retry systems

GitHub has attributed a nearly eight-hour outage this week to a combination of saturated load balancers, a faulty autoscaling ...