Microsoft's July release adds a Copilot Chat agent preview, workload-specific skills, shared instructions, branch context and C++ build controls.

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Open VSX removes 77 evil twin extensions that impersonate developer tools and exfiltrate host, workspace, Git, and CI data.

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