Microsoft announced two related updates for Visual Studio: support for bringing your own model (BYOM) to Copilot Chat and general availability of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) client in the IDE.

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Microsoft has declared general availability for MCP (model context protocol) servers in Visual Studio, likely to be the second most popular IDE after Visual Studio Code and with wide enterprise use.… ...

Cloudflare Gateway now identifies MCP requests using protocol-level heuristics, enabling security teams to discover shadow ...

However, approach with caution: MCP servers are increasingly becoming a new way to hijack systems or launch cyberattacks, research shows. Microsoft has added Model Context Protocol (MCP) support to ...

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A developer published mcpsnoop to GitHub this morning — July 4, 2026 — and posted it to Hacker News as a Show HN, describing it as "Wireshark for MCP." The framing is architecturally precise: mcpsnoop ...

One of the biggest issues with large language models (LLMs) is working with your own data. They may have been trained on terabytes of text from across the internet, but that only provides them with a ...