Editor's take: Microsoft is having a tough time leaving Windows Notepad well enough alone. The classic text editor is effectively gone, replaced by a "new" version that keeps accumulating a growing ...

As Microsoft continues to force AI features onto users of its Windows operating system and other crucial software, glaring issues keep cropping up. Executives have promised to turn the platform into ...

Microsoft’s effort to modernize the humble Notepad app has come with a cost: Security researchers have discovered a serious vulnerability in the program following a feature update. The flaw, which ...

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Just months after Microsoft added Markdown support to Notepad, researchers have found the feature can be abused to achieve remote code execution (RCE). Tracked as CVE-2026-20841 (8.8), the ...

Bloat Risk? Microsoft's Notepad Upgrade Also Introduced a Vulnerability The flaw exploits Notepad’s recently added support for Markdown, a formatting language used on websites and in files, to run ...

Infrastructure delivering updates for Notepad++—a widely used text editor for Windows—was compromised for six months by suspected China-state hackers who used their control to deliver backdoored ...

A likely China-sponsored threat actor hijacked Notepad++'s software update mechanism and quietly redirected targeted users of the popular source code editor to malicious downloads for nearly six ...

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Lacari, a popular Twitch streamer known for playing League of Legends, anime, and gacha games, has found himself embroiled in a controversy. It all started on January 22, 2026, when he inadvertently ...

Streamer Lacari has been banned from Twitch and Kick after displaying a notepad window with a link to explicit and illegal files. The content creator made headlines on January 22, 2026, when videos ...

“Your essential text editor, elevated,” says Microsoft when you open one of the world’s once simplest text editors, Notepad, on Windows 11 after a recent update. Notepad now has a welcome screen, ...