Microsoft is reportedly working on yet another "advanced" Notepad feature that has little to do with basic text editing.

Catch up with this week's Microsoft Weekly news recap about a shakeup at the company's gaming division, some changes to the Windows 11 Canary channel, and more.

Microsoft continues to move Notepad away from its text-editing roots with planned support for images. Although not officially announced, an image icon has appeared on the Notepad toolbar for Windows ...

Microsoft patches Windows 11 Notepad RCE flaw CVE-2026-20841 Vulnerability exploited Markdown links to execute malicious code with user permissions Patch Tuesday update fixes issue; versions 11.2510 ...

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PCWorld reports that Windows Notepad’s new Markdown support feature has introduced a serious remote code execution vulnerability with a high CVSS score of 8.8/7.7. The security flaw allows malicious ...

TL;DR: Notepad++ was compromised for six months, but it wasn't the software itself which the exploit leveraged, but its hosting provider. An investigation into the attack has just been concluded with ...

Notepad++ targeted in sophisticated supply-chain style attack via compromised hosting server Attackers delivered tainted updates to select victims, exploiting weak update verification controls Breach ...

The developer of the popular open source text editor Notepad++ has confirmed that hackers hijacked the software to deliver malicious updates to users over the course of several months in 2025. In a ...

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 ...

Twitch streamer Lacari has addressed the community regarding the recent controversy, claiming that he has admitted himself into a p**n addiction recovery program. For context, Lacari has been in the ...

Check it out, you can now create tables using Markdown in Notepad, and here's how. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. On Windows 11, ...