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

Microsoft patches CVE-2026-20841, a high-severity Windows Notepad flaw that could allow code execution via malicious Markdown ...

Notepad has quietly evolved over the past few years, and image support could mark its biggest shift yet, especially after Microsoft removed WordPad from Windows and left a gap for richer editing.

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 ...

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 ...

Atom is a desktop code editor designed for editing source code and plain text files on Windows systems. It provides a flexible environment that can be adapted to different programming languages and ...

For decades, Notepad was the definition of a no-frills text editor. On Windows 11, that reputation no longer holds. Microsoft has quietly evolved Notepad into a lightweight rich-text app, and with ...

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📝 Notepadark — Modern Dark-Themed Text Editor Notepadark is a lightweight, dark-themed text editor built in Python with Tkinter, inspired by the classic Windows Notepad — but redesigned for better ...

The 300-person startup hopes bringing designers aboard will give it an edge in an increasingly competitive AI software market. Cursor, the wildly popular AI coding startup, is launching a new feature ...

PythoC lets you use Python as a C code generator, but with more features and flexibility than Cython provides. Here’s a first look at the new C code generator for Python. Python and C share more than ...

Microsoft continues to reshape the classic Notepad app into something far more capable than its decades-old reputation suggests. The latest Insider update, Notepad version 11.2510.6.0, available now ...