Fed up with Microsoft bloating Notepad? An Ex-Microsoft engineer has shrunk it down to 2.5KB somehow.

Notepad++ is a powerful text editor that is widely used by programmers and developers on the Windows platform. It is popular because of its many useful features, including syntax highlighting, code ...

Notepad++ released an urgent patch to block malware installation. The exploit is easily triggered by clicking a menu option. Users must update to version 8.9.6.1. Don Ho, creator and maintainer of ...

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Lacari's Twitch channel has been reinstated, 34 days after he got banned for displaying a notepad window with access to an adult platform, which allegedly contained suspicious file names that were ...

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 ...

What could happen: Suppose you open Notepad and click on a "suspicious link" written there. A bad actor could secretly infiltrate your computer and run strange programs (like viruses or malware) ...

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 ...

Notepad++ has released a security fix to plug gaps that were exploited by an advanced threat actor from China to hijack the software update mechanism to selectively deliver malware to targets of ...

If a user opened this Markdown file in Windows 11 Notepad versions 11.2510 and earlier and viewed it in Markdown mode, the above text would appear as a clickable link. If the link is clicked with ...

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 ...

The big picture: Microsoft released its latest Patch Tuesday update this week with 59 hotfixes across Windows, Microsoft Office, Azure, and core system components. The update includes patches for six ...