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Infrastructure delivering updates for Notepad++—a widely used text editor for Windows—was compromised for six months by ...

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Microsoft is meddling with Notepad again, this time adding a "What's New" screen so users know the latest indignities heaped on the once-humble text editor.

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Windows Insiders get AI-powered Notepad and Paint updates, featuring Markdown upgrades, coloring book generator, and streaming AI results.

Rapid7 dropped a write-up on the Notepad++ update-chain abuse and - finally - it comes with real IOCs - update.exe downloaded ...

State-sponsored threat actors compromised the popular code editor's hosting provider to redirect targeted users to malicious ...

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Engineers are now focusing on performance, reliability, and the overall Windows experience. is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over ...

Microsoft is rolling out an update to its Paint app, introducing a 'colouring book' feature that generates colouring pages from simple text prompts.

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