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

Users must update to version 8.9.6.1. Don Ho, creator and maintainer of Notepad++, fixed three vulnerabilities in version 8.9.6.1. Two of them allow attackers to tamper with the text editor’s ...

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 ...

After three road trips to open the season, Oklahoma finally gets a much-needed home stand. The Sooners (13-2) play 14 of their next 15 games at home, giving them an extended stay at Love’s Field. They ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

President Trump issued a memorandum June 12 on cybersecurity governance for national security systems used by federal agencies. The memo re-establishes and… ...