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

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. The ...

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

Why can't it just be a basic text editor?!

Users could be tricked into running arbitrary code, but the issue was patched last week.

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 ...

The Document Foundation released LibreOffice 26.2 today with several long-awaited features and performance improvements for Writer, Calc, and Base. The Document Foundation released LibreOffice 26.2 ...

Microsoft’s effort to modernize the humble Notepad app has come with a cost: Security researchers have discovered a serious vulnerability in the program following a feature update. The flaw, which ...

A Chrome extension named "QuickLens - Search Screen with Google Lens" has been removed from the Chrome Web Store after it was ...

Smug faces across all those who opposed the WordPad-ification of Microsoft's humble text editor Just months after Microsoft ...

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) launched a probe into ABC’s “The View” after the program held an interview with Democratic Texas Senate candidate James Talarico, according to multiple ...

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