Notepad on Windows 11 is no longer the lightweight utility it once was. Learn how to replace Notepad with Microsoft Edit on Windows 11.

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 ...

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

"Your essential text editor, elevated," says Microsoft when you open one of the world's once simplest text editors, Notepad, ...

Microsoft is reportedly expanding Notepad on Windows 11 with Copilot-powered text streaming and richer Markdown support, ...

Microsoft emphasizes that these AI features are entirely optional and can be turned off in Notepad’s settings. This Windows ...

Microsoft is rolling out new artificial intelligence features with the latest updates to the Notepad and Paint apps for Windows 11 Insiders.

Notepad++ has been compromised in a sophisticated nation-state cyberattack. Learn about the security breach, the ...

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

The program is a free text and code editor that's been downloaded millions of times. The compromise began in June and is ...

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

Notepad++ is a favorite of programmers and other power users, but its auto-update function was compromised for months in 2025 ...