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 ...

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

TL;DR: Windows 11's Notepad app has a security flaw rated as a 'high' severity vulnerability, one that allows for remote code execution. The good news is that it's already been patched by Microsoft, ...

I don’t use a massive IDE. These three lightweight tools handle writing, version control, and validation on every HTML ...

Nearly 6,500 Arizona children have applied for the new universal vouchers to attend private and parochial schools at taxpayer expense. And it appears the vast majority are students whose parents ...

I don’t need tabs, sessions, or extra clutter in a tool I open for two seconds. Notepad++ stays fast, simple, and doesn't force features on you.

PCWorld reports that Notepad++’s WinGUp update system was compromised between June and December 2025, delivering malware through corrupted executables to targeted users. While the popular text editor ...

The developer of the popular open source text editor Notepad++ has confirmed that hackers hijacked the software to deliver malicious updates to users over the course of several months in 2025. In a ...