The developer did not specify when they became aware of the attack, but said that “all attacker access was definitively ...

The popular Notepad alternative was hijacked by bad actors for several months in 2025, but the latest update appears to solve the issue.

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

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

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

Microsoft first started adopting Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4 model inside its developer division in June last year, before ...

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

Jeff Werner is a software engineer and has been writing this column since 2007. Question: I have a question about running Notepad under Windows 11: What registry setting can I tweak to get Notepad to ...

If you thought Windows' humble, no-frills text editor would remain untouched by Microsoft's never-ending quest to monetize things, think again. The company dropped AI features for Notepad a few months ...

If you read this website regularly—or even if this is your first time here—it's almost a given that you use or have used Windows Notepad at some point. It is one of the most basic text editors ...

lol all the nerds are forgetting what the purpose of Notepad is. It's to let the USER who is NOT a programmer take NOTES. Spellcheck makes perfect sense. You want something to open config files and ...