Some Notepad++ users were redirected to malicious servers last year. Now, its developer says they were targeted by Chinese ...

The hosting provider's compromise allowed attackers to deliver malware through tainted software updates for six months.

Rapid7 links China-linked Lotus Blossom to a 2025 Notepad++ hosting breach that delivered the Chrysalis backdoor via hijacked updates, fixed in v8.8.9 ...

Attackers had specifically delivered malware to systems using the Notepad++ updater. Investigations point to state actors.

State-backed attackers hijacked Notepad++ update traffic via a hosting provider breach, redirecting users to malicious downloads since June 2025.

Microsoft sells GitHub Copilot to its customers, but it increasingly favors Claude Code internally. Microsoft sells GitHub Copilot to its customers, but it increasingly favors Claude Code internally.

In new versions of Notepad and Paint for Windows Insiders, Microsoft is adding more AI features. Notepad is learning more Markdown. This was announced by Microsoft in a blog post. Notepad will ...

Microsoft is taking an impressive step in modernizing its biggest codebases and will eliminate all C/C++ code by the end of the decade, replacing it with Rust. “My goal is to eliminate every line of C ...

Vibe coding turns software development into a conversation. You focus on the idea, and the AI model handles most of the implementation. Barbara is a tech writer specializing in AI and emerging ...

Start with simple prompts: Type a comment like # create a function to add two numbers and let Copilot generate the code. Use comments to guide the AI: The more specific your comment, the better the ...

In context: Microsoft is going in some very wild directions with Windows development, with Notepad being one of the most outstanding guinea pigs in AI and design experimentations. Notepad now has the ...