Editor's take: Microsoft is having a tough time leaving Windows Notepad well enough alone. The classic text editor is effectively gone, replaced by a "new" version that keeps accumulating a growing ...
Microsoft patches CVE-2026-20841, a high-severity Windows Notepad flaw that could allow code execution via malicious Markdown files. Image: Microsoft. Notepad has long been Windows’ quiet utility ...
Notepad has slowly gained a plethora of features that elevate it way beyond a basic text editor, now rivaling the likes of Apple Notes and Google Keep. But is Microsoft right to do this? When you ...
The unified JavaScript runtime standard is an idea whose time has come. Here’s an inside look at the movement for server-side JavaScript interoperability. The WinterCG community group was recently ...
Vulnerabilities with high to critical severity ratings affecting popular Visual Studio Code (VSCode) extensions collectively downloaded more than 128 million times could be exploited to steal local ...
Users could be tricked into running arbitrary code, but the issue was patched last week. February 17, 2026 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google Microsoft patched a ...
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If a user opened this Markdown file in Windows 11 Notepad versions 11.2510 and earlier and viewed it in Markdown mode, the above text would appear as a clickable link. If the link is clicked with ...
Microsoft has released a security update addressing a remote code execution vulnerability in the modern Notepad app distributed via the Microsoft Store. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-20841, carries a ...
The Department of Justice has released nearly 3.5 million pages of documents from cases and investigations related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The DOJ released its first batch of files ...
A Manhattan federal judge denied an effort by two House lawmakers Wednesday to appoint a neutral monitor to oversee the release of the Justice Department’s investigative files on late sex trafficker ...
For this week’s Ask An SEO, a reader asked: “Is there any difference between how AI systems handle JavaScript-rendered or interactively hidden content compared to traditional Google indexing? What ...