A Chinese-linked cyberespionage group with a long history hijacked the update process for the popular code editing platform ...

With the rise of AI coding assistants continuing apparently unabated, some project maintainers have begun striking back. Ars Technica reports on projects putting hostile directions into the AGENTS.md ...

Notepad++ released an urgent patch to block malware installation. The exploit is easily triggered by clicking a menu option. Users must update to version 8.9.6.1. Don Ho, creator and maintainer of ...

Two flaws in the widely used open-source editor can be triggered through manipulated configuration files, prompting security updates from the project's maintainers. Two arbitrary code execution ...

Microsoft and GitHub have spent the past few years pushing AI into nearly every corner of software development. Now, a dispute around a fake “Notepad++ for Mac” port shows how messy that strategy can ...

Security researchers at Kaspersky say they have identified a malicious backdoor planted in the popular and long-running Windows disc imaging software, Daemon Tools. The Russian cybersecurity company ...

As reported by The Register, Ho sent a formal complaint to Cloudflare targeting a website distributing a macOS version of Notepad++. The project, created by developer Andrey Letov, used the Notepad++ ...

What just happened? A macOS app using the Notepad++ name is being rebranded after the editor's creator objected, saying the project has no connection to any official Mac release. Don Ho, who developed ...

Notepad++ remains a Windows-only app, at least under that name. The beloved developer-focused, open-source text editor recently was ported to macOS by a third party. However, developer Don Ho wants to ...

As its name implies, the venerable Notepad++ text editor began as a more capable version of the classic Windows Notepad, with features such as line numbering and syntax highlighting. It was created in ...

It may have taken more than two decades, but the popular Notepad++ coding editor is now available as a native macOS app, thanks to an unofficial open-source community port of the original Windows ...