State-sponsored hackers' are being blamed for compromising the popular alternative to Windows Notepad over a period of six months last year.

The developer of the popular text editor Notepad++ said hackers associated with the Chinese government hijacked its software update mechanism to deliver tainted software to users for months.

Winhance, an open-source Windows 10 and 11 optimization tool, now uses WinUI 3, reduces RAM usage, and adds safer system tweak options.

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

Learn how to remove Copilot from Windows 11, including Edge, Search, Photos, Notepad, File Explorer, Paint, and other ...

Vibe-coding tools - which let people without coding skills create apps using AI - are exploding in popularity.

Notepad++ users faced a serious threat as Chinese state-sponsored hackers compromised update servers for half of 2025, ...

Notepad++ targeted and used to deliver poisoned updates to a select group of victims.

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

Notepad++ has been compromised in a sophisticated nation-state cyberattack. Learn about the security breach, the ...

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The new command-line interface for the Microsoft Store is designed to provide developers with a novel approach to app management. Officially named Store CLI, the tool ...