Microsoft's Fedora-derived Azure Linux 4 has hit a new milestone: you can now run it outside of Azure. The project's GitHub page now offers ISO file downloads in addition to its A ...

Microsoft previously confirmed that it’ll reduce “unnecessary Copilot entry points” in apps like Notepad, and we observed some of the changes were already rolling out to Windows Insiders. Today, I ...

Leadership reshuffling signals the mounting pressure on Microsoft’s AI bet. Leadership reshuffling signals the mounting pressure on Microsoft’s AI bet. is a senior correspondent and author of Notepad, ...

Several weeks of emotional whiplash for the NC State men's basketball program have steadied, thanks to a familiar figure. Justin Gainey was a dependable starter in Raleigh during his playing days.

Connecting the dots: DNS was introduced nearly 45 years ago as an early pillar of the internet, but it was never designed to store files, much less run programs. Since hackers learned to covertly ...

If you were eating in a restaurant and the head chef came out from the back multiple times to loudly proclaim that the kitchen was deeply committed to the quality of the food, would you find that ...

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 ...

What could happen: Suppose you open Notepad and click on a "suspicious link" written there. A bad actor could secretly infiltrate your computer and run strange programs (like viruses or malware) ...

Notepad++ has released a security fix to plug gaps that were exploited by an advanced threat actor from China to hijack the software update mechanism to selectively deliver malware to targets of ...

PCWorld reports that Windows Notepad’s new Markdown support feature has introduced a serious remote code execution vulnerability with a high CVSS score of 8.8/7.7. The security flaw allows malicious ...

Just months after Microsoft added Markdown support to Notepad, researchers have found the feature can be abused to achieve remote code execution (RCE). Tracked as CVE-2026-20841 (8.8), the ...

Twitch streamer Lacari has issued a public statement after being banned from the platform following controversy over files briefly shown on his stream. The ban comes after Lacari accidentally ...