The Java ecosystem has historically been blessed with great IDEs to work with, including NetBeans, Eclipse and IntelliJ from JetBrains. However, in recent years Microsoft's Visual Studio Code editor ...

An Ahmedabad-based founder has said that two of his friends, both accomplished software developers with solid work profiles, have been dealing with outdated hiring practices. Pritesh Lakhani, founder ...

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 ...

Code Metal, a Boston-based startup that uses AI to write code and translate it into other programming languages, just closed a $125 million Series B funding round from new and existing investors. The ...

Figma and Anthropic are partnering on AI coding tools that integrate Claude Code. Software stocks have sold off as AI tools threaten to upend the industry. Figma reports earnings Wednesday. The stock ...

Tom Bowen is a senior editor who loves adventure games and RPGs. He's been playing video games for several decades now and writing about them professionally since 2020. Although he dabbles in news and ...

Has AI coding reached a tipping point? That seems to be the case for Spotify at least, which shared this week during its fourth-quarter earnings call that the best developers at the company “have not ...

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 ...

The big picture: Microsoft released its latest Patch Tuesday update this week with 59 hotfixes across Windows, Microsoft Office, Azure, and core system components. The update includes patches for six ...

TL;DR: Windows 11's Notepad app has a security flaw rated as a 'high' severity vulnerability, one that allows for remote code execution. The good news is that it's already been patched by Microsoft, ...

A China-linked threat actor known as Lotus Blossom has been attributed with medium confidence to the recently discovered compromise of the infrastructure hosting Notepad++. The attack enabled the ...

The maintainer of Notepad++ has revealed that state-sponsored attackers hijacked the utility's update mechanism to redirect update traffic to malicious servers instead. "The attack involved [an] ...