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 ...

Infrastructure delivering updates for Notepad++—a widely used text editor for Windows—was compromised for six months by suspected China-state hackers who used their control to deliver backdoored ...

Atom is a desktop code editor designed for editing source code and plain text files on Windows systems. It provides a flexible environment that can be adapted to different programming languages and ...

Microsoft announced that the Copilot Studio extension for the Visual Studio Code (VS Code) integrated development environment is now available to all users. Developers can use it to build and manage ...

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The native just-in-time compiler in Python 3.15 can speed up code by as much as 20% or more, although it’s still experimental. JITing, or “just-in-time” compilation, can make relatively slow ...

📝 Notepadark — Modern Dark-Themed Text Editor Notepadark is a lightweight, dark-themed text editor built in Python with Tkinter, inspired by the classic Windows Notepad — but redesigned for better ...

The 300-person startup hopes bringing designers aboard will give it an edge in an increasingly competitive AI software market. Cursor, the wildly popular AI coding startup, is launching a new feature ...

PythoC lets you use Python as a C code generator, but with more features and flexibility than Cython provides. Here’s a first look at the new C code generator for Python. Python and C share more than ...

Microsoft announced in a Windows Insiders blog post that its lightweight text editor Notepad is currently testing extended formatting capabilities with support for tables. The idea is to allow users ...

Google unveils Antigravity, a productivity-focused AI coding IDE. Built on VS Code, it enables instant familiarity and plugin support. Screenshots, recordings, and browser testing power agent ...

Cursor, the developer of a widely used artificial intelligence code editor, has closed a $2.3 billion later-stage investment at a $29.3 billion valuation. Accel and Coatue led the Series D round. They ...