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OpenAI is developing a new feature for the ChatGPT Android app that will allow users to remotely control Codex coding sessions on their PCs. Found in version 1.2026.125, this update addresses a ...

A 6MB editor quietly replacing tools that cost ten times more.

The change follows weeks of complaints from a grandson of the Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup inventor and other vocal consumers. By Alice Callahan For weeks, Brad Reese, a grandson of the Reese’s Peanut ...

To enable or use the search results window in Notepad++, you can use the Find All feature window. The window is not a feature you toggle on in the settings. It is a results panel that only appears ...

The recently compromised update mechanism for the popular open source text editor Notepad ++ has been hardened so it’s now ‘effectively unexploitable’, says the application’s author. Don Ho made the ...

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 ...

TL;DR: Notepad++ was compromised for six months, but it wasn't the software itself which the exploit leveraged, but its hosting provider. An investigation into the attack has just been concluded with ...

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 app’s servers were compromised from June through December 2025. The app’s servers were compromised from June through December 2025. is a news writer covering all things consumer tech. Stevie ...