Editor's take: Dave Plummer started his programmer's career at Microsoft back in the MS-DOS days. He knows a thing or two about code optimization, which is why he is now trying to strip Notepad of the ...

If you're a frequent short-form video scroller, you've probably seen one of Julius Mondragon's videos appear on your screen in 2026. In January, he began posting videos in which he approaches people ...

If you use Windows today and type ls, cat, grep, or awk in a terminal, there is a good chance something useful will happen. That was not always true. For most of the history of personal computing, ...

Shakira has no ill will toward her former partner Gerard Piqué. “I will always have that gratitude in my heart for the father of my kids and [for] turning me into the mother that I am today,” Shakira, ...

The popular Notepad++ coding editor is now available as a native macOS app, following an unofficial open-source community port of the original Windows codebase. The Notepad replacement runs as a ...

The FCC, led by Trump-appointed chairman Brendan Carr, is opening a new front in its “anti-woke” campaign: The agency is seeking feedback about whether the TV industry’s voluntary ratings system needs ...

It’s a long overdue change, but a welcome one. Edited comments will show that they’ve been edited. However, the original message isn’t accessible anymore. This differs from some service, such as Apple ...

In this post, we will show you how to use Markdown in Notepad on a Windows 11 PC. Microsoft has introduced lightweight formatting in Notepad, and it supports Markdown (*.md) files to work directly ...

When Visual Studio Code (VS Code) was released in 2015, it revolutionized code editing. But it can do so much more for the average person who doesn't write code (yet). Let's explore how it can be ...

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 ...

Microsoft continues to move Notepad away from its text-editing roots with planned support for images. Although not officially announced, an image icon has appeared on the Notepad toolbar for Windows ...

Microsoft patches CVE-2026-20841, a high-severity Windows Notepad flaw that could allow code execution via malicious Markdown files. Notepad has long been Windows’ quiet utility knife. It opens ...