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Microsoft's Notepad Got Pwned (They Added AI To It, So...) (foss-daily.org)
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Remember when Notepad was just… Notepad? A simple text editor nobody asked to be modernized?

Yeah, Microsoft didn’t care either. They bolted on Markdown support and AI features anyway. And now we’ve got CVE-2026-20841. Remote code execution. Via a text file. This is the kind of thing that makes you go “oh come on, really?”

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[–] 10 points 9 months ago (6 children)

They've been enshittifying it for over a year.

Use LibreOffice instead. It's available on both Windows and Linux.

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  • [–] 11 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    LibreOffice is good, but it's not a Notepad replacement. It does far too much for that.

    If you want a lightweight text editor then Notepad++ is the one to look at.

    Or rather it was until State Sponsored Hackers started running attacks on the domain. So maybe grab the software from GitHub instead.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Yeah, but notepad++ was recently hacked and been compromised. An unfortunate timing.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    The software itself wasn't compromised. But the download link was. So if you downloaded it in the last year, you downloaded state sponsored malware.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    No. The download link was never compromised. What was compromised was the built-in auto-update feature.

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