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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[–] 26 points 9 months ago* (1 child)

This has nothing to do with AI. They added markdown to it and now links work.

The title of the article is weird because it's the only place AI is mentioned.

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