Use Notepad's new Markdown feature? Update it now to ensure you're safe.

Microsoft has patched a severe security vulnerability tied to Notepad's Markdown feature. Here's what you need to know to ...

Windows Notepad is now complex enough to have a serious security flaw

You can infect your PC with malware without ever leaving Notepad, thanks to recent updates and additions. Hooray.
PCMag

Bloat Risk? Microsoft's Notepad Upgrade Also Introduced a Vulnerability

The flaw exploits Notepad’s recently added support for Markdown, a formatting language used on websites and in files, to run malicious code on a Windows PC.
The Register on MSN

Notepad's new Markdown powers served with a side of remote code execution

Smug faces across all those who opposed the WordPad-ification of Microsoft's humble text editor Just months after Microsoft ...
TweakTown

Notepad++ hack detailed - and what to do if you think you might be affected

State-sponsored hackers' are being blamed for compromising the popular alternative to Windows Notepad over a period of six months last year.
The Verge

Microsoft Paint can now make AI coloring books

Is anyone actually asking for this? Is anyone actually asking for this? is a news writer focused on creative industries, computing, and internet culture. Jess started her career at TechRadar, ...
WGN-TV

Bears vs. Packers playoff history: Two previous matchups, plus one that was basically a postseason game

There’s a good omen for the winner of Saturday night’s NFC Wild Card matchup between the Chicago Bears and Green Bay Packers at Soldier Field. Each time the archrivals have faced each other in the ...
Live Science

Even AI has trouble figuring out if text was written by AI — here's why

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Phoenix New Times

Carrying the torch: Sublime’s unexpected revival

The Southern California ska-punk trio Sublime just accomplished something that has never happened before — and no one seemed to notice. The band, which lost frontman Bradley Nowell to a heroin ...
Tom's Guide

I just tested the new ChatGPT Images vs. Google Nano Banana — and there's a clear winner

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Reuters

Sterling edges up vs dollar, flat versus euro, Fed in focus

Dec 10 (Reuters) - Sterling edged up against the dollar and was roughly unchanged versus the euro as investors braced for the Federal Reserve policy meeting outcome due later in the session and data ...
MassLive

Mayor says ‘we got Trumped’: Sublime Systems ‘pauses’ work in Holyoke

HOLYOKE — Sublime Systems will pause work on its Holyoke plant and cut its workforce by 10%. Sublime Systems, the Somerville and Holyoke startup planning to revolutionize cement making, and do it in ...