Two flaws in the widely used open-source editor can be triggered through manipulated configuration files, prompting security updates from the project's maintainers. Two arbitrary code execution ...

For decades, he criticized the industry’s lax attitudes toward computer security and individual digital privacy. He also developed solutions. By John Markoff In November 1952, a Harvard sophomore, ...

Not really sure Ho gets to scold people about risks of downloading malware, since, you know, he's the one who relied on a supply chain for his updater that was compromised for the better part of a ...

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 ...

On MacOS, there's a wealth of beautifully elegant and powerful text editors to choose from. On Windows, there's Notepad++. And now, on MacOS, there's… Notepad++! Notepad++ is now available as a native ...

Greg Mendez has given us another taste of his highly anticipated first full-length for Dead Oceans, Beauty Land, with “No Evil.” “A lot of the time I feel locked inside my own head, or maybe it’s ...

Cursor is a free, open‑source code editor based on Visual Studio Code. It integrates large language models directly into your workflow, giving you AI‑powered autocomplete, inline code generation, a ...

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — The Daily Tar Heel student newspaper sparked outrage at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill after publishing satirical articles on April Fools’ Day regarding ...

Vulnerabilities in the Vim and GNU Emacs text editors, discovered using simple prompts with the Claude assistant, allow remote code execution simply by opening a file. The assistant also created ...

Visual Studio Code has moved from monthly to weekly releases thanks to the dev team's shift to internal AI and agent use in its own development workflow. VS Code 1.113 groups its changes into three ...

A transgender assistant editor on DreamWorks’ The Bad Guys 2 is suing the studio and parent company NBCUniversal for alleged anti-trans harassment. The lawsuit, filed last week in California state ...