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Microsoft added AI to Notepad and it created a security failure because the AI was stupidly easy for hackers to trick

As Microsoft continues to force AI features onto users of its Windows operating system and other crucial software, glaring issues keep cropping up. Executives have promised to turn the platform into ...
Ars Technica

Windows Notepad’s midlife renaissance continues with spellcheck and autocorrect

Whatever else you can say about Windows 11—and whatever you think about its pushy tendencies and the Copilot feature that has been rolled out to pretty much everyone despite being labeled a ...
Ars Technica

Notepad’s spellcheck and autocorrect are rolling out to everybody after 41 years

In March, Microsoft started testing an update to the venerable Notepad app that added spellcheck and autocorrect to the app’s limited but slowly growing set of capabilities. The update that adds these ...
TweakTown

Extra features for Windows 11 Notepad go beyond worries about bloat, as new security flaw shows

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. Windows 11's Notepad app is slowly becoming WordPad, after Microsoft ditched the latter, and made up for that (in a fashion) by adding quite a few extra ...
TweakTown

Microsoft starts to scale back Copilot integration in Windows 11, starting with the Notepad app

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. Microsoft seems to be hard at work trying to (finally) improve Windows 11 for the end user. Granted, the move might be a bit late, and Microsoft seems to ...
Android Authority

The humble Notepad app on Windows could soon get an AI upgrade

Users have spotted a new Cowriter feature in the latest build of Notepad. This Cowriter function could let you rewrite text, make text longer or shorter, and change the tone and format. Notepad’s ...
ExtremeTech

Microsoft Notepad and Paint, of All Apps, to Get AI Writing and Generative Fill Tools

Microsoft has started testing the integration of AI into two of its longstanding Windows applications, Paint and Notepad. These new AI-powered tools are currently available for Windows 11 Insiders in ...
HotHardware

Windows Notepad Gets Spellcheck And Autocorrect, And It Only Took 41 Years

For decades Notepad has been an essential but incredibly basic text editor available in every copy of Windows. Well, it’s about to get a little more useful with the inclusion of spellcheck and ...
The Verge

Notepad in Windows 11 is finally getting a spellcheck feature

Microsoft continues to improve Notepad with useful features in Windows 11. Microsoft continues to improve Notepad with useful features in Windows 11. is a senior correspondent and author of Notepad, ...
Neowin

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If you feel like Notepad in Windows 10 and 11 could benefit from some extra features, good news: the app will soon get proofreading capabilities with some additional customization options. The default ...