The vulnerability comes from the way Notepad handles Markdown hyperlinks. Attackers craft malicious .md files with embedded ...

Clicking the malicious links could launch "unverified protocols." ...

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

According to Microsoft's release notes, the update fixes 25 elevation of privilege flaws, 12 remote code execution ...

At first glance, some scientific research can seem, well, impractical. When physicists began exploring the strange, subatomic world of quantum mechanics a century ago, they weren't trying to build ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Cybercriminals have discovered a way to bypass detection engines for malicious QR codes, which are designed to protect email users. Now, they’re spamming inboxes with fraudulent QR codes generated ...

Microsoft is previewing a new AI-assisted tool for Visual Studio Code Insiders called the JavaScript/TypeScript Modernizer. It's designed to help developers modernize older JavaScript or TypeScript ...

In the pre-large language model (LLM) Stack Overflow era, the challenge was discerning which code snippets to adopt and adapt effectively. Now, while generating code has become trivially easy, the ...

CHARLESTON — Basic Kitchen's longtime executive chef and director of operations have taken over as operating partners of the popular downtown restaurant. The news comes as owners Ben and Kate Towill, ...

A critical vulnerability in the popular expr-eval JavaScript library, with over 800,000 weekly downloads on NPM, can be exploited to execute code remotely through maliciously crafted input. The ...

Dr. Berg teaches philosophy at the University of California, Irvine. Last spring, it became clear to me that over half the students in my large general education lecture course had used artificial ...