{"slug": "former-microsoft-engineer-shrinks-notepad-down-to-size", "title": "Former Microsoft engineer shrinks Notepad down to size", "summary": "A former Microsoft engineer has developed a smaller, more efficient version of Notepad, the classic Windows text editor. The project aims to reduce the application's footprint while maintaining core functionality, potentially offering a lighter alternative for users.", "body_md": "### MOST POPULAR\n\n[AI](https://beta.theregister.com/tag/ai)\n\n-\nAI and ML\n\n#### Security researchers tricked LLMs into giving them cocaine recipes by abusing role models for prompt injection\n\nIf you want a picture of the future of LLM security, imagine Whac-a-Mole meets Groundhog Day\n\n-\nsecurity\n\n#### AI may be good at finding security vulnerabilities, but it can't beat human stupidity\n\nYou don't need Mythos or GPT-5.5-Cyber to find a vuln to exploit when the world's password habits are so sloppy\n\n-\nSecurity\n\n#### It's looking like a hot, messy summer for security teams as AI finds countless previously hidden vulns\n\nTime to start praying to the goddess of wisdom and war\n\n-\nAI AND ML\n\n#### Google wants AI regulation, but on its own terms\n\nSurely, we can have rules that allow us to continue doing what we're doing\n\n-\noffbeat\n\n#### US auto regulators want to kill robotaxi brake pedals\n\nRequiring driverless vehicles to keep human brake controls impedes innovation, the NHTSA says\n\n[Infosec](https://beta.theregister.com/security)\n\n-\nSecurity\n\n#### Russians are posing as Signal support to launch phishing attacks\n\nPLUS: US takes down Iranian propaganda sites; Marketing company asks 'Why Do We Have Your Information?' And more!\n\n-\nSecurity\n\n#### Microsoft patches failed to fix on-prem SharePoint, which is now under zero-day attack\n\nPLUS: China upgrades smartphone surveillance tools; Ring eases anti-snooping stance; and more\n\n-\nBlack Hat and DEF CON\n\n#### DEF CON Franklin project enlists hackers to harden critical infrastructure\n\nVoting village reports have been so successful, says Jeff Moss, that the whole of DEF CON will now be included\n\n-\nSecurity\n\n#### EQT buys majority share in Swiss cybersecurity biz Acronis\n\nWent at equivalent of $3.5B+ valuation for entire firm, though portion sold not specified\n\n-\nMalware Month\n\n#### Ten years since the first corp ransomware, Mikko Hyppönen sees no end in sight\n\nOn the plus side, infosec's a good bet for a long, stable career\n\n[FOSS](https://beta.theregister.com/tag/FOSS)\n\n-\n#### Collabora releases CODE 26.04 as rivalry between FOSS cloudy office suites heats up\n\nNow with Markdown support and smarter formula error handling – plus integrated AI, though it's off by default\n\n-\n#### Blast from the past as GIMP 0.54 is revived in Flatpak form\n\nRetro-computing fun for the nostalgic with first (and last) release to use Motif instead of GTK\n\n-\n#### Bcachefs exits experimental status in new 'performance release'\n\nMore Rust, but more trouble with AI slop, too\n\n-\n#### France's digital sovereignty push is struggling to escape the Microsoft gravity well\n\nNextcloud rollout shows locally controlled storage is one thing; getting users off Office is quite another\n\n-\n#### History of CentOS: How a biochemist's Linux hobby project became the enterprise world's default operating system\n\nWhen a community came together after Red Hat said Windows was 'probably the right product'\n\n-\n#### Netflix wiz creates app to slash AI bills, then open sources it\n\nProject Headroom could save you big money, too", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/former-microsoft-engineer-shrinks-notepad-down-to-size", "canonical_source": "https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/06/30/former-microsoft-engineer-shrinks-notepad-down-to-size/5264319", "published_at": "2026-06-30 12:14:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-30 12:53:36.694274+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["developer-tools"], "entities": ["Microsoft", "Notepad"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/former-microsoft-engineer-shrinks-notepad-down-to-size", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/former-microsoft-engineer-shrinks-notepad-down-to-size.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/former-microsoft-engineer-shrinks-notepad-down-to-size.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/former-microsoft-engineer-shrinks-notepad-down-to-size.jsonld"}}