Microsoft Added AI to Notepad and It Created a Security Failure Because the AI Was Stupidly Easy for Hackers to Trick

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 an “agentic OS” to the dismay of many users, with CEO Satya Nadella boasting that much of the company’s code is now being written by AI — while condemning those who use the newly-minted pejorative “Microslop.” While new bugs in an operating system so…

Microsoft’s AI-Powered Notepad Rewrite Feature Opens a Troubling New Door for Data Exposure

For nearly four decades, Microsoft’s Notepad has been the digital equivalent of a blank sheet of paper — simple, reliable, and utterly inert. It was the one application on a Windows machine that nobody worried about from a security standpoint. It didn’t connect to the internet. It didn’t phone home. It just sat there, holding text, doing nothing clever at all. That era is now over. Microsoft has embedded an AI-powered “Rewrite” feature into Note…