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OpenAI has released a new MacOS app for Codex, integrating many of the agentic coding practices that have become popular since Codex launched last year.
The developer of the popular text editor Notepad++ said hackers associated with the Chinese government hijacked its software update mechanism to deliver tainted software to users for months.