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Apple's macOS 27.3 beta 1, released alongside new Safari and Siri features, lets Quick Look render .md files with proper formatting instead of showing raw Markdown syntax. The update follows Apple's broader push to support Markdown across its platforms, including import/export in Notes and Markdown-based SKILL.md files used by its new Siri AI developer framework.
Bear, the notes app built by three friends in 2013 and launched on the App Store in 2016, is celebrating its tenth anniversary this November. The company highlighted milestones including Apple's Mac App of the Year award, a 2017 Apple Design Award, the Bear 2 relaunch with a rebuilt editor, and an upcoming full release of Bear Web following its public beta.
A new guide lists five practices developers should follow when using AI coding assistants, warning that models often take shortcuts and skip security checks unless explicitly instructed otherwise. Recommendations include specifying privacy and access requirements upfront, referencing the OWASP vulnerability list, using persistent rule or memory files in tools like Lovable or Replit, and choosing platforms that support audit logs.
Google has updated Google Docs to let users open, edit, and collaborate on Markdown (.md) files directly, without converting them into Google's native document format. The files keep a small .md badge in the title and support existing Docs tools like comments, suggested edits, and version history. Google Drive also now shows formatted Markdown previews, available to all Google account holders.
Forever Security researchers Gal Weizman and Omer Samet discovered an in-the-wild attack in which a malicious file named AGENTS.md was planted in a customer's downloads folder, disguised as engineering notes. When AI coding agents like OpenAI's Codex or Claude Code read the file as trusted project context, it could prompt them to rewrite their own configuration, enabling further attacker actions such as credential theft. The firm says it intercepted and stopped the attack before any malicious code executed.
A workflow called 'Tasks as Code' suggests replacing external trackers like Jira or Redmine with Markdown task files stored directly in a code repository's /docs-style folder. The approach extends the existing 'Docs as Code' practice, letting AI coding agents read tasks, code and documentation in one place and record updates through ordinary Git commits. It is linked to Spec-Driven Development, where Markdown specifications define intended behavior before an agent implements it.
Discord shipped an update that renders uploaded .md files with proper formatting, including tables, rather than showing raw symbols. The same release adds a 'Move to...' option for organizing servers and channels via right-click, and raises the file upload limit for Nitro subscribers to 1GB.
A tech writer argues that despite Markdown being over 20 years old and widely used for documentation and publishing, most computers and phones still cannot open a .md file and display it as formatted text without extra software. The author contrasts this with how operating systems natively handle images, video, and PDFs, and describes relying on Markdown for personal writing because of its portability and independence from any single application.
A developer has released Sygal, a tool that runs locally to convert images, scans, PDFs, web pages and YouTube videos into Markdown text. The creator says this conversion can cut token usage for AI models by roughly 2 to 7 times compared to feeding in raw images or markup, with YouTube links converted into clean transcripts.
Bigwords.page is a web app that turns any screen into a sign by auto-fitting text to the display size, from phone to stadium board. It supports Markdown formatting, slide rotation via a '||' separator, countdown timers, and in-browser generation of QR codes for links, Wi-Fi, calls, texts and email.
Google has introduced the ability to view, edit, and collaborate on Markdown files directly within Google Docs and Drive. Users can now import Markdown documents, such as those created in Obsidian, and see them rendered with proper formatting without conversion, while Drive previews display fully formatted Markdown content. The feature is gradually rolling out to all users over the next 15 days.
A developer launched Ledge.sh on Show HN, a tool that turns markdown notes into executable documents by embedding code blocks (Python, shell, SQL) that run inline. The demo example shows a weekly subscription report pulling data from Stripe's API and a database, then summarizing new sign-ups and revenue directly within the note.