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Adobe Animate to Shut Down as Notepad++ Users Face Security Threat, Crunchyroll Raises Prices
Adobe Animate, the 2D animation software, is set to be discontinued on March 1st, according to a FAQ posted on Adobe's website. The company cited the emergence of newer platforms that better serve user needs as the reason for the shutdown. Existing users will have one year to download their files.
In separate news, users of the text and code editor Notepad++ may have unknowingly downloaded a malicious update after the app's shared hosting servers were compromised between June and December 2025. According to the app's developer, Don Ho, the hackers were likely a Chinese state-sponsored group. Ho posted an update detailing the attack on Monday.
Meanwhile, anime streaming service Crunchyroll is raising its monthly subscription prices by up to 20 percent. This comes weeks after the service eliminated its free tier, a move that has been controversial among users. Ars Technica reported that Crunchyroll had 3 million paid subscribers and an additional 197 million users with free accounts when Sony acquired it from AT&T in 2020. At that time, monthly subscription tiers cost $8, $10, or $15.
In other tech news, MIT Technology Review highlighted a civilian online marketplace, backed by Andreessen Horowitz, that allows users to buy custom instruction files for generating celebrity deepfakes. A study from researchers at Stanford and Indiana University found that between mid-2023 and the end of 2024, a significant portion of requests on the site, called "bounties," asked for animated content, including pornographic images banned by the site.
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