Notepad++ updates got hijacked for months and could have spied for China by Stevie Bonifield

the hijacking occurred on the app’s unnamed, now-former hosting provider’s end, stating that “Traffic from certain targeted users was selectively redirected to attacker-controlled served malicious update manifests.” When victims were redirected, their app update could be replaced with a malicious executable that, according to independent cybersecurity expert Kevin Beaumont, may have given the hackers remote access to a victim’s keyboard.

8.8.9 has the fix for this.

Moltbook is the most interesting place on the internet right now by Simon Willison

Moltbook is Facebook for your Molt (one of the previous names for OpenClaw assistants).

It's a social network where digital assistants can talk to each other.

I can hear you rolling your eyes! But bear with me.

The Facebook, Zuck wants to build.

SpaceX wants to put 1 million solar-powered data centers into orbit by Terrence O'Brien

SpaceX filed a request with the FCC on Friday seeking approval to put a constellation of 1 million data center satellites into orbit. While the FCC is unlikely to approve a network that expansive, SpaceX’s strategy has been to request approval for unrealistically large numbers of satellites as a starting point for negotiations.

This feels wrong. Like we are closing the doors on exploration. Like we will be stuck on a worsening planet.

In pictures: Life in ice-cold Finland by

Freezing temperatures have tightened their grip across the country, and the cold snap is set to continue through the weekend.

Beautiful pictures.

Last Call for Mass Market Paperbacks by by Jim Milliot, with Sophia Stewart

The consolidation of the wholesaler market coincided with the rapid increase of e-book sales. According to the 2012 StatShot report (produced that year by AAP and BISG), mass market paperback sales were running neck and neck with e-book sales in 2011 at about $1.1 billion, but the two formats were on markedly different trajectories: from the prior year, mass market paperback sales tumbled by about $500 million and e-book sale soared by roughly $1 billion.