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  1. Comment on Notepad++ hijacked by state-sponsored hackers in ~tech

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    Following the security disclosure published in the v8.8.9 announcement
    https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/v889-released/
    the investigation has continued in collaboration with external experts and with the full involvement of my (now former) shared hosting provider.

    According to the analysis provided by the security experts, the attack involved infrastructure-level compromise that allowed malicious actors to intercept and redirect update traffic destined for notepad-plus-plus.org. The exact technical mechanism remains under investigation, though the compromise occured at the hosting provider level rather than through vulnerabilities in Notepad++ code itself. Traffic from certain targeted users was selectively redirected to attacker-controlled served malicious update manifests.

    TL;DR
    According to the former hosting provider, the shared hosting server was compromised until September 2, 2025. Even after losing server access, attackers maintained credentials to internal services until December 2, 2025, which allowed them to continue redirecting Notepad++ update traffic to malicious servers. The attackers specifically targeted Notepad++ domain with the goal of exploiting insufficient update verification controls that existed in older versions of Notepad++. All remediation and security hardening were completed by the provider by December 2, 2025, successfully blocking further attacker activity.

    16 votes

  3. Comment on Theme reset? in ~tildes

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    Are you using the Account default theme setting? It's in your user settings.

    Are you using the Account default theme setting? It's in your user settings.

    3 votes

  4. Comment on Europe loves night trains - so why are many routes disappearing across the continent? in ~transport

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    New night trains are launching across Europe, but funding gaps and ageing infrastructure still threaten their revival.

  6. Comment on Microsoft quietly kills Windows 11/10 activation via phone in ~tech

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    And previously: https://tildes.net/~tech/1ql4/microsoft_is_plugging_more_holes_that_let_you_use_windows_11_without_an_online_account

    If you are wondering about official ways, offline Windows activation has been possible to do using the phone. However, it looks like Microsoft has quietly killed off that method as users online have found that they are no longer able to activate the OS using it.

    And previously:
    https://tildes.net/~tech/1ql4/microsoft_is_plugging_more_holes_that_let_you_use_windows_11_without_an_online_account

    7 votes

  8. Comment on BYD overtakes Tesla as China reshapes the global electric vehicle race in ~transport

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    The battle of the electric vehicles seems to be comfortably leaning in favour of Chinese producer BYD as Elon Musk's Tesla cars continue to underperform sales-wise, with the Chinese producer posting a nearly 28% increase in year-to-date sales for December.

    8 votes

  10. Comment on How a 20 year old bug in GTA San Andreas surfaced in Windows 11 24H2 in ~comp

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    Interesting in-depth story of hunting down a game bug that only surfaces in one of the latest Windows 11 versions.

    Interesting in-depth story of hunting down a game bug that only surfaces in one of the latest Windows 11 versions.

    10 votes

  11. Comment on How a 20 year old bug in GTA San Andreas surfaced in Windows 11 24H2 in ~comp

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    Skimmer airplane doesn’t exist in Windows 11 24H2

    When I upgraded my windows to version 24H2, the Skimmer plane disappear completely from the game. It can’t be spawn using trainer nor it can’t be found anywhere on it’s normal spawn points. I’m using both my modded copy (which is before the update, is completely fine) and vanilla copy with only silentpatch (I tried the 2018, 2020 and the most recent version of silentpatch) and the plane still won’t exist.

    If this was the first time I had heard about it, I’d likely consider it dubious and suspect there are more things at play, and it’s not specifically Windows 11 24H2. However, on GTAForums, I’ve been receiving comments about this exact issue since November last year. Some of them said SilentPatch causes this issue, others however stated the same happens on a completely unmodded game:

    13 votes

  13. Comment on Leaving Apple behind after eighteen years in ~tech

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    CoMaps has worked without any problems for foot navigation for me so far. This might have been a GPS or fused location provider issue. It could theoretically also be an issue with the map data (it...

    I've tried my best to set up something workable with CoMaps. I tried to use it recently for the first time for walking directions (which is my favorite and most-used mode of travel), and it seemed to think I was several blocks away from where I was. I tried to trust it and turned around before realizing I actually hadn't gone far enough. I frequently walk places I've never been to before, so navigation is pretty important to me. I could use Google Maps, but that's counterproductive.

    CoMaps has worked without any problems for foot navigation for me so far. This might have been a GPS or fused location provider issue.

    It could theoretically also be an issue with the map data (it uses OpenStreetMap data). But that is pretty unlikely.

    6 votes

  14. Comment on When we get komooted in ~society

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    Following the sale of the popular route-planning platform Komoot to private equity, Josh Meissner examines the troubling mechanics of the community-powered service beyond its friendly brand image. Using Komoot as an example, he explores the broken relationship between corporate capital and our communities. Amid the tension, discover a way forward that’s available to all of us…

    7 votes

  16. Comment on Chile’s new far-right head is latest Latin American leader to ride hardline wave to power in ~society

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    José Antonio Kast’s victory in Chile’s presidential election has been widely praised by leaders of the global right, with congratulations coming from the US secretary of state Marco Rubio, Hungary’s Viktor Orbán, Italy’s Giorgia Meloni, Argentina’s Javier Milei and X’s Elon Musk.

    The son of a Nazi party member, a father of nine and a staunch Catholic known for opposing abortion and same-sex marriage, Kast won 58.16% of the vote in the runoff – more than 2m votes than the leftist Jeannette Jara, a former labour minister under the current president, Gabriel Boric.

    Kast is the first post-dictatorship president to openly declare himself an admirer of Augusto Pinochet, under whose regime an estimated 40,000 people were tortured and more than 3,000 killed. Among the many tributes he has paid to Pinochet, Kast said during the 2017 presidential campaign: “If [Pinochet] were alive, he would vote for me.”

    13 votes

  18. Comment on How Iran is running out of water in ~enviro

  19. Comment on Reality check: EU Council chat control vote is not a retreat, but a green light for indiscriminate mass surveillance and the end of right to communicate anonymously in ~society

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    He's legit. Former MEP and long time member of the German Pirate Party. He has been reporting on chat control and related topics for years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Breyer

    He's legit. Former MEP and long time member of the German Pirate Party. He has been reporting on chat control and related topics for years.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Breyer

    12 votes

  20. Comment on EU backs away from chat control in ~society