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Microsoft PowerToys adds Alt+Tab-style switching for an app’s windows
Microsoft updated its Windows PowerToys toolset with a new utility dubbed “Window Hopper” that lets users switch between an app’s windows more quickly.
The Window Hopper added in this release works like the standard ALT + TAB Windows feature, but it only works for the currently focused app, helping users switch back and forth between its windows.
“Once the utility is enabled, press the configurable Alt + backtick shortcut to cycle through that app’s windows without stepping through everything else on your desktop,” Microsoft explains.
Hackers abuse npm mirrors to host phishing redirect pages
Threat actors are abusing npm and its mirrors to host malicious HTML pages that impersonate Cloudflare CAPTCHAs to redirect visitors to attacker-controlled websites.
The technique was previously spotted in July by security researcher inf0stache, who found a ‘china_airlines’ npm package that used a fake Cloudflare verification page to redirect visitors to a malicious domain, and was also reported by IntelFusions.
In a later report, OX Security discovered 24 npm packages containing the same malicious HTML page hosted on npm and various mirrors.
Massive DDoS attack disrupts Norway’s government digital services
A large distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack has disrupted Norway’s shared government digital infrastructure since Monday, affecting services used by the public sector.
The attack started at 03.38 CEST on Monday and has targeted the infrastructure supporting services operated by the Norwegian Digitalization Agency, Digitaliseringsdirektoratet (Digdir), and its operations provider, Vivicta.
Digdir operates Norway’s shared digital government infrastructure, including public-service logins, electronic IDs and signatures, secure digital mail, government forms, public-record access, and data exchange between agencies.
The Man Who Saw Humanity From Two Billion Years Away
Olaf Stapledon published his first epic cosmic novel, “Last and First Men: A Story of the Near and Far Future,” in 1930. It is a speculative history of humanity’s evolution told from the vantage point of one of the Last Men, the people of the 18th era of humanity, 2 billion years in the future.
“Last and First Men” eschews the dramatic conventions of the novel form: There are few significant characters or particularities of place. Instead, the plot is a causal chain of civilizations rising and falling. There is a voice, infused with a distant sense of beauty and tragedy as it considers humanity in the abstract. Stapledon described the novel as “an essay in myth creation.”
In his autobiography, Stapledon relates the “Anglesey vision” that inspired the novel. He was scrambling on an island off the rugged coast of Wales when he came across a colony of seals surrounded by crashing waves. Perhaps the faces of the seals suggested blurred abstractions of human faces. He had “a sudden fantasy of man’s whole future, aeon upon aeon of strange vicissitudes and gallant endeavours in world after world.”
