It’s here. Windows Phone users rejoice.

Introducing Instagram for Windows Phone

Today, we’re excited to bring you Instagram for Windows Phone.

With reports of security breaches becoming increasingly common, it’s pretty insane (and downright irresponsible) to store user passwords in plaintext.

On related security news, GitHub has also been resetting passwords for many user accounts as there has been a significant account hijack attack launched on the site.

Hack of Cupid Media dating website exposes 42 million plaintext passwords

The compromise of 42 million passwords makes the episode one of the bigger passcode breaches on record. Adding to the magnitude is the revelation the data was in plaintext, instead of a cryptographically hashed format that requires an investment of time, skill, and computing power to crack.

With Bitcoin’s value fluctuating wildly, not to mention hitting some incredible highs, it’s not surprising that some engineers will decide that illegitimately mined Bitcoins are the way to go.

Gaming Company Fined $1M for Turning Customers Into Secret Bitcoin Army

E-Sports Entertainment Association (ESEA) — which lets serious CounterStrike players face each other down in anti-cheat modes — infected about 14,000 of its customers with the code, which ended up mining about 30 bitcoins over two weeks last spring.

I already own a Wacom Bamboo and Adonit Jot and I’ve been drooling over the Adonit Jot Evernote edition stylus recently, but this is the stylus I want for Christmas.

Putting Pencil to Paper: FiftyThree debuts the best iPad stylus yet

Today, the company has finally thrown its hat in the ring with Pencil, a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) stylus for tablets. FiftyThree’s first hardware device ships today in two models: walnut hardwood, for $59.95, and aluminum “graphite,” for$49.95. The walnut model has built-in magnets, like the Applydea Maglus, so you can stick it to an Apple Smart Cover, or to your fridge. Each Pencil also has an “eraser” on its top, so when you flip it over, Paper automatically activates its eraser tool. The device comes with an extra tip and eraser, and also ships with Paper’s full range of digital brushes, like the watercolor brush, which usually retail for $1.99 each (or$6.99 as a pack) inside the app.

I totally advocate entrepreneurial efforts, but I don’t think that trying to undermine the integrity of Wikipedia is the right way to do it.

Wikipedia Sends Cease-And-Desist Letter to 300-Strong Sockpuppet Army

Wikipedia has been battling the sockpuppet army since 2012, when one editor discovered five editor accounts being used for fluffy, PR-type writing that is not supposed to appear on Wikipedia. More than 250 accounts, allegedly controlled by Wiki-PR, have since been deleted.

Wiki-PR charges between $500 and$1,000 to have articles written and then $50 a month for ongoing “page management” services.

Environmentalists will love the fact that Apple is moving in this direction. While large companies like Facebook and Google are looking into it as well, not forgetting that Facebook is building a data center in Iowa that will be fully powered by wind energy, it’s good to see Apple take such an initiative.

Special report: Apple’s ground-breaking bet on its clean energy infrastructure, with exclusive photos

In an unprecedented move — and one that hasn’t yet been repeated by other companies — Apple spent millions of dollars building two massive solar panel farms and a large fuel cell farm near its data center. These projects and are now fully operational and similar facilities (owned by utilities) have cost in a range of $150 million to$200 million to build. Apple’s are the largest privately-owned clean energy facilities in the U.S. and more importantly, they represent an entirely new way for an internet company to source and think about power.

One of the quirky parks of this setup is how Apple is going to keep the grass trimmed nicely.

Apple manages the grass under the panels in a variety of ways, but one of those is a little more unusual. Apple works with a company that ropes in sheep that eat the grass on a portion of the solar farm; when the sheep finish grazing on one spot, they’re moved to the next.

It’s a more sustainable option than running gas-powered mowers across the farm, and also has the added benefit that sheep can get into smaller spaces and up close to the panels. Some companies use goats to eat grass on plots of land, but goats could chew on the farm’s wiring and solar panel parts.