The WordPress community is recommending that users update to Version 2.5.1 of its weblog content management system in order to obtain an important security fix. No details of the vulnerability have been released, although the community says this will happen "shortly".
Last week, version 2.5.1 of Wordpress was released in response to the discovery of two vulnerabilities. Now, details concerning one of them have been revealed. According to an entry at the Full Disclosure security mailing list, attackers can use manipulated cookies to get access to user accounts, including the admin account. This access may also allow them to cause the Web server to execute arbitrary PHP code. The vulnerability only affects Wordpress branch 2.5 and the developer branch, in which the developers have implemented a new cookie registration procedure.
Popular social network site Digg has new competition as Yahoo launch their new Digg-style service, Buzz. Currently in beta Buzz combines search term popularity and the number of votes a web page receives to produce a Buzz score.
The web page with the highest score then receives a place on the highly viewed Yahoo homepage. Yahoo Vice President of Front Doors and Network Services Tapan Bhat said, "With Yahoo Buzz, we are building on the recent success of the homepage of Yahoo and improving consumers' favorite online starting point, by combining popular stories with the wisdom of real people to determine what is most engaging and relevant.
Microsoft has had to update a stream of applications due to concern for a flaw in Windows Home Server which may lead to data loss. If certain programmes edit files directly in the shared folders held on the server the files may become corrupted.
The affected programmes are, Windows Media Player 11, Windows Vista Photo Gallery, Windows Live Photo Gallery, Microsoft office OneNote, Lightroom, Apple iTunes, Adobe Photoshop, Intuit Quicken, and ACDSee, WinAmp and Quickbooks.
The first Service Pack for Windows Vista is already available on the internet, but users should not take any chances yet, advises heise online's German sister publication c't magazine in its current issue. Even Microsoft admits that the current version still struggles with certain pre-installed drivers which the software giant wants to replace via Auto-Update in the coming weeks.
"Tiny but has everything that you would expect from a larger notebook"
The Eee PC sub-notebook was released in October 2007, and a new generation is due to be released in April 2008, it runs on default Linux xandros this is mainly because it avoids both licensing costs of windows and its larger software requirements, therefore making the Eee much cheaper as well as speedier. However Windows XP adapts well to the tiny notebook. It has a full Qwerty keyboard, however it is very small and unusual to type at a high speed, and the keys seem fragile and wobbly. The design is very different from most conventional laptops, when closed the Eee is 1inch thick, and is the same size as a DVD case. Weighing just 927grams, and 1.1kg with power adaptor, it is ideal for business travel, or just simply traveling altogether.
128GB Solid-State Drives and There even getting thinner
Samsung announced that they are going to ship a 128GB solid-state drive that measures in at a tiny 2.5 and 3.5 Inches for notebooks and desktop PC's. The new drive uses the new multi-level cell technology, which use's different voltages to store several bits per cell. Samsung claims a write speed of 70Mbytes/sec (The fastest storage speed for storage of this type). The claimed read speed is 100Mbytes/sec. Samsung pioneered the use of SSDs when it used a 32GB one in a version of its Q1 ultra-mobile. The 128GB model was demonstrated in a notebook at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
New Software Allows User To Reach Out And Touch, Virtually
European researchers have pioneered a breakthrough interface that allows people to touch, stretch and pull virtual fabrics that feel like the real thing. The new multi-modal software linked to tactile hardware and haptics devices have enormous potential for shopping, design and human-machine interaction.
A revolutionary new interface allows users to really feel virtual textiles. The system combines a specially designed glove, a sophisticated computer model and visual representation to reproduce the sensation of cloth with an impressive degree of realism.
“It is a multi-modal approach that has never been tried before,” says Professor Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, coordinator of the HAPTEX project. HAPTEX stands for Haptic sensing of virtual textiles. Read More...
The new mac may be thin but its far from powerful of course you can't exspect to much from something so small but the hype generated by the Mac air will probably remain just that "hype" with price's starting from £1,199.00 you would expect more than a ultra thin laptop its more of a novelty than anything else there selling a single idea, Essentially your paying £1,199.00 for 1.8ghz Dualcore and thats pretty much it, this is hilarious considering you could buy the ultimate desktop for £1000.....Read More
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