Archive for December, 2009

WordPress 2.9 adds global undo function

Monday, December 21st, 2009

The WordPress development team has released WordPress 2.9. Major new features include a global undo function, a built-in image editor and the ability to update up to 10 plugins at once
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The H Week – Update Checking, Oracle/MySQL and GPL violations

Saturday, December 19th, 2009

This week a new Update Check service to replace old software (with known vulnerabilities) with the latest version. Oracle reassures the MySQL community, Novell simplifies its infrastructure and Microsoft comes to an agreement over browser antitrust case. Google offer a new URL shortening service, Adobe says it won’t budge from its scheduled updates and Twitter gets cracked again.
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qooxdoo 1.0 JavaScript framework released

Saturday, December 19th, 2009

The qooxdoo developers have released version 1.0 of their free Ajax GUI framework, suitable for creating web applications with a desktop-like user interface
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Winamp 5.57 eliminates vulnerabilities

Saturday, December 19th, 2009

Nullsoft has released version 5.57 of Winamp, closing several critical vulnerabilities its popular media player that could be exploited to compromise a user’s system
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New version of open source CMS webEdition arrives

Friday, December 18th, 2009

As well as various bug fixes, version 6.0.0.7 of the open source content management system includes extensions and enhancements to the shop and workflow modules
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Mozilla announces Personas 2.0

Friday, December 18th, 2009

The Labs team at Mozilla has announced the launch of version 2.0 of Personas, a Mozilla Labs experiment that lets users easily change the appearance of their standard grey Firefox web browser
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Mozilla releases Firefox 3.6 Beta 5

Friday, December 18th, 2009

The Mozilla developers have announced the availability of the fifth beta for what will become version 3.6 of their open source Firefox web browser, code-named Namoroka
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Report: US drone video intercepted by insurgents

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

According to reports, insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan are using off-the-shelf software to view video from surveillance drones thanks to unencrypted downlinks
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Adobe not planning to close critical vulnerability in Reader until January

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

Adobe has confirmed the existence of a vulnerability in Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat. The vulnerability is already being actively exploited, but the company does not plan to release an update until 12th January 2010. Until then, users should use one of a number of workarounds to protect against attacks
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VLC for Mac OS X needs developers

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

The VideoLAN project is urgently seeking developers for the Mac OS X port of the VLC multimedia player. If they are not found, the 1.1.0 port will be the last
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