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WordPress 2.3.2 Security Update

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From the WordPress Blog:

WordPress 2.3.2 is an urgent security release that fixes a bug that can be used to expose your draft posts. 2.3.2 also suppresses some error messages that can give away information about your database table structure and limits and stops some information leaks in the XML-RPC and APP implementations. Get 2.3.2 now to protect your blog from these disclosures.

Stop! Update time! Ta dadada tada tada. Update time!

Done! Painless.

Update: Here’s Peter Westwood’s “WordPress 2.3.2 in detail“, with backlinks to addressed Trac tickets.

End of Support for Netscape Web Browsers

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From: “End of Support for Netscape web browsers – The Netscape Blog“:

Given AOL’s current business focus and the success the Mozilla Foundation has had in developing critically-acclaimed products, we feel it’s the right time to end development of Netscape branded browsers, hand the reins fully to Mozilla and encourage Netscape users to adopt Firefox.

Sniff… But only in a nostalgic kinda way. It’s the right decision, and I praise AOL for advising their users to move to Firefox. Now please please pleeeeeze just do the same for AIM/ICQ, in favour of the Jabber protocol (XMPP), and we’ll be on a roll!

While I’m on the browser subject, everybody’s favourite Factory Joe (aka Chris Messina) has a great post touching on the rising trend of site specific browsers and the state of the Mozpad project (and by association, XUL).

And since I’m in the subject chaining mood, check out Spicebird, a new neat Mozilla-based collaboration suite coming to us from India.

Improbable Research Magazine Now Free Online

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Talking about the Ig Nobel, CNET announces the following:

The Annals of Improbable Research, best known as the host of the Ig Nobel Awards, will now offer a free online version of its journal.

Via Slahdot.

Update: ReadWriteWeb also reports on the news that “all research funded by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), an agency with a $29 billion research budget, will now be required to be published online, free to the public, within 12 months after publication in any scientific journal.” Very nice! Twelve months is a long time in science though, and we’ll have to see what loopholes greedy researchers might find.

Montreal's Sexiest Geek

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From “Vote for Montreal’s sexiest geek in 2007“:

In the spirit of Wired Magazine’s poll of the year’s sexiest geek, TechnoCité wants to show a little love for the brightest and most beautiful in Montreal. […] Below are the six nominees, chosen for their having made the news this year in a tech-related field, and for being breath-stopping gorgeous. Choose with your heart, and vote at the bottom of the post.

Via MontrealTechWatch.

I know quite a few more that should have been on this list, but one can’t really disagree with the selection.