The latest version of Wordpress (2.6.2) is available for download at http://wordpress.org/download/

The most significant bug fixes for this version is the vulnerably of SQL Column Truncation and the weakness of mt_rand() function. This bug fix is essentially required if you allowed open registration on your blog as the previous version (2.6.1) allows attackers to craft a username and it will allow resetting some other user’s password then randomly generate password. However, this generated password is not revealed to the attacker, so this bug problem is version 2.6.1 itself.

Besides that, this randomly generated password could be guess because the weakness in the random number seeding in mt_rand() function.

Click here to download 2.6.2

Today, we will able to read old newspapers from Google News. This is officially announced at Google blog today (Bringing history online, one newspaper at a time).

The service allows you explore millions of news archive. Besides that, visitor will able to browse through the newspaper precisely as they were published.

Google already started their efforts working with this service since 2006 and New York Times and Washington Post is amongst the first newspaper they digitized. The good news is, Google also start blending these newspapers into the search result so you can search the old newspaper archives using their search engine.

Here is the sample old newspaper: “WE’RE ON THE MOON” - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 21 July 1969

The HP Pavillion dv5t is component of group of HP consumer notebooks to have an interior chrome treatment. And with the inclusion of the Centrino 2 platform, the HP Pavillion dv5t is among the 1st to get a full performance tune-up.

This wasn’t an extreme makeover, however, by any means. The HP Pavillion dv5t is still slightly overweight at 6.3 pounds. The chrome job is best at hiding fingerprints than a black polish, although under fluorescent light the reflected glare can be a distraction.

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You’re unlikely to find a draft-n router that costs less then the Linksys Ultra RangePlus Wireless-N Router (WRT160N). As with the Linksys RangePlus Wireless Router (WRT110), the four wired Ethernet ports are 10/100 only, and there’s no USB port for sharing a printer or storage device. But the WRT160N can use Linksys’s relatively new home network management software, and the throughput at 20 feet, 116mbps, is a bit above WRT110’s. Performance falls precipitously with increasing distance, though.

Connecting the router to the internet via DSL or cable caused the install wizard to hang. Once I’d killed the wizard the router ran correctly, but to access the network manager (which, confusingly, has almost the same name as the installer), I had to eject and reinsert the install CD, then select the manager from the menu. Perhaps by the time you read this the installation routine will be fixed.

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DNA stores an awful lot of information, so why not computer data? That’s just what researchers at Davidson College and Missouri western State University had in mind when they designed an experiment to coax genetically altered bacteria into behaving like a computer. Their biological computer, composed of E. coli cells, solved a classical mathematical challenge known as the Burnt Pancake Problem: Sort a stack of objects (the “pancakes” in this experiment were DNA fragments) into proper order (golder side up) in the minimum number of flips. In the case of DNA, the “flipping” is actually sorting according to reversals. The more pancakes, the more complex the problem becomes. Still in its infancy, bacterial computing could have far-reaching implications for data storage, parallel computing, and genetic engineering. “The more little computers you have working on a problem, the greater the likehood that one is going to pick the right path that will take you to the right solution,” said Karmella Haynes, an adjunct professor of biology at Davidson, in an interview with MSNBC. Haynes’s team nicknamed the E. coli project E-Hop (continuing the pancake metaphor). With further research, this proof of concept could be put to even greater problem-solving challenges in the future.