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a major security-vulnerability in popular open-source blogging-tool Wordpress has been disclosed. Automattic responded immediatelly by releasing version 2.0.6, which takes care of the issues. might be a good hint for all users to subscribe to their developer-blog (I wonder if the hosted software at wordpress.com uses the same codebase and is/was therefor prone to the same exploits?).

TechCrunch.com added oldschool forum-functionality today. very minimalistic. I wonder how they’ll avoid cannibalization of their very own, charged-for, job-board?

btw., another tech job-board launched this week, can be found at Read/WriteWeb.

video-feed of Lawrence Lessig’s talk at the 23rd Chaos Communication Congress (23C3), December 2006 in Berlin. quoting BoingBoing:

If you want to understand what computers do to culture and why the law is totally out of synch with that, watch this. I especially love that Larry describes why neither hacking nor lobbying will solve the problem — but sets out a strategy that will win, a real path to victory.”

since yesterday, podcast-indexing & speech-recognition service Podzinger allows users to search for keywords within YouTube-videos.

MobVendor is a SecondLife vending-machine, that adjusts product-prizes to the number of people avatars near the point-of-sale - the more avatars, the lower the price. 3pointD has the lowdown on crowdpricing in SecondLife.