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Danish vulnerability tracker Secunia and eEye Digital Security of California have discovered a flaw in the Winamp 5.34 plugin that decodes MP4 files. It seems that an attacker could compromise a computer by feeding a specially made MP4 file to the player. This would allow the attacker to execute malicious code remotely. According to eEye’s […]

After resolving issues with their Personalized Home Page service, Google will now add more features to let users customize their home pages a little more. New languages are available bringing the total count to 26. Themes for the service are now available to users living outside the United States.
Probably the biggest enhancement to the service […]

Google has finally resolved issues with its Personalized Home Page service 32 hours after angry users hit the discussion forums to report that their Google home pages reverted to the default settings or returned to older versions. Most of the complaints were about lost productivity and missing data.
The personalized page is a free service that […]

AOL has just launched its beta page and the first thing you’ll notice is that it seems familiar. So familiar in fact that you’ll think you were at a different site. Take a look at the two images below to see what I mean.

Just like looking at twins right? Thanks to Josh Lowensohn for finding […]

In an effort to expand its online music section, Yahoo Inc. will be adding the lyrics of 400,000 songs of 9,000 artists from The Beatles to Beyonce. Yahoo hopes that this will provide web surfers with a better alternative to sites that publish song lyrics without the copyright owners’ permission.
Some of the music publishers who […]

Scribd is an online document sharing site. It lets users upload their documents and share it with other users. Supported document formats are Word, PowerPoint, PDF, Postscript, Excel, and Lit files. Users can choose between uploading their documents one at a time or use the bulk upload feature.
Uploaded documents can be made public or private […]

Comedian Will Ferrell and Adam McKay recently launched their own video site called FunnyorDie.com. Their site allows users to submit their own comedy videos and have it voted on by other viewers. The site’s difference from other video sites is that viewers’ votes determine which videos stay on the main site, get categorized, or sent […]

Google CEO Eric Shmidt announced that they are nearing the implementation of a filtering service that will prevent copyrighted content from being uploaded to YouTube. The new system which he called “Claim Your Content” will automatically identify copyright material so that it could be removed. This is the same system that was supposed to be […]