Microsoft Security Advisory has confirmed a new wave of limited “zero-day” attacks was underway, using a code execution flaw in its Microsoft Office desktop productivity suite. They have issued warning to users to be on suspicious especially for Excel files that arrive unexpectedly — even if they come from a co-worker’s e-mail address, the advisory further added although excel files are currently being used to launch the spear phishing attacks, users of other Office applications (Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access, etc.) are potentially at risk.”

Linux 2.6.20 has been released after two month continuous development phase. The current release includes two different virtualization implementations: KVM: full-virtualization capabilities using Intel/AMD virtualization extensions and a paravirtualization implementation usable by different hypervisors.

Short overview;

2.6.20 makes linux join to the virtualization trends. This release adds two virtualization implementations: A full-virtualization implementation that uses Intel/AMD hardware virtualization capabilities called KVM (http://kvm.sourceforge.net) and a paravirtualization implementation (http://lwn.net/Articles/194543) that can be used by different hypervisors (Rusty’s lguest; Xen and Vmware in the future, etc),. But this release also adds initial Sony Playstation 3 support, a fault injection debugging feature (http://lwn.net/Articles/209257), UDP-lite support, better per-process IO accounting, relative atime, support for using swap files for suspend users, relocatable x86 kernel support for kdump users, small microoptimizations in x86 (sleazy FPU, regparm, support for the Processor Data Area, optimizations for the Core 2 platform), a generic HID layer, DEEPNAP power savings for PPC970, lockless radix-tree readside, shared pagetables for hugetbl, ARM support for the AT91 and iop13xx processors, full NAT for nf_conntrack and many other things.
Read the list of changes in more details.

This is good news for Adsense publisher from google as reported by Jennifer Slegg in her blog that you can now run AdSense on the same page as other contextual ad programs.

The Official News state as follow;

Publishers are still welcome to place images above the ads. The only exception is if it’s in such a way that it looks like the images are part of the ads.

When something like that comes to our attention, we’ll ask that the publisher place a visible border between the ads and the images, to make it clear that the images are not being served by Google on behalf of the advertisers. We generally do not ask publishers to remove the images completely, we just ask that they add borders to avoid confusion.

Google allow publishers to display even competing contextual ad units, alongside AdSense, as long as they don’t look like Google’s ads.