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• Britney Spears plans on taking a break from music to focus on her acting career. First on her to do list: Start an acting career.
• Katie Holmes is banned from speaking to her baby for a week after it’s born. But unfortunately, Tom Cruise is not banned from speaking to the baby at all.
• Fred Durst is using his MySpace page to attack former Limp Bizkit guitarist Wes Borland. And to message teenage girls "Yo, you fine. Ever hear of Limp Bizkit? Send pics."
• Eva Longoria says she added an inch of muscle to her butt. Funny… I offered to do the same thing for her in a piece of fan mail I sent.
• Lisa Kudrow has vowed to stay away from TV to give Friends fans more time to get over the show. Unless of course you’re willing to hire her. In that case, she’s available. And she’ll be there. On time. Ready to go.
• Nicolette Sheridan and Michael Bolton have recorded a duet of "The Second Time Around" for Bolton’s new CD, Bolton Swings Sinatra. Read that sentence again. Okay, one more time. Great. Now let me know when this all sinks in, I’ll bring the Kool Aid.
• Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard are engaged. Nation prepares for a hyphenated name with more double aa’s than a battery pack.
• Bon Jovi tells Asia to "Have a Nice Day". Asia says thank you. All in all a very polite rock tour.
• Michael Douglas tries to talk his way out of Angelina insult, but it’s too late, the lions have been released.

via bestweekeverblog.

Techeblog continues its "Top Ten Strangest" list. This week they bring to us “Top 10 Strangest Mac Mods”. Here are some of them, for complete list check out techeblog.

Tiki Mac

Put simply, the Tiki Mac is one of the strangest mods we’ve ever come across, it looks as if it belongs on a tropical island.

NecroMac

Looking more like a museum piece than a G3, the NecroMac took countless hours and lots of airbrushing to build.

 Lego Macintosh

This fully functional Lego Macintosh took months of hard work and nearly 500 blocks to complete. Since its mainly used as a web server, only the essential parts were included.

JVC has just announced two new Flash-based audio players, the XA-F57 ($99) and XA-F107 ($149). Available in pink, silver, or white colors, the XA-F57 features 512MB of memory. While the 1GB XA-F107 comes in gray, pink, or black colors. Both offer a backlit LCD display, five preset EQ settings, USB 2.0 connectivity, an 18-bit digital-to-analog converter, and earbud headphones with neodymium drivers. Supported formats include MP3, WMA and WMA-DRM. JVC will release these players later this month.

via techeblog.

Microsoft on Tuesday released a "critical" Internet Explorer update that fixes 10 vulnerabilities in the Web browser, including a high-profile bug that is already being used in cyberattacks.

The Redmond, Wash., software giant sent out the IE megafix as part of its monthly Patch Tuesday cycle of bulletins. In addition, Microsoft delivered two bulletins for "critical" Windows flaws, one for an "important" vulnerability in Outlook Express and one for a "moderate" bug in a component of FrontPage and SharePoint.

"This patch release is a big one with lots of aftershocks," said Jonathan Bitle, a product manager at security company Qualys. "Three of the five updates, the IE and Windows updates, are especially critical as they take advantage of inexperienced users…Although a worm epidemic is unlikely, users can be easily enticed to visit malicious Web pages."

Eight of the 10 vulnerabilities repaired by the IE update could be abused to gain complete control over a Windows computer running vulnerable versions of the Web browser. In all instances, an attacker would have to create a malicious Web site and trick people into visiting that site to hook into a PC, Microsoft said in its Security Bulletin MS06-013.

Microsoft rates its browser update "critical" for IE 5 and IE 6, the most-used versions of the popular software. IE is vulnerable on all current versions of the Windows operating system–Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003–as well as on the older Windows 98 and Windows Millennium Edition, the company said.

"An attacker who successfully exploited the most severe of these vulnerabilities could take complete control of an affected system," Microsoft said in its alert. "We recommend that customers apply the update immediately." Windows users who have automatic updates enabled for the operating system will have the fixes delivered to them.

Microsoft had been under pressure to rush the IE patch out before Tuesday because miscreants were already exploiting one of the flaws. Third parties had even provided temporary fixes for this "CreateTextRange" bug, which experts said was being used by malicious Web sites to try to drop code such as spyware on vulnerable PCs.

According to Microsoft’s bulletin, three of the 10 vulnerabilities fixed by the update had been publicly disclosed. Only the CreateTextRange flaw was being exploited in attacks, the software maker said.

via C|NET.