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jdelator writes:
Digg, a reader-powered news site, fired Google as its online advertising partner Wednesday in favor of a company Digg's top executive described as young and willing to take risks: Microsoft.
"We at Digg couldn't think of a better partner to get to where we need to go," said Jay Adelson, the company's chief executive officer. "They're a young ad service, they're innovative, they're willing to work with us on the cutting edge."
For three years, Microsoft will deliver ads — mostly small, contextually relevant text links — on Digg.com.
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jdelator writes:
In a public mea culpa, Mozilla Corp.'s chief security officer acknowledged today that Firefox includes the same flaw that the company called a "critical vulnerability" in Internet Explorer during a two-week ruckus over responsibility for a Windows zero-day bug.
"Over the weekend, we learned about a new scenario that identifies ways that Firefox could also be used as the entry point," said Window Snyder of Mozilla. "While browsing with Firefox, a specially crafted URL could potentially be used to send bad data to another application.
"We thought this was just a problem with IE," Snyder continued. "It turns out, it is a problem with Firefox as well."
