The French Security Incident Response Team (FrSIRT) has reported a pair of vulnerabilities in Webmin and Usermin that could be exploited by remote attackers.

Webmaster fans of Yahoo’s Site Explorer will enjoy the service’s biggest update since December 2005, as Yahoo responds to feedback and requests.

The Summer of Code continues at Google, which presented a midterm report on the state of the project during the recently-held OSCON 2006.

Stylus Studio is offering a free full demo of its newly launched set of enterprise XML tools until July 14. The company says Stylus Studio 2006 Release 3 XML Enterprise Edition has enhanced support for data processing components for XQuery, EDI, XSL: FO and XSLT.

The developers of this open source project have just released a new CD and flyer…

Some news, hot off the presses on the Haystack front.

A bunch of news on the Haystack front. In addition to moving to a new infrastructure provider, have put in a load of new capabilities.

Word on the street has it that Google has added loads of new data to the offerings available for viewing via Google Earth.

A recent update to the Keyword Tool in AdWords allows advertisers to view additional information about keywords the client may wish to select for a campaign.

Rob Shanks (President, GlobeXplorer) maintains a blog to provide an insight into his company’s mapping and online imagery services.

The MyWeb Development Team fills us in on some recent updates to My Web 2.0.

Microsoft has announced seven patches coming next week’s Patch Tuesday, according to Bink.

The Yahoo My Web 2.0 team delivered several functionality updates and performance tweaks to its bookmark sharing site.

The user-generated content republic has implemented three small changes to Digg’s functionality for its devoted user base.

Brand new co-location facilities await the hardware behind the Alexa updates, and they won’t be online until the end of the week.

The Firefox extension Performancing for Firefox received an update to 1.1, adding several new features and squashing several bugs in version 1.0.1.

Two new items from the Google blog:

The business of Google rolls along, subpoenas and the potential of trade secret exposure to the Feds notwithstanding; two sections and one button made their way into Google News and Gmail, respectively.

Ladies and gentlemen, update your computers! Microsoft announced that it would release a security update to help protect customers from exploitations of a vulnerability in the Windows Meta File (WMF) area of code in the Windows operating system on Tuesday, January 2, 2006, in response to malicious and criminal attacks on computer users that were discovered last week.

The mini-applications provided by Yahoo after its purchases of Pixoria/Konfabulator have received some new entries and a tweaked engine to run them.

The webmaster-friendly project started by Google over the summer has its own blog and some new features available for its users.

Google Sitemaps makes a tool available that lets site publishers create a map Google’s spiders can use to more effectively index its content. On the official Google Blog, Grace Kwak posted about some new features in the Sitemaps service.