2.8.6 fixes two security problems that can be exploited by registered, logged in users who have posting privileges.

What is podcasting?
Podcasting is distributing audio or video content via RSS 2.0, or Atom. Podcast clients such as iTunes, Juice, or CastPodder(linux) allow listeners to subscribe to your RSS/Atom feed and automatically download your content to their portable audio players as it becomes available.
Podcast in Wordpress: (wordpress.com)
Create audio or video that you want to share (usually MP3 or MP4)
Upload the file to a server
Link to the file in a post in your weblog
Wordpress automatically Includes a link to the file in your RSS/Atom feed
Listeners

How to hide your wp-admin login page?
Change YOURSECRETWORDHERE to something else. It can be any word you want. Just make sure it

Wordpress 2.8.5 Released!
WordPress 2.8.5: Hardening Release
In the process of making wordpress more secure, one more version of 2.8 series has been released. The major changes are:

A fix for the Trackback Denial-of-Service attack that is currently being seen.
Removal of areas within the code where php code in variables was evaluated.
Switched the file upload functionality to be whitelisted for all users including Admins.
Retiring of the two importers of Tag data from old …

How to hide default menu of buddypress
When using buddypress with Wordpress MU, you will find that buddypress adds a default menu bar to your site, like this:

If you want to hide that menu, just add the following like in your wp-config.php
define( ‘BP_DISABLE_ADMIN_BAR’, true );
The menu bar will be disabled, even if you are logged in or out.

Now only has Sony entered the blogosphere with PlayStation.Blog, they

For years, we have used tinyurl.com and other sites to shorten our URL

Yesterday, WordPress Development team has realized a big security problem with WordPress 2.8.3. According to the WordPress Team.
Yesterday a vulnerability was discovered: a specially crafted URL could be requested that would allow an attacker to bypass a security check to verify a user requested a password reset. As a result, the first account without a key in the database (usually the admin account) would have its password reset and a new password would be emailed to the account owner. This doesn

Delicious, the Yahoo-owned social-bookmarking site, has awoken from its slumber, introducing the use of Twitter to rank the popular bookmarks displayed on its home page.
Under the new

While solving issues in wordpress forums, the most common issue I have heard is of RSS feed update time. They say, RSS does not get updated frequently.
And yes, that’s true. Each widget instance checks the feed once every 12 hours. Twice a day!
However, we can change this time limit. Just open your themes function.php file and add this code to it.
add_filter( ‘wp_feed_cache_transient_lifetime’, create_function(‘$a’, ‘return 1800;’) );
This code will cause the feeds to be checked every 30 minutes.