The California-based company, that allows people to store and organise personal data on an external server, is thought to have about 50 million users.

It said user names, email addresses and encrypted passwords were accessed.

But it insisted there was “no evidence” that payment details or stored content was accessed, changed or lost.

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A raffle by regulator Icann has placed them near the top of the list of applications it will review.

Of the proposed new geographic suffixes, Wales’s .cymru will be one of the first to be evaluated. However, .scot and .irish are likely to have to wait until 2014.

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“If you’ve been around WordPress a while, the most dramatic new change you’ll notice is a completely re-imagined flow for uploading photos and creating galleries. Media has long been a friction point and we’ve listened hard and given a lot of thought into crafting this new system. 3.5 includes a new default theme, Twenty Twelve, which has a very clean mobile-first responsive design and works fantastic as a base for a CMS site. Finally we’ve spent a lot of time refreshing the styles of the dashboard, updating everything to be Retina-ready with beautiful high resolution graphics, a new color picker, and streamlining a couple of fewer-used sections of the admin.”

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Update via your WordPress admin panel or download <a href=”http://wordpress.org/download/” title=”wordpress update” target=”_blank”>here</a>.

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WordPress 3.4.2, now available for download, is a maintenance and security release for all previous versions.
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After nearly 15 million downloads since 3.4 was released not three months ago, we’ve <a href=”http://core.trac.wordpress.org/query?status=closed&amp;resolution=fixed&amp;milestone=3.4.2&amp;group=resolution&amp;order=severity&amp;desc=1″>identified and fixed a number of nagging bugs</a>, including:
<ul>
<li>Fix some issues with older browsers in the administration area.</li>
<li>Fix an issue where a theme may not preview correctly, or its screenshot may not be displayed.</li>
<li>Improve plugin compatibility with the visual editor.</li>
<li>Address pagination problems with some category permalink structures.</li>
<li>Avoid errors with both oEmbed providers and trackbacks.</li>
<li>Prevent improperly sized header images from being uploaded.</li>
</ul>
Version 3.4.2 also fixes a few security issues and contains some security hardening. The vulnerabilities included potential privilege escalation and a bug that affects multisite installs with untrusted users. These issues were discovered and fixed by the WordPress security team.

<a href=”http://wordpress.org/download/”><strong>Download 3.4.2</strong></a><strong> now or visit Dashboard → Updates in your site admin to update now.</strong>

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<strong>Maintenance and Security Releases</strong>

Three external libraries included in WordPress received security updates:
<ul>
<li>Plupload (version 1.5.4), which WordPress uses for uploading media.</li>
<li>SWFUpload, which WordPress previously used for uploading media, and may still be in use by plugins.</li>
<li>SWFObject, which WordPress previously used to embed Flash content, and may still be in use by plugins and themes.</li>
</ul>
<strong>WordPress 3.3.2 also addresses:</strong>
<ul>
<li>Limited privilege escalation where a site administrator could deactivate network-wide plugins when running a WordPress network under particular circumstances.</li>
<li>Cross-site scripting vulnerability when making URLs clickable.</li>
<li>Cross-site scripting vulnerabilities in redirects after posting comments in older browsers, and when filtering URLs.</li>
</ul>
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<h2>Easier Uploading</h2>
<strong>File Type Detection</strong>

We’ve streamlined things! Instead of needing to click on a specific upload icon based on your file type, now there’s just one. Once your file is uploaded, the appropriate fields will be displayed for entering information based on the file type.

<strong>Drag-and-Drop Media Uploader</strong>

Adding photos or other files to posts and pages just got easier. Drag files from your desktop and drop them into the uploader. Add one file at a time, or many at once.

<strong>More File Formats</strong>

We’ve added the rar and 7z file formats to the list of allowed file types in the uploader.
<h2>Dashboard Design</h2>
<strong>Flyout Menus</strong>

Speed up navigating the dashboard and reduce repetitive clicking with our new flyout submenus. As you hover over each main menu item in your dashboard navigation, the submenus will magically appear, providing single-click access to any dashboard screen.

<strong>Header + Admin Bar = Toolbar</strong>

To save space and increase efficiency, we’ve combined the admin bar and the old Dashboard header into one persistent toolbar. Hovering over the toolbar items will reveal submenus when available for quick access.

<strong>Responsive Design</strong>

Certain dashboard screens have been updated to look better at various sizes, including improved iPad/tablet support.

<strong>Help Tabs</strong>

The Help tabs located in the upper corner of the dashboard screens below your name have gotten a facelift. Help content is broken into smaller sections for easier access, with links to relevant documentation and the support forums always visible.

<strong>New Feature Pointers</strong>

When we add new features, move navigation, or do anything else with the dashboard that might throw you for a loop when you update your WordPress site, we’ll let you know about it with new feature pointers explaining the change.

<strong>Post-update Changelog</strong>

From now on when you update WordPress, you’ll be brought to this screen — also accessible any time from the W logo in the corner of the toolbar — to get an overview of what’s changed.

<strong>Dashboard Welcome</strong>

The dashboard home screen will have a Welcome area that displays when a new WordPress installation is accessed for the first time, prompting the site owner to complete various setup tasks. Once dismissed, this welcome can be accessed via the dashboard home screen options tab.
<h2>Content Tools</h2>
<strong>Better Co-Editing</strong>

Have you ever gone to edit a post after someone else has finished with it, only to get an alert that tells you the other person is still editing the post? From now on, you’ll only get that alert if another person is still on the editing screen — no more time lag.

<strong>Tumblr Importer</strong>

Want to import content from Tumblr to WordPress? No problem! Go to Tools → Import to get the new Tumblr Importer, which maps your Tumblog posts to the matching WordPress post formats. Tip: Choose a theme designed to display post formats to get the greatest benefit from the importer.

<strong>Widget Improvements</strong>

Changing themes often requires widget re-configuration based on the number and position of sidebars. Now if you change back to a previous theme, the widgets will automatically go back to how you had them arranged in that theme. Note: if you’ve added new widgets since the switch, you’ll need to rescue them from the Inactive Widgets area.
<h2>Under the Hood</h2>
<strong>Flexible Permalinks</strong>

You have more freedom when choosing a post permalink structure. Skip the date information or add a category slug without a performance penalty.

<strong>Post Slugs: Less Funky</strong>

Funky characters in post titles (e.g. curly quotes from a word processor) will no longer result in garbled post slugs.

<strong>jQuery and jQuery UI</strong>

WordPress now includes the entire jQuery UI stack and the latest version of jQuery: 1.7.1.

<strong>is_main_query()</strong>

This handy method will tell you if a WP_Query object is the main WordPress query or a secondary query.

<strong>WP_Screen API</strong>

WordPress has a nice new API for working with admin screens. Create rich screens, add help documentation, adapt to screen contexts, and more.

<strong>Editor API Overhaul</strong>

The new editor API automatically pulls in all the JS and CSS goodness for the editor. It even supports multiple editors on the same page.

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