HTC Desire Gingerbread | test ROM gets leaked

Alongside today's EVO 4G leak, a Gingerbread test ROM for the HTC Desire has also leaked out via the 911HTC blog. Version 3.06.707.0 is based on Android 2.3.3, but is running the old version of Sense, which will come as disappointing news for Desire owners hoping to get their hands on the new-fangled Sense 2.0 found on more recent handsets.

Right now the ROM (pre-rooted, of course) is available as a flashable zip courtesy of XDA member robocik. Upon initial inspection, we noticed the clock widget animations and "fast boot" feature from Sense 2.0 have been ported across, and there seem to be some minor UI changes in the browser too.

Flashing an unofficial leaked ROM like this should always be approached with caution. If you decide to take the plunge, remember that this ROM is intended for GSM Desires from Europe and Asia -- it won't work on the U.S. Celular CDMA version of the phone. [XDA,911HTC]

Hacker attack on Blogger platform wordpress.com

Hacker attack on Blogger platform wordpress.com ...

The blogger platform wordpress.com has been target of a massive hacker attack, which had possibly political motives. The DDoS attack (distributed denial of service) resulted in significant damage on Thursday (local time).


Occasionally individual blogs were not to reach. The head of wordpress.com, Matt Mullenweg, explained in the specialist service of «The next Web», all three data centers in Chicago, San Antonio and Dallas had been flooded with data masses would have achieved several gigabits per second. Target a DDoS attack is, in this way, shut down the Web server. Mullenweg spoke of the most serious attack in the six-year history of wordpress.com. It will be believed that the attack have turned is on a single blog, which is hosted on wordpress.com.

WordPress is an open-source software for the design of blogs and other Web services. WordPress.com provides not only the software but also the space that is required on a Web server. 18 Million blogs run on the platform.