CNET News Daily Podcast

An unlikely drama is playing out in, of all places, the security research field. Researcher Dan Kaminsky says that earlier this year, he discovered a serious flaw in the Domain Name System that drives the Internet. He's spent the last few months coordinating a huge project to get the flaw patched by all necessary companies before disclosing details about the flaw. But now a fellow researcher has taken a public guess at what the flaw was. And whether he's right or not, Kaminsky is warning companies to patch their software immediately. Reporter Robert Vamosi joins me in the podcast studio to talk about the story.

Viacom's CEO doesn't publicly badmouth Google very often. But at a small press conference Monday night, he made an exception. CNET News' Greg Sandoval has the story on why Viacom thinks Google failed to crack down on copyright issues on YouTube.

Also, a financial warning from Apple gets people guessing what new products might be unveiled this year, and is the home server an idea ahead of its time? Get those stories and the rest of today's news in this podcast.

Today's stories:

Is Kaminsky's DNS flaw public?

Viacom CEO on Google's 'rogue company'

Apple getting ready for 'product transition'

Servers in the home remain scarce

MySpace confirms OpenID support

Adobe revs media player, signs up Sony

Are Google Maps good or evil?

Amazon offers automatic credit for S3 outage

Yahoo earnings decline, miss estimates

Since filing a $1 billion lawsuit against YouTube, Viacom has battled its image as a corporate bully, denying consumers the ability to watch its shows where and how they want. Their struggle could be a lesson to other companies fighting over copyright protections. Meanwhile, Microsoft is still having trouble getting its Vista message out to the public. A new tool that tests compatibility with Vista faltered on launch day, a year and a half after Vista's release.

Those stories, and the rest of the day's headlines, in today's daily podcast.
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Today's stories:

Gmail now blocking fake eBay, PayPal e-mails

Google powers up users' Gmail security arsenal

Viacom won't soon shed image as corporate bully

Apple's MobileMe service set to debut

Only U.S. Apple retail stores getting iPhone 3G

Microsoft still pushing Vista compatibility story

Microsoft readies pay-as-you-go business apps

Xbox 360 price cut coming July 13

Wii-habbing your way back to health

Supercomputing at Oak Ridge

Reiser reportedly leads police to wife's body

In the latest turn in Viacom's copyright infringement suit against YouTube and parent company Google, a federal judge ruled that Google must hand over YouTube users' IP addresses and user names, plus a history of videos they've viewed. The court order stipulates that data turned over to Viacom by Google must be used solely to prove Viacom's claim that YouTube is a hotbed of pirated video content. But the Electronic Frontier Foundation stills sees the ruling as a blow to user privacy. CNET News.com reporter Caroline McCarthy tells News.com's Leslie Katz why.

Plus, we talk to photographer Kevin Connolly. Born without legs, the self-proclaimed "camera geek" skateboarded through 15 countries taking digital pictures of strangers' expressions as they saw him roll by. He talks about the many reactions--and assumptions--he captured as part of The Rolling Exhibition.

Today's stories:

Source: Protective order will keep Viacom out of sensitive YouTube user data

Microsoft's Facebook stake influenced ConnectU case

As hurricane protection goes, so goes New Orleans' future

Report: Some dial-up users wish to stay that way

Photographer without legs tells life story from ground up

China's military tries out Segways

Founder makes largest Dell insider purchase

'Netflix box' to carry more than just Netflix

Chemists brew 'greener' fireworks