A team of Russian hackers has found a way to decipher a Yahoo CAPTCHA, thought to be one of the most difficult, with 35% accuracy.

The Russian group’s notice, posted by one “John Wane,” is dated January 16. This site hosts a rapidshare link to what looks to be demonstration software for Windows, and quotes the [...]

Yahoo! Movies trailer plug-in for Yahoo! Messenger (8.1 or 9.0 Beta) has been redesigned with some new features. To add the Movie Trailer plug-in to your Yahoo! Messenger, visit the above link and click “Install Now”. Or click here to install it right now (you must be running Yahoo! Messenger 8.1 or 9.0).

In a case dating back to 1997, the companies have been accused of accepting payments from firms that advertise illegal gambling in the US.
Microsoft, Yahoo!, and Google have agreed to pay a total amount of $31.5 million towards settlement of a case alleging that the companies are guilty of promoting online gambling. [...]

Yahoo! Messenger 9 for Windows Vista has a host of new features along with it’s glassy new looks.
New Features include Scalable messenger friends’ list, a sidebar widget for Vista, Tabbed chat and some new skins.

Download Y!m 9 for Vista

A complete call history has been made available on the Yahoo! Voice Website. Now you can view your entire PC-to-Phone call history on the Yahoo! Voice website. Once you’re signed in, click the “My Call History” link near the top of the page. You can view your calls by month in a list showing all [...]

Well, It seems these new emoticons were created by Yahoo! messenger users who entered the Yahoo! Emoticontest held over the summer.

Renata, a 31 year-old financial analyst living in Egypt, submitted the “thumbs up” emoticon which she says was inspired by the movie “Borat”. “My 4 year-old son saw a couple of [...]