Adobe has reported a vulnerability in several of its applications. The flaw, which Adobe rates as “critical,” exists in Flash Player, Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.x running on most operating systems. It could crash a victim’s PC and let hackers take over the machine. The flaw couldn’t come at a worse time — Apple has been criticizing some Adobe technologies, including Flash, in recent months for several reasons, one of which has been security. Together with Microsoft, Apple pushing HTML5 as an alternative to Flash.

If you’re a parent of young children and you’ve sat through any number of bad “family” movies during a crowded matinee, then you’ve probably thanked Disney/Pixar for conjuring up the likes of Buzz Lightyear and Woody, Nemo and Dory, Mike and Sully, Mr. Incredible, Wall-E, Lightning McQueen and Remy the gourmand rat. Of course, those same parents are given plenty of opportunities to show their appreciation by spending lots of money on Pixar-related merchandise; not just the Blu-ray disc purchases, but Buzz Lightyear dolls, Nemo and Dory stuffed animals, and Mike and Sully figurines.

AT&T Wireless is going through some rather confusing changes lately, and it’s making the word “unlimited” sound more and more old-timey every day. It might actually work out to your benefit if you’re an AT&T customer with a data plan who uses the phone to surf some pages, look at some emails and maybe stream a little music now and then. But if you become a new AT&T customer who’s going to use its 3G data network to do a lot more than the typical hey lemme-show-you-something-cute-on-YouTube sort of stuff … then stop drinking that milk, cause here comes the spit-take.

AT&T Wireless is going through some rather confusing changes lately, and it’s making the word “unlimited” sound more and more old-timey every day. It might actually work out to your benefit if you’re an AT&T customer with a data plan who uses the phone to surf some pages, look at some emails and maybe stream a little music now and then. But if you become a new AT&T customer who’s going to use its 3G data network to do a lot more than the typical hey lemme-show-you-something-cute-on-YouTube sort of stuff … then stop drinking that milk, cause here comes the spit-take.

It will probably come as a surprise to the millions of people who have already purchased one, but the Apple iPad is just another PC, according to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, who made the comments this week during a recent on-stage interview at the D8 Conference. “Of course it is,” Ballmer told Wall Street Journal tech columnist Walt Mossberg. “It’s a different form factor of PC. It wouldn’t surprise me to see the competition try to eliminate the role of what they’ve had that hasn’t been popular in order to popularize the thing that’s new and fashionable.”