Building good rapport with your boss is essential to your career success. After all, he or she decides which projects you take on and how quickly you advance. But not all workers see eye-to-eye with their supervisors.

Here are some common types of managers and tips for working with each of them.

Users who have downloaded the 2.1.1 version of the open-source blogging platform WordPress should upgrade all files to 2.1.2 immediately, since they could include a security bug injected by a cracker who gained user-level access to one of the servers that powers wordpress.org, according to a release posted on WordPress’ site on Friday.

WordPress received a note on the project’s security mailing address Friday morning regarding “highly exploitable code,” the release said. After investigating the issue, the WordPress developers found that the 2.1.1 download had been modified from its original site. The Web site was taken down immediately for further forensic analysis.

Best Buy is getting into some hot water because of an intrastore version of its Web site.

The Connecticut Attorney General’s Office has launched a probe into the chain’s use of an internal version of its Web site that looks and acts virtually identical to the public Web version except that it sometimes offers higher prices, according to Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal.

Mobile game developer PDAmill recently merged with Nav N Go, changing their name to Nav N Go Game Studios. In addition, all Palm OS games have been discontinued.

The Bush administration has accelerated its Internet surveillance push by proposing that Web sites must keep records of who uploads photographs or videos in case police determine the content is illegal and choose to investigate, CNET News.com has learned.

That proposal surfaced Wednesday in a private meeting during which U.S. Department of Justice officials, including Assistant Attorney General Rachel Brand, tried to convince industry representatives such as AOL and Comcast that data retention would be valuable in investigating terrorism, child pornography and other crimes.

Japan is pretty serious about robotics. If the droids are going to fit in, they probably need to learn the Japanese custom of serving tea. Fortunately, researchers at the University of Tokyo are exploring just that.

In a demonstration, a humanoid robot made by Kawada Industries poured tea from a bottle into a cup. Then another robot on wheels delivered the cup of tea in an experimental room that has sensors embedded in the floor and sofa as well as cameras on the ceiling, to simulate life with robot technology.

Fox Broadcasting is set to announce that it will make select prime-time series available for download on the Web sites of more than 200 of its affiliated stations during the next few months.

Visitors can purchase individual episodes or entire seasons of such shows as 24 and Prison Break through the company’s video distribution platform for play on computers or portable devices. A single episode, which would be available the day after its prime-time premiere, will cost $1.99, while entire seasons will range from $19.99-$39.99.

BitForensics announced the release of the world’s first laptop hardware keylogger. The KeyCarbon Raptor card records all typing on a laptop keyboard, plugs into the Mini-PCI slot of a laptop computer, and stores captured keystrokes on the onboard 256MB MicroSD card. The card is 100% passive, requires no drivers, and is undetectable by any software running on the laptop.

Lenovo voluntarily recalled select Sanyo Electric lithium ion extended-life batteries used in its ThinkPad notebook computers.

The recall affects 9-cell batteries with the part number FRU P/N 92P1131. They were sold between November 2005 and February 2007 as an accessory for about $180.

In this article, David Carnoy, CNET’s Executive Editor of Reviews, rips on Sony’s Playstation 3. But is it really ripping when the complaints are true?