The Dev Blog was upgrade to the super-unstable WordPress v1.6a, which just so happened to have a few feed bugs. This is what broke the Dashboard. So, they either fixed the feed bugs, or downgraded the Dev Blog back to v1.5.x.
I’m glad they fixed it cause I use the hacked Dashboard version 2, renamed the original file to oldindex.php and placed a link so that I can switch both Dashboards very easily.