SO Dashboard Feed Widget

Just point the widget at an RSS URL, tell it how many items to retrieve and it will automatically show all the latest news or items found on that feed every time it's loaded.

Installation:

Unpack and upload it to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress.

What is new in this release:

• New version number format
• Removed dashboard link hover color
• Added option to change yellow background color of widget
• Moved RTL-style to new dbfw_style_function
• Update language files

What is new in version 2.0.0:

• Complete re-organization of the plugin files.

What is new in version 1.0.5:

• Compatible up to WP 3.7.
• Move minimum WP version upwards to 3.6.

What is new in version 1.0.1:

• Added current translation to readme.txt.
• Added some text to options page.
• Adjusted Dutch translation file.

Requirements:

• WordPress 3.6 or higher