User blog comment:Rupert Giles/Prototype for a new article layout/@comment-1331296-20141211195550/@comment-92.19.175.41-20141211200049

They've had background ads, header ads and footer ads for ages. All that's happened is they've now taken the ads from the sidebar and scattered them over the content.

You can get round the infobox being pushed down by left-aligning it instead.