Yes, that is controlled by the parameters sent to ubbnews.php. I have a cap of 5 in the stock script, but you can easily modifiy it to show like the latest 10. For example, if I include ubbnews.php?forum=34&thread=2, it will pull the 2 most current threads from Forum 34 and feed them.
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