Britney Spears court case ends in mistrial

During her 'breakdown,' Brittney Spears got into a fender-bender while driving without a license. However the case against her for that offense has ended in a mistrial."At the height of her long public breakdown, Britney Spears’s life was unanimously agreed to be a car...

SpeedDate Hijacks Facebook Users With A Bait And Switch

"SpeedDate, the online dating site that throws singles in a series of rapid dating sessions, has hijacked over 500,000 users from at least three Facebook applications. Users are logging on to Facebook to find that the applications they’ve had installed for months have been...

San Francisco Bay oil spill spreads

This is so terrible, does anyone have any images? "An oil spill from a container ship in San Francisco Bay continued to spread today, coating some of the state's most storied coastline and imperiling hundreds of...

Plans to create 'superdatabase'

"Plans to create 'superdatabase' Sunday, January 14, 2007 Hutton John Hutton: headed the review A huge Whitehall 'superdatabase' of people's personal details could be created in a bid to improve public services. The move would mean relaxing regulations that restrict different...

Lessons from the UCLA Hack Attack

"Up to 800,000 of the school's students, faculty and alumni may be vulnerable to identity theft. What went wrong, and what can be done about it? University letters to students and alumni are usually cheerful. But the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) [ucla.org]...

RadioShack lays off employees via e-mail

"RadioShack followed through on its announced plans to cut about 400 jobs, but the electronics retailer has been forced on the defensive about its method of notifying laid-off employees by e-mail. Employees at the Fort Worth headquarters received an e-mail Tuesday morning...

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