July, 2010
Facebook torrent hack makes free download of personal user data
The Facebook torrent is a file of data on Facebook that a hacker mined and made available free for anybody who wants it. Rob Bowes is the person who decided it would be fun to put time into making a web crawling code to steal info off Facebook from 171 million users. This torrent file ...
West Fire, Tehachapi Fire and others spur state of emergency
In Sacramento this morning, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a state of emergency in Kern County. The Tehachapi fire, which is officially known as the West Fire, is 25 percent contained. The Bull Fire isn't really doing also with 5 percent having been contained. Firefighters and containment finally are being used by cash-strapped California through this ...
Tony Hayward steps down to run TNK-BP Russian oil venture
Tony Hayward was expected to resign Monday after a meeting in London to decide his fate. He's being sent to Siberia instead, where he will work at TNK-BP, a joint venture with Russian oil barons that is one of BP's most lucrative deals . After cultivating a reckless culture that led to the oil spill ...
Possible oil seep may force BP to try again
Just when BP thought it was safe to go back into the Gulf of Mexico, the New York Times has learned that the U.S. Government has ordered the oil business to prepare to open the valves on their most recently placed oil well cap. This is the 10th try BP has made to stop the ...
Boeing Dreamliner makes European debut
After years of development issues, the Boeing Dreamliner, or the Boeing 787, is starting to get in some severe time in the air. A Dreamliner just made its European debut, by flying in the Farnborough Air Show. The plane has been stuck in what a movie studio would call "development hell" for a while, suffering ...
