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Facebook Fixes Webcam Security Glitch, But Problem Only Gets Bigger for Rest of Internet

Today, Facebook announced that it "patched a security vulnerability that would have allowed hackers to turn on users' webcams without their knowledge and post the videos to their profiles," Bloomberg reported. According to the company, there is no evidence that the bug had ever been exploited. Two ... More >>

Police to Teach Smartphone Users to Not Be So Dumb

​Believe it or not, the number of people being beaten and stabbed on Muni is on the decline -- for now. Perhaps that's because crooks have decided that stealing smartphones from inattentive Muni riders is an easier and therefore more appealing crime.Smartphone crime is on the rise, which should co ... More >>

Bouncer Communes with the Pinatas at the Latin American Club

India Wants Facebook to Prescreen User Content

​Sometimes it's hard to refrain from going libertarian. Okay, not really, but whenever governments try to pass or enforce absolutely clueless, sledgehammer-blunt laws governing the Internet, it's a challenge not to simply give up hope that enough politicians will ever understand the basic concepts ... More >>

R.I.P. DJ Mehdi, Prolific French Electronic and Hip-Hop Producer

​ DJ Mehdi, one of the leading figures in French hip-hop and electronic music over the past decade, died tragically on Tuesday at age 34. According to reports, he was on the roof of his house in Paris with friends, throwing a birthday party for fellow DJ and sometime collaborator Riton. During ... More >>

"A Good Old Fashioned Orgy": Aggressively Stupid Sex Comedy

Graffiti Attacks Cops for BART Shootings

Ouch.​Graffiti on public transit is usually lame, giving riders no aesthetic reward for the mechanics who have to clean it off on the taxpayers' dime. But as I zoomed under the streets of the FiDi this morning on BART, I was caught offguard by the salty wit of this particular statement. Forgive my ... More >>

Hilarious: Local Rappers Erk Tha Jerk and LoveRance Beef on Twitter Days Before They Gig Together

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Odd Future's San Francisco Show Postponed After Tyler Breaks His Foot

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Cellphone Companies Already Warn Customers of Radiation Risks

Try speaker phone ...​Never one to shy away from fringe crusades, San Francisco Sen. Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) is pushing legislation to make San Francisco's law that requires retailers to inform consumers of possible risks of cellphone use, mandatory statewide.And it turns out that cellphone co ... More >>

The Subversive Beauty of tUnE-yArDs

In Print: the Subversive Beauty of tUnE-yArDs, Del the Funky Homosapien's Trip to Hip-Hop's Past, and More

Merrill Garbus of tUnE-yArDs​ From SF Weekly's latest print music section: On tUnE-yArDs: Welcome to the edge of experimental pop in 2011. Garbus has just seen the release of tUne-yArDs' second album, w h o k i l l, which seems all but certain to accelerate her rise from DIY curiosity into one o ... More >>

Google Maps Says It's Not to Blame for Pedestrian Hit by Car

Google the phrase "common sense"​If Google maps led you off a cliff, would you jump?Well, if you did make the plunge and got hurt in the process, the Bay Area media giant claims it wouldn't be at fault. Google is finding itself at the center of a bizarre and never ending lawsuit where a pedestria ... More >>

Seven Things You Probably Didn't Know About Green Day Before Billie Joe Armstrong Got Twitter

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"Morning Glory": Rachel McAdams and Harrison Ford light up a morning TV show

Director Judd Apatow Talks Filmmaking, Pee Wee Herman, and S.F. (VIDEO)

​Back in September, we gave our readers a chance to interview director Judd Apatow-- the man behind the TV show Freaks and Geeks, and director of movies like Knocked Up and The Forty Year Old Virgin. Readers sent in three sample questions they would ask Apatow, and we picked the ones we liked best ... More >>

Mobile app measures cellphone radiation

Study Finds Many iPhone Users Are Tea Party Supporters (Really)

Apple's iPhone: The preferred mobile device of semi-literate morons​We certainly wouldn't have seen this one coming. A poll released today by the tech policy group CALinnovates.org reveals that iPhone users -- whom we would have firmly placed in the same consumer class as those who sip lattes and ... More >>

Worried About Cell Phone Radiation? There's an App for That.

WARNING! CODE RED!​This June, San Francisco became the first city in the United States to require retailers to post information about how much radiation cell phones emit. Now, an Israeli company is capitalizing on the as-yet-unjustified anxiety surrounding cell phone radiation and allowing phone u ... More >>

Pinalcchio: Renowned Forensics Experts Say a Pinal County Deputy's High-Profile Tale About Getting Shot After Encountering Drug Smugglers Doesn't Add Up

An App for Drinks and Apps

Will Lil Wayne's Stardom Survive Lockup? Look To 10 Other Jailed Rappers

RJ Shaughnessy​Lil Wayne, perhaps the most commercially successful and critically-lauded rapper of the past few years, was recently granted a reprieve from his date with destiny. Due to be sentenced on February 9th after pleading guilty to gun possession, the proceedings have been delayed until Ma ... More >>

Leap Year: No luck among the Irish

Mike Judge goes back to work with Extract

A literary road trip up the Mendonoma coast

Producer of Disastrous Great American Food and Music Fest Hasn't Slept Since Saturday

shaunandjenny/FlickrCan you say 'clusterf**k'?A co-producer of last weekend's trainwreck Great American Food and Music Fest began to cry as he talked to SFoodie about his life since Saturday. "I haven't slept," said Jim Lewi from his home office in Southern California, describing how he's personally ... More >>

Busy Busy

How Could Progressive Coalition Shatter? Let Us Count the Ways

Will it be the House of Harmony or the House of Pain? The answer is: Yes. Progressive Supervisors banded together last week to elect a compromise-candidate Board President, which raises a crucial question: "Since when have progressives compromised on anything?" In a town that views compromise ... More >>

Lies We Can Believe In

Ridley Scott's latest is the post-9/11, tech-savvy terror thriller we deserve.

All You Can Eat serves up empty calories

N.E.R.D.

Seeing Sounds (Star Trak/Interscope)

Whistleblower

By most accounts, David Kessler's four years as UCSF's medical school dean were a rip-roaring success. So why was he fired?

Palm Bitch-slaps BlackBerry in WSJ Ad Today

Having Trouble Sleeping? It Might Be Cell Phone Radiation

Milking It: Gus Van Sant, Sean Penn And SFist's Open Casting Call

Sprint Blackberry 8830 Import Contacts: How To

Prince's Planet Earth CD Review: Purple Drizzle

Slap Happy: the last honest man in town loads his BlackBerry with B.S.

Get Out of Town, Already

Leave the BlackBerry home this year -- break out of vacation deprivation and relax

Fitness Gurus: What's Hot for 2005

Core training and other exercise regimens you might actually follow

And a Teen Shall Lead Them

How 15-year-old Ben Casnocha brought e-government to Cupertino, Menlo Park, Burbank, and other cities across California

Slight of Hand

Embracing eccentrics, unmasking friends, and doing the "BlackBerry prayer."

Dog Bites

Summer in the City; I See Dead People; Worker's Playtime