Updated Dec. 28, 2011, 10:32 p.m. The New York Times sent an email by mistake to the approximately 8 million registered users of the its website, NYTimes.com, Wednesday morning confirming the cancellation of their home delivery services. The email was intended for only a few hundred of the paper's subscribers. It took awhile for the Times to sort out the error. Initially, the Times claimed the emails were spam and not ......

The United States Geological Survey announced today that the explosive San Bruno fire caused by a ruptured PG&E gas line was recorded as a seismic event with a magnitude of 1.2. David Oppenheimer, the project chief with the USGS in Menlo Park, said that they record events smaller than this one all the time. “We’ll see events like a sonic boom when fighter jets fly over,” said Oppenheimer, as well ......

A joke made its way around Twitter a few weeks ago that went a little something like this: Steve Jobs went to the wedding of AT&T's CEO. The ceremony was nice, but the reception was terrible! The poor signal many iPhone users get on the AT&T network is an oft-bemoaned problem in the Bay Area. We've become particularly familiar with this problem in The Bay Citizen offices, as roughly half ......

A Modesto-based meat producer, Valley Meat Company, has recalled a million pounds of ground beef because of a potential E. coli contamination, the NPR health blog Shots reports. The frozen patties and bulk ground beef products were produced in late 2009 and early 2010. A press release issued by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service says seven people have become ill after eating the beef products. All of the ......

The Bay Citizen's Richard Parks gets first reactions at the San Francisco's Federal Courthouse.   ...