A Duke University program to tailor cancer treatments to certain patterns of genes has ended in disaster and lawsuits.

Potti fraud case. Data didn't support conclusions; clinical trials nearly went forth based on bad science.

The cost of building a digital system to gather, preserve and give the public access to the records of the federal government has ballooned as high as $1.4 billion, and the project could go as much as 41 percent over budget, government auditors plan to report Friday.

Yahoo's Flickr may have another PR nightmare on their hands. IT architect and Flickr user Mirco Wilhelm couldn't log on to his 5-year old account yesterday, and when he asked the Flickr team about this issue they flat out told him they had accidentally flushed his entire account, and the 4,000 photos that were in it, straight down the drain.  Apparently Wilhelm reported a Flickr user with an account that held 'obviously stolen material' to the company last weekend, but a staff member erroneously incinerated his account instead of the culprit's.

Yankaskas story. Useful discussion starter. Breast cancer researcher had SSNs on her server, which was hacked.

Unsworth: mouse over the art to see an error in transmission that affects the preservation value of the image.