This Week in Tech 65

Kevin's on the cover of Business Week, AOL fires 5,000, the Web turns 15, and the Mac is hacked.

• Kevin Rose is supposedly worth $60 million.
• At DefCon, a group of hackers managed to hack a MacBook in 60 seconds. However, this is only an exploit to a generic wireless driver.
• A group of hackers have managed to clone the RFID information in a passport.
• The World Wide Developer's Conference is tomorrow.
• A Core 2 Duo-based "Mac Pro", iPhone, and many more products are rumored to be released.
• There's a banner at WWDC that states "Mac OSX Leopard...Vista 2.0".
• August 6th, 2006 was the 15th anniversary of the World Wide Web.
• Lenovo is pre-installing SuSe Linux on its ThinkPads.
• A PowerBook with a defective battery exploded.
• The USA has joined 40 other countries by ratifying a cybercrime treaty.
• The RIAA is suing Limewire for $150,000 per song traded.
• A Segway that will transmit data using Bluetooth has passed through the FCC.
• AOL has gone free, and fired thousands of its employees.
• Try out Goggles, the Google Maps flight simulator.
• If you would like to surf the web while pretending to work, try out the Work Friendly proxy.
• Dan Kaminsky, a researcher at Black Hat, has created a Net Neutrality test
• George Lucas said that the Youtube Star Wars parodies can stay.
• An engineer says that CinemaNow's DRM-to-DVD burning is "irresponsibly defective."
• Archive.org is getting a lot of public domain movies.
• Norton Antivirus mistakenly advised UK preachers to delete files crucial to their program of choice, Visual Liturgy.