Steve Jobs Goes Into Surgery

According to Gawker, ailing Apple CEO Steve Jobs checked into Stanford Hospital over the weekend and was scheduled for surgery this morning for liver cancer, yes liver cancer. Owen Thomas writes

At a party in Silicon Valley last night, a Stanford staffer who had just come from the hospital told friends, including our source, about the “extra special care” being afforded their famous patient. The operator at Stanford Hospital did not have a listing for a patient under Jobs’s name, but a spokesman for the hospital said that any patient can request not to be listed under federal privacy laws. Jobs did not attend Stanford, but he has long had ties to the institution; he gave a commencement address at the university in 2005 where he openly discussed his brush with mortality”

Update: More reports coming in that this is false. Nothing is confirmed.