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Submission + - Facebook tries to takeover the world with a redirection bug (news.com.au)

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johnsnails writes: Some of the biggest news sites in the world disappeared today when Facebook took over the internet with a redirection bug.

Visitors to sites such as The Washington Post, BuzzFeed, the Gawker network, NBC News and News.com.au were immediately transferred to a Facebook error page upon loading their intended site.
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Submission + - $30B IT Stimulus Will Create Almost 1 Million Jobs (itif.org)

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itif writes: "This report takes a look at how many jobs you get if you invest $10 billion each in three different IT infrastructure projects--broadband, health IT and the smart grid. It argues that if you are going to be spending billion on a stimulus package, investing in "digital infrastructure" creates more jobs than physical infrastructure (e.g. roads and bridges) in the short-term, and you get a whole host of other benefits in the long-term."

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