- Former GOP Vice Presidential candidate Rep. Paul Ryan will unveil the Republican House budget today, expected to be very similar to the platform Romney and Ryan ran on and lost in November.
- A group of House Democrats led by California Rep. Barbara Lee are demanding that the President release the "full legal basis" for use of drone strikes.
- Mexico's three main political parties are leading a legislative effort to break the monopoly of the country's telco industry, under control of the world's richest man, Carlos Slim.
- Residents of the Falkland Islands have voted overwhelmingly to remain a British territory, casting aside Argentina's partial claim to the island chain.
- A "technical glitch" in online currency company Bitcoin caused a 23% drop in company stock price before being corrected.
If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed. -- Benjamin Franklin
Huh? Bitcoin is a (virtual) currency with an exchange rate, not a company with a stock price. And that drop was caused by more than a glitch: a new programming error in the fundamental code underlying the currency.
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