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• Queensland government spends $58.8M on debt recovery system

  The Queensland government has awarded CGI a $58.8 million contract to deliver a debt recovery solution that will enable faster collections.

• PHP at 20: From pet project to powerhouse

  When Rasmus Lerdorf released "a set of small tight CGI binaries written in C," he had no idea how much his creation would impact Web development. Delivering the opening keynote at this year's SunshinePHP conference in Miami, Lerdorf quipped, "In 1995, I thought I had unleashed a C API upon the Web. Obviously, that's not what happened, or we'd all be C programmers."

• Fugitive Pirate Bay co-founder arrested in Thailand

  A co-founder of the Pirate Bay file-sharing service who had fled from Swedish authorities was nabbed at the border between Thailand and Laos, according to local news reports Tuesday.

• Amazon posted 16,100 IT job ads last year, tops in U.S.

  The employer with the most IT job postings last year was Amazon.com, with 16,146 ads, exceeding most other IT firms by a wide margin, according to a new report.

• State terminates contract with Healthcare.gov contractor over tax software system

  Public relations woes for Healthcare.gov contractor CGI continue to mount, as North Carolina has decided to terminate its contract with the systems integrator for a new tax-collection software system.

• Feds to dump CGI from Healthcare.gov project

  The Obama Administration is set to fire CGI Federal as prime IT contractor of the problem-plagued Healthcare.gov website, a report says.

• Healthcare.gov may be a 'black swan'

  Despite partisan sniping over the Affordable Care Act, members of a U.S. House committee probing the problems at Healthcare.gov Thursday asked some tough, IT-specific questions that revealed some key facts.

• Pirate Bay co-founder sentenced to two years in prison for hacking

  Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg has been sentenced to two years in prison by a District Court in Sweden for multiple data intrusions, attempted aggravated fraud and aggravated fraud.