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it's Thursday November ten twenty eleven i'm brigitte carry on cnet com and it's time to get loaded we start with some good facebook redesign news and by good news I mean Facebook is reverting the newsfeed presentation back to how it used to be in chronological order currently Facebook displays what it thinks are your top stories and you have to click the link above to pull in more recent posts but soon Facebook will have a sort button to toggle between views one for most recent and one for highlighted posts yesterday we reported that Adobe was no longer developing a flash player for mobile browsers well it's also ditching the flash plug-in made-for-television browsers of course that's going to impact future versions Google TV for anyone who is browsing flash videos and full websites adobe says the future of flash lies and TV apps not browsing on the web but can't we just have it all the US Department of Justice took down a large internet scam ring that pulled in 14 million dollars by infecting four million computers in a hundred countries with malware that redirected their web addresses it's called DNS changer and what happened was when someone typed in Netflix even said pull up a business call budget match and bought of being the crooks got ad click money from that redirect type in itunes and it pulled up some business that sells Apple products type in the IRS a tap hold of H&R Block this infected about 500,000 us computers including some at NASA yesterday at two p.m. every television and radio station throughout America was supposed to broadcast a 30-second emergency alert system test that came from inside the White House and it failed this was the first time there was a federal level test since the system was made in the 60s Business Insider reported that several cable stations didn't tear anything some Comcast subscribers saw cable boxes turned to QVC before the alert and some direct TV customers her lady gaga's paparazzi plane during the test because that's reassuring in a crisis it's been revealed that amazon has bought a voice to text command service called gap so here's another behemoth tech company with speech recognition software after the buzz about Apple's Siri expect to see more and more services that are voice control over the next year so in amazon news the company just boosted its orders of the kindle fire 25 million units according to digit times but that kind of interest expect the two hundred dollar fire to put a wrench in ipad sales this holiday but if you're in the New York area and don't know whether to get a fire unhooked ablett and iPad or Android tablet visit our cnet pop-up store this week it's called Gotham and until Sunday we have the hottest holiday devices on display yes you could actually mess with all the best tech and get advice from us nerdy editors who test this stuff every day there are cool workshops with tips for using tech at parties with rookie mistakes to avoid and of course freebies to win and if you're not New York don't be sad we'll be posting videos from the event so you can get tips to those are your headlines for today I'm Bridget Carey Bruce cnet com and you just been loaded