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As Facebook grows, millions say, ‘no, thanks’

Don’t try to friend MaLi Arwood on Facebook. You won’t find her there.

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Data collection arms race feeds privacy fears (Reuters)

Reuters – This week’s revelations that Google Inc, Twitter and other popular Internet companies have been taking liberties with customer data have prompted criticism from privacy advocates and lawmakers, along with apologies from the companies.

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Surprises about Planned Parenthood cancer testing (AP)

AP – To many people, breast cancer screening means a mammogram. But for millions of poor, mostly young women who visit Planned Parenthood, it is usually just a physical exam by the only health professional they may ever see.

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Cyber security: Power grid grows more vulnerable to attack, report finds (The Christian Science Monitor)

The Christian Science Monitor – America’s electricity grid is a big, juicy target for cyberattacks – and it’s getting more vulnerable as interactive “smart grid” features and other Internet-based connections are grafted onto an old, insecure system, a major new study reports.

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Exclusive: Microsoft considers bidding for Yahoo (Reuters)

Reuters – Microsoft Corp is considering a bid for Yahoo Inc, resurfacing as a potential buyer after a bitter and unsuccessful fight to take over the Internet company in 2008, sources close to the situation said on Wednesday.

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Poll: Young people say online meanness pervasive (AP)

AP – Catherine Devine had her first brush with an online bully in seventh grade, before she’d even ventured onto the Internet. Someone set up the screen name “devinegirl” and, posing as Catherine, sent her classmates instant messages full of trashy talk and lies. “They were making things up about me, and I was the most innocent 12-year-old ever,” Devine remembers. “I hadn’t even kissed anybody yet.”

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China media dismiss reports of Jiang’s death (AP)

AP – China on Thursday dismissed reports that retired President Jiang Zemin, who led the country through massive changes after the crushing of the 1989 Tiananmen Square democracy movement, has died.

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Havana’s small community of Twitterati meets IRL (AP)

AP – A few dozen members of Cuba’s small but growing Twitter community have met in real space for the first time. They got to put unfamiliar faces with familiar user names, and they commiserated about the woeful Internet access on an island that has the second-worst Web connectivity rate in the world.

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Internet minders OK major increase in domain names (AP)

AP – Internet minders voted Monday to allow virtually unlimited new domain names based on themes as varied as company brands, entertainment and political causes, in the system’s biggest shake-up since it started 26 years ago.

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Microsoft to buy Skype for pricey $8.5 billion (Reuters)

Reuters – Microsoft Corp plans to buy Internet phone service Skype for $8.5 billion in its biggest-ever acquisition, placing a rich bet on mobile and the Internet to try to best rivals such as Google Inc.

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