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AFP - Democrats have stepped up calls for US Congressman Anthony Weiner to resign over his lewd online exchanges with women, as new dirty photos allegedly tweeted by the politician surfaced.

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Reuters - China's avid Internet users are taking a leaf from India's anti-corruption drama by opening websites so citizens can confess, sometimes in pitiless detail, to buying off officials.
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AP - Congress returns to work on Monday, but at least one lawmaker won't be there.

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Reuters - The Obama administration is leading a global effort to establish "shadow" Internet and cellphone systems to help dissidents undermine authoritarian governments, the New York Times reported on Sunday.
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Reuters - New lewd photos emerged of Representative Anthony Weiner on Sunday as Democratic party leaders renewed calls for him to resign over an Internet sex scandal that prompted him to seek a leave and treatment.

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Appolicious - I've been a fan of photographer Trey Ratcliff's blog Stuck in Customs for some time, and if you aren't familiar with his work you should be. Ratcliff, who specializes in high dynamic range photography (he's got a piece in the Smithsonian), released app 100 Cameras in 1, for iPhone and iPod Touch earlier this year, but the service recently got an update to support Instagram sharing. ...
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AFP - The US government is financing the development of "shadow" Internet systems to enable dissidents abroad to get around government censors, The New York Times reported on Sunday.

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AFP - US Representative Anthony Weiner plans a "short leave of absence" to seek treatment, his office said, as colleagues pressed him to resign over his lewd online exchanges with women.

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AFP - Indonesia on Saturday deported 76 Chinese nationals who were among hundreds rounded up across Asia in connection with an alleged massive online fraud.

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Mashable - Now that Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft have sung their spiels at the Electronic Entertainment Expo 2011 (E3), let's find out which company, publisher and celeb got the most buzz during the week. Webtrends compiled these figures measuring buzz on Twitter, blogs and other social media sources, gathered from Monday, June 6 through Friday, June 10 at 10 a.m. PST.
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PC Magazine - You don't have to say goodbye to the Les Paul Google doodle. The search giant has created a standalone site for the playable Google logo.
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Mashable - Over the past decade or so, the Internet has become a huge source of information and education, especially for those who might be short on time, money or other resources. And it's not just crowdsourced data collections like Wikipedia or single-topic blogs that encourage individual learning; huge corporations and nonprofits are making online education and virtual classrooms a very formal affair these days.
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Mashable - Kolja Reiss is Managing Director for mopay Inc., one of the world leaders in mobile payments technology reaching more than 3.3 billion consumers in 80 countries. In the past, the urge to anonymously surf the web has always had a somewhat negative connotation. Now, with new data and identity theft issues being revealed on an almost daily basis — Sony's PSN outages being the latest — the idea of purchasing and paying online anonymously without providing any sensitive data is having an unsoiled renaissance.
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AP - New government test results show that a proposed high-speed wireless broadband network being launched by a company called LightSquared could jam GPS systems used for aviation, public safety, military operations and other uses.
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NewsFactor - Spanish police on Friday celebrated the arrest of three men who are allegedly part of the computer hacking group that launched cyberattacks against Sony's PlayStation Network, among others. Spain's National Police said the three were among the local leadership of an international network known as Anonymous, a group of so-called hacktivists who use denial-of-service attacks to bring down web sites.
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Mashable - Tennessee residents: Come July 1, 2011, the state may punish you with jail time or fines should you "transmit or display an image" online -- social networks such as Facebook and Twitter included -- that has the possibility to "frighten, intimidate or cause emotional distress" to anyone who sees it. The state of Tennessee amended Tennessee Code Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 3 of its harassment law, which was previously focused on malicious person-to-person communication, to apply to anyone transmitting potentially offensive images on the web.
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Mashable - Glamour magazine announced the appointment of Mike Hoffman, the former editor of Inc.com, as its new Digital Managing Director Thursday. The announcement came on the heels of less than stellar newsstand sales, down 17% in the first quarter, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations Rapid Report. So how will the new appointment try to turn things around for the embattled fashion title?
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AFP - Internet radio star Pandora is turning up the volume on its initial public offering.

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Mashable - TV recommendation engine BeeTV has just released a new iPad app designed to let users get personalized show recommendations and share what they are watching with their friends. The app, BeeTV HD [iTunes link] is designed to bring the full BeeTV website experience to the iPad.
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AP - Pandora raised the price range of its initial public offering Friday by at least a third and boosted the number of shares to be sold by as many as a million, demonstrating again a seemingly insatiable demand from investors for a stake a new slate of Internet companies.
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