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• India reverses ban on porn websites

  India has decided to remove a block on porn websites that it introduced over the weekend, but will continue blocking sites that promote child pornography, according to reports.

• EFF-led group wants to give do-not-track some bite

  For years now, checking the "do-not-track" option on your browser has been little more than wishful thinking on the part of users who care about privacy online. But now a group led by the Electronic Frontier Foundation is looking to make that a more meaningful action.

• Intel's big plan to seed the private Cloud market

  Everyone knows Intel makes chips but what's the company Cloud strategy?

• Yahoo tackles large 'malvertising' campaign in its ad network

  Yahoo said Monday it had removed malware from its advertising network, after malicious code there had gone undetected for at least six days.

• IBM applies some engineering rigor to the Internet of Things

  Bringing some old fashioned engineering discipline to the emerging Internet of Things, IBM has updated its design tools to allow IoT component builders to keep track of their work though a widely used technique called product line engineering (PLE).

• Will Facebook envy wreck Twitter?

  There's never been anything quite like Facebook. As a company, Facebook specializes in collecting, hoarding, keeping and engaging users. As a social network, it dominates the market with the largest user base. Facebook has a monopoly as the social network of choice for friends and families.

• Airbnb guest suspected of stealing $35k from San Francisco home

  San Francisco police suspect a woman got much more than a bed for the night when she booked a stay in the city through Airbnb earlier this year.

• Indian government orders ISPs to block 857 porn websites

  The Indian government has ordered a large number of porn websites to be blocked, creating an uproar among users and civil rights groups in the country.

• IBM fattens patent portfolio in cloud tech

  IBM may be leading the pack when it comes to putting away patents related to cloud technologies.

• Yahoo picks up fashion commerce site Polyvore

  Marissa Mayer knows fashion, and she's bringing more of it to Yahoo with her latest acquisition announced Friday.

• Mt. Gox CEO Karpeles arrested by Japanese police

  The CEO of failed Bitcoin exchange Mt.Gox was arrested in Japan early Saturday by police, according to several media reports.

• Facebook says Flash security woes could hurt its business

  Earlier this month, a security vulnerability in Adobe Flash compelled Google and Mozilla to temporarily block the plug-in from their browsers. Now, Facebook says the problems with Flash could hurt its bottom line.

• ISP argues net neutrality rules violate its right to block content

  The U.S. Federal Communications Commission's net neutrality rules violate the free speech rights of broadband providers because the regulations take away their ability to block Web traffic they disagree with, one ISP has argued.

• Italian police shutter Dark Web marketplace

  Italian police have shut down a Dark Web marketplace offering illegal goods ranging from child pornography to forged luncheon vouchers, and seized 11,000 bitcoin wallets worth about 1 million euros, authorities said Friday.

• Ad group urges FTC to reject right to be forgotten in US

  The U.S. Federal Trade Commission should reject a privacy group's push to extend the E.U.'s controversial right to be forgotten rules to the U.S. because such regulations would have a "sweeping" negative effect on many U.S. companies, a trade group said.