“Miley Cyrus has opened up about why she closed down her Twitter account and how she’s enjoying life more these days. “I’m telling kids, don’t go on the internet,” the 17-year-old Disney starlet tells Movieline. “It’s dangerous, it’s not fun, it wastes your life, and you should be outside playing sports or something.”” Link

“Sex.com, one of the most valuable Internet domain names, will go up for auction next week after the previous owner defaulted on its debts. Escom LLC paid a reported $14 million for the Web site in 2006. But the company failed to repay debt owed to DOM Partners LLC, the New Jersey-based lender that helped finance the deal.” [Link]

The Official Google Chrome Blog notes: “Whether you’re catching up on your favorite Arabic gameshow, getting up to speed on the latest Korean mobile gadgetry, or researching the local perspective for a dream trip to Machu Picchu, we’re all constantly reminded that the internet is an amazingly multilingual place. The Google Chrome team is excited to introduce a new beta feature to help our users navigate the multilingual web: instant machine translation of webpages, without the need for any browser extensions or plug-ins.” [Link]

“Web site operators will need to offer photographs of themselves and meet Internet service providers in person under new guidelines announced by the Chinese government this week, according to published reports. The ‘trial regulations’ were issued by China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology under the auspices of an ongoing anti-porn campaign, but they will also help the government create records of all sites in the country and could be used to block other types of online content, the IDG News Service reported on Tuesday.” [Link]