The government is planning a new sock puppet program that will create fake online personas to play on social networks in countries around the world (but not America — they say). Microsoft and the feds shut down another giant spam-sending botnet, and HP continues its bold moves: next up, a cloud computing platform. Also, a look inside Amazon’s app store (and the continued Balkanization of app delivery mechanisms), and the Nintendo 3DS reviewed. Where’s the Mario? –Molly

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