Google threatens to pull out of China. Google threatened late Tuesday to pull out of its operations in China after it said it had uncovered a massive cyber attack on its computers that originated there. As a result, the company said, it would no longer agree to censor its search engine in China and may exit the country altogether. — New York Times

Read the (embarrasingly bad and monumentally gross) axed Avatar s-x scene. If you think the Vatican hates Avatar now, just imagine how much they would have liked the original version of the movie that included pre-marital tentacle sex! Now, fortunately, you can: The movie’s deleted sex scene between Neytiri and Jake is included in James Cameron’s full script, which 20th Century Fox has posted online. — Movieline

Google gives everyone on the planet a free online hard drive. Over the next few weeks, we’re rolling out the ability to upload all file types to the cloud through Google Docs, giving you one place where you can upload and access your key files online … instead of carrying a USB drive, you can now use Google Docs as a more convenient option for accessing your files on different computers. — The Official Google Blog

Time to offload your shares in tight black t-shirts… Simon Cowell, the acerbic Brit who has helped give “American Idol” some of its sharpest — and nastiest — moments, will leave the hit TV singing contest after this season. — AP

Beaver gets neutered. Beginning with its April/May issue, the Winnipeg-based bimonthly, which has been called The Beaver for the past 90 years and has an estimated 150,000 readers, will be named Canada’s History, its publisher announced on Tuesday. — The Globe and Mail

Wanted: IT developer with SQL server experience, strong work ethic, massive norks. One of Oz’s “leading privately owned Transport companies” last Friday posted an ad on the country’s “#1 job site” looking for an IT operative. However, some ne’er-do-well quickly jumped in and added a pretty specific range of talents:

border job ad

— The Register