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Games Nvidia puts squeeze on reviewers of its mediocre midrange GPU Rob Beschizza

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Business AT&T's dystopian advertising vision perfectly illustrates the relationship between surveillance and monopoly Cory Doctorow

Copyfight Microsoft announces it will shut down ebook program and confiscate its customers' libraries Cory Doctorow

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Business Wells Fargo accused of ripping off rich people, too Cory Doctorow

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