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Business Mint: late-stage adversarial interoperability demonstrates what we had (and what we lost) Cory Doctorow
education Zuck turned American classrooms into nonconsensual laboratories for his pet educational theories, and now they're rebelling Cory Doctorow
uk UK tax authority, gutted by austerity and buried by Brexit, can't deal with the crime revealed by the Paradise Papers Cory Doctorow
Business FTC settles with Lenovo over selling laptops deliberately infected with Superfish spyware Cory Doctorow
Excerpts Dr. Mütter's Marvels: intrigue and innovation at the dawn of modern medicine Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz
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