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security China's new cybersecurity rules ban foreign companies from using VPNs to phone home Cory Doctorow

censorship Europe's highest court Facebook verdict hits a new low for technomagical thinking Cory Doctorow

apple FAA just banned these recalled Apple laptops from flights and cargo Xeni Jardin

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