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2025-10-17 Hacker News Top Stories
Key Industry Highlights * TurboTax / Intuit — Sustains profits via misleading interfaces, stealth marketing, and lobbying to block free IRS filing services, causing users to pay unnecessarily. * Microsoft Windows 11 — Hardware requirements, online defaults, and remote attestation deepen control over user privacy/choice; some users move to Linux. * Pentagon Press Access — 40–