Following leaks and delays, AMD today released its new flagship video card. The ATI-labeled Radeon HD 3870 X2 almost literally doubles the performance of the stock 3870 by including dual GPUs on a single card; as the first AMD graphics card to use 55 nanometer technology, the X2 can run both chipsets at 825MHz — faster than a single 3870, AMD says. The boost not only allows some of the …

As Canada’s Industry Minister Jim Prentice prepares to import the US’s failed DMCA copyright regime to Canada, Michael Geist has a counterproposal. Geist wants all of Canada’s members of Parliament to take a pledge not to undermine fair dealing (the Canadian analog to the US’s fair use):

The pledge is simple:
I will not introduce, support, or endorse any copyright bill that, either directly or indirectly, undermines or weakens the Copyright Act’s fair dealing provision.

Fair dealing, which the Supreme Court of Canada …