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A Canadian VPN company is making a principled exit. Psiphon, a Toronto-based provider long used by activists and journalists in restrictive regimes, says it plans to leave Canada over a proposed lawful-access bill that would require companies to hand over user data to authorities. For a tool built around privacy, staying simply isn't an option.
Turning to artificial intelligence and mathematics, OpenAI has released over seven hundred preprint manuscripts covering mathematical proofs and counterexamples, published directly to GitHub. It's an unusually open move from a company often criticized for opacity, and researchers are already digging in to assess what the models got right, what they got wrong, and what that tells us about machine reasoning at scale.
And on the privacy front closer to home, Engadget has a timely guide on silencing spam calls on both iPhone and Android using built-in tools you may not know you have. No third-party apps, no subscriptions — just settings that let your phone do the filtering work so you don't have to answer another call from an unknown number offering you an extended warranty.
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