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Online dating has a trust problem, and a new wave of startups thinks it has the answer. Services are rolling out identity verification, background checks, and AI screening tools to weed out fake profiles and serial cheats. The bet is that daters will trade a little privacy for a lot more confidence in who's actually on the other side of the screen.
Shifting to a question that's been quietly building in the crypto world — nearly five hundred billion dollars worth of Bitcoin may be vulnerable to future quantum computing attacks, according to blockchain analytics firm Glassnode. The concern centers on older wallet formats whose public keys are exposed, making them theoretically crackable once quantum machines grow powerful enough. Exchanges are flagged as a particular weak point, though experts stress the threat remains years away from being practical.
And in the United Kingdom, senior police officials are pushing for a hard block on platforms deemed unsafe for children under sixteen. The National Crime Agency and the National Police Chiefs' Council want sites that fail to prevent minors from seeing explicit content or being contacted by strangers to be cut off entirely — raising familiar tensions between platform freedom and child protection.
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