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The UK government is weighing a significant move that would affect millions of households — a potential crackdown on VPNs as part of a broader age verification push for online content. The proposal raises real questions about privacy, overreach, and whether blocking tools actually keeps anyone safer, or simply inconveniences adults while tech-savvy minors find workarounds anyway.
Shifting to orbit, Beijing has announced a sweeping alliance of rocket makers, satellite manufacturers, chip designers, and AI labs, all directed toward building space-based data centers free from terrestrial power grids. The timing, just days before Elon Musk's own AI satellite reveal, feels deliberate — this is as much a geopolitical signal as it is an engineering ambition.
And from the world of prediction markets, a Wall Street Journal investigation found that some of Polymarket's most attention-grabbing winning streaks were essentially theater — accounts that looked like savvy bettors cashing in were, in reality, nothing of the sort. It's a reminder that in platforms built on the idea of crowd wisdom, the crowd can still be fooled by a good-looking story.
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