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A landmark study is raising serious questions about how early we hand children a screen. Researchers found that regular screen exposure in children under two years old is linked to measurable setbacks in development — attention, language, motor skills. It's among the most significant findings in this debate yet, and it lands at a moment when digital devices are more present in family life than ever before.
Shifting to the infrastructure layer of the internet, a new guide is circulating among technically minded users on how to run your own DNS over HTTPS service. It's a quiet but meaningful story about privacy and control — the idea that individuals can route their own web traffic through encrypted channels rather than trusting a third-party resolver. It won't appeal to everyone, but it speaks to a growing appetite for self-hosted alternatives.
And finally, a quote that refuses to age quietly. PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel's line — that freedom and democracy are no longer compatible — is back in circulation, nearly twenty years after he wrote it. As Thiel's influence over tech, finance, and politics continues to grow, that sentence reads less like provocation and more like a governing philosophy for a significant slice of Silicon Valley's elite.
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