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Norton has made a move that tells you something about where the industry thinks AI is headed. The company's VPN product, long a staple of consumer security, has launched what it's calling the first truly AI-native VPN built not for people, but for autonomous AI agents. As software increasingly acts on our behalf without direct human oversight, the question of how those agents connect to the internet — and how securely — is one the industry is only beginning to work through. Norton is betting that's a real problem worth solving now.
Shifting to a story that caught genuine attention online — a satirical website called Let's Buy Spirit Air has pulled in nearly two hundred forty points and close to two hundred comments on Hacker News. The premise is exactly what it sounds like: a tongue-in-cheek campaign to crowdfund a bankrupt airline. What makes it worth noting isn't the joke itself, but how quickly the community rallied around it, suggesting real appetite for conversations about what happens when essential infrastructure quietly disappears.
And in the cryptocurrency markets, both XRP and Dogecoin posted sharp gains today, with XRP crossing one dollar forty and Dogecoin leading major coins with a four percent jump. Volume spikes drove both moves, and traders are now watching whether those new price levels hold as support or fade.
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