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The trial of the decade in Silicon Valley is taking shape, as a jury prepares to weigh in on Elon Musk's lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI. At its core, Musk argues he was misled about the nonprofit mission that originally drew his support and his dollars, and the outcome could reshape how AI organizations are held accountable to their founding promises.
On the privacy front, researchers have found that Mullvad VPN exit IP addresses can actually work against users who rely on them for anonymity. Because Mullvad assigns relatively stable exit nodes to users, those IPs can become a fingerprinting vector, meaning trackers may be able to identify and follow you across the web even when you think you're masked. It's a sobering reminder that privacy tools carry their own trade-offs.
And stepping back from the tools themselves, a piece circulating today asks a question a lot of people seem to be sitting with quietly: did we actually choose this internet, or did it just happen to us? Writer Angela Benton argues that the social media era was never what most users wanted, and that a post-social web might finally let people reclaim something more intentional online.
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