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● Mullvad DNS Goes Dark November 2nd. The Resolver It's Sending You To Is Being Forced Out of France. ● Take Your AI Off the Internet: A Practical Guide to Running Local LLMs ● AdFection: The Ad Was the Exploit - Israel Based Surveillance and Spyware Deployment. ● US Age Verification Laws: Every Bill, Every Deadline (Live Tracker) ● The Coldcard Exploit: When the Random Number Generator Wasn't Random ● Telegram Vanished for Forty Minutes — And That's the Whole Problem ● Mullvad DNS Goes Dark November 2nd. The Resolver It's Sending You To Is Being Forced Out of France. ● Take Your AI Off the Internet: A Practical Guide to Running Local LLMs ● AdFection: The Ad Was the Exploit - Israel Based Surveillance and Spyware Deployment. ● US Age Verification Laws: Every Bill, Every Deadline (Live Tracker) ● The Coldcard Exploit: When the Random Number Generator Wasn't Random ● Telegram Vanished for Forty Minutes — And That's the Whole Problem

Mullvad DNS Goes Dark November 2nd. The Resolver It's Sending You To Is Being Forced Out of France.

Mullvad switches off its free public DNS on November 2nd and is funding Quad9 instead. What to switch to, and why a French court fining Quad9 (plus two US site-blocking bills) matters for who answers your DNS.

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All Dispatches

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