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VPN use soars in UK after age-verification laws go into effect

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-09 08:37:40

After the United Kingdom’s Online Safety Act went into effect on Friday, requiring porn platforms and other adult content sites to implement user age verification mechanisms, use of virtual private networks (VPNs) and other circumvention tools spiked in the UK over the weekend. Experts had expected the surge, given that similar trends have been visible in other countries that have implemented age check laws. But as a new wave of age check regulations debuts, open Internet advocates warn that th

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The Age-Checked Internet Has Arrived

wired.com Matt Burgess 2025-08-15 17:00:00

Beginning today, millions of adults trying to access pornography in the United Kingdom will be required to prove that they are over the age of 18. Under sweeping new online child safety laws coming into force, self-reporting checkboxes that allow anyone to claim adulthood on porn websites will be replaced by age-estimating face scans, ID document uploads, credit card checks, and more. Some of the biggest porn websites—including Pornhub and YouPorn—have said that they will comply with the new rul

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PSA: SQLite WAL checksums fail silently and may lose data

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-18 04:48:04

PSA: SQLite WAL checksums fail silently and may lose data This is a follow-up post to my PSA: SQLite does not do checksums and PSA: Most databases do not do checksums by default. In the previous posts I mentioned that SQLite does not do checksums by default, but it has checksums in WAL mode. However, on checksum errors, instead of raising error, it drops all the subsequent frames. Even if they are not corrupt. This is not a bug; it’s intentional. SQLite WAL SQLite introduced WAL in 2010. It’s

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TCP-in-UDP Solution (eBPF)

news.ycombinator.com Matthieu Baerts 2025-08-24 23:59:08

The MPTCP protocol is complex, mainly to be able to survive on the Internet where middleboxes such as NATs, firewalls, IDS or proxies can modify parts of the TCP packets. Worst case scenario, an MPTCP connection should fallback to “plain” TCP. Today, such fallbacks are rarer than before – probably because MPTCP has been used since 2013 on millions of Apple smartphones worldwide – but they can still exist, e.g. on some mobile networks using Performance Enhancing Proxies (PEPs) where MPTCP connect

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