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vlgr Jul 30, 2026

Telegram, Terrorists and the Right to Be an Idiot

Criminals use encrypted messaging. So does everyone else. Telegram’s battles with France and Russia expose the question governments would rather avoid: should the state investigate people suspected of crimes, or weaken private communication until everyone becomes conveniently searchable?

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vlgr Jul 28, 2026

The Princess and the Diary: Fauci Faces the Music He Wrote Himself

Tomorrow, Anthony Fauci sits in front of Rand Paul’s committee under subpoena. The man who spent years as the calm, authoritative voice of “the science” now has to explain the notebook he kept while the science was still arguing with itself in private. The diary is not subtle.

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vlgr Jul 26, 2026

The Holy Ghost didn’t help the Vatican devs secure the personal data

The Vatican’s official prayer app exposed personal data from 719,517 accounts. An ethical hacker reported it in January. Apparently neither heaven nor the developers could be bothered.

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vlgr Jul 25, 2026

Trump About To Open the EU Piggybank Audit

On Friday evening Donald Trump announced that the United States will immediately open a Section 301 investigation into the European Union’s practice of fining American technology companies. While the rest of the developed world argues about the next generation of AI, the European Union is proudly pioneering the controlled degradation of its own digital services.

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vlgr Jul 25, 2026

Europe’s Most Successful Technology Business Is Fining Foreign Technology Businesses

Google, Apple, Meta, Temu and AliExpress have all discovered Europe’s latest digital innovation: the regulatory invoice. The fines enter the EU budget, national payments continue rising and Brussels remains dependent on the same American and Chinese platforms it cannot reproduce.

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vlgr Jul 24, 2026

The Euro Discovers Birds: Europe Redesigns Its Money Because It Was Not Conceptual Enough

The European Central Bank has unveiled ten official design proposals for the next generation of euro banknotes. Europe has chosen giant eyes, anonymous citizens, migratory birds, rivers and EU institutions. Within hours the internet answered with air-conditioning units, street brawls, plastic bottles and Karl Marx.

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vlgr Jul 24, 2026

Bryan Johnson: Immortality as the Ultimate Form of Missing the Point

Anti-aging obsessive Bryan Johnson says he has created a newborn “clone” of himself called Baby Bryan. It is neither newborn nor a clone, but it may still tell us something important about the future of medicine, assuming Johnson can remain alive long enough to attend the product launch. Adult Bryan, meanwhile, remains occupied with the more difficult task of surviving a life from which most of the living has already been removed.

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vlgr Jul 21, 2026

The Future of EU Strategic Independence in the Software Department Is Russian

Europe has spent the last decade writing white papers, funding programmes, and holding summits about “digital sovereignty” and “strategic autonomy in software.” The results are now in.

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vlgr Jul 18, 2026

The Digital Euro And The European Payment Garden

The European Central Bank is pushing ahead with the digital euro. A pilot is planned for September 2027, with a planned full rollout around 2029. Europe takes physical cash, which suffered from the primitive defects of anonymity, unrestricted possession and immediate personal control, and improves it by adding identity verification, holding limits, automated transfers, sanctions checks, conditional payment infrastructure, integration with digital identity systems and the possibility of future software updates.

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vlgr Jul 15, 2026

t.me links died for a day. It wasn’t Brussels - this time.

On Monday evening, Telegram’s core short-link domain t.me was placed on serverHold at the .me registry. Every link using that domain ceased to resolve for users worldwide. The change was not the result of a technical failure on Telegram’s side, nor was it a conventional takedown following a court order, but a registry-level administrative action that simply removed the domain from global DNS resolution.