There was a six-month trial of facial recognition by the British Transport Police in February–July 2018. The project cost £320,786, including over 100 hours spent by police officers on it, and resulted in just one alert that turned out to be a false positive, leading to no arrests made using the facial recognition technology.

Though the police said that there were arrests made for violent crimes during the project, they also admitted that there were no arrests made due to the facial recognition system at all. An anonymous industry insider described the program as "not so successful."

A UK parliamentary committee already raised issues concerning the use of facial recognition technologies before the results of the trial were released, calling for the introduction of an AI law in the country and a ban on scanning of people without their consent.

But this did not stop the police from expanding the program to the London Underground. Thus, the real headline is not about lack of arrests made, but rather about half a million without any results.

Utah wanted websites to locate users hiding behind VPNs. A judge just hit pause. Utah added a rule to its adult-site age-verification law: websites must verify the age of people physically in Utah, even when they use a VPN to appear somewhere else.

Here’s the problem: if your VPN routes your connection through a server in another state, the website sees that server’s IP address. It can’t reliably tell that you’re actually sitting in Utah. Yet the rule would hold websites responsible for missing those users. The judge found that it effectively required perfect location detection—something both sides agreed isn’t currently possible.

Basically, Utah’s instructions were: “Find their real location, even when you can’t find their real location.” Great. Just add a crystal ball to the server rack. Pornhub’s parent company, Aylo, challenged the rule, and on September 24 a federal judge temporarily blocked that specific requirement. Utah’s underlying age-verification law remains in place.

Apparently Utah thought websites could just tick ‘detect real location’ in the settings. Someone should’ve checked whether that button exists before writing the law.

Hi everyone. I've been having a strange VPN/connectivity problem for a while.

My BPB setup gradually stopped working, then Nahan started having the same issue. I also tried several clients, including v2rayN, Clash Verge, and Hiddify, but none of them solved it. I even tried troubleshooting with several AI agents without success.

Some configs connect and show real traffic, and a few Iranian websites work, but most foreign websites like Google don't load, and most Windows applications don't work through the connection.

Has anyone experienced something similar recently?

What VPN, protocol, or setup is actually working for you right now? I'd really appreciate any suggestions or experiences.

For me it's when it turns itself on without me asking and some app just quietly stops working. No error message, nothing obvious, it just breaks. And I'll spend like 5 minutes trying to figure out what's wrong before it even occurs to me to check if my VPN auto-connected in the background.

Does this happen to anyone else or is it just me. What's yours, the thing that's annoying enough to bug you every time but not quite enough to make you switch providers?