If you use a VPN, you can't even make a restaurant reservation without some site blocking you for using a VPN. What they want to do of course is to force you to turn off your VPN. The end result is the IP address becomes your identity. This is such a fundamental issue to protect on the Internet that it is not acceptable to just accept a VPN block. I explain to you how they block VPNs. But this time I offer you solutions to counter VPN blocking that preserves your privacy. No solution is 100% but we don't have to be victims. Rob Braxman reports.
The VPN arms race - they bloc and we figure out a counter
Mechanic sends huge warning against buying new vehicles in 2026
I am exposing the dark truth about the future of cars, and things are not looking good. Three insanely disturbing trends that are effectively destroying the idea of car ownership for good.
What do you know about IP addresses? I bet it is wrong
Can you rely on AI to give you advice such as Privacy related advice? Well I can prove to you now that by default it gives quite incorrect information just from the simple question "Can an IP Address reveal an exact location?" Rob Braxman reports.
You have got nothing to hide? Good. Show me your ID
The seemingly cavalier attitude of the average person with the statement "I've got nothing to hide" now comes to bite us in the behind with upcoming changes that will render Linux and De-Googled phones not practical for the common person. All because no one cared. This gave politicians the signal that they can push laws that actually control our computers and Big tech loves it, because they get to keep the control. Rob Braxman reports.
Doctors’ AI systems are hallucinating nonexistent medical issues during appointments with patients
"All AI scribe systems from the 20 approved vendors showed one or more inaccuracies."
TORONTO, Ontario, Canada (PNN) - May 16, 2026 - Bottom of Form
If you have been to a medical appointment in the past two or three years, chances are high that your doctor was using an artificial intelligence scribe: software that listens to the conversation, transcribing it and structuring it into the format of medical notes.
In theory it is a cool idea, but pain points abound. Earlier this week, Ontario’s auditor general - an accountability officer acting under the Legislative Assembly of Ontario - released a special report warning that AI medical scribes were “not evaluated adequately,” and may present “fabricated information” to medical professionals.
AI bots placed in virtual town for two weeks go crazy, prompting concerns
KEBEMER, Senegal (PNN) - May 15, 2026 - A new experiment left 10 AI agents alone in a virtual town for 15 days and found they exhibited bizarre behavior.
The agents drafted their own laws - then promptly violated them. Two formed what researchers called a romantic partnership, only to torch buildings across the town as order collapsed. One
eventually voted for its own deletion after hallucinating an entirely new rule.
Original developer works to stop age verification
The Linux age verification drama just took a turn that proves truth really is stranger than fiction. Meet Liberated system, a brand-new fork of the Linux systemd project created by a single developer with one massive goal: strip out all age verification and surveillance code (specifically the highly controversial birthDate field) while keeping everything else perfectly in sync. But then, the unthinkable happened. Dylan Taylor, the exact developer who wrote and submitted the original age verification code showed up in the fork's issue tracker.
Linux is now offering a $200 phone with zero tracking
Linux phones are challenging the surveillance model that Apple and Google built over the past 15 years. In this video, we break down exactly what Linux phones are, why Bill Gates' "$400 billion mistake" with mobile matters to this story, and why the $200 PinePhone might be the most important phone about which people have never heard.
I solved the phone number privacy problem
The biggest threat that remains hard to resolve is the phone number threat. Each day it becomes even more important to protect because every platform now uses this as an identity card. Let me remind you in this video of all the threats and problems with loose control of this phone number. In this video I finally arrive at a solution that has eluded me for many years! This is the video that establishes the phone number problem. Rob Braxman reports.
How to be invisible on the Internet
In order to be pseudo-anonymous on the Internet, we have to make sure that we are aware that we are being tracked. There are 10 important identifiers that we will work on to prevent someone from recognizing us as we surf the interwebs. If we hide or obscure these identifiers, we become invisible. Rob Braxman reports.


















