VPNs had their time.They made us feel  private, even if all they really did was move our data through someone else’s pipe. But a small startup called Phreeli might have just pulled the next big lever in the evolution of privacy. It’s not another app or encrypted messenger. It’s a carrier — a full-blown phone service that doesn’t know who you are. You sign up with a zip code. That’s it. No name. No ID. No personal record. They’ve built a zero-knowledge billing system that can

We just teleported the state of light through a live internet cable. That’s not metaphor — it’s infrastructure now. Let’s talk about what that means for trust, sovereignty, security, and how we even define “sending information” anymore. “Beam Me Up” Just Became a Network Protocol Not to get overly sci-fi here, but yes — we’re officially in Star Trek territory. In 2025, scientists at Northwestern University teleported the quantum state of a photon  across 30 kilometers of comm

Introduction: Undersea data cables, a pivotal component in global internet infrastructure, is at the heart of a burgeoning geopolitical...