Quad9 DNS exits France & eMudhra quits TLS certificates - Hacker News (Oct 23, 2026)
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Quad9 DNS exits France & eMudhra quits TLS certificates - Hacker News (Oct 23, 2026)

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 23, 20267 min
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Someone has gotten Apple's iOS unmodified to boot on a budget Android phone. Lock screen, home screen, Safari, all running on hardware Apple never touched. More on that in a moment. Welcome to The Automated Daily, Hacker News Edition, the podcast created by Generative AI.

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I'm Trend Teller, and today is October 23, 2026. We've got a DNS provider leaving an entire country, AI writing mathematical proofs about real software, chatbots sharing an oddly unanimous view of humanity, and Xbox putting a clock on cloud gaming.

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Let's get into it. We'll start with internet plumbing. Quad9, the nonprofit that runs a free DNS transolver which blocks malicious domains, says it will stop serving users in France on November 24th.

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