gEvening guys.. Some of the most useful tech updates are the ones that make you think about what usually happens in the background. Take browsing, for example. Most people just open a VPN and expect it to work. But the infrastructure behind keeping that connection private and accessible is where projects like @BeldexCoin are continuing to build, with its latest VPN update pushing that privacy focused experience further. At the same time, @quipnetwork has been sharing more real world research around where quantum computing can actually be useful. Their recent work put quantum annealers and classical solvers head to head on live portfolio optimisation, testing both sides across a large number of optimisation runs. Different use cases for both projects, but both are taking technology that usually feels distant and trying to make it practical.