Favorite Tor Browser 15.0.23 is now available from the Tor Browser download page and also from our distribution directory. This version includes important security updates to Firefox. Windows Package Signature Issue The DigiCert EV code-signing certificate we use to sign Windows installation packages is expired since September 1st and we are currently in the process…
Favorite Local police departments use Flock cameras to track license plates. ICE uses Palantir software to track and round up immigrants. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s war department uses Claude to bomb Iran. The U.S. government spends billions employing private corporations to obtain mountains of data — and the surveillance space is only getting more privatized…
Favorite President Donald Trump has refused to attend the ceremony at Ground Zero marking the 25th anniversary of the Al Qaeda attack on the World Trade Center — reportedly because he wanted to deliver a speech, and the annual event has long barred remarks by politicians. Trump, a native New Yorker who has often employed…
Favorite The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is coming to All Things Open with a track designed to connect developers with the big policy conversations shaping our ecosystem. This year’s State of the Source looks at Open Source from several perspectives. Hear about OSI’s priorities for 2027, get a practical introduction to Open Source licensing and…
Favorite For years, Tor Browser has been one of the most effective tools for protecting privacy and bypassing censorship online. But most people don’t experience the internet through a browser anymore. They connect to it via their favorite apps. Wouldn’t it be nice to extend the same privacy protections to messaging apps, social media, email,…
Favorite Tor Browser 15.0.22 is now available from the Tor Browser download page and also from our distribution directory. This version includes important security updates to Tor. Send us your feedback If you find a bug or have a suggestion for how we could improve this release, please let us know. Full changelog The full…
Favorite People outside Turning Point USA’s headquarters commemorate the conservative activist Charlie Kirk on Sept. 20, 2025, in Phoenix, Ariz. Photo: Qian Weizhong/VCG via Getty Images Charlie Kirk will live forever — at least online. In the year since he was gunned down at an event at Utah Valley University, the Turning Point USA founder has…
Favorite A quarter century after the September 11 attacks emboldened then-President George W. Bush to launch the “war on terror,” many Americans might like to think they’re wiser than the politicians and pundits who unleashed a flood of anti-Muslim hatred and eroded civil liberties through warrantless wiretaps and racist deportation campaigns. But some of the…
Favorite Firefox is moving to a 2-week release cadence starting in September, and so Tor Browser and Tails are doing the same. Tails 7.12 is the first release on this new cadence. Changes and updates Update Electrum from 4.7.2 to 4.8.1. Update Tor Browser to 15.0.21. Update some firmware packages. This improves support for newer…
Favorite President Donald Trump’s Justice Department took the side of tech giant OpenAI in its court battle with The Intercept and other media companies over the company’s use of others’ creative work to train its artificial intelligence tools. In a federal court filing in New York, the Justice Department argued that the U.S. has a…
