LMDE 7 Ships Debian 13, Kernel 6.12 LTS, Real-Time Support

LMDE 7 "Gigi" released October 14, 2025 built on Debian 13 Trixie with Linux kernel 6.12 LTS, Cinnamon 6.4.12, and the first mainline real-time kernel support.

California Forces Police to Disclose AI-Written Reports

California just mandated that police must disclose when artificial intelligence writes their reports, and vendors are banned from selling the data they collect. (and why it doesn't matter)

Tails 7.1 Drops Browser Home Phoning, Updates Tor Stack

The privacy OS now opens Tor Browser to a local page instead of phoning home, while patching critical vulnerabilities and fixing confusing error messages.

Domain Fronting: How Censors Killed Privacy on the Cloud

By putting one domain in the TLS handshake and another in the HTTP header, domain fronting made Signal unstoppable in Egypt, Oman, and UAE—until corporations caved to authoritarian pressure.

CryptPad: Zero-Knowledge Architecture

While Google Docs reads everything you type, CryptPad's XSalsa20-Poly1305 encryption and Nakamoto-style consensus protocol ensure the server never decrypts your documents.

Based: Monero Fights 40% Network Spy Nodes with Subnet Filter

The new release implements /24 subnet filtering to disadvantage spy nodes that have been attempting transaction-to-IP correlation since October 2020.

Stop Renting Your ISP's Surveillance Device (it's bad)

Your ISP-provided router might be saving you setup time, but it's costing you control, privacy, and protection against nation-state attackers who've already proven they can breach these devices.

Tor Browser 14.5.8 Fixes Firefox Bugs and Snowflake Bridges

Tor Browser 14.5.8 shipped with critical security fixes backported from Firefox 144, plus updates to core anonymity infrastructure. The Tor Project released the update on its download page and distribution directory.

Odysee Built Their Own Blockchain But Can't Install XMRChat

Odysee spent 2023-2024 migrating blockchains and building AI trading bots yet somehow couldn't spare a weekend to integrate Monero payment support that darknet markets implemented in a week back in 2019.

Why MyMonero Killing Their Wallet Is Good for Monero Privacy

MyMonero's shutdown of there wallet forces thousands of users off a surveillance architecture where keys lived on central servers, an upgrade whether they wanted it or not.

openSUSE Leap 16 Adopts NSA's SELinux

openSUSE Leap 16 defaults to NSA-developed SELinux, eliminates X11 for Wayland-only operation, ships web management on all interfaces, and uses a remote installer with documented mDNS attack risks.

XWorm Malware Evolves into Ransomware Threat

State intelligence agencies maintain RATs functionally identical to XWorm, proving that control depends on who holds the keyboard.