IPFS
Kubo 0.39.0 Makes IPFS Self-Hosting Actually Viable
The DHT sweep provider graduates from experimental to default, finally solving the network congestion problem that made self-hosting IPFS on consumer hardware a nightmare.
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privacy
Doxing Yourself to (Not) Save Privacy Developers
The petition to pardon Samourai Wallet developers Keonne Rodriguez and William Hill is performative theater that asks privacy advocates to compromise the exact principles these developers are being prosecuted for defending. Rodriguez got five years and Hill got four years for building a Bitcoin wallet that prioritized financial privacy, charged
Germany
Germany Is Debanking Dissidents, How Monero Solves This...
Germany is debanking journalists and critics without explanation. The IRS offered $625K to crack Monero's privacy and nobody claimed it. This is why governments hate it.
dread
Dread + Pitch
When Reddit nuked HugBunter, Dread's top admin did something unprecedented: he told users to join Pitch.
GNUnet
GNUnet 0.26.1 Fixes Database Bugs After Breaking Crypto Update
The privacy-focused peer-to-peer network patched database issues less than a month after shipping breaking changes to protect users from cryptographic key misuse.
HugBunter Deleted: Reddit Erases Dread Forum Administrator
The darknet forum owner get's wiped off reddit after years.
ThreeBears Cryptosystem: Why NIST Rejected Integer Lattices
Mike Hamburg's ThreeBears cryptosystem competed against CRYSTALS-Kyber using integer lattices rather than polynomial rings, losing when NIST prioritized security maturity over implementation simplicity.
tor
$53 Kills the Tor Network
(And They Won't Fix It)
tails
Tails 7.2: Privacy OS Gets Browser Upgrade and Telemetry Fix
Tails 7.2 ships with Tor Browser 15.0.1, Linux kernel 6.12 LTS, and patches a privacy leak where Thunderbird was phoning home to Mozilla servers.
tor browser
Tor Browser 15.0.1 Patches Security Holes in Privacy Stack
The maintenance release resolves default zoom reset bugs, restores readable CJK fonts on Linux, and patches 9 Firefox vulnerabilities including 2 rated High severity.
Proton
Proton's Linux CLI Arrives, Still Behind Mullvad (and why)
While Proton celebrates releasing basic WireGuard connectivity, Mullvad users have been paying with Monero and running QUIC obfuscation since 2024.
tor browser
Tor Browser 15 Strips AI, Patches Critical Exploits
The Tor Project just released version 15.0 with a clear message: you cannot have maximum privacy while sending all your data to AI servers.