OSI brings the State of the Source to All Things Open 2026

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…

Tor VPN Beta: What we’ve learned building our own VPN for Android from scratch

Tor VPN Beta: What we’ve learned building our own VPN for Android from scratch

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,…

Right-Wing Speech Crackdowns Turned Charlie Kirk Into a Meme

Right-Wing Speech Crackdowns Turned Charlie Kirk Into a Meme

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…

25 Years After 9/11, Muslims Are Still Politicians’ Favorite Scapegoat

25 Years After 9/11, Muslims Are Still Politicians’ Favorite Scapegoat

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…

Trump Admin Tells Court: Let OpenAI Rip Off The Intercept’s Articles

Trump Admin Tells Court: Let OpenAI Rip Off The Intercept’s Articles

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…

Arti 2.6.0 released

Arti 2.6.0 released

Favorite Arti is our ongoing project to create a next-generation Tor implementation in Rust. We’re happy to announce the latest release, Arti 2.6.0. This release continues our ongoing development towards using Arti as a relay and as a directory authority, with much of the work focusing on document parsing, directory mirror support, and DNS stream…