Favorite Outside the Walmart in Senatobia, Mississippi, where police shot and killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley, a shrine of stuffed animals sits between the garden center and the pharmacy. There are teddy bears, elephants, and kangaroos with babies in their pouches. There is a Bluey plush toy — Kohen’s favorite cartoon — along with matchbox cars,…
Favorite Over the course of Donald Trump’s second term, Democratic voters have expressed dissatisfaction with their party over what many view as an inability to stand up to the president and his broader movement. That dissatisfaction with the establishment has manifested in primaries in coastal cities across the country, where the progressive movement appears to…
Favorite The preliminary agenda for the first Open Technology Research (OTR) Symposium is now available. Taking place on 26 and 27 October 2026 at the University of Barcelona as part of Barcelona Open Tech Week, the Symposium is convened by Open Technology Research’s founding members: OpenForum Europe, the Open Source Initiative, the Open Knowledge Foundation,…
Favorite This release is an emergency release to fix critical security vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel and the expat XML library. Changes and updates Update the Linux kernel to 6.12.100, which fixes CVE-2026-64560, a vulnerability that could allow Tor Browser in Tails to gain administrator privileges. For example, if a malicious website that you visit…
Favorite Arti is our ongoing project to create a next-generation Tor implementation in Rust. We’re happy to announce the latest release, Arti 2.5.1. This release consists mostly of internal improvements and bug fixes, as well as our ongoing development towards using Arti as a relay and as a directory authority. For onion service hosts, onion…
Favorite Bypassing censorship comes down to two challenges: disguising internet traffic from censors while making an open network easy to reach. Snowflake is particularly effective at tackling both of these challenges. It disguises a user’s traffic to look like a video call and routes it through volunteer-run proxies using short-lived connections, making the traffic harder…
Favorite On Tuesday, Abdul El-Sayed and Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Mich., will face off in the Michigan Democratic Senate primary. The race is the next biggest test of whether progressives can win statewide, particularly in purple territory. The Michigan race is one of the most expensive primaries of the cycle. Outside groups have spent upward of…
Favorite President Donald Trump reclaimed the White House last year promising to keep the United States out of conflicts and claiming to be a peacemaker. “Under Trump, we will have no more wars,” he said on the campaign trail in 2024. And Trump has been especially critical of going to war in Iraq. “We should have never been in Iraq,” said…
Favorite This week’s reporting out of Washington (See: “Top American AI Execs Sound Alarm on Chinese Models”, The Wall Street Journal, July 20) describes an administration weighing whether to restrict American access to open weight AI models, particularly the ones released by labs in China. The measures reportedly under discussion include trade block-lists, security warnings,…
Favorite Within the span of a week, federal immigration agents shot and killed two people in Maine and Texas, and another was hit by a truck and killed in Florida after trying to avoid ICE agents. A fourth person recently died in ICE custody after reportedly being denied medication. Their deaths prompted yet another round…
