Dread Pays $1,000 XMR for Good Writing

Dread is running a writing contest with $1,750 in Monero prizes and one very specific ban: AI-generated content.

Apple's Mandatory ID... GrapheneOS is the Exit

Apple rolled identity verification into iOS 26.4 for UK users under the Online Safety Act, requiring credit card scans or government photo ID to confirm users are over 18. If you decline, app downloads and in-app purchases get restricted on a phone you already own. The system is expanding

Tails 7.5 Ships New Tor Circuit Encryption

Tails 7.5 upgrades to Tor 0.4.9.5 with Counter Galois Onion encryption and patches over 30 high-severity Firefox vulnerabilities through Tor Browser 15.0.7.

A Botnet Accidentally Destroyed I2P (The Full Story)

On February 3, 2026, the I2P anonymity network was flooded with 700,000 hostile nodes in what became one of the most devastating Sybil attacks an anonymity network has ever experienced. The network normally operates with 15,000 to 20,000 active devices. The attackers overwhelmed it by a factor

Tor Browser 15.0.6 Ships New Circuit Encryption

Tor Browser 15.0.6 ships with Counter Galois Onion circuit encryption that eliminates tagging attacks, plus a heap buffer overflow patch from Firefox ESR 140.7.1.

Whonix 18.1.4.2 Patches a VM Fingerprinting Flaw

Whonix 18.1.4.2 disables VirtualBox dynamic resolution by default after developers discovered the auto-resize feature creates unique fingerprints that persist across reboots.

FBI Took 20 Years to Kill a Router Botnet

A criminal proxy service openly bragged "Working since 2004!" on its homepage while the FBI apparently had other priorities for two decades.

I2P 2.11.0 Ships Post-Quantum Crypto After Botnet Siege

A botnet that broke DDoS records at 31.4 terabits per second accidentally crippled I2P's anonymity network while trying to use it as a backup command infrastructure, and the developers responded with post-quantum cryptography enabled by default.

Tails 7.4.2 Patches 169 Kernel Vulnerabilities

Tails 7.4.2 ships as the second emergency release in 12 days, patching 169 Linux kernel CVEs that could let an attacker escalate from a compromised application to full system control.

Ubuntu Thinks You're Retarded, and That Checkboxes Are Dangerous

Canonical pulled the Software & Updates GUI from Ubuntu 26.04 because they decided the checkboxes were "dangerous" for you, a person who somehow managed to install Linux.

Tor Browser 16.0a2 Drops the ESR Safety Net

Tor Browser 16.0a2 lands with a Firefox 147 base, OpenSSL 3.5.5 security patches, and the first glimpse of life after ESR.

Europol Raids X Over Crimes That Don't Exist

A Macron loyalist filed a complaint because he didn't like X's algorithm, and now Europol is calling it a child exploitation investigation.