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The New York Times Is Now Available as a Tor Onion Service
Updated: March 4, 2025
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The Cuban CDN
On a recent trip to Cuba I brought with me a smartphone and hoped to get Internet access either via WiFi or 3G. I managed that (at a price) but also saw for myself how Cubans get access to an alternate Internet delivered by sneakernet.
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How Discord Handles Two and Half Million Concurrent Voice Users Using WebRTC
Discover the latest news and app updates, stories, company insights, and plenty more about Discord, all in one place.
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Internet.org Is Not Neutral, Not Secure, and Not the Internet
Facebook's Internet.org project, which offers people from developing countries free mobile access to selected websites, has been pitched as a philanthropic initiative to connect two thirds of the world who don’t yet have Internet access. We completely agree that the global digital divide should be...
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Americans from Both Political Parties Overwhelmingly Support Net Neutrality
Our survey also reveals that a majority of Americans do not trust the government to protect Internet access There’s something that Americans of varied
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We need a federation of forges
Git is decentralized, but what of the rest?
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Mullvad on Tailscale: Privately browse the web
Learn how Tailscale's partnership with Mullvad enables secure, private browsing with Mullvad’s VPN servers as exit nodes. Protect your internet traffic, maintain privacy, and enjoy fast, encrypted browsing worldwide. Discover how to configure Mullvad with Tailscale for ultimate security.
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Running your own secure communication service with Matrix and Jitsi
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
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WebSockets vs. Server-Sent-Events vs. Long-Polling vs. WebRTC vs. WebTransport
Learn the unique benefits and pitfalls of each real-time tech. Make informed decisions on WebSockets, SSE, Polling, WebRTC, and WebTransport.
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Possible upcoming attempts to disable the Tor network
The Tor Project has learned that there may be an attempt to incapacitate our network in the next...
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VPN location claims don't match real traffic exits
17 out of 20 popular VPNs exit traffic from different countries than they claim. Dig into what that means and why it matters in our VPN report.
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Chromium's Impact on Root DNS Traffic
Guest Post: With 70% of market share, Chromium has had a significant impact on the total root DNS traffic.
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How Syria Turned Off the Internet
Today, 29 November 2012, between 1026 and 1028 (UTC), all traffic from Syria to the rest of the Internet stopped. At CloudFlare, we witnessed the drop off. We've spent the morning studying the situation to understand what happened.
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Wi-Fi signals enable gesture recognition throughout entire home
University of Washington researchers have shown it's possible to leverage Wi-Fi signals around us to detect specific movements without needing sensors on the hu
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The Librem 5: A Matrix-Native FLOSS Smartphone
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
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The 5-Hour CDN
You can build a functional CDN on an 8-year-old laptop while you're sitting at a coffee shop. Here's what a CDN you put together in five hours might look like.
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A closer look at a BGP anomaly in Venezuela
There has been speculation about the cause of a BGP anomaly observed in Venezuela on January 2. We take a look at BGP route leaks, and dive into what the data suggests caused the anomaly in question.
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Why ActivityPub is the future
We often tout things like “Mastodon is based on open web protocols” as one of its advantages. I want to elaborate why exactly that’s a good thing.
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How to build large-scale end-to-end encrypted group video calls
Signal released end-to-end encrypted group calls a year ago, and since then we’ve scaled from support for 5 participants all the way to 40. There is no off the shelf software that would allow us to support calls of that size while ensuring that all communication is end-to-end encrypted, so we bui...
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Czech republic sets IPv4 end date
On 17 January 2024, the Government of the Czech Republic approved the material "Restarting the implementation of DNSSEC and IPv6 technologies in the state administration". On the basis of this decision, the Czech state administration will stop providing its services over IPv4 on 6 June 2032. Thus, the Czech Republic…
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Tailscale Peer Relays
Tailscale Peer Relays provide predictable, performant access, entirely within your own tailnet.
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What is BGP? – BGP routing explained
Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is the routing protocol for the Internet. Much like the post office processing mail, BGP picks the most effecient routes for delivering Internet traffic.
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JMAP: A modern, open email protocol
The new JMAP email protocol provides a modern, efficient, easy-to-use API, built on many years of experience and field testing.
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A legislative path to an interoperable internet
It’s not enough to say that the Internet is built on interoperability. The Internet is interoperability. Billions of machines around the world use the same set of open protocols—like TCP/IP, HTTP, and TLS—to talk to one another. The first Internet-connected devices were only possible because phone...
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Wi-Fi alliance announces mesh networking standard
Explore our portfolio of alternative topology and architecture technologies that improve efficiency and scalability of Wi-Fi® networks.