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New Release: Tor Browser 15.0

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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 29, 2025

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Updated This Past Day

  1. Join Us Now and Share the News - Part IV: There Cannot be Free Software Without Free Press and Free Information
    One day, one can hope, more people will recognise that for Software Freedom we need free press and free thinkers
  2. Join Us Now and Share the News - Part III: Principled Stance Is Never Cheap
    Protecting the truth and insisting that the general public is made aware of things that really happened isn't cheap
  3. Join Us Now and Share the News - Part II: Because Scarcity of Accurate Information Breeds Collective Ignorance
    we too will strive to share information that's aggressively suppressed
  4. Gemini Links 28/10/2025: More New Arrivals at Geminispace, xkcd on "Document Forgery"
    Links for the day
  5. Join Us Now and Share the News - Part I: Defence of the Truth
    This year we make a very strong, firm statement for truth, even if that means explaining our work to the top media judge in the country
  6. Links 28/10/2025: Meta and Fentanylware (CheeTok) Age-Restricted Down Under, "Britain Needs China’s Money"
    Links for the day
  7. Links 28/10/2025: Mass Layoffs at Amazon and Charter to Cut 1,200 Jobs
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  8. The Cocaine Patent Office - Part II: The Person Who Planted Paid-for Fake News for the European Patent Office (EPO) is a Cocaine User, Friend of António Campinos, Now on Record as Having Been Arrested
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