Notices by The Tor Project (torproject@mastodon.social), page 3

🚨 Tor Browser 14.0 is out! 🚀 Featuring the new New Circuit option to refresh your connection for Android & legacy platforms support until March 2025. Plus, it’s based on Firefox ESR 128, with enhanced privacy protections and bug fixes.
https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-140/

Unrestricted funding is essential to sustaining Tor's mission of protecting privacy, and ensuring access to the open web. It allows us to adapt quickly to challenges in a dynamic landscape of internet censorship. From now through Dec 31 your donation will be matched 1:1!
https://torproject.org/donate/donate-md-yec2024

Join our virtual event for Global Encryption Day! 🔐Hear from the folks powering the Tor network as we dive into their motivations, challenges, and experiences.🗓️Set a reminder & tune in Mon 10/21 at 1700UTC 📺👉
https://www.youtube.com/live/r-wgsjyQlLs

The Tor Project is a nonprofit organization, powered by donations from our community. Donations make it possible for the Tor Project to build tools powered by people—not profit. Tor helps people to browse, search, and speak with freedom. Join the thousands of supporters in building an internet powered by privacy https://torproject.org/donate/donate-md-yec2024

@campuscodi We have no evidence that Tor Browser users were targeted specifically. The Firefox vulnerability was addressed with security updates to Tor Browser in their 13.5.7 and 14.0a9 releases.
https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-1357/
https://blog.torproject.org/new-alpha-release-tor-browser-140a9/

🚨 New Release: Tails 6.8.1 🚨 This emergency release fixes a critical security vulnerability in Tor Browser.
https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tails-6-8-1/

ALPHA TESTERS WANTED: Tor Browser sees hundreds of changes every year, from updates to its Firefox base to new features for protecting at-risk users. Each update can introduce bugs–that’s where you come in. By becoming an alpha tester, you can help identify issues and shape new features, making Tor Browser more stable for millions worldwide. Just remember, the alpha version is unstable, so use it only for testing, not for sensitive activities. 🟢🔗 https://blog.torproject.org/new-alpha-release-tor-browser-140a7/

@tails_live and Tor have a long history of working together. Now we’re making it official! Our merger means faster collaboration, broader outreach, and stronger privacy tools for everyone. Learn what’s next: https://tails.net/news/tails_tor/index.en.html

We’re excited to announce that Tails (@tails_live) is officially part of the Tor Project family! By joining forces, we’re ensuring that activists, journalists, and everyday users have access to more secure and sustainable tools for online privacy. Read more: https://blog.torproject.org/tor-tails-join-forces #TorTails #PrivacyMatters

We've published a blog post on the recent Tor coverage, which we'll update with new information as it becomes available. Nothing that the Tor Project has learned about this incident indicates that the Tor Browser was attacked or exploited. Tor users can continue to use Tor to browse the Internet securely and anonymously.
https://blog.torproject.org/tor-is-still-safe/

Wir haben einen Blog-Post zur aktuellen Berichterstattung über Tor verfasst, den wir mit neuen Informationen aktualisieren, soweit sie verfügbar sind. Nichts, was das Tor-Projekt über diesen Vorfall erfahren hat, deutet darauf hin, dass der Tor-Browser angegriffen wurde. Tor-Benutzer können Tor weiterhin benutzen, um sicher und anonym im Internet zu surfen.
https://blog.torproject.org/tor-is-still-safe/

⏳ We're less than 24hrs away from the next #Tor #relay operator meetup tomorrow, September 7th, 19:00 UTC. On the agenda: 2024 Elections & Anti-censorship news, Network health updates, OTF relay operator survey and more. 💜🟢
https://forum.torproject.org/t/tor-relays-next-tor-relay-operator-meetup-september-7th-2024-at-19utc/14203

Thank you, @zoug @mediapart@mediapart.social for taking the initiative! "By launching a .onion site,
@Mediapart
.fr is taking a powerful step to protect its readers... It is inspiring to see media organizations... leverage Tor technology to ensure their reporting can reach everyone, everywhere..." https://blogs.mediapart.fr/mediapart-journal-independant-et-participatif/blog/050924/mediapart-launches-tor

Latest release alert:
🦀 Arti 1.2.7 adds support for restricted discovery mode & contains bugfixes, cleanup, and improvements to DoS resistance and relay infrastructure among others.
🖥️ Tor Browser 13.5.3 includes important security updates to Firefox
For full details, visit our blog: https://blog.torproject.org

The next #Tor relay operator meetup is this Saturday,
September 7 at 19UTC! For the agenda and more info, check out the Tor Forum.
https://forum.torproject.org/t/tor-relays-next-tor-relay-operator-meetup-september-7th-2024-at-19utc/14203

In response to the #Brazilian government's imposed restrictions on VPNs, Isabela Fernandes, Executive Director of the Tor Project, has authored a guest post for The Intercept Brasil (@theinterceptbr_bot) about the benefits of IP masking tools for both users AND governments, and advocates for technical capacity building: https://www.intercept.com.br/2024/09/03/vpns-protegem-a-sua-privacidade/ 🇧🇷

Não pague para usar VPN. Use o Tor Browser para entrar no X e avisar o seus seguidores qual a nova rede social que você está. www.torproject.org/download/

In this article, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) introduces Tor bridges and explains how this technology can be used by journalists to access Tor.
https://safety.rsf.org/tor-bridges-a-way-to-keep-using-tor-in-countries-that-block-it/

Last day of #defcon32. Come get your merch before it's too late and we sell out. We may even throw in a discount or two... 🧅💜

It wouldn't be @defcon without Tor lie detectors! Thanks to @see_ess they're back in stock for #defcon32. Stop by our booth before they sell out!