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Text: 'Use a Virtual Private Network. Choose a reputable VPN like NordVPN, Surfshark or ProtonVPN. Avoid free VPNs that aren't going to protect your privacy.' Image: Blue background with a grey/blue 3D profile icon that has a location pin symbol in the place of the head with a ripple effect coming from it.

How to baffle and confuse online advertisers.

A VPN masks your IP address, making it harder for companies to track you and build a profile that can be traded by the adtech industry.

✅️ Get a reputable VPN – don't use a free one.

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#StopStalkerAds

The winner of Tuta's hoodie competition shared a wearing it to Reddit. Caption: Privacy matters (and sometimes you get a hoodie) My data once tried to escape, so I lured it back with cookies 🍪. Apparently, privacy jokes pay off, I ended up winning a hoodie! Thanks for running the contest and for standing up for privacy!

Congratulations on winning your Tuta Hoodie & thank you for spreading the word! 👏🏻🎉

Together WE CAN make the web a better place. 🔐❤️

Ubuntu 26.04 splits firmware package to reduce update sizes Ubuntu 26.04 LTS will split its 600MB linux-firmware package into 17 vendor-specific packages to reduce bandwidth and download sizes of firmware updates.

Ubuntu 26.04 is splitting its linux-firmware package into vendor-specific sub-packages (Intel, AMD, NVIDIA, Qualcomm, etc.).

Fixes the problem where a minor security patch requires everyone to download a 600MB+ update.

#Ubuntu #Linux #OpenSource

Kyrie Irving wears PRESS shirt for Gaza journalists at NBA All-Star Game Basketball star honours media workers, nearly 300 of whom have been killed in Israeli attacks since October 2023.

Basketball star honours media workers, nearly 300 of whom have been killed in Israeli attacks since October 2023.

US military strikes yet another boat in the Caribbean Sea, killing 3 It’s the 39th known strike in a pattern of what legal experts have called illegal killings.

All told, the strikes by US forces have killed at least 133 people in the Caribbean Sea and the eastern Pacific Ocean.

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There are problems in Cuba but the US doesn't care about many of them. They hate that an Island so close to shore has defied them for nearly 70 years. They've punished them for defying the bosses in Washington. Now Trump wants to strangle them into submission. "Freedom" has nothing to do with it.

Text: 'communicate securely - email If you can afford it, pay for an email provider like Proton Mail, rather than using providers like Gmail, Yahoo or Microsoft Outlook.' Image: Blue background with a two grey/blue 3D profile icons that have an '@' symbol in the place of the head.

Your emails can be a pipeline to the adtech industry.

Gmail delivers targeted advertising and scans emails to power “smart features” in the name of personalising your experience.

✅️ Switch to an email provider like Proton Mail.

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Labour referred to police for alleged by-election bribery Labour activists in Gorton and Denton have been referred to police for what critics say was a costly bid to court voters with a free meal

🚨 Labour activists in Gorton and Denton have been referred to police for what critics say was a costly bid to court voters with a "freebie" Gala dinner.

www.thecanary.co/trending/202...

A pardon for a price? How Donald Trump has reimagined presidential clemency Critics have warned that the US president has taken an increasingly transactional approach to granting clemency.

Critics have warned that the US president has taken an increasingly transactional approach to granting clemency.

McSweeney's sabotage outfit spied on Murdoch hacks Labour Together, the sabotage outfit behind Starmer’s rise to power, were paid to spy on Times journalists...surprised...we're not

Labour Together, the sabotage outfit behind Starmer’s rise to power, were paid to spy on Times journalists...surprised...we're not.

@skwawkbox.org reports.

www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...

Pic of Epstein, John Brockman, Harvard and the text - "The billionaires' eugenics project; how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science"

Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds. The files reveal it was something far darker

Extraordinary read by @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social for the Nerve on Epstein, academia and eugenics

www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...

Why are experts sounding the alarm on AI risks?

Why are experts sounding the alarm on AI risks? https://aje.news/1a8wwg

How Britain helped cover up a US-sponsored coup in Guatemala Declassified documents reveal how the UK helped cover up America’s role in a coup against Guatemala’s democratically-elected government

👉NEW -- How Britain helped cover up a US-sponsored coup in Guatemala

by Aaron Coy Moulton

Declassified documents reveal how the UK helped cover up America’s role in a coup against Guatemala’s democratically-elected government
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Rupert Lowe's 'Restore' is bad news for everyone but the Green Party Rupert Lowe could drag down Reform and further dent Labour, giving Zack Polanski's Green Party a cleaner run at government

Rupert Lowe could drag down Reform and further dent Labour, giving Zack Polanski's Green Party a cleaner run at government.

www.thecanary.co/trending/202...

Polanski demolishes denial of Starmer's authoritarianism Trevor Phillips suggested the government doesn't arrest people for things they say; Polanski reminded him about the Palestine Action travesty

🚨 Trevor Phillips suggested the government doesn't arrest people for things they say — @zackpolanski.bsky.social reminded him about the Palestine Action travesty.

www.thecanary.co/trending/202...

“The War Hasn’t Ended”: Palestinians in Gaza Still Face Israeli Attacks, Disease, Medical Neglect The partial reopening of Gaza’s southern Rafah crossing with Egypt has been marked by chaos and severe restrictions imposed by Israel, as tens of thousands of Palestinians continue to wait for medical...

The partial reopening of Gaza’s southern Rafah crossing with Egypt has been marked by chaos and severe restrictions imposed by Israel.

Our reporter Cameron has been speaking to people in Gorton and Denton about the by-election. We've spoken to people at length now, and the message was clear: no one is happy with the status quo, and want change

🔴 NEW: Aid Warehouse on Fire in Gaza, Cause Unknown Civil Defense crews in Gaza Governorate have been battling a massive blaze for nine straight hours at a seven-story building on Al-Thawra Street, Mahmoud Basal, spokesperson for the Palestinian Civil Defense in Gaza, says in a new video from the site. The location was initially reported as residential but turned out to be a warehouse storing desperately needed tents, tarps, nylon sheeting, and food aid, now engulfed in flames. Civil Defense says teams are operating with severe shortages of vehicles, protective gear, oxygen cylinders, masks, hoses, and water tankers under the Israeli siege, and is calling on international and Arab institutions to urgently provide essential equipment.

Translating Falasteen (Palestine) @translatingpal 🚨Palestinian Civil Defense crews in Gaza Governorate have been battling a massive fire for 9 consecutive hours in the basement of the seven-story Al-Barqouni residential building, located on Al-Thawra Street at the Thai Junction. Operations are still ongoing under extremely difficult and complex field conditions, as teams face severe shortages in firefighting equipment, vehicles, and water tankers needed to contain the blaze due to the Israeli occupation siege on the Gaza Strip. Mahmoud Basal Spokesperson for the Palestinian Civil Defense – Gaza Strip

🔴 NEW: Aid Warehouse on Fire in Gaza, Cause Unknown

Civil Defense crews in Gaza Governorate have been battling a massive blaze for 9 straight hours at a 7-story building on Al-Thawra Street, Mahmoud Basal, spokesperson for the Palestinian Civil Defense in Gaza, says in a new video from the site...

Update from yesterday, fire still raging:

Video: Translating Falasteen (Palestine) via X (@translatingpal)

Jon Elmer @jonelmer My Resistance Report from day 846 was about the Civil Defense crews and their ingenuity and courage on the frontlines in Gaza; I pulled videos from their field reports that provide a synopsis of their resourcefulness doing critical work. Note: I am on the new platform @jonelmer .

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Last week, the Trump administration:

- terminated temporary protected status for Yemenis
- passed the SAVE Act which could block married women from voting
- continued to deport migrants

Read more about the dangerous actions Trump and his administration have taken: zeteo.com/p/this-week-...

FBI Counterterrorism Agents Spent Weeks Seeking a Climate Activist — Then Showed Up at His Door The visit suggests a possible FBI probe into Extinction Rebellion NYC as the Trump administration increases surveillance of activist groups.

The FBI’s apparent probe of Extinction Rebellion NYC comes as the Justice Department ramps up its surveillance of activists protesting immigration enforcement.

Protecting Pedophile Predators: Carole Cadwalladr on Jeffrey Epstein & the Elite’s Veil of Silence Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are accusing the Justice Department of covering up the names of co-conspirators of the deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein as fallout from the Epstein files grows across th...

“The most extraordinary and worrying thing of what is going on in the United States is the scale of normalization that is happening."

‘We cannot separate imperialism from domestic militarization’: Understanding the links between ICE, Gaza, and U.S. foreign policy Mondoweiss interviews author Harsha Walia about the history of ICE and how Trump’s immigration crackdown is closely linked to U.S. imperialism abroad, including in Palestine.

ICE didn't exist before 2003. It was born out of the War on Terror — the same political project that expanded U.S. wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Somalia. Now the same infrastructure surveils immigrants in Minneapolis and bombs journalists in Gaza. mondoweiss.net/2026/01/we-c...

Meet Aliya Rahman, Disabled U.S. Citizen Assaulted, Jailed & Traumatized by ICE in Minneapolis We speak with Aliya Rahman, a U.S. citizen who was violently dragged from her car by federal immigration officers in Minneapolis last month and detained at the Whipple Federal Building, which has beco...

“I was taken out of that place unconscious."

Marine Detained in Minneapolis Says Feds Copied His Phone Without a Warrant He was observing after Alex Pretti's killing. Feds detained him at gunpoint, sampled his DNA, scanned his face, and cloned his phone.

“They took my cell phone and cloned it. They actually told me they did that.”

Text: 'Communicate securely - chat Whenever possible, use Signal Messenger rather than WhatsApp or Facebook Messenger.' Image: Light blue background with two blue 3D profile icons that have a blocked out string of symbols on the head.

Your chats fuel online advertising.

Whatsapp and Messenger send metadata to Meta, gain access to your contacts and information about your device from the app for behavioural profiling and advertising.

✅️ Use a messenger like Signal.

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Encrypt It Already End-to-end encryption protects the privacy of your data.

With Encrypt It Already, we’re pushing on tech companies to deliver stronger privacy protections to their users by enabling and expanding the use of end-to-end encryption across their products or services. www.encryptitalready.org

The Internet Still Works: Wikipedia Defends Its Editors Section 230 helps make it possible for online communities to host user speech: from restaurant reviews, to fan fiction, to collaborative encyclopedias. But recent debates about the law often overlook

Wikipedia exists because millions of people can write and share knowledge without the platform facing liability for every edit. www.eff.org/pages/inter...