An independent tech site. It publishes news and explainers on software, security, AI, privacy, browsers, Windows, Linux, and gaming, and it runs a few things built to be used rather than read: a threat dashboard, a downloads catalog, free browser tools, and curated resource hubs. The tagline is Tech for Humans because the reader comes first and the jargon comes last.
One person founded TechWalrus and still writes most of it, with a small number of contributors. There's no parent company, no investors, and no content farm behind it. Everyone with a byline is on the Team page.
A walrus is hard to forget, and every sensible tech domain was taken years ago. Its cousin IP Walrus, a plain IP address lookup, comes from the same place.
Software, security, AI, privacy, browsers, Windows, Linux, Android, iOS, networking, self-hosting, and the policy fights around all of it, plus gaming news and a game release calendar. Hardware gets covered when the software, security, or policy angle is the real story, not for spec sheets.
There's no paywall and no ad network on the pages. A few links may be affiliate links; the footer says so, and they never change the price you pay. The most useful help is boring: share an article, send a correction, or post in the forum.
AI may help with research, editing, or images. It doesn't get a byline, and nothing goes live without a person reading it first.
Neither. There's no review lab, no star ratings, and no paid articles. Apps, tools, and hardware show up when they matter to a story, a guide, a hub, or a download page, and nobody can buy a hub or download listing.
Every link goes to the developer's own release, usually a GitHub release or the project's site, or to a package manager such as winget, Homebrew, Flathub, Chocolatey, or Snap. TechWalrus hosts no files, repackages nothing, and bundles nothing. Checksums are listed where we have them, and every link is re-checked every six hours. Still read the developer's page before installing anything; that habit is worth more than any download site.
The catalog is checked against each project's releases every six hours, and a version only changes once the new links are verified. A stale entry usually means the project renamed a file or hasn't finished uploading a build. If something looks wrong, send the page URL through the contact page.
Free, no sign-up. Most tools run entirely in your browser and send nothing anywhere: the JSON formatter, encoder, hash and password generators, regex tester, word counter, diff checker, and the rest of the text tools. Network tools (port checker, DNS, WHOIS, SSL, HTTP headers) have to ask our server, because a browser can't make those requests itself; the same goes for the AI detector and anything that takes a URL. The PDF tools upload your file to a temporary folder, process it, and delete it. The password breach checker sends only the first five characters of a hash, so the password itself never leaves your browser.
From primary sources, pulled on a schedule: CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list, NVD and CVE records, vendor advisories from Microsoft, Apple, Adobe, Red Hat, and Ubuntu, OSV and GitHub advisories for open source packages, abuse.ch malware feeds, ransomware leak-site trackers, and a set of security news feeds. Each entry links back to its source. Live Incidents follows the bigger events over time, and nothing there is ever marked resolved automatically; when the news goes quiet, it goes dormant instead.
Not to read anything. An account is needed to comment on articles and to post in the forum. Sign-up asks for a username, an email address, a password, and one arithmetic question to keep the bots out. The site doesn't send newsletters or marketing mail.
Send a request through the contact page from the email address on the account, and say whether your comments and forum posts should go with it.
Yes. The toggle sits at the bottom of every page, or switch to mode right here: Your choice is saved in your browser.
No. The site works in any mobile browser, and a browser doesn't ask for your contacts.
Send the page URL and what's wrong through the contact page. Factual errors get corrected on the article itself; a typo just gets fixed, quietly.
Yes, through the contact page. You don't have to give a name, and a link to the source helps more than a summary. Not every request becomes an article, but every one gets read.
Maybe. The Write for Us page says what's wanted (clear news, explainers, guides, resource work) and what isn't (recycled posts and AI sludge). Send a short intro and a couple of samples through the contact page.
Share links anywhere. Quote a short passage with a link back. Don't repost whole articles, don't strip the credit, and don't feed the site into an AI training set without asking. Images and graphics need permission unless the page says otherwise, and commercial reuse goes through the contact page.
No, sorry. TechWalrus is a publication, not a help desk, so a message about a broken PC or a locked account somewhere else won't get a useful reply. Ask in the forum instead; other readers are often faster than we'd be.