US targets former EU commissioner, activists with visa bans over alleged censorship www.reuters.com/legal/govern... Donny and Big Techbros are sad about the Digital Services Act, which is intended to combat hateful speech, misinformation and disinformation. Why would that be?

EU's consultation on Digital Fairness Act: 86% support consumers having more control over personalised advertising. 77% said personalised pricing based on surveillance should be restricted. Strangely, business associations and large companies "show low support". cdn.table.media/assets/europ...

the Delayed Message Timing API.
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Masonry Layout is now grid-lanes css-tricks.com/masonry-layo...

The Go European extension (for Chromium-based broozers) will suggest European competitors to Big Tech sites as you visit them chromewebstore.google.com/detail/go-eu...

It was good to wake up to the news that 3 of the shittiest people (Andrea Tate, Jake Paul, Little Tommy Ten Names) all got humiliated in Dubai, and the Orange Hate Gibbon rambled on about his wife's perfect panties, and mimed steaming them.

Airbus is preparing to tender a major contract to migrate mission-critical workloads to a digitally sovereign European cloud – but estimates only an 80/20 chance of finding a suitable provider. www.theregister.com/2025/12/19/a...

Former chancellor George Osborne joins OpenAI. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Truly a marriage made in heaven.

A wonderful one-woman cover of Abbey Road medley, with a lovely video featuring home-made costumes, home-made drum kit, and patchwork backdrops mostly based on the colour palettes of Beatles albums. youtu.be/N_GFGA1amUU?...

100% turnout for the @open-web-advocacy.org UK chapter xmas drinks, and my emeritus member's speech went down a storm.

Changes to iOS in Japan to comply with the Mobile Software Competition Act (MSCA). Developers can distribute apps on alternative app marketplaces, process app payments s outside of Apple In-App Purchase, use alternative web browser engines. developer.apple.com/support/app-...

Wow, I've just had a late-night phone call to tell me I've been awarded the National Basketball Association's inaugural Web Standards prize!

I'm a longtime Firefox user who has worked at both the Mozilla corporation and foundation. But I tried out @vivaldi.com last week when I needed a Chromium based browser for a task and have found myself using it more and more.

First time I've switched my daily driver browser in...quite some time...

Damn. I refused to pay my local exorcist and now my house is being repossessed.

Some established browsers are betting their future on incorporating A.I., while A.I. companies are releasing browsers to slurp up your data even more. Here's Vivaldi's CEO @jon at Vivaldi's Reykjavík HQ announcing our 2026 roadmap.

People who habitually wear trousers with functional, non-decorative pockets: do you have a pocket system? Eg, mine is: Front left: keys, coins. Front right: wallet and phone. Watch pocket: vape juice and emergency plectrum. Back pocket is for shopping list on supermarket day.

PSA: Our roadmap for 2026:

This is a great post by @brucel.bsky.social on the @vivaldi.com blog - a browser that is actively resisting the trend towards the integration of text plagiarism tools replacing human content, which has some parallels here.

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