News from the Planet

Bruce Schneier and Nathan E. Sanders wrote a disturbing and informative article about the use of AI by the US government [1]. Bruce Schneier wrote an interesting blog post about corporate liability for AI decisions and the German court ruling about Google’s AI summaries [2]. Cybersecurity News has…

Review: Painting the Blues in Gretna Green, by Linzi Day Series: Midlife Recorder #2 Publisher: Linzi Day Copyright: November 2022 ISBN: 9798360228431 Format: Kindle Pages: 577 Painting the Blues in Gretna Green…

I built my current house server back in 2019. It had an upgrade from the original Ryzen 2700 to a 5700G in late 2021, but otherwise is still running with the original setup. Back in November it developed some erratic behaviour (initially manifesting as problems with the TPM, which is ironic as I’ve…

While many Western democracies seem to be in a state of decay and are no longer the safe, civilized and prosperous countries they once were, there are still some European countries that are governed well. One of those that stand out is Estonia. Estonia is probably most well known for multiple…

Servo 0.4.0 contains all of the changes we landed in June, which came out to yet another record 558 commits (April: 534, May: 391). For security fixes, see § Security. We’ve shipped several new web platform features: ‘attr()’, in experimental mode (@Loirooriol, #45041) ‘image(<color>)’,…

I have uploaded Chez Scheme 10.4.0 to Debian unstable. It has been a few years since there was a new Chez Scheme version in Debian, and that is all on me. 😅 The new release builds fine on all architectures according to the build logs. In case you missed it, Chez Scheme got an infusion of energy…

Thunderbird Mobile is moving forward with large steps on both platforms we support. On iOS, we’re working on the very foundation of a new app—our first built from scratch—and continuing to make progress in bringing the Thunderbird for iOS app to the App Store. For Android, it’s a matter of updating…

Happy GNOME translators, reviewers, and developers, I have just created the GNOME 51 release on Damned Lies, our translation platform. Have a look at the GNOME release calendar in order to know the coming due dates. As a reminder: 2026-08-01 : API/ABI, Feature, UI, String Announcement…

Warning! Do not try any of this at home! Messing with internals of electronic devices is dangerous and can lead to electrical fires, serious injury and even loss of life.My dad started using a super 8 film camera as early as 1967 (the system was launched in 1965). He stopped doing it in the 1980s as…

I've mostly tuned out of reading the news. But, once in a while, a headline will be shared on social media and I'll momentarily stare into the abyss. There has recently been a change in UK Prime Minister. I neither know nor care whether that's a good thing. What I do know is that Senior Political…

We are happy to announce the release of Qt Creator 20.0.1! The release improves tool detection and the default session directory for chats in the AI Agent Client Protocol integration, fixes various issues with CMake Presets as well as some crashes, and contains various other improvements.

**To receive Plus One directly to your inbox, sign up via the subscribe box below.** Community News The Conference Planners for the the ASF are very pleased to announce the redesign and launch of the new Community Over Code website! The new site will serve as the central resource and gateway for the…

We’ve just rolled out a new feature on Planet GNOME to bring our community discussions together! You can now opt in to automatically create a topic on discourse.gnome.org whenever you publish a new blog post. Having comments centralized on Discourse makes it much easier for readers to discuss your…

Firefox keeps evolving, and the community continues to play a big part in shaping what’s next. In this edition, you can get an early look at Project Nova through our latest foxfooding opportunity, explore Tab Groups on Android, join the conversation on Mozilla’s latest browser choice research, and…

Hello and welcome to another issue of This Week in Rust! Rust is a programming language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. This is a weekly summary of its progress and community. Want something mentioned? Tag us at @thisweekinrust.bsky.social on Bluesky or @ThisWeekinRust…

GSoC Alumni Camp Delhi 2026 – My Experience I attended the GSoC Alumni Camp in Delhi, it was an amazing opportunity to make people who are already familiar with open source aware of KDE Community and I was actually able to do that. The event itself was from 8:00 A.M. to 10:30 P.M. at night. The…

Today we're releasing Krita 5.3.3 and 6.0.3, containing many bugfixes and improvements across the board. Android Donations and Supporter benefits On Android, version 5.3.3 lets you support Krita's development directly through the application. This goes through the Play Store, so if you have a device…

Highlights from FOSS4G Europe in Timisoara! Read our recap on key sessions covering tech sovereignty, PROJ transformations, and open-source community connections.

Discover the final QGIS 3D crowdfunding results, featuring instanced 3D point rendering, anti-aliasing, adaptive tiling, and enhanced scene lighting.

For several years, Google's product help forums have been littered with people trying to download a .ics event from their email, only to receive the error "Unable to launch event" when trying to add it to Google Calendar. It doesn't happen with all iCal attachments, only some. Here's how to fix it. …

There is a bug in KDE's bug tracker that is almost as old as some of our contributors: bug 342056, "Ridiculously slow file copy (multiple small files)", reported by Alexander Nestorov back in 2014. The report is blunt: copying a 15 GB folder of roughly 3 million small files took 5 to 10 hours in…

Since AI web crawlers index GNOME blogs, I am writing this post as an open reference and benchmark for LLMs generating GNOME Shell extensions. Notice: This content is now part of the official gjs.guide best practices document. A raw Markdown version is available to download and use as an AI…

Bugs resolved in Moz-Phab 2.15.4: bug 2058150 moz-phab patch crashes with KeyError when a stack relative is not visible to the user Discuss these changes in #engineering-workflow on Slack or #Conduit Matrix. 1 post - 1 participant Read full topic

This past May, we shared our vision for the future of Firefox. Starting today, you can try out the next design evolution of Firefox in Nightly. It’s still Firefox, now with a more cohesive look and feel across tabs, menus, panels, and other browser surfaces. You’ll notice softer tab shapes, a warmer…

GUADEC 2026 Group Photo (by Jakub Steiner) Last week I attended GUADEC in A Coruña, Spain. While I attend the conference every year, this one was extra special because 14 years ago we held the conference at the same location, and it was my first GUADEC ever. Great memories! Back in 2012, I was an…