Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from June 5 to June 12. GNOME Foundation marimaj reports The GNOME Foundation has selected the first recipients who will receive funding through its new Fellowship program, and is delighted to announce that Peter Eisenmann and Sophie…
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read more ➔Apple FINALLY lets you turn on your Mac remotely, without having to press the power button. In the media, articles suggest it's a reaction to Mac mini power button complaints. While I agree the M4 mini's power button is in a really dumb spot, that's not why I care about this feature. The two…
read more ➔When I ran Ethernet around our house, I thought I was being clever. A CAT6 cable for every room - lush! Some of my rooms have lots of devices, so they get a nice big Ethernet switch with lots of ports and blinking lights. But most of my rooms don't have that many devices. Our gym had only an…
read more ➔Hi Mozillians, For years, the Mozilla Community Newsletter has served as a monthly touchpoint for contributors and community members across the Mozilla ecosystem. Coordinated by the Customer Experience (CX) team, it helps keep our global contributor and product communities informed, connected, and…
read more ➔On 3 June 2026, the European Commission adopted a new package of measures to strengthen Europe’s technological sovereignty. The package includes two legislative proposals —<he Chips Act 2.0 and the Cloud and AI Development Act— together with <he European Open Source Strategy and a strategic…
read more ➔El pasado 3 de junio de 2026, la Comisión Europea adoptó un nuevo paquete de medidas para reforzar la soberanía tecnológica de Europa. El paquete incluye dos propuestas legislativas —el <hips Act 2.0 y el Cloud and AI Development Act—, junto con la <strategia Europea de Software Libre y una hoja…
read more ➔From white-boarding my ideas on a Google Doc, to writing a formal design document in Crosswords, my ability to communicate technical ideas clearly is being put to the test. Writing documentation is critical to guide others’ understanding of the code and choices made on a particular codebase.…
read more ➔I asked a locally-downloaded LLM to compute the cost of a car trip using natural language. No calls to any cloud service, just a model queried by an inference tool running on my own machine. The Setup The machine used for this excercise is a LemurPro laptop from around 2020, has a 11th Gen Intel(R)…
read more ➔Mozilla Champions the Reintroduction of the American Innovation and Choice Online Act (AICOA) Today, only a handful of tech companies shape the online experience for the more than 300 million internet users in America. This concentration of power is exactly why we need legislation that advances…
read more ➔A while back, I stumbled onto something that turned into a rewarding side-project at Mozilla. Firefox ships with a built-in spellchecker, but it only activates if a dictionary for your language is bundled with the browser. Coverage had grown organically over the years — driven largely by localizers…
read more ➔Las Jornadas de SIG Libre de Girona han sido siempre un referente para Geomatico … porque han sido también la cuna de nuestra empresa, allá en 2011. En estos más de 15 años de conferencias hemos presentado multitud de charlas que celebran la esencia del desarrollo abierto: colaborar, aprender y…
read more ➔The GNOME Foundation has selected the first recipients who will receive funding through its new Fellowship program, and is delighted to announce that Peter Eisenmann and Sophie Herold will begin work as our first Fellows in July. Sophie and Peter are both long-running GNOME contributors, with many…
read more ➔GeoServer 3.0 is now generally available. This post is not a feature announcement, those have been written, and the release notes cover the details. This is something we get to do less often: closing the loop on a promise. The modernisation work the community funded is finished and shipping, and we…
read more ➔GeoServer 3.0.0 release is now available with downloads (bin, war, windows), along with docs and extensions. This is a stable release of GeoServer 3.0.x series. GeoServer 3.0.0 is made in conjunction with GeoTools 35.0, and GeoWebCache 2.0.0. Thanks to Andrea Aaime (GeoSolutions), Jody Garnett…
read more ➔The GeoTools team is pleased to announce the release of the latest stable version of GeoTools 35.0 : geotools-35.0-bin.zip geotools-35.0-doc.zip geotools-35.0-userguide.zip geotools-35.0-project.zip …
read more ➔Ooooh! This is a lovely treat of a book. Every time Lauren sends her husband into the loft, a different man comes down. Her past is rewritten and she has now been married to Dave/Gary/Bob/Whoever for a year, a month, a decade, a minute. This isn't like how Groundhog Day became On The Calculation of…
read more ➔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…
read more ➔Terry Godier wrote a beautiful essay "The Boring Internet". The internet isn't dying, he argues, just the commercial veneer glued on top of it is. Underneath all the engagement metrics and algorithmic feeds, there's still an older, slower, more federated web. One built on protocols nobody owns. RSS…
read more ➔Introducing GeoLibre 1.0, a free and open-source, lightweight, cloud-native GIS platform that runs in your browser, as a desktop app, on your phone, and inside Jupyter notebooks.
read more ➔Linux App Summit 2026 Social Media Retrospective This is my personal retrospective post – there will likely be some version of this that will go out to various stakeholders. I want to start off by giving huge praise to our organizing team that worked really hard this year in putting this event…
read more ➔Gom is a very old object mapper I wrote to bridge GObject to SQLite. It made a lot of assumptions about the world based on when it was prototyped. The past couple years had me using it again for the documentation search in Manuals. Typically, I would have just built Manuals to parse all the XML…
read more ➔Github Link The following changes have been pushed to bugzilla.mozilla.org: Bug 2043429 - Selenium test 1_test_bug_edit.t intermittently fails when attemtping to click on comment reactions Bug 1995467 - Show dependency tree on meta bugs by default Bug 2043322 - text/html attachments are downloaded…
read more ➔By: Priya Sharma As a Google Summer of Code (GSoC) organization admin representing the Apache Software Foundation, I had the privilege of attending the GSoC Mentor Summit 2025, and it was an incredible experience! The Mentor Summit is a unique opportunity to connect with amazing mentors and discuss…
read more ➔For a limited time, where the VPN is available, users can get unlimited VPN bandwidth in Firefox – up from the 50 gigabytes monthly limit — plus access to over 25 country locations to browse from. Don’t have Firefox yet? <a…
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