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The Apache® Software Foundation Announces New Top-Level Projects

Apache NewsAugust 06, 2026

Introducing Apache® Fluss, a lakehouse-native streaming storage for real-time analytics and AI, and Apache® Pony Mail, a web-based mail archive browser built to scale to millions of archived messages Wilmington, DE –  August 6, 2026 – The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the global home of open…

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Mozilla Addons Blog: How the publicSuffix API was created

Mozilla PlanetAugust 06, 2026

Firefox 153 ships the new publicSuffix WebExtensions API. This API lets extensions ask the browser for the registrable domain (eTLD+1) of a hostname. It uses the browser’s built-in, always-up-to-date copy of the Public Suffix List, removing the need for extensions to bundle and maintain a copy of…

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Hylke Bons: Icon for KawaiiFi

Gnome PlanetAugust 06, 2026

Week 27 This week's icon is for Zach Leytus's project: KawaiiFi: "Wi-Fi scanner and analyzer" Check out all weekly app icons created so far in the gallery and follow my icon creation adventures as they happen (including…

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Firefox UX: Let your designs fail for the right reasons

Mozilla PlanetAugust 05, 2026

How AI-assisted native prototypes changed what usability testing could show me.   If you’ve ever simplified an interaction just to make a prototype manageable, you’ve probably felt the tension between what you designed and what the prototype could actually support. The risk is that when a design…

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Proxmox officially supports Arm, with some caveats

Jeff GeerlingAugust 05, 2026

Proxmox today announced their Proxmox Virtual Environment is now available for 64-bit ARM. I tested it on my Ampere Altra Dev Platform—the same machine on which I've <ooted Windows on Arm the first time, messed with multiple GPUs, and most recently tested Houdini's native arm64 support. Install…

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This Week In Rust: This Week in Rust 663

Mozilla PlanetAugust 05, 2026

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…

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The Rust Programming Language Blog: Enabling the next iteration of the borrow checker on nightly

Mozilla PlanetAugust 04, 2026

TL;DR We are enabling the next iteration of the borrow checker (coined Polonius Alpha) on nightly in preparation for stabilization in the next few months. Whaaaaaat? Yes! You heard it right! The next iteration of the Rust borrow checker is coming! Rust's first borrow checker ("AST borrowck") was…

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Scheme Requests for Implementation: SRFI 273: Extensions to Data (Type-)Checking

Scheme PlanetAugust 03, 2026

SRFI 273 is now in final status. The original SRFI 253 established a basis for type-checked (or otherwise checked) data handling. But it lacked some quality-of-life features. This SRFI extends SRFI 253 to match existing implementation practice and common sense. Provided extensions are: …

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Firefox Tooling Announcements: Firefox Profiler Deployment (August 3, 2026)

Mozilla PlanetAugust 03, 2026

The latest version of the Firefox Profiler is now live! Check out the full changelog below to see what’s changed: Highlights: [Nazım Can Altınova] Add an “apply source map” button to the profile info panel (#6200) [Nazım Can Altınova] Show markers that are in the committed range only in…

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Getting 25 Gbps Thunderbolt Ethernet on my Mac Studio

Jeff GeerlingJuly 31, 2026

I've been using the built-in 10 Gigabit Ethernet on my Mac Studio for a few years. It works fine: I can edit 4K video straight off my NAS over the network, and run backups at around 1 GB/sec. But... I want more. I upgraded my rack and my NAS to 25 GbE a couple years ago, and wanted to upgrade my…

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The Servo Blog: June in Servo: real world compat, media queries, SharedWorker, and more!

Mozilla PlanetJuly 31, 2026

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>)’,…

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Gwen Weinholt: The State of Chez Scheme in Debian

Scheme PlanetJuly 31, 2026

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…

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Thunderbird Blog: Mobile Progress Report: July 2026

Mozilla PlanetJuly 30, 2026

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…

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ASF Plus One Newsletter: July 2026

Apache NewsJuly 29, 2026

**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…

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About:Community: Community Roundup: Project Nova, Tab Groups & more

Mozilla PlanetJuly 29, 2026

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…

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This Week In Rust: This Week in Rust 662

Mozilla PlanetJuly 29, 2026

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…

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Lutra consulting: Reflecting on FOSS4G Europe in Timisoara

OSGeo PlanetJuly 28, 2026

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

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Lutra consulting: QGIS 3D enhancements: crowdfunding results (part 3)

OSGeo PlanetJuly 28, 2026

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

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Firefox Tooling Announcements: MozPhab 2.15.4 Released

Mozilla PlanetJuly 27, 2026

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

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Mergin Maps: [Blog] Connect external GPS receivers via network (TCP/UDP)

OSGeo PlanetJuly 27, 2026

Capture high-precision field data directly in Mergin Maps. Our new Network position provider feature enables seamless TCP/UDP connections to external GPS receivers.

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Mergin Maps: [Blog] Connect external GNSS receivers via network (TCP/UDP)

OSGeo PlanetJuly 27, 2026

Capture high-precision field data directly in Mergin Maps. Our new Network position provider feature enables seamless TCP/UDP connections to external GNSS receivers.

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Mergin Maps: [Blog] A new direct way to connect external GNSS receivers with network position provider

OSGeo PlanetJuly 27, 2026

Capture high-precision field data directly in Mergin Maps. Our new Network position provider feature enables seamless TCP/UDP connections to external GNSS receivers.

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Sponsor Success at Apache: Google and Apache Iceberg

Apache NewsJuly 24, 2026

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is home to more than 350 open source projects and initiatives, all powered by a vibrant, global community of contributors. Among these projects, Apache Iceberg has emerged as a cornerstone of modern data architecture, revolutionizing how organizations manage…

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Adding a backup Internet WAN on my OPNsense Router

Jeff GeerlingJuly 23, 2026

AKA "Spectrum has gone down two weeks in a row and I'm sick of it". I've been borrowing a portable 5G gateway from my Dad for a few weeks, for testing... and two weeks in a row, I've used it as a backup Internet option, since my Spectrum Business cable Internet has gone down. And yes, I'd get…

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Open Sauce and GPS time were my summer AI Antiseptics

Jeff GeerlingJuly 22, 2026

In the midst of our AI slop revolution, traveling to the West coast for Open Sauce this past weekend was the perfect antiseptic for rising costs, summer heat, and online divisiveness. It's ironic, then, that I used Claude to vibe code my Tufty GPS Time Badge. Partly due to time constraints, and…

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