On top of everything else, it turns out that Austrian cows have evolved the ability to use tools. #doomed www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

I see that Italy's largest soup manufacturer has just gone into administrone.

It's going to be fun when the MAGA base, already enjoying more expensive medical insurance, realises that Denmark is the US's main source of insulin, Ozempic and Wegovy, and the mad king has just increased the price by 10%.

Kip ("grammatical mood" in Turkish) is a programming language that uses Turkish grammatical cases as part of its type system. It demonstrates how natural language morphology—specifically Turkish noun cases & vowel harmony—can be integrated into programming language design. github.com/kip-dili/kip

My friends in Austria sent this and I can't stop watching...wait for the end. 🤗💜

the new (beta) @penpot.app renderer is such a huge improvement. snappier in a 100-tab browser window from hell than the Figma desktop app with a single file open. i know i keep saying this but if you design for the web and you haven't tried penpot you owe it to yourself to give it a whirl.

My old mate Andy spent 2 years on dialysis before he had a kidneys and liver transplant. Today is the 10th anniversary of his transplant. Since then he's won several medals in the Transplant Games, and seen his kids grow up. Carry an organ donor card. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...

Writing Vivaldi's response to the EU request for evidence on whether preference should be given to European products in public procurement. You too can tell my mate Ursula what you think, before 26 Jan: ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet...

New Social Web Working Group at W3C socialwebfoundation.org/2026/01/15/n... "LOLA lets users move from one ActivityPub server to another while retaining all their social connections, their content, and their reactions. It’s a great improvement for data portability on the social web."

JPEG-XL Image Support Returns To Latest Chrome / Chromium Code www.phoronix.com/news/JPEG-XL... - presumably because the PDF Association will add support for JXL image format to the PDF spec.

According to Tech Radar, a reason to avoid using Vivaldi as your web browser is "No AI-powered assistant". Yup - and we're proud of it! If you don't want slop while you shop, or scurf while you surf, give the European browser a try. vivaldi.com/blog/a-i-bro...

Should EU give preference to European products in public procurement? My chum Ursula seeks your opinion before 26 Jan. ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet...

Designers, are you tired of having accessibility pushed later, or ignored, and you want things to change? February 25, 9am ET (3pm CET) I'll open the design track at #axecon with my talk "How to Convince People to Care and Invest in Accessibility" www.youtube.com/watch?v=u96U...

Should EU give preference to European products in public procurement? My chum Ursula seeks your opinion before 26 Jan. ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet...

Introducing the <geolocation> HTML element developer.chrome.com/blog/geoloca... Wave goodbye to more tedious JS boilerplate code. As far as I'm concerned, UI stuff should all be declarative. Save JS for business logic (or React, if you're showcasing your new loading spinner designs).

How Apple’s Key Tactic Could Prevent Japan’s Smartphone Act from Improving Browser Competition open-web-advocacy.org/blog/how_app... by your chums from @open-web-advocacy.org

“We have no doubt about the importance of showing that we are here to ensure the enforcement of the law,” said EU's Competition Chief, facing down US attacks on DMA www.euractiv.com/news/ribera-...

Opening and Closing Dialogs Without JavaScript Using HTML Invoker Commands schalkneethling.com/posts/openin... - huzzah.

New Tesla feature to automatically create explicit images of pedestrians it passes on the street newsthump.com/2026/01/13/n...

HURRAH CHOICE. "Apple and Google have entered into a multi-year collaboration under which the next generation of Apple Foundation Models will be based on Google's Gemini models and cloud technology." blog.google/company-news...

Are you evil? Test your level of evilness (evility? evilosity?) with these absurd trolly problems neal.fun/absurd-troll...

If you haven't read my 352nd Reading List yet, do so now and be ready to face the web standards fray with sweet, sweet knowledge brucelawson.co.uk/2026/reading...

12 months ago, I deleted all my content from Twitler. Here's how I did it. brucelawson.co.uk/2025/deletin...

I'm reasonably sure that if I made an App that spread racist and misogyist abuse and allows people to make AI deepfakes of naked kids, it might not be accepted into App marketplaces that charge a large %age as they "carefully curate" the Apps they sell to ensure security, privacy, decency etc.

Well, slap my 12 faces and call me a dodecahedron, it's the first Reading List of the year: Reading List 352! brucelawson.co.uk/2026/reading...

Extracting books from production language models - "We extract nearly all of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone from jailbroken Claude…substantial proportions of the book from Gemini 2.5 Pro and Grok 3 and notably do not need to jailbreak them to do so" PDF: arxiv.org/pdf/2601.026...

Windows 11’s “Share with Copilot” Wants AI to See Your App Windows. "It sounds useful, but it also raises real privacy questions, especially since it shows up enabled by default." www.maketecheasier.com/windows-shar...

Can’t stress enough how major media outlets are continually failing (or aligned with the owner of Twitter) when reporting on this. “Grok” didn’t do anything. The owner of grok made the CSAM generator into a premium service.

Nice try, Enshittification Demon

For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies

CSS Day, 11th and 12th of June, just announced @brucel.bsky.social and @ohhelloana.blog as their 2026 MCs. cssday.nl Ticket sales will open later this month. We'll announce the early-bird tickets on our mailing list first. Subscribe to be notified ASAP! cssday.nl/subscribe

It's often said that the European philosophical tradition "consists of a series of footnotes to Plato". Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy at Texas A&M University has been told not to teach Plato, because … Plato is Woke. dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...

Because I'm so the rock 'n' roll, I've been reading the DMA review consultation responses. brucelawson.co.uk/2026/dma-rev...

Web dependencies are broken. Can we fix them? asks lea Verou lea.verou.me/blog/2026/we...

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.

The EU is working on what is in essence a new Open Source strategy for Europe, and the call for evidence is now open. If you're a European hippie communist, you can provide input: ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet... for details on how to contribute.

And, after Greenland, the Sudetenland?

EasySpeak Voice control for Linux desktops - Fully local, no cloud, Wayland-native, free and open source. github.com/ctsdownloads...

Wave of Grok AI fake images of women and girls appalling, says UK minister www.theguardian.com/technology/2... … and yet UK government and institutions are still on Twitler.

Open Rights Group has called on MPs to implement a digital sovereignty strategy to reduce the UK’s reliance on US tech companies, such as Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Palantir, for its digital infrastructure. www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releas...

Enjoying "compilation of the best Czech Christmas music" from the VAPE www.youtube.com/watch?v=71-A...

2026: Out with the old, in with the new brucelawson.co.uk/2026/2026-ou... - the yearly wrap-up post that nobody asked for.

2025 is the year I've been most involved with OWA, and the pace of global progress recently has been amazing. With 3 regulators now on-board and another 2 coming up, 2026 is shaping up to be an exciting year for the Web!

"42% of Danes want to try new alternatives to Big Tech. 68% would like to reduce their screen time … Danmark Skifter [Denmark shifts] is a national campaign where thousands of Danes take back control of their digital lives – not alone, but together." danmarkskifter.dk/en/

amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders

Is the dominance of the US dollar unravelling under Trump? theconversation.com/is-the-domin...

The week before Xmas, Jon and I sat down for a chat about what 2025 brought us. I used a new mic, which I won't use again! Audio and transcript: vivaldi.com/blog/for-a-b...

Had a very chilled Merrineum drink with chums yesterday, and got to congratulate my chum Dr Tom on being awarded a British Empire Medal for services to Technology in the West Midlands.

Remember: When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them. When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips. ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.

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?