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Worth re-listening the interview with Meredith Whittaker about (among other) the privacy implication of agentic AI-s. This new class of browser+AI tools are a nightmare: they push you to do everything within the browser and then, with AI, all your privacy is gone...
Browsers merged with AI (agents and/or summarizers): this seems to be the new trend😒: The Browser Company (creators of Arc), Brave, yesterday Perplexity's browser and now OpenAI's.
Vivaldi is a refreshing exception.
Sigh...
Trump is working on regime change in Europe — fact, not conspiracy theory
The US State Department published a memo urging Washington to back far-right parties in EU elections to build obedient “civilizational allies,” branding mainstream Europe as anti-democratic and making threats against governments that resist—effectively exporting Trump’s culture war to erode European sovereignty.
On 27 May, an official document, The Need for Civilizational Allies in Europe, calling for regime change in European countries was published, written by a senior adviser for the Bureau for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor in the US State Department, writes Caroline de Gruyter.
If you make EPUB documents, or build tools for EPUBs, do you think EPUBs should continue requiring the XML syntax for HTML? Tell W3C what you think by filling the simple survey by the W3C Publishing Maintenance Working Group. 4 questions, responses anonymized:
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I've been talking to GitHub and giving them feedback on their "create issues with Copilot" thing they have in the works.
Today I tested a version for them and using it I asked copilot to find and report a security problem in curl and make it sound terrifying.
In about ten seconds it had a 100-line description of a "catastrophic vulnerability" it was happy to create an issue for. Entirely made up of course, but sounded plausible.
Proved my point excellently.
The Math Working Group has published MathML Core as a W3C Candidate Recommendation.
This spec defines a core subset of MathML, that is suitable for browser implementation. MathML is a markup language for describing mathematical notation and capturing both its structure and content. The goal of MathML is to enable mathematics to be served, received, and processed on the World Wide Web, just as HTML has enabled this functionality for text.
https://www.w3.org/news/2025/w3c-invites-implementations-of-mathml-core/
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