Firefox Now Lets You Add Custom Images to New Tab Page
A number of new personalisation features have been added to the Firefox New Tab page in the past year, including the ability to pick a background image from a small set of hand-picked pics and solid colours. Pleasant though those curated images are, th...
Firefox Now Supports Custom Images on New Tab Page
A number of new personalisation features have been added to the Firefox New Tab page in the past year, including the ability to pick a background image from a small set of hand-picked pics and solid colours. Pleasant though those curated images are, th...
Uno Platform introduces unified rendering engine
Uno Platform 6.0, a major update to the open source tool kit for building cross-platform .NET applications from a single code base, introduces a new, unified rendering engine, called Skia, that gives developers a low-footprint, high-performance, hardw...
Xiaomi joins Google Pixel in making its own smartphone chip
Following rumors, Xiaomi today announced that it will launch its very own chip for smartphones later this month. The “XRING 01” is a chip that the company has apparently been working on for over 10 years now. Details about the chip are scarce so fa...
Thunderbird for Mobile April 2025 Progress Report
Here is an update of what Thunderbird’s mobile community has been up to in April 2025. With a new team member, we’re getting Thunderbird for iOS out in the open and continuing to work on release feedback from Thunderbird for Android. The Team is Gr...
Accessibility in Microsoft Edge with ARIA and ARIA Notify
In the past decade or so, there’s been a push to put everything online. From customer service to interactions with local and national governments, we’ve moved away from the call center to the web and self-service. That push has streamlined interac...
LiteLLM: An open-source gateway for unified LLM access
The growing number of large language models (LLMs) from various providers—Anthropic, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, OpenAI, and many others—has given developers a rich set of choices but also has introduced complexity. Each provider has its own ...
Silicon Valley developers need to unionise
I don’t know anything about hiring processes in Silicon Valley, or about hiring processes in general since I’ve always worked for myself (and still do, running OSNews, relying on your generous Patreon and Ko-Fi support), so when I ran into this hor...
E-COM: the $40 million USPS project to send email on paper
How do you get email to the folks without computers? What if the Post Office printed out email, stamped it, dropped it in folks’ mailboxes along with the rest of their mail, and saved the USPS once and for all? And so in 1982 E-COM was born—and, in...
