Meet Project Astra: A research prototype exploring breakthrough capabilities for Google products—on the way to building a Universal AI Assistant. Google and Aira have partnered to develop and refine Project Astra for blind and low-vision users.Hannah Griffin (Aira)
WCAG 1.2.7 Extended Audio Description (Prerecorded) Level AAA, requiring videos to include extended spoken descriptions of visual content.deconspray (Dennis Deacon)
It's maintainer month so I share my Open Source journey on opensource.org:
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communicationsmatrix.org
Android XR head Shahram Izadi talked to CNET about Google's big next steps for AI, AR and VR, and the company's partnerships with Samsung, Warby Parker and Xreal.Scott Stein (CNET)
Google revealed its first two partnerships with eyeglass brands, with more to come.Gael Cooper (CNET)
#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 23 updated and 2 added apps:
* HomeCentral: 2nd life for your old tablet with this touch screen tablet app for the your home - kitchen
* RevEngi App: analyze the apps on your device 🛡️
Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo 
This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).IzzyOnDroid App Repo
At I/O 2025, Google announced many Gemini app updates, including the launch of 2.5 Flash and Gemini Live camera and screen sharing for iOS.Abner Li (9to5Google)
We've collected all the consumer-facing announcements and notable developer developments made at Google I/O 2025 below.Abner Li (9to5Google)
Red is a next-gen programming language, strongly inspired by REBOL . Main features are: Human-friendly syntax Homoiconic (Red is its ...www.red-lang.org
This is the story you need to read about generative models' power consumption. Real numbers are hard to come by, but no matter what the per-query consumption rate is, the scale of the usage makes it a problem.
And the energy demand from data centers isn't imaginary.
If you have feelings on what we should build next, you can help make them a reality! We've opened a Hardware Product Manager role on the team:
I was originally investigating this report that Postman is not HIPAA compliant. I found that Postman is not just wholly unsuitable for anyone testing a healthcare application — it has virtually zero…a data scientist (Medium)
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Lyria 2 is our latest music generation model. It delivers high-fidelity music and professional-grade audio, across a range of genres and intricate compositions.Google DeepMind
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Google is bringing a new live view feature to its Gemini apps on iOS and Android, allowing users to live stream their surroundings to Gemini to get...Juli Clover (MacRumors.com)
Ever wondered about what MZLA is, how it relates to Thunderbird, and how it works with (but is different from) Mozilla and the Mozilla Corporation? Curious about how we work with the Thunderbird Council, our community governance? Want to know more about our future plans, including the mobile apps, Thundermail, and Thunderbird Pro? Check out the newest Community Office Hours with Director Ryan Sipes answering these questions and more.
blog.thunderbird.net/2025/05/v…
Confused about MZLA, Thunderbird, and Mozilla? Director Ryan Sipes is our guest to explain this as he talks about our past and future.Monica Ayhens-Madon (The Thunderbird Blog)
Curious about MZLA, how it relates to Thunderbird and how it works with (but differs from) Mozilla and the Mozilla Corporation? Want to know more about future plans, including Thundermail, and Thunderbird Pro? Watch the newest Community Office Hours with Director Ryan Sipes.
blog.thunderbird.net/2025/05/v…
Confused about MZLA, Thunderbird, and Mozilla? Director Ryan Sipes is our guest to explain this as he talks about our past and future.Monica Ayhens-Madon (The Thunderbird Blog)
The upper echelon of Canada Post can f*ck a duck.
Seriously, get back to the bargaining table, or f*cking resign!
For anybody who's been putting video on the web for a long time and cares about accessibility, Able Player has been the feature leader for accessibleJoe Dolson (Joe Dolson Web Accessibility)
Jak na soukromí v mobilním telefonu
V tomto blogpostu jsem si pro vás připravil praktické tipy na to, jak lépe chránit své soukromí na mobilním telefonu: od operačního systému, přes prohlížeč až po VPN.
#Android #DNS #GrapheneOS #ios #mobil #openSource #soukromí #tracker #VPN
blog.eischmann.cz/2025/05/20/j…
(reakce na tento příspěvek se může zobrazit jako komentář pod článkem)
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Softwarové klávesnice v mobilu jsou něco, co jsem doteď vůbec neřešil. Používal jsem to, co bylo na daném telefonu jako výchozí. Nicméně když si uvědomíte, že přes ně jde vše, co na mobilu napíšete, rozhodně stojí za trochu pozornosti.Sesivany's blog
Enjoy writing fiction in Markdown, and prefer keeping ownership of your files in the filesystem, but still want beautiful ePub3 ebooks and paperback output? Your uncle Matt feels the same way!
I created a configuration and example project for pandoc, the fab #FOSS markup converter, to produce beautiful novels from your folders full of Markdown files. Lots of booky, novel-y, typographical/layout niceness. I'll be using this with #emacs. 💜
Read all about it here: github.com/mattgemmell/pandoc-…
Novel export configuration for pandoc (Markdown to ePub and PDF) - mattgemmell/pandoc-novelGitHub
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I literally just made a bootable live cd for nixos to boot into a browser on a whim for a test. I had 0 knowledge of this 10 minutes ago and 5 of those minutes was writing the iso to the usb stick. Nix surprises me again. And you can make any type of image you want... digitalocean, ec2, hyperv, vmware, etc. Its nuts:
github.com/nix-community/nixos…
Collection of image builders [maintainer=@Lassulus] - nix-community/nixos-generatorsGitHub
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well that answers that, Andy's got his next title sorted.
[Sadly, you will never be able to read Andy Weir's 'The Last Algorithm,' one of multiple non-existent books recommended by the Chicago Sun-Times in major AI snafu | Popverse](thepopverse.com/literary-recom…)
The Sun-Times has just offered the best argument against using generative AI in journalism, publishing a recommended summer reading list filled with books that aren't actually real.Graeme McMillan (Popverse)
The JAWS Home Subscription offers a flexible and cost-effective way to access the world’s most powerful screen reader — with the convenience of annual, two-year, or three-year plans.Freedom Scientific eStore
Hey Jamers 🙂
Over the past few weeks, the team has been hard at work improving stability, fixing bugs, and rolling out some exciting new features, both in the core and across all platforms.
👀 Wondering what’s new under the hood?
Check out Dev Update #13 and see what’s been happening:
jami.net/de/dev-update-13/
Welcome to this new Jami development update! Over the past few weeks, we've focused on stability, maintenance, and some key feature improvements across both the core and platform-specific components. Let’s dive into what’s new.jami (Jami)
Lmao.
After firing 700 employees for AI, Swedish company admits their mistake and plans to rehire humans. What went wrong with OpenAI + Klarna parnership? Despite initial optimism, the company has now acknowledged that the shift to AI has negatively impacted service quality and faced major public backlash for using AI finance.yahoo.com/news/firing-… The CEO want human workers back and looking for humans to replace those AI tools powered by shity OpenAI.
Who says you can’t have #privacy and #security in an OS?
Meet PureOS — the #Linux OS that respects you.
No ads
No trackers
No #surveillance
No terms of service traps
PureOS supports Purism’s Librem 5 & Liberty Phone.
More Info: puri.sm/posts/what-is-pureos-a…
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.Purism SPC
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 released
lwn.net/Articles/1021827/ #LWN
Red Hat has announced the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 10. A blog post accompanyi [...]LWN.net
Microsoft has disabled the ICC Chief prosecutors email account.
But let’s keep all dependencies on US IT alive. What could possibly go wrong?
techzine.eu/news/privacy-compl…
The International Criminal Court has been paralyzed by sanctions. Microsoft cooperates with the US government and therefore poses a risk.Erik van Klinken (Techzine)
I'm SO glad I don't maintain any huge projects used by thousands of people on github
github.blog/changelog/2025-05-…
Say goodbye to manual, repetitive issue creation. With Copilot, creating issues for bugs, tasks, and feature requests on GitHub is now faster and easier—all without sacrificing quality. What’s new Natural…The GitHub Blog
Kids, you would hate it.
You would feel so alone, you'd never find your 'tribe', you'd feel like you would have to conform with what everyone else would be doing and there would be little outlet for you to complain about that.
I was a kid without Internet, the problem isn't the Internet, it's the Nazi Peados who control it. The Tech Bros, the Governments, those wankers.
Sean Randall
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