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Dear Microsoft, enough is enough

Dear Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, As browser developers, we believe PC users’ choices should be free and respected, not controlled, distorted or ignored. That principle unites the Browser Choice Alliance in advancing a digital world where PC users control their own online experience, can choose their preferred browser without manipulation or interference, trust their preferences will be honored and participate in a marketplace where browsers compete on merit. The approach Microsoft has taken...

Google Chrome is killing all uBlock Origin bypasses, Edge, Opera to follow

For a while now the transition away from Manifest V2 (MV2) to MV3 has been on-going and it looks like it is entering its final phase of deprecation, at least, in the case of Google Chrome. A recent discussion thread in the w3c WebExtensions Community Group GitHub repo has highlighted how the latest and upcoming versions of the most popular browser are expected to be its final releases with support for MV2 extensions. Chromium contributor Andrey Bershanskiy shared details about recent...

Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition arrives on Mac next month

Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition arrives on Mac next month One of the greatest real-time strategy games ever is making its way to macOS (again). Publisher Feral Interactive announced today it will bring Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition to Apple computers through Steam on May 28, with an App Store release to follow later this year. Feral worked with World's Edge, the studio that has managed the Age of Empires franchise for Microsoft since 2019, to develop the port.

KDE at 30

KDE at 30 KDE is turning 30 this year! Three decades of passionate community effort against all odds; delivering control, privacy, and freedom to our users; and tons and tons of software. We will be updating this page frequently with new content, exciting 30th Anniversary news, things you can participate in, updated merch you can get, and much more!

EU Parliament to switch to French search engine from Google in tech sovereignty push

EU Parliament to switch to French search engine from Google in tech sovereignty push BRUSSELS, June 3 : The European Parliament will switch to French search engine Qwant from Google, it said on Wednesday, underscoring Europe's push to reduce its reliance on U.S. technology in favour of local alternatives. The European Commission will later on Wednesday announce measures on chips, cloud computing services and AI as part of its "Buy and Use European" drive. "From 4 June 2026, Qwant will become...

Vivaldi 8 polishes the chrome without coating it in AI

Vivaldi has released version 8, featuring a major "Unified" user interface redesign that merges core elements into a single continuous surface. The update focuses on user control, offering various themes and layouts, while the company contrasts its approach with rivals heavily integrating AI. Vivaldi maintains that its focus is on empowering users to explore the web themselves, rather than outsourcing that process to an artificial agent.

Meet Microsoft Scout, Your AI Coworker That Never Logs Off

Soon, your coworkers in Microsoft Teams might not all be human. Scout, an always-on AI agent announced at Microsoft’s Build developer conference on Tuesday, can go through your work messages, calendar, and email inbox to automate tasks, reschedule meeting conflicts, and draft professional-sounding responses. Microsoft more or less built an enterprise agent on top of OpenClaw, the AI tool that riveted San Francisco’s early adopters at the start of 2026.

Grep this: Microsoft grafts (most) Linux commands onto Windows

Steve Ballmer’s darkest fear has come to pass: Linux has worked itself into the deepest innards of Microsoft Windows itself. At the company’s annual Build developer conference this week, Microsoft released coreutils, a Rust-built multi-call binary file for Windows that serves over 75 Unix commands directly in the Windows CMD and PowerShell command lines – including favorites such as cat, ls, grep, and head. They join Linux favorites curl and sudo which were earlier added to the Microsoft...

Microsoft teases new Surface hardware and ‘a new era of PC’

Ninja Theory cancels psychological horror game Project Mara

Ninja Theory cancels psychological horror game Project Mara The developer decided to focus on Senua, the upcoming title in the Hellblade franchise. Ninja Theory, the developer behind the Hellblade saga, is no longer working on Project Mara after it had decided to focus on the Hellblade franchise.