Vivaldi

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.

Vespers review – haunting clash of cultures conjures Vivaldi’s Venice

Smith Square Hall, London This resourceful semi-staging blended choral collective Idrîsî Ensemble’s ancient chants with Iestyn Davies and Figure’s Vivaldi.Vespers. The word conjures an intoxicating aura of twilight and incense.

Vespers review – haunting clash of cultures conjures Vivaldi’s Venice

Smith Square Hall, London This resourceful semi-staging blended choral collective Idrîsî Ensemble’s ancient chants with Iestyn Davies and Figure’s Vivaldi.Vespers. The word conjures an intoxicating aura of twilight and incense.

This is the James Bond game we’ve been waiting for

Welcome to Installer No. 130, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, don't forget to hydrate, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I've been reading about Victor Wembanyama and mahjong and Merlin Mann's pearls of wisdom, watching more of the Scripps National Spelling Bee finals than I expected, watching way too many videos about lighting a home studio, spending too many hours tweaking the settings...

Norks blast 250+ fake job offers to developers over 6 weeks to try and snarf creds and crypto

There's another likely North Korean-linked scam hitting developers and their employers, while snarfing up credentials and cryptocurrency - and this one doesn't even involve embedding IT workers at high-profile tech giants. A previously unseen phishing crew, suspected to have DPRK ties, sent more than 250 emails to people working in almost 100 organizations, mostly based in the US, over six weeks in April and May. According to security sleuths, it is yet another digital-heist attempt designed...

The Four Seasons season two review – Tina Fey’s brilliant follow-up is up there with 30 Rock

Poignant, hilarious, loaded with a super-sharp script … the second outing for this midlife comedy is even more fantastic than the firstMiddle age is a brutal time of life. As those of us mired in it know, it’s perfectly suited to being mined for laughs (the unhinged type of laughs that are bound up with tears, crisis, and, inevitably, death.) But still too few comedy series take this pressured segment of time and squeeze it for all its acidic worth. Enter middle-aged joke machine Tina Fey,...

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...

The Four Seasons season two review – Tina Fey’s brilliant follow-up is up there with 30 Rock

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!