Time for a reintroduction, new followers: 🇳🇴🇮🇸 We're Vivaldi, a European browser based in Norway & Iceland 🕵️ Your data is yours, we don't spy on you or track you ❌ No built-in AI slop ✊🏽 Employee-owned 🔥 Built-in adblocker, mail, calendar, tasks, feeds, VPN ++ Join us in the fight for a better web!

I'm always delighted when a new regulator contacts us to ask questions about the villainy of Big Tech, but -by Darwin!- it takes an age to gather all the info together. Just another 5 Qs to go…

At @vivaldi.com we 😘 the Web, so making Web App installation more visible (on all platforms that don't think they own the machine that you paid for). I mocked up a design that I felt gives PWAs the prominence they deserve, and dev genius Filip loved it so much it's in an internal test build!

Goodbye, Spectator journo Rod Liddle, who wrote "the one thing stopping me from being a teacher was that I could not remotely conceive of not trying to shag the kids … I don't think I'd have dabbled much below year ten" (eg, 14-15 yo). Yet the Right are mourning him. spectator.com/article/a-te...

A teenage girl, a maths teacher and a righteous tabloid fury

I seriously contemplated being a teacher once upon a time, when I was lot younger. It seemed to me an agreeable doss, and one didn’t have to be too bright or too ambitious, or possess any great quanti...

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WARNING.- HOAX.- SCAM !!! If someone knocks at your door and says they're carrying out a survey and need to see your bum, DON'T SHOW THEM. It's a SCAM. They just want to see your bum. I wish somebody had warned me, I feel so stupid.

Had a jolly nice weekend up in the Grim Frozen North (Leicestershire) with my brother and the two Mrs Ls. A curry and some beers last night, and a Sunday roast I didn't have to cook. Splendid.

I had a day off so La Daughter could colour in the tattoo she gave me for Fathers Day. All done except for my hand (4 hours was long enough!).

🎙️ Check out Bruce Lawson’s interview with Alex Moore, executive director and co-founder of Open Web Advocacy. They explore OWA’s history, why it exists, and what it’s fighting for: a better, more competitive web 🌐✊ open-web-advocacy.org/blog/bruce-l...

Bruce Lawson Interviews OWA: For A Better Web - Open Web Advocacy

Check out Bruce Lawson’s interview with Alex Moore, executive director and co-founder of Open Web Advocacy. They run through the history of OWA, why OWA exists…

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This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b

🚨 New pod Bruce chats with Alex Moore (Open Web Advocacy) about why your iPhone still can't run real web apps, and the five year fight to change that. Tune in here or on your favorite podcast platform: youtu.be/U-qAoGisVRE

Inside the Five Year Fight Against Apple's App Rules

YouTube video by Vivaldi Browser

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In my "For A Better Web" podcast this month, I chat to Alex Moore, co-founder of @open-web-advocacy.org about Web Apps, the poor state of the mobile web, the naughtiness of monopolist megacorps, and Kylie Minogue. Will Apple voluntarily liberate iOS? We should be so lucky (lucky, lucky, lucky).

Alex Moore (Open Web Advocacy) - For A Better Web | Vivaldi Browser

This podcast series follows Bruce as he interviews people from across different communities and industries who, in their own way, are fighting for a better web.

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Schadenfreude Klaxon! An Andrew Tate ‘fanboy’ was shocked to find he was the only protestor outside his jail and these people were only too happy to help www.thepoke.com/2026/07/28/a...

An Andrew Tate ‘fanboy’ was shocked to find he was the only protestor outside his jail and these people were only too happy to help

We hadn’t come across Tyson Hockley before but he appears to be something approaching Andrew Tate’s number one fanboy. Well, either that or it’s some sort of elaborate performance art stunt along the ...

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Shares in major chip firms have fallen sharply in the US and Asia as a sell-off in artificial intelligence-related stocks deepened. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... I'm moving my millions to the safe harbour of bored apes and tulips.

Chip stocks slide in US and Asia as AI jitters rattle investors

Trading on South Korea's Kospi index was paused temporarily on Tuesday morning after slumping by 8%.

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If you apply for the Apple's iOS Web Browser Engine Entitlement (bc Apple requires all competitors signal their intention to build a rival browser on iOS, even if only for in-house experimentation), be aware that they will get back to you "soon". 48 hours? 2 years? It's been 1 week for me so far.

Today's a great day to switch your Mac's default browser. Import your Safari browser data into Vivaldi in seconds. 🤩

EU telcos ask: Huawei going to afford to replace Chinese equipment? www.theregister.com/networks/202... Proposed cybersecurity legislation may force a cull of high-risk network technology, costing tens of billions

EU telcos ask: Huawei going to afford to replace Chinese equipment?

Proposed cybersecurity legislation may force a cull of high-risk network technology, costing tens of billions

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Five US tech giants' hidden debts soar to $1.65tn on opaque AI funding archive.ph/2026.07.22-2... Data center leases, GPU supply contracts raise liabilities at Meta, Oracle, Nikkei study shows

Low- and Mid-Tier Mobile for the Real World (2026) csswizardry.com/2026/07/low-... by the Cheeky Girls' original webmaster, @csswizardry.com

Low- and Mid-Tier Mobile for the Real World (2026) – CSS Wizardry

The 2026 update to my real-world device testing recommendations paints a clearer picture than ever…

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Today, the Commission took 2 decisions finding non-compliance by Google with the DMA for self-preferencing its own services on Google Search, and restricting businesses from directing consumers to alternative purchase channels on Google Play (steering). It fined Google €890 million.

Commission fines Google €890 million for breaches of the Digital Markets Act

Today, the European Commission took two decisions finding non-compliance by Google with the Digital Markets Act (DMA) for self-preferencing its own services on Google Search, and for putting in place ...

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After Vivaldi's joint letter with Mozilla & DuckDuckGo on "privacy signals", we met yesterday with other EU stakeholders & officials. For the 1st hour, I was baffled by the acronym A.T.A.P., until realising that everyone was talking about "88b" - the paragraph number to kill cookie banners. Doh!

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🦆🦊🎻 @duckduckgo.com , @mozilla.org Firefox and @vivaldi.com just published a joint letter to EU lawmakers on the Digital Omnibus: make privacy signals work for people, not against the products they already trust. 1/n

LG's Monitor App is automatically and silently installed when plugging in some of the company's monitors, with permission to use all system resources," as well as collect geo-location, device data, online activity, contacts, user credentials, transactions "and more."

LG monitors are using Windows 11 feature to serve adware

Plug in your new display and get a McAfee pitch you never asked for

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Ofcom: UK kids aged 8-14 spent an average of 3 hs 36 mins a day online. 94% use Google Search, 93% use YouTube. Snapchat is 2nd most visited. Gaming and "A.I." services feature prominently. Roblox is most widely visited games app. (PDF www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/r...)

Tell your friends, we have less than 15 tickets left for #SotB2027

Airbus has named French cloud services provider Scaleway as the destination for some 900 applications as it seeks to put critical systems and data under European control. AWS can't protect Airbus's crown jewels from Donnie the Data Burglar, so it's best to repatriate them sharpish.

Airbus takes flight from AWS. What happens next is critical

Which way to the Land of the Free again?

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TIL that, like Mott The Hoople's "All the Young Dudes" was written by David Bowie, Bowie's "Starman" was written & originally recorded by The Krankees. www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_v8...

THE KRANKIES' ELEKTRONIK KOMIK

YouTube video by Dame Agnes Guano

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If you're applying for FruitCo's Web Browser Engine Entitlement, you are supposed to create only the Bundle ID and submit it while you supplicate. Don't create an App using that bundle on your own account, or upload any build. Just having an App created with that bundle id fails the check.

Farage, the money launderer and me: a decade of denial The Reform leader’s relationship with the UK media has enabled him to operate with impunity for years. This past fortnight, that impunity finally appeared to be coming to an end. Carole Cadwalladr, who’s tracked him for a decade, reports on why

Farage, the money launderer and me: a decade of denial

The Reform leader’s relationship with the UK media has enabled him to operate with impunity for years. This past fortnight, that impunity finally appeared to be coming to an end. Carole Cadwalladr, wh...

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The man that Farage calls "an important voice for men" has been arrested for rape, arranging or facilitating trafficking for sexual exploitation and offences relating to indecent images of a child. www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ju...

My chum @tonysherrard.bsky.social and I spent the day doing some mastering for album 4. Here's one of the songs, "Speed Of Light", an EDM song written many many years ago, a few hours after a Naughty Person gave me some LSD. soundcloud.com/thecruellest...

Speed of Light

Words & Music copyright Bruce Lawson, all rights reserved. www.brucelawson.co.uk, Drums, bass, produced by Tony Sherrard.

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