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📣  The new Internet Governance Forum Policy Network on Open Digital Infrastructure is kicking off on Monday, July 27! Critical open source infrastructure crosses national borders, and the policies and resources that support it need international coordination. (1/4)

IGF 2026 Policy Network. Open Digital Infrastructure. First online meeting. Setting the network’s thematic priorities and agreeing a draft workplan for the year ahead. :Calendar Symbol: Monday, 27 July, :Clock Symbol: 13:00 UTC, :Screen Symbol: Online. Internet Governance Forum. intgovforum.org

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Always great to see the #SWHID in the wild ⭐ Ambassador Mohammad Akhlaghi shared a new #MNRAS paper detailing a rare nebula discovery that's challenging astrophysics models—backed by permanently archived, citable code. Read it here: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2606.24398

Discovery of a nebula associated with a high proper motion sdB star

All B-type subdwarf stars (hereafter sdB) should have low flux of ionizing photons, making them incapable of producing a noticeable circumstellar photoionized shell. However, a few sdB stars have been associated with circumstellar nebulae, resembling in some cases a planetary nebula. These discoveries spark doubts about the nature of the physical processes behind the formation of the nebula. In this paper, we describe the newfound parabolic-shaped nebula associated with the high proper motion sdB star TYC 3315-1807-1. The apex of the Halpha nebula is situated approximately 0.5 arcmin in the direction of the stellar proper motion. A wider parabolic-shaped nebula is also detected in WISE W1 infrared images at 3.4 micron, whereas GALEX images show extended far-UV emission around the star within the optical and mid-IR emissions. Like most other sdB stars with associated nebulae, TYC 3315-1807-1 moves at a high-speed (102 km/s) across the Galactic plane. The low luminosity of TYC 3315-1807-1 cannot provide its wind with the momentum necessary to form and keep a bow shock. The nebula around TYC 3315-1807-1 is rather suggested to be a Mach wave partially excited by shocks and photoionization or the encounter of the star with an over-density clump in the ISM.

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Reflecting on his organization’s ten year history, Bastien Guerry, Head of Partnerships at Software Heritage noted that sustaining open source is not only about preserving code, but also about strengthening the infrastructure and services that make collaboration, maintenance, and reuse possible.

Bastien Guerry speaking at the breakfast reception.

SNS alumnus Roberto Di Cosmo is a Professor of Computer Science at Université Paris Cité and founder of Software Heritage, the global archive of publicly available source code developed at Inria with UNESCO. He is also an EELISA Voice for the Scuola Normale Superiore. @eelisa.eu