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Jon S. von Tetzchner@jon@vivaldi.net

RE: social.vivaldi.net/@Vivaldi/11

Unfortunately, day 2 of Web Summit has been cancelled due to weather. I had so looked forward to this talk, but not this time. However, I have two more talks on Thursday and I hope those of you at Web Summit will attend those instead. We are also having a press conference Thursday, so we’re staying busy. And you should stay tuned.

Vivaldi SocialVivaldi Browser (@Vivaldi@vivaldi.net)We're at the Web Summit conference this week! There's definitely a lot of AI enthusiasts here, but we're here to let people know that not all tech companies are the same. On our first talk tomorrow, titled "Vivaldi VS Goliath", our CEO @jon will explain the reasoning behind our decision not to bund…
Jon S. von Tetzchner@jon@vivaldi.net

Big release for us at @Vivaldi. This release is for your computer and includes a rather big update to the tracker and ad blocker.

Are you ready to move away from Big Tech? It is time.

vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-on-de

Vivaldi BrowserVivaldi 8.3 for Desktop: make bad ads sad | Vivaldi BrowserVivaldi 8.3 is bad news for bad ads. A rebuilt Ad and Tracker Blocker puts you in charge of what gets through, one site at a time, and vertical tabs get even better.
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PHP has rebuilt official Windows packages for PHP 8.2 through 8.5 to fix CVE-2026-111497, a memory corruption vulnerability in the Brotli compression library.

The issue can be reached via the cURL extension when automatic HTTP response decompression is enabled.

Affected packages include versions 8.5.12-1, 8.4.27-1, 8.3.36-1, and 8.2.35-1, incorporating Brotli 1.2.1.

Windows users are advised to update from the official downloads page.

en.hacks.gr/nea-paketa-php-gia

Νέα πακέτα PHP για τα Windows διορθώνουν σοβαρό πρόβλημα ασφαλείας
Matt Vestengen-Cox@matt@oslo.town

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Jon S. von Tetzchner@jon@vivaldi.net

For a long time we have made our selves gradually more and more dependent on Big Tech. This applies when it comes to operating system, to browsers, to various services, to storage and now when it comes to AI.

More and more are realizing this was and is wrong.

You can take the first steps to be independent as a person or company. Obviously, given that you are here, you have already taken some steps. Here are some suggestions:

1. Switch browser... to Vivaldi. :)
2. Switch desktop OS. Personally I have switched to Linux. Currently running Kubuntu, Ubuntu and Zorin on different computers.
3. Switch mail service. Proton and Fastmail are good services, but there are others. Choose one that allows use of a mail client.
4. Switch calendar service. Most mail services also offer a calendar service.
5. Switch office package. Personally I use LibreOffice.
6. Switch Web conferencing software. Personally I use Whereby.
7. Switch search. Startpage, Ecosia, Qwant and DDG are great alternatives.

There are a lot of other great choices. The point is to start taking those steps away from Big Tech and Silicon Valley.