March in Servo: keyboard navigation, better debugging, FreeBSD support, and more!

Servo 0.1.0 represents Servo’s biggest month ever, with a record 530 commits and our first ever release on crates.io! For security fixes, see § Security.

With this release Servo becomes more accessible, thanks to tab navigation (@mrobinson, @Loirooriol, #42952, #43019, #43058, #43246, #43267, #43067), keyboard navigation with Alt+Shift and the accesskey attribute (@mrobinson,…

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Who will win the new space race?

Just two days after NASA unveiled plans for a permanent base near the Moon’s south pole, Blue Origin – one of the private companies hired to be part of the project – suffered a spectacular setback. On May 28, the Jeff Bezos -owned company’s test rocket exploded in Florida, badly damaging its launchpad, which could take years to repair. No one was injured, but the failure brought the…

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Wikimedia Hackathon 2026 recap

Two weeks ago, I took part in the Wikimedia
Hackathon 2026, which took place on 1–3 May (Friday–Sunday) in Milan, Italy. Like
in
previous
years, I wanted to write a bit about the experience.

I came into this hackathon with one planned presentation / session (T423292):
Cool new things in JavaScript + CSS. This is the continuation of two sessions I did at the
2023 hackathon,
Cool new things…

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Can City of Alameda trust Flock Safety?

💡tl;dr summary: This coming Tuesday's City Council meeting will involve an annual review of Alameda Police Department's use of automated license plate readers. It's time to ask critical questions.

Since first selling automated license plate readers to homeowners associations in Florida, Flock Safety has been vigorously executing the playbook to scale a venture-backed tech startup. The company's…

Taavi Väänänen: Wikimedia Hackathon Northwestern Europe 2026

Wikimedia Nederland organised a new type of event this year, the Wikimedia Hackathon Northwestern Europe 2026, which was held last weekend in Arnhem, the Netherlands. And I'm very happy they did, since unlike last years, I will unfortunately be missing from the "main" Wikimedia Hackathon (which is happening in Milan at the start of May).

I continue to believe the primary reason for these events…

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Palantir’s Move to Florida Is About Keeping Workers Trapped

Data analytics company Palantir’s abrupt announcement that it is moving to Florida comes just after the state’s lawmakers boosted corporations’ legal power to prevent workers from leaving for competitors.


In moving to Florida, Palantir may now have stronger legal tools at its disposal to keep employees trapped. (Michael M. Santiago / Getty Images)

Palantir, the tech giant that is…

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