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01:40 Firefox will become an AI browserhttps://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/leadership/mozillas-next-chapter-anthony-enzor-demeo-new-ceo/https://9to5linux.com/firefox-will-ship-with-an-ai-kill-switch-to-completely-disable-all-ai-featureshttps://www.theverge.com/tech/845216/mozilla-ceo-anthony-enzor-demeo

06:49 Servo making progresshttps://servo.org/blog/2025/12/15/november-in-servo/

08:07 Plasma 6.6 will fix some big Wayland issueshttps://blogs.kde.org/2025/12/13/this-week-in-plasma-wayland-screen-mirroring-and-custom-modes/

09:44 Wayland protocols updated for better HDRhttps://www.phoronix.com/news/Wayland-Protocols-1.47

10:47 GNOME bans AI from extensionshttps://blogs.gnome.org/jrahmatzadeh/2025/12/06/ai-and-gnome-shell-extensions/https://gjs.guide/extensions/review-guidelines/review-guidelines.html

12:56 Rust no longer experimental in Linux kernelhttps://thenewstack.io/rust-goes-mainstream-in-the-linux-kernel/

14:16 Mint 22.3 beta releasedhttps://linuxiac.com/linux-mint-22-3-zena-enters-public-beta/

15:54 Changes proposed to help Fedora work on Snapdragonhttps://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Automatic_DTB_selection_for_aarch64_EFI_systems

17:40 Website lets you scan Snaps for vulnerabilitieshttps://snapscope.popey.com/

20:08 Danish admin plans move to Linuxhttps://thedanishdream.com/news/denmark-ditches-microsoft-in-bold-tech-shift/https://www.semaphor.dk/opensource/linuxpc

22:06 Asahi Linux makes solid progresshttps://asahilinux.org/2025/12/progress-report-6-18/

23:50 NVK gets a huge performance boosthttps://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/36450