Some work news - My last nine or so months with the Green Web Foundation have been mostly working on carbon.txt, a proposed standardised approach for websites to publicise their sustainability commitments and data, and we've just released a new version! I would be very keen to hear any feedback at all, especially from people who might be interested in using it, or using the data it exposes: https://www.thegreenwebfoundation.org/news/carbontxt-v0-4/

How do we know what to trust online in the age of generative AI? In a new guest post, CDT Fellow Shruti Das explores the promise and risk of digital content provenance—tools meant to trace where digital media comes from and how it’s been altered. https://cdt.org/insights/the-promise-and-risk-of-digital-content-provenance/

The Security Web Application Guidelines #CommunityGroup wants to understand how developers are using specific web platform #security features, and what the barriers are to the adoption. #WebApps

📢 Take their survey at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1-8DvgiB3AqrFU7tqe0GCoQsh6lfdOHHnUldOzMrtmeQ/viewform?pli=1&pli=1&pli=1&pli=1&edit_requested=true

It seems like most every other browser is all in on AI. We have chosen a different path at @Vivaldi

If you would prefer AI not to be integrated into your browser, but still like a feature rich browser, I welcome you to try Vivaldi.

https://vivaldi.com/blog/keep-exploring/

#vivaldi #AI #LLM #browser #firefox #Mozilla #Linux #windows #Macos

📣 Call for Participation
W3C will hold a virtual "Workshop on Smart Voice Agents" from 25–27 February 2026 to explore stakeholder needs, use-cases, and gaps in Web standards for voice agents.

Topics include #accessibility, internationalization, modality integration, #trust, #security, and business models. Attendance is free and open to all.
https://www.w3.org/2025/10/smartagents-workshop/

Submit your talk proposal by 27 November!

We are hiring!

We have an immediate #job opening: Data Strategist

We are seeking a remote full-time staff member to lead our data on the web standardization work. This position is open in Asia. The role also includes continuing our efforts to represent, discover, query, and exchange data using web technologies.

https://www.w3.org/careers/data-strategist-2025/

Please, boost 🙏

#hiring #w3c #GetFediHired

Dear David: https://chrislowis.co.uk/2025/09/17/dear-david

Browser just crashed and so I lost the hundreds of tabs I had open. Such a feeling of relief to start from a clean slate. It won't last though...

If not now, then when?

https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/05/github_copilot_complaints/

From radio to TV to the internet… from DAB to HDR to AI… BBC R&D has been shaping how the world experiences media for nearly a century.

You might never *see* our work, but you experience it every day.
Now, it's been recognised with one of TV’s highest honours.

We’ve won a prestigious 2025 Engineering, Science & Technology Emmy Award for our lasting impact on the industry!

This award celebrates companies that have changed the way we all experience TV.

Read more: https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/articles/2025-08-technology-emmy-award-innovation-tv/

This is excellent. 👌🏼

“Open source, the thing that drives the world, the thing Harvard says has an economic value of $8.8 trillion.
Most of it is one person.

And […] not one of those single person projects have the proper amount of resources they need. If you want to talk about possible risks to your supply chain, a single maintainer that’s grossly underpaid and overworked.”

Yuuup. Baffling how so many companies depend on open source software without funding it, ever.

https://opensourcesecurity.io/2025/08-oss-one-person

Be an active explorer, not a passive spectator!

And now you can install on MacOS binaries directly from Homebrew without having to compile locally. Thank you @acj for adding this to homebrew-core.

https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/234434

The "New Migration" option makes it easy to copy over an existing GitHub repo, complete with issues, pull requests, and releases. Hello, https://codeberg.org/chrisn/audiowaveform

audiowaveform v1.10.3 is now available (and still on GitHub, for now). This fixes an issue installing on MacOS via Homebrew with the latest Boost version.

https://github.com/bbc/audiowaveform/releases/tag/1.10.3

@jyasskin They've given me access to Woodpecker CI, it's not as smooth getting set up compared to Actions. I'm now figuring out how to run commands as non-root, for example. But, to be fair, they've been clear about the rough edges and hopefully that'll improve over time.

@timbray Have a look at https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/aipref/about/

Getting started using Codeberg. Is it time to move away from GitHub?

Excellent set of talks at #IETF123 on measuring and understanding the impact of AI crawler traffic on websites and to what extent crawlers respect opt-out mechanisms such as robots.txt https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/123/session/maprg

@badambassador @tdp_org Possibly, but it was good that Ted asked the clarifying question so I could speak to that directly