Bruce Lawson
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Reading List 361
(Last Updated on 31 August 2026) Crikey, it’s been ages since I posted a reading list, so here’s every tab I had saved in my “Reading List” Vivaldi workspace. Apologies if some have been posted before! Multiple-column layout, rows, rules, and floats by Rachel Andrew. Marginalia – a search engine that…
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Microsoft admits it “leverages” Windows to push Edge, Bing, Copilot; pulls moonie at regulators
As you know, I’m a crazy bad-ass rock ‘n’ roll animal, so it won’t surprise you to learn that I was recently reading a blog post Browsers and Earnings Statements by glamorous Competition legal eagle Gene Burrus (who I interviewed for my For A Better Web podcast last May). Gene spent 15 years at Microsoft…
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Reading List 360
This reading list is courtesy of Vivaldi browser, who pay me decent money to fight for a better web and don’t moan at me for reading all this stuff. We’ve just released Vivaldi 8 for desktop, with our biggest UI overhaul to date, and Vivaldi 8 for Android and iThings. All are free from Big […]
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“Safari. Blazing fast. Incredibly Private.” – O RLY!?!?
(Last Updated on 2 July 2026) I got some spam, sorry… a “promotional email”, in my Gmail account telling me that Apple’s Safari browser is “Blazing fast. Incredibly private.” O RLY?!?! More power, more performance… Kyle Pflug is a Product Manager on the Microsoft Edge Web Platform team, and they’ve been…
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Song: “In Vivaldi”
“Me, in hotpants, shaking the golden-clad BrucieBooty™ to a song based on ‘In the Navy’ by Village People”, I suggested to our head of marketing. He muttered something under his breath and left the room. But now he’s on paternity leave, so here it is: “In Vivaldi”. Big love to New Andre for adding karaoke…
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Apple, Siri AI and the European Union
Apple designed its wonderful new (fast! private! thinking of the children!) Siri AI in a way that it knew contravened the EU Digital Markets Act. It expected the EU to let it break the law anyway, pinky-promising that it would make it compliant after 18 months. Understandably sceptical, after 2 years…
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