Firefox 157 is rolling out a major redesign across desktop and mobile, bringing rounded "bubble" tabs, a curved address bar, refreshed icons and colors, and a more consistent visual language across devices. Mozilla is also adding more themes and wallpapers while bringing back Compact Mode, which the company says "reduces the size of your tabs and toolbar to give more of your screen to the web, with an auto-compact option for smaller screens." The Verge reports: According to Mozilla, the design changes will have "no cost to your browser performance." Mozilla says the overhauled design is a "renewal" for Firefox, following major updates over the last year, like homepage widgets, Split View, a built-in VPN, and controls for disabling the browser's AI features.

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BrianFagioli shares a report from NERDS.xyz: Microsoft has made WSL Containers generally available, giving Windows 11 developers a built-in way to build, run, and deploy Linux containers through Windows Subsystem for Linux. The release includes wslc.exe for managing containers, GPU support, networking improvements, health checks, storage mounts, and integration with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and Intune. Microsoft also claims up to twice the performance when Linux environments access files stored on Windows. Docker Desktop, Podman Desktop, and Rancher Desktop are not going anywhere, but developers who only need basic container functionality now have another option built around WSL. One notable feature is still missing: Compose support. Microsoft says adding it is now a priority.

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Face to face with a Central Bearded Dragon. It stayed perfectly still among the rocks, watching me closely as I captured this moment.

JERUZALEM (ANP) - De Israëlische premier Benjamin Netanyahu heeft dinsdag een rechtszaak wegens smaad aangespannen tegen diverse grote Israëlische nieuwsmedia en journalisten. Dat melden Israëlische media waaronder Haaretz, de krant die het voornaamste doelwit is van de aanklacht.

De zaak draait om berichten dat Netanyahu voorafgaand aan 7 oktober 2023 waarschuwingen had ontvangen van de Verenigde Arabische Emiraten en Egypte over een aanstaande aanval van Hamas. Haaretz bracht dat nieuws als eerste en blijft achter zijn berichtgeving staan.

Volgens de berichten waarschuwde de president van de VAE, Mohammed bin Zayed, Netanyahu persoonlijk dat Hamas een grote aanval beraamde. Ook zou de toenmalige Egyptische inlichtingenchef Abbas Kamel Israëlische functionarissen hebben gewaarschuwd dat in Gaza in de dagen voor 7 oktober een grote escalatie dreigde.

De aanklacht is gericht tegen Haaretz en media en journalisten die het nieuws verspreid hebben: de media Yedioth Ahronoth, Channel 12 News en Ynet, en de journalisten Shlomi Eldar, Ruti Yuval, Uri Misgav, Nadav Eyal, Barak Ravid en Attila Somfalvi.

Netanyahu ontkent categorisch dat hij zulke waarschuwingen heeft ontvangen en noemt de berichten verzonnen.

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Pannenhuis Station, Brussels.

Coverage falls a million square kilometres short of long-term average with global heating likely driving losses

Antarctica’s winter sea ice has peaked at its third-lowest level on record, falling a million square kilometres – or almost 400,000 square miles – short of the long-term average, scientists have confirmed.

Confirmation of the peak meant the four lowest years on record for the continent’s sea ice – a vital component of the planet’s climate and critical for marine life – had all occurred in the past four years.

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