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Google's Chrome team has announced that the browser will ship support for the JPEG XL image format, according to a post on the official Chrome developer blog. JPEG XL promises better compression and image quality than existing formats like JPEG and WebP. The announcement is drawing attention among web developers debating browser image format support.

The camera app maker Halide has published a blog post on memory-safe decoding of WebP images, a format that has been behind serious security vulnerabilities in the past. The discussion, ranked highly on Hacker News, centres on how memory-safe implementations can prevent the buffer overflows and exploits that have plagued popular image libraries.

iPhone users are being reminded of a built-in feature that captures an entire webpage rather than just the visible screen. After taking a screenshot, tapping the thumbnail and selecting the full-page option saves the whole scrollable page as a PDF. Coverage explains the steps and notes many people have owned iPhones for years without discovering it.

A new technical article on Halide's blog examines memory-safe decoding of the WebP image format, a format whose C implementation previously drew attention for serious security vulnerabilities. The piece walks through how safe decoding can be approached and is drawing discussion among developers on Hacker News, where it is being shared alongside comments on secure image handling.

Security researchers are warning about a phishing site hosted at instagram.webpromotion-business.site, which mimics an Instagram dashboard to trick users into handing over credentials. The domain has been defanged and submitted to urlDNA for scanning, with the analysis shared in cybersecurity circles. Nobody has confirmed victims yet, and the site's operators are unknown.

F-Droid, the alternative app distribution platform for Android built around free and open source software, is drawing attention with its message that user freedom comes first. The project offers its own app store and distribution tools, letting users install FOSS apps outside the Play Store. Free software supporters frequently cite it as a key resource for anyone seeking to de-Google their Android device.

A practical guide to writing good HTML is drawing attention among developers, arguing that a webpage can render flawlessly in the browser while still being built on poorly written markup. The discussion centers on why clean, semantic HTML matters for accessibility, maintainability and engineering quality, even when visual results hide the underlying problems.