Latest Open‑Source Site, Chrome URL Hiding, YAM Crash, and Bootstrap Icons Explained

Microsoft has launched a new open‑source website (https://opensource.microsoft.com/) aimed at transparency, attracting users, and simplifying access to its GitHub repositories. The site showcases all Microsoft open‑source projects across sections such as Participate, Projects, Ecosystem, Careers, and Blog. It runs on Azure Kubernetes Service, uses GitHub Pages generated by Jekyll (Ruby), and incorporates TypeScript and Node.js. Microsoft also aligns with the OpenChain standard and operates a $10,000 monthly FOSS fund to support open‑source projects.

Google continues to experiment with hiding the full URL in Chrome 86. Two modes are offered: displaying the full URL on hover or after user interaction, with an added hover animation. Proponents argue this reduces phishing risk, while critics claim it keeps users within Google’s ecosystem and increases ad exposure.

The decentralized finance project YAM suffered a critical bug in its rebasing contract, causing roughly $75,000 worth of Curve (yCRV) tokens to be locked in the protocol’s reserve and rendering governance inoperable. The error, illustrated in the accompanying screenshots, prompted the team to announce a Gitcoin grant for community‑driven audit and a plan to migrate to YAM 2.0.

Bootstrap has released its first official open‑source SVG icon library, Bootstrap Icons, under the MIT license. The library, built with JavaScript, is free for any project and can be easily customized via CSS. It is intended for use across a range of components from forms to navigation and is available at https://icons.getbootstrap.com/.