Crime fiction writers are struggling to keep their stories plausible amid the proliferation of AI-powered surveillance cameras and data brokers, with authors like Samantha Downing and Mark Coggins ada…
Public Knowledge, a nonprofit advocacy group, argued in a friend-of-the-court brief filed Tuesday in the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals that Google should be required to divest the Chrome browser and b…
Cloudflare announced its vision for an open Agentic Internet, proposing standards such as Web Bot Auth, PACT, x402, and MCP to enable agents to read, discover, call, and pay for web content. The compa…
Mozilla's llamafile v0.10.5 release adds support for two large local models: the 6GB Ternary Bonsai 27B and Poolside's 118B Laguna-S-2.1 coding MoE, by syncing with a more recent llama.cpp core. The u…
Michael Coates, Chief Information Security Officer at the Solana Foundation, warned that AI-powered social engineering, including voice deepfakes and polished phishing, is the biggest security threat …
Brave, the privacy-focused browser, is funded by Peter Thiel's venture capital firm, according to a discussion on browser security. The conversation notes that Mozilla uses advanced fuzzing, static an…
A reported Trump administration plan to ban foreign-made open-source AI models, targeting Chinese labs like Moonshot's Kimi K3 release, could backfire on U.S. cybersecurity and innovation, according t…
Researchers demonstrated that a single malicious webpage visit can compromise the Tor Browser, highlighting that serious JIT and memory corruption vulnerabilities are not unique to Firefox. The findin…
Mozilla's privacy analysis of dating platforms, though a few years old, remains educational. Happn may require facial verification, while Eharmony uses AI to scan every message, raising privacy concer…
The corporate fad of 'tokenmaxxing' — maximizing AI token usage as a productivity metric — is fading as workplaces face soaring costs without proportional gains, according to a report from the Associa…
AI tools are accelerating vulnerability discovery at an unprecedented pace, with Microsoft patching 570 CVEs in a single July 2026 Patch Tuesday—its largest ever—attributed to its internal MDASH syste…
A growing number of American techies and companies, including Mozilla CTO Raffi Krikorian and Coinbase, are adopting Chinese AI models like Moonshot's Kimi K3 and Z.ai's GLM-5.2 because they are cheap…
US developers and enterprises are increasingly adopting Chinese open-weights AI models from labs like DeepSeek and Alibaba's Qwen team, driven by lower costs and architectural flexibility rather than …
A user argues that Firefox is significantly behind Chromium in security, especially in the LLM age where vulnerabilities are widespread, and that Firefox ESR is even worse. The user recommends Brave a…
Chinese AI models are gaining popularity in the U.S. for their affordability and efficiency, with Mozilla CTO Raffi Krikorian switching to Moonshot's Kimi K3 and Coinbase adopting Chinese models to cu…
Mozilla's Firefox browser will add widgets to its New Tab page, including an AI-powered daily crossword puzzle from news platform Particle, as part of a strategy to make the page a discovery destinati…
Twenty-five technology companies, industry organizations, and venture capital firms published an open letter on Friday urging US policymakers to support open weight AI models, arguing that such models…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang created an X account to post about the importance of open-source AI models, joining 24 other companies including Meta, Microsoft, and Palantir in signing a letter urging U.S. p…
Microsoft and more than two dozen tech companies, including Meta, Palantir, and NVIDIA, published an open letter Friday urging policymakers to support open-source AI systems, arguing that an open ecos…
Nvidia joined Microsoft, Meta, IBM, Mozilla and 20 other signatories in a July 24 letter urging U.S. policymakers to preserve access to open-weight AI models and avoid premature restrictions. The coal…