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For many years now — and well before I sought out the job I have today — I thought: the world needs more organizations like Mozilla. Given the state of … Read moreThe post Wearing more (Mozilla) hats appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

As technology makes massive shift to voice-enabled products, NVIDIA invests $1.5 million in Mozilla Common Voice to transform the voice recognition landscape Over the next decade, speech is expected to … Read moreThe post Mozilla partners with NVIDIA to democratize and diversify voice technology appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

If we want the internet to be different we can’t keep following the same roadmap. I am celebrating a one-year anniversary at Mozilla this week, which is funny in a … Read moreThe post Reflections on One Year as the CEO of Mozilla appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

In an important victory for software developers, the Supreme Court ruled today that reimplementing an API is fair use under US copyright law. The Court’s reasoning should apply to all … Read moreThe post Software Innovation Prevails in Landmark Supreme Court Ruling in Google v. Oracle appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

It’s been less than a year since we launched Mozilla VPN, our fast and easy-to-use Virtual Private Network service brought to you by a trusted name in online consumer security … Read moreThe post Latest Mozilla VPN features keep your data safe appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

Today, Mozilla together with other internet companies ADT, Dropbox, Eventbrite, Reddit, Vimeo, Wikimedia, sent a letter to the FCC asking the agency to reinstate net neutrality as a matter of … Read moreThe post Reinstating net neutrality in the US appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

Addressing Supply Chain Vulnerabilities One of the unsung achievements of modern software development is the degree to which it has become componentized: not that long ago, when you wanted to … Read moreThe post Notes on Addressing Supply Chain Vulnerabilities appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

Beginning last year, the internet began playing a bigger role in our lives than ever before. In the US, we went from only three percent of workers to more than … Read moreThe post Latest Firefox release includes Multiple Picture-in-Picture and Total Cookie Protection appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

I’m delighted to share that the Mozilla Foundation and Corporation Boards are each welcoming a new member. Wambui Kinya is Vice President of Partner Engineering at Andela, a Lagos-based global … Read moreThe post Expanding Mozilla’s Boards appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

Like many of us I suspect, I have long been a fairly passive “end-user” of the internet. In my daily life, I’ve merrily skipped along it to simplify and accelerate … Read moreThe post Why I’m Joining Mozilla’s Board of Directors appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

My introduction to Mozilla was when Firefox was first launched. I was starting my career as a software developer in Boston, MA at the time. My experience was Firefox was … Read moreThe post Why I’m Joining Mozilla’s Board of Directors appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

Over the last few years, Mozilla has turned its attention to AI, asking: how can we make the data driven technologies we all use everyday more trustworthy? How can we … Read moreThe post Next steps on trustworthy AI: transparency, bias and better data governance appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

Today Mozilla is thrilled to join the Rust community in announcing the formation of the Rust Foundation. The Rust Foundation will be the home of the popular Rust programming language … Read moreThe post Mozilla Welcomes the Rust Foundation appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

If I told you that two weeks ago IETF and W3C finally published the standards for WebRTC, your response would probably be to ask what all those acronyms were. Read … Read moreThe post What WebRTC means for you appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

This is the fifth post in my series on voting systems (catch up on parts I, II, III and IV), focusing on computerized voting machines. The technical term for these … Read moreThe post Why getting voting right is hard, Part V: DREs (spoiler: they’re bad) appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

Based on Mozilla's greenhouse gas emissions assessment, we are now pledging carbon-neutrality as well as significant reductions in our organisation emissions going forward. Read moreThe post Mozilla’s Climate Commitments appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

Does the “openness” that made the internet so successful also inevitably lead to harms online? Is an open internet inherently a haven for illegal speech, for eroding privacy and security, … Read moreThe post Reimagine Open: Building a Healthier Internet appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

This is the fourth post in my series on voting systems. Part I covered requirements and then Part II and Part III covered in-person voting using paper ballots. However, paper … Read moreThe post Why getting voting right is hard, Part IV: Absentee Voting and Vote By Mail appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

There is no question that social media played a role in the siege and take-over of the US Capitol on January 6. Since then there has been significant focus on … Read moreThe post We need more than deplatforming appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

This is the third post in my series on voting systems. For background see part I. As described in part II, hand-counted paper ballots have a number of attractive security … Read moreThe post Why getting voting right is hard, Part III: Optical Scan appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

This year began like any other year, with our best intentions and resolutions to carry out. Then by March, the world changed and everyone’s lives — personally and professionally — … Read moreThe post Our Year in Review: How we’ve kept Firefox working for you in 2020 appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

Mozilla is publishing its white paper, “Creating Trustworthy AI.” A little over two years ago, Mozilla started an ambitious project: deciding where we should focus our efforts to grow the … Read moreThe post Mozilla’s Vision for Trustworthy AI appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

In Part I we looked at desirable properties for voting system. In this post, I want to look at the details of a specific system: hand-counted paper ballots. Hand-counted paper … Read moreThe post Why getting voting right is hard, Part II: Hand-Counted Paper Ballots appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

Every two years around this time, the US has an election and the rest of the world marvels and asks itself one question: What the heck is going on with … Read moreThe post Why getting voting right is hard, Part I: Introduction and Requirements appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

2020 has been a year like few others with the internet’s value and necessity front and center. The State of Mozilla for 2019-2020 makes clear that Mozilla’s mission and role … Read moreThe post State of Mozilla 2019-2020: Annual Impact Report appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

Release of Mozilla's 2019 Greenhouse Gas emissions baseline, detailing the environmental impact for all three scopes and applicable categories and adding context and a few data visualisations to help make sense of these findings. Read moreThe post Release: Mozilla’s Greenhouse Gas emissions baseline appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

Today the US Department of Justice (“DOJ”) filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google, alleging that it unlawfully maintains monopolies through anticompetitive and exclusionary practices in the search and search advertising … Read moreThe post Mozilla Reaction to U.S. v. Google appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

It’s noisy out there. We are inundated with sensational headlines every minute, of every day. You almost could make a full-time job of sorting the fun, interesting or useful memes, … Read moreThe post The internet needs our love appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

Right now, we’re in the early stages of the next phase of computing: AI. First we had the desktop. Then the internet. And smartphones. Increasingly, we’re living in a world … Read moreThe post Launching the European AI Fund appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

As Mozilla tightens and refines its product focus in 2020, today we are announcing the end of life for two legacy services that grew out of the Firefox Test Pilot … Read moreThe post Update on Firefox Send and Firefox Notes appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

Today, Mozilla CEO Mitchell Baker published an open letter to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, urging her to seize a ‘once-in-a-generation’ opportunity to build a better internet through … Read moreThe post Mozilla CEO Mitchell Baker urges European Commission to seize ‘once-in-a-generation’ opportunity appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

The previous posts ( I, II, III, IV) focused primarily on remote login, either to multiuser systems or Web sites (though the same principles also apply to other networked services … Read moreThe post A look at password security, Part V: Disk Encryption appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

Big news for mobile: as of today, Firefox for Android users in Europe will find an entirely redesigned interface and a fast and secure mobile browser that was overhauled down … Read moreThe post Fast, personalized and private by design on all platforms: introducing a new Firefox for Android experience appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

As discussed in part III, public key authentication is great in principle but in practice has been hard to integrate into the Web environment. However, we’re now seeing deployment of … Read moreThe post A look at password security, Part IV: WebAuthn appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

This is a time of change for the internet and for Mozilla. From combatting a lethal virus and battling systemic racism to protecting individual privacy — one thing is clear: … Read moreThe post Changing World, Changing Mozilla appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

Let’s brainstorm a sustainable future together. Imagine: We are in the year 2050 and we’re opening the Museum of the Fossilized Internet, which commemorates two decades of a sustainable internet. … Read moreThe post Virtual Tours of the Museum of the Fossilized Internet appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

Today, Firefox is introducing Enhanced Tracking Protection (ETP) 2.0, our next step in continuing to provide a safe and private experience for our users. ETP 2.0 protects you from an … Read moreThe post Latest Firefox rolls out Enhanced Tracking Protection 2.0; blocking redirect trackers by default appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

We are proud to share that Katharina Borchert, Mozilla’s Chief Open Innovation Officer, has been named one of the Most Creative People by Fast Company. The award recognizes her leadership on … Read moreThe post Fast Company Recognizes Katharina Borchert as one of the Most Creative Business People appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

Today, Mozilla is pleased to announce that we’re joining the Ford Foundation, the Sloan Foundation, and the Open Society Foundations to launch a request for proposals (RFP) for research on … Read moreThe post Mozilla Joins New Partners to Fund Open Source Digital Infrastructure Research appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

In part II, we looked at the problem of Web authentication and covered the twin problems of phishing and password database compromise. In this post, I’ll be covering some of … Read moreThe post A look at password security, Part III: More secure login protocols appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

Starting today, there’s a VPN on the market from a company you trust. The Mozilla VPN (Virtual Private Network) is now available on Windows, Android and iOS devices. This fast … Read moreThe post Mozilla Puts Its Trusted Stamp on VPN appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

In part I, we took a look at the design of password authentication systems for old-school multiuser systems. While timesharing is mostly gone, most of us continue to use multiuser … Read moreThe post A look at password security, Part II: Web Sites appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

Sustainability is not just about ticking a few boxes by getting your Greenhouse Gas emissions (GHG) inventory, adopting goals for reduction and mitigation, and accounting in shape. Any transformation towards … Read moreThe post Sustainability needs culture change. Introducing Environmental Champions. appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

Over the last three plus years, Julie Hanna has brought extensive experience on innovation processes, global business operations, and mission-driven organizations to her role as a board member of Mozilla … Read moreThe post Thank you, Julie Hanna appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

Today I’d like to talk about passwords. Yes, I know, passwords are the worst, but why? This is the first of a series of posts about passwords, with this one … Read moreThe post A look at password security, Part I: history and background appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

Yesterday Mozilla and Comcast announced that Comcast was the latest member of Mozilla’s Trusted Recursive Resolver program, joining current partners Cloudflare and NextDNS. Comcast is the first Internet Service Provider … Read moreThe post More details on Comcast as a Trusted Recursive Resolver appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

Committing to Data Retention and Transparency Requirements That Protect Customer Privacy Today, Mozilla, the maker of Firefox, and Comcast have announced Comcast as the first Internet Service Provider (ISP) to … Read moreThe post Comcast’s Xfinity Internet Service Joins Firefox’s Trusted Recursive Resolver Program appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

By its very design the internet has accelerated the sharing of ideas and information across borders, languages, cultures and time zones. Despite the awesome reach and power of what the … Read moreThe post Immigrants Remain Core to the U.S.’ Strength appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

Mozilla stands with the family of companies and civil society groups calling on Facebook to take strong action to limit hateful and divisive content on their platforms. Mozilla and Firefox … Read moreThe post We’re proud to join #StopHateForProfit appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

Today, I’m excited to welcome Navrina Singh as a new member of the Mozilla Foundation Board of Directors. You can see comments from Navrina here. Navrina is the Co-Founder of … Read moreThe post Navrina Singh Joins the Mozilla Foundation Board of Directors appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.