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Did you know that the red panda is also known as a firefox? Sept. 16 is International Red Panda Day, so we thought it would be a good time to visit a Firefox, ahem red panda, in real life and talk to their caretakers at zoos across the U.S. See our full series of interviews [...]The post Firefox IRL: Meet Seattle's Carson, the Woodland Park Zoo's feisty red panda appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

Did you know that the red panda is also known as a firefox? Sept. 16 is International Red Panda Day, so we thought it would be a good time to visit a Firefox, ahem red panda, in real life and talk to their caretakers at zoos across the U.S. See our full series of interviews [...]The post Firefox IRL: Meet Amaya, Basu, Takeo and Pili, Sacramento Zoo's fantastic four red pandas appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

Did you know that the red panda is also known as a firefox? Sept. 16 is International Red Panda Day, so we thought it would be a good time to visit a Firefox, ahem red panda, in real life and talk to their caretakers at zoos across the U.S. See our full series of interviews [...]The post Firefox IRL: Meet Linda and Saffron, Idaho Falls Zoo's mother-daughter red panda duo appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

Did you know that the red panda is also known as a firefox? Sept. 16 is International Red Panda Day, so we thought it would be a good time to visit a Firefox, ahem red panda, in real life and talk to their caretakers at zoos across the U.S. See our full series of interviews [...]The post Firefox IRL: Meet Deagan, Maliha and Wilson, Michigan Potter Park Zoo's red panda family appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

Did you know that the red panda is also known as a firefox? Sept. 16 is International Red Panda Day, so we thought it would be a good time to visit a Firefox, ahem red panda, in real life and talk to their caretakers at zoos across the U.S. See our full series of interviews [...]The post Firefox IRL: Meet Rose and Ruby, Zoo Atlanta's red panda sisters appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

There's never been a better time to switch from Chrome to Firefox, if we do say so ourselves. Some of the internet's most popular ad blockers, such as uBlock Origin - tools that save our digital sanity from video ads that auto-play, banners that take up half the screen and pop-up windows with infuriatingly tiny [...]The post How to easily switch from Chrome to Firefox appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

After having met with many different candidates over the past several months to fill the role of chief people officer - a significant role that contributes greatly to Mozilla's culture and future - I am pleased to announce that Dani Chehak has joined Mozilla as chief people officer on a permanent basis. It was a [...]The post Dani Chehak, Mozilla's new chief people officer appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

More than ever, we need a movement to ensure the internet remains a force for good. The Mozilla Internet Ecosystem (MIECO) program fuels this movement by supporting people who are looking to advance a more human-centered internet. This week we're highlighting Yoshiki Ohshima, a computer scientist and researcher with big ideas for how to shift [...]The post Advancing the future of the internet with new ways of defining our shared digital realities appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

Here at Mozilla, we are the first to admit the internet isn't perfect, but we know the internet is pretty darn magical. The internet opens up doors and opportunities, allows for human connection, and lets everyone find where they belong - their corners of the internet. We all have an internet story worth sharing. In [...]The post A New York Times Magazine editor on her internet obsessions appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

Earlier this year, we announced that we were testing a new way for Firefox Relay users to access their email masks directly from Firefox. Today, we're taking it to the next level and rolling this feature over the next couple of weeks out to millions of Firefox Account users in Firefox. Signing up for a [...]The post Protect your information with email masks now available in Firefox appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

I am delighted to share that Suba Vasudevan has joined Mozilla as our new Senior Vice President of Strategy and Operations. In this role Suba will be responsible for leading Mozilla's efforts to become more unified, impactful and efficient across our many businesses and products. She will report to me and join Mozilla's steering committee. [...]The post Welcome Suba Vasudevan, Mozilla's new senior vice president of strategy and operations appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

As Mark Surman steps into President role, Mozilla seeks a new Executive Director to lead its non-profit programs ___ Today, Mozilla is announcing the search for a new Executive Director to lead its non-profit movement-building programs. Mozilla sees itself as both an instigator and collaborator in the effort to shift the tides of tech. We [...]The post Mozilla seeks new leader for its movement-building arm appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

Open source lies at the heart of Mozilla and our Manifesto. Despite its ubiquity in the current technology landscape, it is easy to forget that open source was once a radical idea which was compared to cancer. In the long journey since, Mozilla has helped create an open source browser, email client, programming language, and [...]The post Openness and AI: Fostering innovation and accountability in the EU's AI Act appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

Gender-based violence (GBV) is a global pandemic that affects one in three women in their lifetime. Kwanele Bringing Women Justice, one of the winning startups at Mozilla's Responsible AI Challenge, wants to help survivors of abuse in South Africa by giving women and children an easy-to-use tool to report and successfully prosecute crimes involving gender-based [...]The post Making trustworthy chatbots to support women plagued by violence and abuse appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

Nowadays, the first day of school lands somewhere between August and September, so it's no surprise we're seeing back-to-school sales early. As you start your back-to-school shopping, one thing you'll want to be on the lookout for are fake reviews and unreliable third-party sellers persuading you to buy poor-quality products. To save you time and [...]The post Fakespot shares the back-to-school products you should be extra careful buying this season appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

Today, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is releasing the standard for Messaging Layer Security (MLS) protocol, a novel standard of communication protocol for group messaging. Why so many acronyms? Don't speak in acronyms? We got you! So, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is a body of volunteers that develops open standards and protocols [...]The post Messaging Layer Security is now an internet standard appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

Nolano, one of the winning startups at Mozilla's Responsible AI Challenge, wants to make it easier to create AI apps. Founders Tejas Vaidhya and Ayush Kaushal realize the power of large language models. They also know that using them to develop apps typically requires tools beyond the capabilities of a laptop or a smartphone. Tejas [...]The post How to make trustworthy AI? Lower the barriers for developers appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

If you shop online, chances are that you've seen - or been swayed - by fake reviews. About 82% of consumers have come across a fake customer review in the past year, according to recent research. That number is even higher for 18- to 34-year-olds: 92% of them reported having read a fake review online. [...]The post How to use Fakespot, the AI tool that helps you detect fake reviews appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

The AI wars are heating up. In late 2022, OpenAI's ChatGPT made headlines for showing us what a new search engine could look like. ChatGPT (which stands for Generative Pre-trained Transformer") is a chatbot - one that can process queries and spit out relevant information to answer questions about historical facts, recipes, car dimensions and [...]The post Did ChatGPT write this? Here's how to tell appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

From chat engines and generative apps to self-driving cars, technologies that use artificial intelligence continue to transform our lives in new ways. But how do we create AI that serves society without disempowering some of us? How can we make sure these innovations are fair and trustworthy? Those are the questions we asked last May [...]The post 4 things we learned from Mozilla's Responsible AI challenge appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

Generative AI technologies powered by Large Language Models (LLMs), such as OpenAI's ChatGPT, have shown themselves to be both a big boon to productivity as well as a concerningly confident purveyor of incorrect information. At Mozilla, we're excited about the potential role generative AI can play in creating new value for people while demonstrating leadership [...]The post Responsibly empowering developers with AI on MDN appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

The Pocket app and web experience are trusted by millions of people everyday to stay up to date and informed on the topics they care about most, free from clickbait, fake news and the pressure and anxiety often felt while on social media platforms. Since being acquired in 2017, Pocket is part of the family [...]The post Signing in to Pocket just got even more secure appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

In our ever faster and more overwhelming online lives, we've learned to settle for the obvious choices - the ones we're made to believe are practical and right for us. Our phones come with pre-installed apps, our laptops have their own browsers. But in real life, we can choose to go to our local ethical [...]The post Challenge the default with Firefox appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

The importance of local journalism cannot be overstated. Critical to a functioning democracy, it empowers communities and shines a light on the real repercussions of issues debated on the national stage. Yet, as American Journalism Project (AJP)'s Chief Advancement Officer Patty Slutsky says, There has been a market failure in ensuring everyone has access to [...]The post Elevating local stories with Pocket and the American Journalism Project appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

Here at Mozilla, we are the first to admit the internet isn't perfect, but we are also quick to point out that the internet is pretty darn magical. The internet opens up doors and opportunities, allows for people to connect with others, and lets everyone find where they belong - their corners of the internet. [...]The post An online creative on tackling our mixed feelings' on the internet appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

More than ever, we need a movement to ensure the internet remains a force for good. The Mozilla Internet Ecosystem (MIECO) program fuels this movement by supporting people who are looking to advance a more human-centered internet. With MIECO, Mozilla is looking to foster a new era of internet innovation that moves away from fast [...]The post Advancing the future of the internet by making math more inclusive appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

More than ever, we need a movement to ensure the internet remains a force for good. The Mozilla Internet Ecosystem (MIECO) program fuels this movement by supporting people who are looking to advance a more human-centered internet. With MIECO, Mozilla is looking to foster a new era of internet innovation that moves away from fast [...]The post Advancing the future of the internet with the Photoshop of software' appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

The investment will help Fiddler scale its AI Observability Platform (PALO ALTO, CA | JUNE 1, 2023) - Today, Mozilla Ventures is announcing an investment in Fiddler, the Silicon Valley-based company that helps enterprises build trust into AI with monitoring, explainability, analytics, fairness, and safety. The Fiddler AI Observability Platform gives companies more visibility into [...]The post Mozilla Ventures invests in Fiddler, fueling better AI trust appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

When we relaunched the Mozilla Builders program last March, we unveiled our Responsible AI Challenge - a one-day, in-person event designed to inspire and encourage a community of builders working on trustworthy AI products and solutions - essentially a call to builders and technologists all over the world to create trustworthy AI solutions. We are [...]The post Announcing Mozilla's Responsible AI Challenge' top prize winners appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

More than ever, we need a movement to ensure the internet remains a force for good. This post introduces the Mozilla Internet Ecosystem (MIECO) program, which fuels this movement by supporting people who are looking to advance a more human-centered internet. With MIECO, Mozilla is looking to foster a new era of internet innovation that [...]The post Advancing the future of the internet with Adam Bouhenguel appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

Recently, I came across a post in one of my Facebook groups. This group is primarily women who juggle their job in the tech space while raising children. The post asked if people used multiple emails to limit exposure to account breaches and if so, they wanted advice on setting it up. First, I was [...]The post Here is your secret weapon to conquering your overflowing inbox appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

Funding will grow the startup's tech team, help make gig work more transparent (UNITED KINGDOM | MAY 18, 2023) - Today, Mozilla Ventures is announcing a new investment and its first in the United Kingdom: Rodeo, an app that makes the gig work ecosystem more transparent for gig workers. Rodeo helps workers access and control [...]The post Mozilla Ventures announces investment in Rodeo, an app empowering gig workers appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

Stay Up to Date and Informed On the Topics You Care About Pocket’s latest updates make it simpler than ever to discover and organize high-quality content that aligns with your unique interests and passions. As you may have noticed, Pocket has been rapidly evolving and growing; we’re listening to our users so that we can […]The post Pocket’s new features make it even easier to discover and organize content appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

About five years ago Mozilla shipped Firefox Quantum, an upgrade that included significant performance improvements for most Firefox users. Unfortunately, Firefox Quantum didn’t improve performance for people who use screen readers and other assistive technology. In some ways, our screen reader performance actually regressed with the architecture changes that Quantum delivered. The Firefox accessibility engineers […]The post Firefox 113 significantly boosts accessibility performance appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

Last March, during the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas, Mozilla issued a call to builders and technologists all over the world to create trustworthy AI solutions when we relaunched the Mozilla Builders program and unveiled our Responsible AI Challenge — a one-day, in-person event designed to inspire and encourage a community of builders working on […]The post Meet the ‘Responsible AI Challenge’ top 10 finalists appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

The internet isn’t just about browsers. Browsers are a critical part of the human experience on the internet and will always be core to our work at Mozilla. But the internet is bigger than browsers — it’s every piece of content, app and experience on your device. Our mission will always be to make the […]The post The internet deserves a better answer to social appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

Mastodon has been around since 2016, but not until recently has it emerged as a popular alternative to Twitter. Like Firefox, Mastodon is open-sourced, so it’s built on a foundation of transparency and accessibility to all. It’s also decentralized, which means it’s powered by different communities and doesn’t answer to one entity or a bunch […]The post Ready to try Mastodon? Here’s how to get started appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

For close to thirty years, commerce has been at the core of how people use the Internet. Convenience and ease have multiplied over the years as people have benefited from the unprecedented economies of scale emerging from the digital marketplace. This global ecommerce scale-up has also created new challenges for consumers, such as how to […]The post Fakespot becomes part of Mozilla, bringing trustworthy shopping tools to Firefox appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

The Mozilla Manifesto originally described the Mozilla Project as “a global community of people who believe that openness, innovation, and opportunity are key to the continued health of the internet.” That statement was prescient at the time and remains on point today. The pace of change and explosion of creativity we see around the internet today […]The post Amy Keating: Why I am joining the Mozilla board appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

Today, I’m excited to welcome Amy Keating as a new member of the Mozilla Foundation Board of Directors. You can see comments from Amy here. As Mitchell said when we put out a call for three new board members last month: it’s a critical time for Mozilla to be thinking bigger and being bolder about […]The post Amy Keating Joins the Mozilla Foundation Board of Directors appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

Artificial intelligence has entered a new era. From search to education to art, recent advancements in AI promise to shake up the way we work and live. Yet for some of us, AI poses more questions than answers. How will it affect us? Are there risks? How do we make it trustworthy? Before we can […]The post How does AI actually work? appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

Do you know someone who’s shaping the future of the internet? Tell us about them! This year marks Mozilla’s 25th anniversary, and we’re raising a toast with Rise 25 – a celebration of 25 individuals who are doing groundbreaking work to make the internet a better place. The best part? We’re enlisting your help to […]The post Who’s shaping the future of the internet? Nominate your pick for Mozilla’s Rise 25 appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

Here at Mozilla, we are the first to admit the internet isn’t perfect, but we are also quick to point out that the internet is pretty darn magical. The internet opens up doors and opportunities, allows for people to connect with others, and lets everyone find where they belong — their corners of the internet. […]The post A human rights activist on finding joy on the internet appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

Clutter isn’t just material stuff scattered about your floor and shelves. Clutter can consume us in digital form, too — from an overabundance of browser bookmarks and open tabs to navigating a world wide web that’s littered with junk. The right browser extension, however, can really help clean things up. Tranquility Reader Want to sweep […]The post Extensions for cleaning up a chaotic desktop appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

March 31, or “three thirty-one,” is something of a talisman in the Mozilla community. It’s the date that, back in 1998, Mozilla first came into being — the date that we open-sourced the Netscape code for the world to use. This year, “three thirty-one” is especially meaningful: It’s Mozilla’s 25 year anniversary. A lot has […]The post A quarter century of Mozilla appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

Looking ahead at Mozilla’s next quarter century In the world of tech, some challenges can feel impossible to solve. That was the feeling many of us had 25 years ago — before we’d heard of Mozilla. I was one of those people who’d been excited by the openness and creativity of the web from the […]The post Making the impossible possible — again appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

As the saying goes, looking for a job is a job in itself. First, there’s all the writing that needs to be done. Then, it’s doing your homework to learn about the companies and the industries you’re applying and hopefully interviewing for. Lastly, it’s your state of mind, remaining positive despite the many obstacles you’ll […]The post Land your next job with these Firefox extensions appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

Over the past 20 years, I’ve focused on consumer-driven businesses. From factories making jeans (at Levi’s) to the largest retailer/company (Walmart) to early years of social-driven commerce (at ModCloth), getting to what drives consumer behavior is where I love to spend my time. When I joined Choose Energy as an early employee and CEO, I […]The post Why I joined Mozilla’s Board of Directors appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

We’re committing $30M to build Mozilla.ai: A startup — and a community — building a trustworthy, independent, and open-source AI ecosystem. We’re only three months into 2023, and it’s already clear what one of the biggest stories of the year is: AI. AI has seized the public’s attention like Netscape did in 1994, and the […]The post Introducing Mozilla.ai: Investing in trustworthy AI appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

The last few months it has become clear that AI is no longer our future, but our present. Some of the most exciting ideas for the future of both the internet and the world involve AI solutions. This didn’t happen overnight, decades of work have gone into this moment. Mozilla has been working to make […]The post Mozilla launches Responsible AI Challenge appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.