Mozilla on "AI" Fluff (Buzzwords, Not Substance), Monitor Plus, and Tor Project on Internet Freedom
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Mozilla ☛ Entrepreneur Trisha Prabhu dishes on technology’s evolution, AI and her early career success
At Mozilla, we know we can’t create a better future alone, that is why each year we will be highlighting the work of 25 digital leaders using technology to amplify voices, effect change, and build new technologies globally through our Rise 25 Awards. These storytellers, innovators, activists, advocates. builders and artists are helping make the internet more diverse, ethical, responsible and inclusive.
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Mozilla ☛ Introducing Mozilla Monitor Plus, a new tool to automatically remove your personal information from data broker sites
Today, Mozilla Monitor (previously called Firefox Monitor), a free service that notifies you when your email has been part of a breach, announced its new paid subscription service offering: automatic data removal and continuous monitoring of your exposed personal information.
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Web Browsers/Web Servers
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Tor ☛ Defend Internet Freedom with Tor in 2024 elections season
This year, with more than 65 elections happening around the world, Internet freedom may be at risk. Some organizations have called it the Year of Democracy. Simultaneously, there is a rising concern that during these many electoral processes, governments around the world will block access to the Internet in their countries. They may also censor media outlets, persecute and harass journalists, and block social media platforms and messaging apps. Under the justification of protecting national security, surveillance and online censorship can compromise and undermine the integrity, fairness, and transparency of elections.
In 2022, Access Now's Shutdown Tracker Optimization Project (STOP) and the #KeepItOn coalition recorded 187 instances of Internet censorship events across 35 countries. These events ranged from social media blocks to internet outages. In 14 of these countries, censorship events were followed by documented human rights abuses, as detailed in the Access Now annual report. Internet censorship frequently acts as an early indicator of other violations of human rights.
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[Repeat] Daniel Stenberg ☛ Funding Dan to improve curl tests
curl contains a regression test suite of over 1900 individual test cases that are run automatically on every commit submission and on every pull request in almost 130 different environments., meaning that every change can result in more than 140,000 tests being run. A spurious test failure rate of a mere 0.001% is likely to cause a perfectly good PR to end up showing with a red failure. A new contributor that doesn’t understand this problem can spend hours poring over his or her patch and the related code in curl, searching for a problem that isn’t there.
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Zimbabwe ☛ Arc browses the web for you and gives you really good summaries – you won’t Google anything yourself anymore
The folks at Arc have an interesting way of thinking about how the internet works. They say a browser, a search engine, an AI chatbot, and a website like different tools in a toolbox. They are all part of the same tool for finding information on the internet, like apps within one big app.
So, they have been at work to combine those four things into one. Arc Search is one example of how that could work.
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Gizmodo ☛ Is Incognito Mode Actually Private?
If you’re going to use incognito mode, you’ll want to know exactly what is and isn’t logged while browsing to avoid any nasty surprises. Here, we’ve laid out all the details, which should give you a better idea of
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