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Mozilla ☛ Mozilla joins the Digital Public Goods Alliance, championing open source to drive global progress
Today, Mozilla is thrilled to join the Digital Public Goods Alliance (DPGA) as its newest member. The DPGA is a UN-backed initiative that seeks to advance open technologies and ensure that technology is put to use in the public interest and serves everyone, everywhere — like Mozilla’s Common Voice, which has been recognized as a Digital Public Good (DPG). This announcement comes on the heels of a big year of digital policy-making globally, where Mozilla has been at the forefront in advocating for open source AI across Europe, North America and the UK.
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Mozilla ☛ Mozilla Privacy Blog: Behind the Manifesto: The Survivors of the Open Web
Welcome to the blog series “Behind the Manifesto,” where we unpack core issues that are critical to Mozilla’s mission. The Mozilla Manifesto represents Mozilla’s commitment to advancing an open, global internet. This blog series digs deeper on our vision for the web and the people who use it, and how these goals are advanced in policymaking and technology.
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University of Toronto ☛ Firefox's sudden weird font choice and fixing it
After some flailing around, it appears that what I needed to do to fix this was explicitly set about:config's font.name.serif.x-western, font.name.sans-serif.x-western, and font.name.monospace.x-western to specific values instead of leaving them set to nothing, which seems to have caused Firefox to arrive on Noto Sans through some mysterious process (since the generic system font name 'sans' was still mapping to DejaVu Sans). I don't know if these are exposed through the Fonts advanced options in Settings → General, which are (still) confusing in general. It's possible that these are what are used for 'Latin'.
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Security Week ☛ Firefox 145 and Chrome 142 Patch High-Severity Flaws in Latest Releases
Six of these security defects impact the browser’s graphics, and five of them are described as incorrect boundary conditions issues affecting the WebGPU component. The sixth is a race condition.