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0Din: A GenAI Bug Bounty Program – Securing Tomorrow’s AI Together
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2024/08/0din-a-genai-bug-bounty-program-securing-tomorrows-ai-together/
Published: August 8, 2024 18:39
As AI continues to evolve, so do the threats against it. As these GenAI systems become more sophisticated and widely adopted, ensuring their security and ethical use becomes paramount. 0Din is a groundbreaking GenAI bug bounty program dedicated…
Announcing Official Puppeteer Support for Firefox
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2024/08/puppeteer-support-for-firefox/
Published: August 7, 2024 15:44
We’re pleased to announce that, as of version 23, the Puppeteer browser automation library now has first-class support for Firefox. This means that it’s now easy to write automation and perform end-to-end testing using Puppeteer, and run against both…
Snapshots for IPC Fuzzing
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2024/06/snapshots-for-ipc-fuzzing/
Published: June 27, 2024 16:18
Process separation remains one of the most important parts of the Firefox security model and securing our IPC (Inter-Process Communication) interfaces is crucial to keep privileges in the different processes separated. We take a more detailed look at our…
Sponsoring sqlite-vec to enable more powerful Local AI applications
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2024/06/sponsoring-sqlite-vec-to-enable-more-powerful-local-ai-applications/
Published: June 25, 2024 15:25
Today we’re proud to announce the next Mozilla Builders project: sqlite-vec. Led by independent developer Alex Garcia, this project brings vector search functionality to the beloved SQLite embedded database. Alex has been working on this problem for a…
Experimenting with local alt text generation in Firefox Nightly
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2024/05/experimenting-with-local-alt-text-generation-in-firefox-nightly/
Published: May 31, 2024 16:43
Firefox 130 will introduce an experimental new capability to automatically generate alt-text for images using a fully private on-device AI model. The feature will be available as part of Firefox’s built-in PDF editor, and our end goal is to make it…
Llamafile’s progress, four months in
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2024/04/llamafiles-progress-four-months-in/
Published: April 25, 2024 15:34
When Mozilla’s Innovation group first launched the llamafile project late last year, we were thrilled by the immediate positive response from open source AI developers. It’s become one of Mozilla’s top three most-favorited repositories on GitHub,…
Porting a cross-platform GUI application to Rust
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2024/04/porting-a-cross-platform-gui-application-to-rust/
Published: April 23, 2024 19:08
In this blog post, we delve into the motivations for choosing Rust for our crash reporter, outline the unique challenges of designing an application that operates when the main browser has failed, and discuss the new architecture we've implemented. We also…
Prototype even faster with the Gradio UI for Figma component library
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2024/04/prototype-even-faster-with-the-gradio-ui-for-figma-component-library/
Published: April 11, 2024 15:13
In the fast-paced world of generative AI, staying ahead means moving swiftly and smartly. That's why we've embraced Gradio, the low-code prototyping toolkit from Hugging Face, as our go-to for bringing new ideas to life.
The post Prototype even faster…
Improving Performance in Firefox and Across the Web with Speedometer 3
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2024/03/improving-performance-in-firefox-and-across-the-web-with-speedometer-3/
Published: March 11, 2024 16:00
In collaboration with the other major browser engine developers, Mozilla is thrilled to announce Speedometer 3 today. Like previous versions of Speedometer, this benchmark measures what we think matters most for performance online: responsiveness. But…
Announcing Interop 2024
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2024/02/announcing-interop-2024/
Published: February 1, 2024 17:05
Following the success of Interop 2023, we are pleased to confirm that the project will continue in 2024 with a new selection of focus areas, representing areas of the web platform where we think we can have the biggest positive impact on users and web…