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Launching Interop 2025
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2025/02/interop-2025/
Published: February 13, 2025 16:59
Interop 2025 continues the mission to make the web more consistent across browsers, building on 2024’s 95% interoperability score. This year, 19 focus areas target key developer needs and long-standing issues, including WebRTC improvements, Storage Access…
Introducing Uniffi for React Native: Rust-Powered Turbo Modules
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2024/12/introducing-uniffi-for-react-native-rust-powered-turbo-modules/
Published: December 4, 2024 19:38
Mozilla and Filament have introduced Uniffi for React Native, a tool that allows developers to leverage the safety and performance benefits of Rust in cross-platform React Native apps. The post Introducing Uniffi for React Native: Rust-Powered Turbo…
Llamafile v0.8.14: a new UI, performance gains, and more
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2024/10/llamafile-v0-8-14-a-new-ui-performance-gains-and-more/
Published: October 16, 2024 13:32
Discover the latest release of Llamafile 0.8.14, an open-source AI tool by Mozilla Builders. With a new command-line chat interface, enhanced performance, and support for powerful models, Llamafile makes it easy to run large language models (LLMs) on your…
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
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…