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Brave Browser Passes 20M Monthly Active Users and 7M Daily Active Users
November marks one year since we launched Brave 1.0, the most private, safest, and fastest (3-6x) browser. Over the past year, we've seen amazing growth on multiple fronts and we're happy to celebrate Brave 1.0's first anniversary by announcing that we officially passed 20 million monthly active users (20.5), up from…
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Background Features in Google Meet, Powered by Web ML
Posted by Tingbo Hou and Tyler Mullen, Software Engineers, Google Research Video conferencing is becoming ever more critical in people's work and p...
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MDN Web Docs evolves: Lowdown on the upcoming new platform
The time has come for Kuma — the platform that powers MDN Web Docs — to evolve. “What does a Kuma evolve into? A KumaMaMa?”
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Next.js 10
Next.js 10 introduces Built-in Image Optimization, Internationalized Routing, Next.js Analytics, React 17 Support, and more!
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Mobilizon – A free, federated tool for events and groups
Mobilizon is our free-libre and federated tool to free events and groups from the clutches of Facebook. After two years of work, today we are releasing the first version of this software, along with a whole series of tools so that you can quickly get started. la version française originale de cet article est ici...
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Graphics in Qt 6.0: QRhi, Qt Quick, Qt Quick 3D
The state of Qt 6.0 graphics on Vulkan, OpenGL, Metal, Direct3D 11. Qt Quick API changes. Qt Quick 3D new features in Qt 6.
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The majority of Facebook's traffic now uses QUIC and HTTP/3
We are replacing the de facto protocol the internet has used for decades with QUIC, the latest and most radical step we’ve taken to optimize our network protocols to create a better experience for …
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Firefox 82
We'd like to extend a special thank you to all of the new Mozillians who contributed to this release of Firefox.
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Face ID and Touch ID for the Web
People often see passwords are the original sin of authentication on the web.
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Expanded extension support in Firefox for Android Nightly
Starting September 30, 2020, you can configure Firefox for Android Nightly to install extensions listed on addons.mozilla.org.
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Reimagining the Browser: Introducing Cloudflare Browser Isolation Beta
Today, we’re excited to open up a beta of a third approach to keeping web browsing safe with Cloudflare Browser Isolation.
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The File System Access API: simplifying access to local files | Capabilities
The File System Access API enables developers to build powerful web apps that interact with files on the user's local device, such as IDEs, photo and video editors, text editors, and more. After a user grants a web app access, this API allows them to read or save changes directly to files and folders on the…
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Top games from the JS13K 2020 competition
The ninth annual js13kGames competition wrapped up last weekend with over 220 games submitted. All created in a month and in less than 13kB of JavaScript. For anyone not in…
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Plan Your Route Privately: DuckDuckGo Now Has Driving and Walking Directions
We're excited to announce a big step forward with the introduction of route-planning directions on DuckDuckGo Search – private, as always.
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Webpack 5
webpack is a module bundler for JavaScript, CSS, HTML, WebAssembly and assets. It builds a dependency graph from your project and emits optimized bundles for browsers, Node.js, Deno, Bun and other environments.
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DOMPurify bypass: XSS via HTML namespace confusion
Securitum is a pure pentesting company specialising in the security of IT systems. We have experience in performing security audits (including penetration tests) - mainly for financial/e-commerce/industrial sectors. We have performed penetration tests and cyber security services for leading European banks (see…
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JQuery to React: How we rewrote the HelloSign editor
HelloSign is a Dropbox company that provides a Web-based eSignature solution: If you have a document you want someone to sign, you upload the document file, then show you an editor in which you place all the fields to build the form the recipient will fill out—signatures, dates, initials, etc. You send this prepared…
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Pelican static site generator 4.5
Pelican static site generator
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The life and death of email read tracking
This week we sunsetted read tracking ability from Missive. Years ago, after receiving many requests to...
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Workers Durable Objects Beta: A New Approach to Stateful Serverless
Durable Objects provide a truly serverless approach to storage and state: consistent, low-latency, distributed, yet effortless to maintain and scale. They also enable coordination and real-time collaboration between clients.
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On not choosing WordPress for the W3C redesign project
Explaining the background of our choice on CMS platform and the response to a recent WordPress Tavern post
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Bringing the Mona Lisa Effect to Life with Tensorflow.js
Urban legend says that Mona Lisa's eyes will follow you as you move around the room. This interactive digital portrait brings the phenomenon to life..
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Enforcing Modularity in Rails Apps with Packwerk
Packwerk is an open source static analysis tool used to enforce boundaries between groups of Ruby files we call packages.
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Wikipedia is getting a new look
This is the first blog in a series about desktop improvements coming to Wikipedia. Wikipedia has remained a critical and widely-used resource for knowledge across the world for the past two decades…
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