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While discussing with fellow developers, I was asked the following question a few times: We spend most of our time as developers thinking, not editing code; so, why invest time into mastering a complicated code editor, and why lose some cognitive resources on thinking about text editing instead of about the real…
When brothers Thomas and John Knoll began designing and writing an image editing program in the late 1980s, they could not have imagined that they would be adding a word to the dictionary.
Today we’ve released Firefox 73, with useful additions that include CSS and JavaScript updates, and numerous DevTools improvements. We’ve added to CSS logical properties, pushed performance forward in the Console ...
Handshake and GNOME Foundation donated $100,000 to GIMP.
This story describes the technical details of the problems that caused the Slack downtime on May 12th, 2020. To learn more about the process behind incident response for same outage, read Ryan Katkov’s post, “All Hands on Deck”. On May 12, 2020, Slack had our first significant outage in a long time. We published a…
A year ago at Mozilla we started to improve Firefox stability on Linux. This effort quickly became an example of good synergies between FOSS.
Oracle filed a motion to dismiss in response to Deno’s petition to cancel its “JavaScript” trademark. But instead of addressing the real issue—that JavaScript is an open standard with multiple independent implementations—Oracle is trying to stall the process and sidestep accountability.
A statement from Dario Amodei
Today, we are launching MDN Plus, our first step to providing a personalized and more powerful experience.
Our state-of-the-art model delivers 10-day weather predictions at unprecedented accuracy in under one minute
We have added a feature to block fingerprinting and cryptomining in Firefox Nightly as an option for users to turn on.
We've helped hundreds of people negotiate an average of $50k more. These are the two mistakes we can't undo.
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.
Claude Opus 4.6 found 22 Firefox vulnerabilities in two weeks, 14 rated high-severity, with proofs-of-concept and candidate patches for Mozilla.
News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.
MiMo, in collaboration with TileRT, releases the UltraSpeed mode of Xiaomi MiMo-V2.5-Pro — breaking 1000 tokens/s generation speed on a 1T-parameter model for the first time on commodity GPUs through extreme model-system codesign.
Embracing our SQL Maxi nature: how we ripped out RabbitMQ from our infrastructure and replaced it with a Postgres queue.
We are excited to announce that the Rust/WinRT project finally has a permanent and public home on GitHub: https://github.com/microsoft/winrt-rs Rust/WinRT follows in the tradition established by C++/WinRT of building language projections for the Windows Runtime using standard languages and compilers, providing a…
Learn about Jitsi Meet features update including a new systems audio update and new translations features. Click here for more information.
Posted by Zoe Piepmeier, Software Engineer Having access to your data and being able to take it with you is important, especially if tha...
Today marks the final release of Leaflet 1.0. It’s a culmination of several years of work by dozens of contributors from all over the world. This is the fastest, most stable and polished Leaflet release ever.
Earlier today, CEO Daniel Ek shared the following note about the company’s organizational changes with all Spotify employees. Team, Over the last two years, we’ve put significant emphasis on building Spotify into a truly great and sustainable business – one designed to achieve our goal of being the world’s leading…
Today we’re releasing a preview of ChatGPT Pulse to Pro users on mobile. Pulse is a new experience where ChatGPT proactively does research to deliver personalized updates based on your chats, feedback, and connected apps like your calendar.
From the Zed Blog: A look at how we use Zed's native collaboration features to run our entire company.
Researchers have discovered ancient Roman concrete-manufacturing strategies that incorporated self-healing. Applying this knowledge toward modern cement production, they hope to improve the material’s environmental impact.
AWS Cloud9 is a cloud-based integrated development environment (IDE) that lets you write, run, and debug your code with just a browser.
No patched kernels are available yet for 22.04, 24.04, or 26.04 despite a CVSS 9.8 rating.
