Tor, the open source initiative which provides a more secure way to access the internet, is continuing to diversify its funding away from its long-standing reliance on U.S. government grants. The Tor Foundation — the organization behind the service which stands for ‘The Onion Router’ — announced this week that it brought in a record […]
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Mozilla promises a faster, prettier Thunderbird with better Gmail support
Thunderbird, Mozilla’s desktop email client, doesn’t have anywhere near the amount of mindshare of the organization’s Firefox browser, yet even in this age of web-based email services, it still has a sizable user community. For 2019, those users can look forward to a faster and more beautiful application, Thunderbird community manager Ryan Sipes announced today. […]
View More Mozilla promises a faster, prettier Thunderbird with better Gmail supportFirefox Focus adds support for enhanced tracking protection and Google’s Safe Browsing service
Firefox Focus for Android and iOS is Mozilla’s privacy-centric mobile browser. Today, the organization stepped up this promise of keeping its users’ data private by adding a few new features to the browser that expand on this by adding a new privacy feature, as well as a few other new tools. The main new addition […]
View More Firefox Focus adds support for enhanced tracking protection and Google’s Safe Browsing serviceMozilla and Qualcomm are bringing a native version of Firefox to Windows 10 on ARM
Microsoft is working with Google to bring a native ARM64 version of Chrome to Windows 10 on ARM and as Mozilla announced today, it, too, is working on bringing a native version of Firefox to Windows 10 on ARM. The organization is doing so in cooperation with Qualcomm. Typically, to make any Windows 10 application […]
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Shannon Farley Contributor Shannon Farley is co-founder and executive director at Fast Forward. More posts by this contributor Legal tech is opening the system to those who need legal representation the most Why edtech startups need to build for overlooked communities In the past year, we’ve seen tech platforms called out for stoking hate and […]
View More Is ethical tech a farce?Australia rushes its ‘dangerous’ anti-encryption bill into parliament, despite massive opposition
Australia’s controversial anti-encryption bill is one step closer to becoming law, after the two leading but sparring party political giants struck a deal to pass the legislation. The bill, in short, grants Australian police greater powers to issue “technical notices” — a nice way of forcing companies — even websites — operating in Australia to […]
View More Australia rushes its ‘dangerous’ anti-encryption bill into parliament, despite massive oppositionMozilla adds website breach notifications to Firefox
Mozilla is adding a new security feature to its Firefox Quantum web browser that will alert users when they visit a website that has recently reported a data breach. When a Firefox user lands on a website with a breach in its recent past they’ll see a pop up notification informing them of the barebones […]
View More Mozilla adds website breach notifications to FirefoxIs that fancy smart gadget a privacy nightmare? A new guide has answers.
These days, even your teddy bear might be out to get you.
As the inevitable creep of “smart” features and products continues to turn everything from your refrigerator to your thermostat into a connected device, it’s worth taking a moment to con…
Mozilla ranks dozens of popular ‘smart’ gift ideas on creepiness and security
If you’re planning on picking up some cool new smart device for a loved one this holiday season, it might be worth your while to check whether it’s one of the good ones or not. Not just in the quality of the camera or step tracking, but the security and privacy practices of the companies that will collect (and sell) the data it produces. Mozilla has produced a handy resource ranking 70 of the latest items, from Amazon Echos to smart teddy bears.
View More Mozilla ranks dozens of popular ‘smart’ gift ideas on creepiness and securityFirefox’s newest Test Pilot experiments help you track prices and email links
Test Pilot is Mozilla’s program for experimenting with some of its more outlandish ideas for Firefox and beyond. Some of those experiments make it into the browser itself, some become stand-alone extensions and others get unceremoniously canned. Today, the organization is announcing two new Test Pilot projects: Price Wise, which lets you track the price […]
View More Firefox’s newest Test Pilot experiments help you track prices and email linksFCC resorts to the usual malarkey defending itself against Mozilla lawsuit
Mozilla filed a lawsuit in August alleging the FCC had unlawfully overturned 2015’s net neutrality rules, by among other things “fundamentally mischaracteriz[ing] how internet access works.” The FCC has filed its official response, and as you might expect it has doubled down on those fundamental mischaracterizations.
View More FCC resorts to the usual malarkey defending itself against Mozilla lawsuitPocket’s reading app won’t sound so robotic now
Last year, Mozilla made its first acquisition by snatching up Pocket, the Instapaper competitor that helps you save longer articles for later reading. Today, this popular reading app is getting a major update that gives its app a visual makeover, including a new dark mode, and most importantly, a better way to listen to the […]
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