Reinstating net neutrality in the US
Today, Mozilla together with other internet companies ADT, Dropbox, Eventbrite, Reddit, Vimeo, Wikimedia, sent a letter to the FCC asking the agency to reinstate net neutrality as a matter of … Read more
Notes on Addressing Supply Chain Vulnerabilities
Addressing Supply Chain Vulnerabilities One of the unsung achievements of modern software development is the degree to which it has become componentized: not that long ago, when you wanted to … Read more
Latest Firefox release includes Multiple Picture-in-Picture and Total Cookie Protection
Beginning last year, the internet began playing a bigger role in our lives than ever before. In the US, we went from only three percent of workers to more than … Read more
Expanding Mozilla’s Boards
I’m delighted to share that the Mozilla Foundation and Corporation Boards are each welcoming a new member. Wambui Kinya is Vice President of Partner Engineering at Andela, a Lagos-based global … Read more
Why I’m Joining Mozilla’s Board of Directors
Like many of us I suspect, I have long been a fairly passive “end-user” of the internet. In my daily life, I’ve merrily skipped along it to simplify and accelerate … Read more
Why I’m Joining Mozilla’s Board of Directors
My introduction to Mozilla was when Firefox was first launched. I was starting my career as a software developer in Boston, MA at the time. My experience was Firefox was … Read more
Next steps on trustworthy AI: transparency, bias and better data governance
Over the last few years, Mozilla has turned its attention to AI, asking: how can we make the data driven technologies we all use everyday more trustworthy? How can we … Read more
Mozilla Welcomes the Rust Foundation
Today Mozilla is thrilled to join the Rust community in announcing the formation of the Rust Foundation. The Rust Foundation will be the home of the popular Rust programming language … Read more
What WebRTC means for you
If I told you that two weeks ago IETF and W3C finally published the standards for WebRTC, your response would probably be to ask what all those acronyms were. Read … Read more
Why getting voting right is hard, Part V: DREs (spoiler: they’re bad)
This is the fifth post in my series on voting systems (catch up on parts I, II, III and IV), focusing on computerized voting machines. The technical term for these … Read more
Mozilla’s Climate Commitments
Based on Mozilla’s greenhouse gas emissions assessment, we are now pledging carbon-neutrality as well as significant reductions in our organisation emissions going forward. Read more
Reimagine Open: Building a Healthier Internet
Does the “openness” that made the internet so successful also inevitably lead to harms online? Is an open internet inherently a haven for illegal speech, for eroding privacy and security, … Read more