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Karissa Bell / Engadget: The Mozilla Foundation and 90+ research and advocacy groups urge Meta to support CrowdTangle through January 2025 to track election misinformation globally — The letter, also signed by CrowdTangle's former CEO, claims shutting it down is a “direct threat” to researchers' work Karissa Bell / Engadget: The Mozilla Foundation and 90+ research and advocacy groups urge Meta to support CrowdTangle through January 2025 to track election misinformation globally …

It’s been another bad week for tech industry jobs. In recent days, several major tech companies have announced layoffs—a trend that has been ongoing since the beginning of the year. According to tech layoff tracker Layoffs.fyi, 144 tech companies have already laid off employees in 2024, amounting to 34,560 jobs lost. These are the latest major tech companies to announce job cuts this week:MozillaOn Tuesday, the maker of the Firefox web browser announced it would cut about 5% of its workforce, amounting to 60 jobs lost. As…

Image Source : MOZILLA Mozilla lays off 60 employees, and here is the reason Mozilla, the developer of Firefox browser are reportedly laying off 60 employees from the team, as the company plans to scale back its investment in several products. Mozilla said in a memo that it will focus on bringing “trustworthy AI into Firefox” and to do so, it will bring together…

Lonely on Valentine’s Day? AI can help. At least, that’s what a number of companies hawking “romantic” chatbots will tell you. But as your robot love story unfolds, there’s a tradeoff you may not realize you’re making. According to a new study from Mozilla’s *Privacy Not Included project, AI girlfriends and boyfriends harvest shockingly personal information, and almost all of them sell or share the data they collect. Like It or Not, Your Doctor Will Use AI | AI Unlocked“To be perfectly blunt, AI girlfriends and boyfriends…

Mozilla is the latest in a long line of tech companies to lay off employees this year. The not-for-profit company is firing around 60 people, which equates to roughly five percent of its workforce. Most of those who are leaving Mozilla worked on the product development team. The news was first reported by Bloomberg.“We’re scaling back investment in some product areas in order to focus on areas that we feel have the greatest chance of success,” a Mozilla spokesperson told Engadget in a statement. “To do so, we've made the…

Thanks to the humble cookie, our favorite websites can remember us, greeting our return visits like a conscientious barista. But also thanks to these small files, some egregious privacy abuses have occurred. Cookies will disappear this year, though a problem solved may be a problem caused.The cookie, invented by a 23-year-old Netscape engineer 30 years ago, was initially intended to act as an identifier so users didn't have to keep logging in. It has long been co-opted, however, by the advertising industry as a way to…

In a bid to bolster user privacy, Mozilla Firefox has revamped its free privacy monitoring service, known as Mozilla Monitor, and introduced a…

Since its launch in 2002, Mozilla Firefox, simply known as Firefox, has been one of the most popular web browsers in the world. It is also considered one of the best in terms of privacy, offering features such as ad blocker extensions, Facebook containers, tracking protection, and more. Now, Mozilla has beefed up its privacy measures with yet another feature. Its free privacy monitoring service, known as Firefox Monitor, has received a revamp and Mozilla has launched a subscription model for it, offering more security…

Mozilla is rolling out a tool that can automatically monitor data brokers for your personal information and scrub any of your exposed details from them. Mozilla Monitor Plus expands on the Mozilla Monitor (formerly Firefox Monitor) service, which lets you know when your email address is included in a data breach.This new paid service, which costs $9 per month or $107.88 per year, aims to proactively make sure your personal information stays off more than 190 data broker sites. Mozilla says that's double the number of data…

Andy Boxall / Digital Trends Apple has today announced a major change that could revolutionize the web-browsing experience for iPhone users. Alas, this browsing boon will be limited to users in the EU bloc. This news was announced alongside Apple’s plans to add sideloading and third-party app stores to the iPhone. To comply with the EU’s landmark Digital Markets Act (DMA), Apple says it will allow developers to use other browser engines for their web browsers. That means Apple will no longer force them to use its own…