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NVIDIA has invested $1.5 million into Mozilla's Common Voice project. Mozilla will use the money to hire people to improve the product further and to reach new communities and volunteers.

Yves here. This is a greatly expanded and considerably broader follow-up to an article on Wikipedia by Michael Olenick early this year, Wikipedia: The Overlooked Monopoly. Here, Olenick debunks the idea that Wikipedia is impoverished by showing not only its level of funding but also digging into its sources, a considerable amount of which comes from Silicon Valley titans via intermediaries. He also shows how Wikipedia’s entries (and absence of them) are slanted to favor its tech backers. Ther...

Cure of the common code: OpenMRS aims to boost medical record systems in developing countries Geekwire 12 hrs ago © Provided by Geekwire OpenMRS developers work on solutions during an annual OpenMRS Hackathon. (OpenMRS Photos) Consider the difficulties many of us face when we need medical procedures, tests or referrals. Now imagine you lived in a developing country where these challenges can be significantly greater. Popular Searches For instance, getting a critical blood test might mean b...

The fight for a freer web continues published : 17 Mar 2021 at 04:00 25 The social media platform Telegram has over 500 million users with over 55 million active every day. Unlike other platforms such as Twitter, YouTube, Facebook and others, you are free to express your opinion there without being cancelled, shadow banned or throttled in searches. There are other platforms also emerging to compete with the giants but there are problems. Bank and payment gateways ar...

Can a Programming Language Reduce Vulnerabilities? Rust offers a safer programming language, but adoption is still a problem despite recent signs of increasing popularity. When Microsoft wanted to rewrite a security-critical network processing agent to eliminate memory-safety vulnerabilities causing recurring headaches for the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC), the company tasked an intern and told him to rewrite the code in Rust.  Rust, a programming language that has claimed the titl...

AMD Ryzen 9 5950X Review – The king of the Ryzen CPUs Late last year, AMD outed a bunch of new processors under the Ryzen 5000 series which are based on the new Zen 3 architecture. The most premium offering from AMD is the Ryzen 9 5950X which boasts of 16 cores and 32 threads and is one the most attractive offerings in the market for anyone looking to build high-end PC for gaming or otherwise and takes on Intel’s top-most offering i9-10900K. Does the AMD 5950X live up to the expectations. L...

Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and TikTok have been playing catch up on misinformation. Image: mozilla 2021-03-08 16:00:00 UTC When it rained misinformation during election season, it poured policy updates from tech platforms. Too bad none of them thought to bring a sturdy umbrella in the first place. The Mozilla Foundation, a nonprofit which advocates for a secure, open internet that supports democracy, has released an interactive timeline that shows the misinformation policy changes online plat...

The Mozilla Foundation, creators of the Firefox web browser, has introduced a new browser extension that automatically replaces "hostile comments directed at women" with the word "boss" across the internet.

Updated: March 04, 2021 14:48 IST “Ripple effects of these provisions will have a devastating impact on freedom of expression, privacy and security,” Internet company Mozilla said. Share Article AAA Representative Image: The new rules are already binding law, and provisions for large social media firms will come into force by around end of May 2021. File Photo.   “Ripple effects of these provisions will have a devastating impact on freedom of expression, privacy and security,” Interne...

Mozilla said its Total Cookie Protection feature in Firefox 86 prevents invasive, cross-site cookie tracking. The Mozilla Foundation has released its latest version of the Firefox browser, which comes with new privacy protections to squash cross-site cookie tracking, as well as a slew of security vulnerability fixes. Firefox 86, released on Tuesday, includes what it touts as a privacy-bolstering feature called Total Cookie Protection. This new feature isolates each cookie assigned by each websi...