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Elizabeth “Eliza” Fenning was born on June 10, 1793 in the Caribbean island of Dominica. Her parents William and Mary Fenning had a total of ten children, but only Elizabeth survived to adulthood, a common occurrence due to the high infant mortality rate at the time. Her father had been a soldier. Upon his discharge, […]
Process separation is one of the cornerstones of the Firefox security model. Instead of running Firefox as a single process, multiple processes with different privileges communicate with each other via Inter-Process Communication (IPC). For example: loading a website, processing its resources, and rendering it is done by an isolated Content Process with a very restrictive […]
Origins and Formation Byzantine Emperor Basil II suffered a major defeat against the Bulgarians in 986, at Trajan’s Gate, a strategic mountain pass in Bulgaria. The rebels Bardas Sclerus and Bardas Phocas renewed their attempts to supplant Basil and seize the Byzantine throne for themselves. Surrounded by enemies both within and without the empire, Basil […]
Despite the hold that the internet now has on everyday life, it is difficult to imagine it as something that was ever invented. Unlike the car, the telephone, or the aeroplane, the internet by comparison has managed to achieve ubiquity without us being able to point to an obvious creator. Of course, we see traces […]
Mozilla’s recently announced Builders program supports projects that advance the cause of open source AI. Our inaugural theme is “Local AI”: AI-powered applications that can run entirely locally on consumer devices like desktops, laptops, and smartphones. We are keenly interested in this area because it fosters greater privacy and control by putting AI technology directly […]
Oskar Potiorek Bosnia and Herzegovina was a hotly disputed territory in 1914. It had been annexed by the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in 1910 from the crumbling Ottoman Empire, but was also claimed by neighboring Serbia and had a growing nationalist movement amongst its youth who wanted it to be part of a South Slav state. The […]
If the story rested on the bizarre coincidence of the arrests in 1865 and 1888, that would be compelling enough. But during my research, I encountered an extraordinary figure whose life consisted of a series of crises and scandals. It included two manslaughter cases; violent assaults; arrests for gross indecency; and accusations of business fraud. […]
As discussed on Mozilla Connect, Firefox 130 will introduce an experimental new capability to automatically generate alt-text for images using a fully private on-device AI model. The feature will be available as part of Firefox’s built-in PDF editor, and our end goal is to make it available in general browsing for users with screen readers. […]
News Read this post in other languages: This special edition of the Kotlin Roundup is dedicated exclusively to KotlinConf 2024. At the opening keynote, Egor Tolstoy, Michail Zarečenskij, Ekaterina Petrova, Sebastian Aigner, Vsevolod Tolstopyatov, and Svetlana Isakova announced a plethora of exciting updates, addressing JetBrains’ recent work on the Kotlin language. Meanwhile, our guest keynote […]
4 MIN READ Returning to school to finish your degree can be a transformative step that not only enhances your qualifications, but also opens a world of new career opportunities. There are multiple reasons why an adult would go back to school, as well as some challenges to returning. However, returning to school to finish […]