An Update on Mozilla’s Terms of Use for Firefox
On Wednesday we shared that we’re introducing a new Terms of Use (TOU) and Privacy Notice for Firefox. Since then, we’ve been listening to some of our community’s concerns with parts of the TOU, specifically about licensing. Our intent was just to be as clear as possible about how we make Firefox work, but in […]
Formation of organic glass from a human brain
Abstract Glass forms when a liquid is fast cooled preventing crystallization, across a reversible process known as the glass transition. Organic tissues are commonly preserved as glass by processes of vitrification at very low temperatures, known as cryopreservation, and can return to their original soft state when heated back to ambient temperature. It would therefore […]
Inheriting is becoming nearly as important as working
Work hard, children are told, and you will succeed. In recent decades this advice served the talented and the diligent well. Many have made their own fortunes and live comfortably, regardless of how much money they inherited. Now, however, the importance of hereditary wealth is rising around the rich world, and that is a problem.
Show HN: Torii – a framework agnostic authentication library for Rust
Warning This project is in early development and is not production-ready. The API is subject to change without notice. Torii is a powerful authentication framework for Rust applications that gives you complete control over your users’ data. Unlike hosted solutions like Auth0, Clerk, or WorkOS that store user information in their cloud, Torii lets you […]
Why it’s so hard to build a jet engine
Civilization’s toughest technical challenges are those that require extraordinary (and constantly improving) performance to be delivered at a low cost. High levels of performance often require complex, difficult-to-produce technology operating close to the limits of what’s possible. Any contractor could put up a five-story building using off-the-shelf building technology, but a 500-story building would be […]
Ohio One Construction Timeline Update
In this article: On Feb. 28, 2025, Naga Chandrasekaran, executive vice president, chief global operations officer and general manager of Intel Foundry Manufacturing, sent a message to Intel employees in Ohio updating them on the latest planned construction completion dates for Ohio One Mod 1 and Mod 2 that are under construction in New Albany, […]
How to gain code execution on hundreds of millions of people and popular apps
this started when i was looking into cursor, an ai text editor. also, i use lulu by objective-see on my laptop, so when i downloaded the cursor installer, i got this pop-up: now, what the hell is todesktop? i thought i was downloading cursor? well, looking at their website, they seem to be an electron […]
“No, we are absolutely not prepared to [fork Firefox]”
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Given the immense fallout from the Mozilla TOS adjustments. Is LibreWolf prepared to fork in the long term if Mozilla continues further down this path? It’s understood that maintaining a whole browser is difficult work, however it feels like Mozilla is making some dangerous changes in direction. Given the [immense]([url](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/mozilla-responds-to-backlash-over-new-terms-saying-it-s-not-using-people-s-data-for-ai/ar-AA1A07gz)) fallout [from]([url](https://www.androidauthority.com/firefox-data-sharing-change-3530771/)) the [Mozilla TOS […]
Japanese Toshiba Typewriter Model BW-2112 (2020) [video]
Show HN: Betting game puzzle (Hamming neighbor sum in linear time)
In Spain, there’s a betting game called La Quiniela: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Quiniela_(Espa%C3%B1a) Players predict the outcome of 14 football matches (home win, draw, away win). You win money if you get at least 10 correct, and the prize amount depends on the number of winners. Since all bets are public, the number of winners and the corresponding […]