The zero-days are numbered  | The Mozilla Blog
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Since February, the Firefox team has been working around the clock using frontier AI models to find and fix latent security vulnerabilities in the browser.
  • njordomir@lemmy.worldEnglish
    162·
    3 days ago

    Software like Firefox is designed in a modular way for humans to be able to reason about its correctness. It is complex, but not arbitrarily complex.

    So take out the free VPN and Pocket and it’ll be less complex! ¯\(ツ)/¯

      • XLE@piefed.socialEnglish
        3·
        3 days ago

        We got the worst of both worlds. The Pocket functionality got Ship of Theseus’d: The original functionality is all gone, and what remained became a Mozilla-run ad/news network. They removed the Pocket label last.

    • MagicShel@lemmy.zipEnglish
      41·
      3 days ago

      “Complex but not arbitrarily complex”? I need more coffee this morning already because I’m burning through my patience for idiotic things at an accelerated rate.

      This is an arbitrary sentence, not structured to communicate any information.

      See how I had to have that final comma clause so you could understand what the fuck I was even saying?

        • Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          112·
          3 days ago

          … You do realize that security patches are upstreamed, correct? These forks just don’t include the ads, AI, or built-in VPN.

            • Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
              32·
              3 days ago

              Depends on the fork. The MPL largely allows the forks to do as they please, so feel free to check their blog posts and patch notes for reference.