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Mozilla will cut up to 10% of employees

Mozilla plans to cut up to ten percent of its workforce and refocus its efforts on using artificial intelligence technologies in its Firefox browser. After the appointment of a new leader, Mozilla intends to make layoffs among approximately 60 employees and revise its product development strategy. Given the total number of employees in the range of 500 to 1000 people, this would affect approximately 5-10% of the workforce. This […]

Mozilla will lay off about 60 employees and focus on AI technologies in Firefox

Following the appointment of a new leader, Mozilla intends to lay off about 60 employees and change its product development strategy. Considering that, according to public reports, Mozilla employs from 500 to 1000 people, the layoffs will affect 5-10% of the staff. This is the fourth massive wave of layoffs - in 2020, 320 (250 + 70) workers were laid off, and in […]

Waymo initiated a software update for its self-driving taxis after incidents in Arizona

Tesla actively tests its software with the participation of volunteers, so it carries out “recalls” of products that imply forced updates to it every now and then at the request of American regulators. Waymo applied such a measure for the first time only recently, and did so on its own initiative after two identical accidents in Arizona. Image source: WaymoSource: 3dnews.ru

ChatGPT AI bot has learned to remember facts about users and their preferences

Working with an AI chatbot on a regular basis can become annoying, as each time the user has to explain certain facts about themselves and their preferences to improve the experience. OpenAI, the developer of the ChatGPT AI bot, intends to correct this by making the algorithm more personalized by adding “memory” to it. Image source: Growtika / unsplash.com Source: 3dnews.ru

NVIDIA still overtook Amazon in capitalization and is now breathing down Alphabet's back

As noted the day before, the market capitalizations of NVIDIA, Amazon and Alphabet turned out to be not so far from each other, and for the first of them this figure is steadily growing in anticipation of the publication of quarterly reports, which will be released next week. Amazon and Alphabet's share price dynamics are not so clear, so NVIDIA still managed to beat the first […]

Mozilla will carry out large-scale restructuring to focus on the development of Firefox and AI technologies

Mozilla, the company behind the popular Firefox browser, hired a new CEO earlier this month. Now it has become known that the company is making a number of significant changes to its business strategy, including staff reductions and reduced investments in some products, such as VPN, Relay and the Online Footprint Scrubber, launched just a week ago. Image source: MozillaSource: 3dnews.ru

Chromium is experimenting with automatic micropayments to monetize sites

The developers of the Chromium project announced their intention to implement support for Web Monetization technology in the browser, which allows automatic micropayments to site owners for viewing their content. It is assumed that the technology can be used to monetize sites instead of displaying advertising, as an analogue of online tipping, or to provide selective paid access to content without a subscription. The first prototype of the Web Monetization implementation […]

Container ships powered by hydrogen fuel begin to ply along the Rhine

Dutch shipbuilding company Holland Shipyard Group has begun converting the container barge FPS Waal from diesel engines to electric engines powered by hydrogen fuel cells. The customer, Future Proof Shipping, intends to build and operate up to 10 CO2-emission coasters on the Rhine over the next five years, making the air above the river […]