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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. We wrote previously about our collaboration with Anthropic to scan Firefox with Opus 4.6, which led to fixes for 22 security-sensitive bugs in Firefox 148.
As part of our continued collaboration with Anthropic, we had the opportunity to apply an early version of Claude Mythos Preview to Firefox. This week’s release of Firefox 150 includes fixes for 271 vulnerabilities identified during this initial evaluation.
As these capabilities reach the hands of more defenders, many other teams are now experiencing the same vertigo we did when the findings first came into focus. For a hardened target, just one such bug would have been red-alert in 2025, and so many at once makes you stop to wonder whether it’s even possible to keep up.
Our experience is a hopeful one for teams who shake off the vertigo and get to work. You may need to reprioritize everything else to bring relentless and single-minded focus to the task, but there is light at the end of the tunnel. We are extremely proud of how our team rose to meet this challenge, and others will too. Our work isn’t finished, but we’ve turned the corner and can glimpse a future much better than just keeping up. Defenders finally have a chance to win, decisively.
They’re right. Assuming the defenders can patch, and push those patches out to users quickly, this technology favors the defenders.
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Colombia president Gustavo Petro tells 57-country talks on a green energy transition that fossil fuel interests could destroy humanity
The world is threatened by a “suicidal” model of capitalism that is leading to war, fascism and the potential extinction of humanity, Colombia’s president has said, as he convened 57 governments to address the climate crisis.
Gustavo Petro blamed fossil fuel interests for taking ever more desperate measures to prevent a transition to green energy. “There is inertia in the power and the economy of this archaic form of energy – fossil fuels – that lead to death. Undoubtedly, that form of capital can commit suicide, taking with it humanity and [other] life,” he said. “The question that needs to be asked is whether capitalism can truly adapt to a non-fossil energy model.”
Continue reading...As David Attenbourugh turns 100 years old, we would like to hear your memories over the years – including any encounters you’ve had with him in the wild
As David Attenborough turns 100 years old on 8 May, we would like to hear your memories of the great naturalist and broadcaster over the years – including any encounters you’ve had with him in the wild.
What is your standout memory of Attenborough? Have you ever met him? You can share your stories – and pictures – below.
Continue reading...32 phone calls, 17 email chains, a 5-day ordeal, and no help during the daddy of all stuffups, claim those affected
GoDaddy is currently investigating claims that it handed complete control of a valid 27-year-old domain to another customer, without requiring them to pass any authentication processes or upload any supporting documents.…
Parlementsleden in Kosovo zijn er dinsdag niet in geslaagd om een president te kiezen. Kosovaren moeten daarom voor de derde keer in iets meer dan een jaar tijd naar de stembus.
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Wanneer onze recensent weer eens het woord vreemdelingen hoort op tv, moet ze denken aan de film ‘Groundhog Day’. Ook heeft ze al vaker horen zeggen dat mensen van buiten onze huizen innemen, maar nu komen ze ook nog onze tbs-plekjes bezet houden. Daar staat ze wel even van te kijken.
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This plant is the only known wild specimen in the world, found on just 300 metres [984.2 feet] of roadside. Only one known single spyridium plant is left in the wild, in crushed limestone on the side of a road. But scientists are hunting for more.
Een groep van ongeveer 25 actievoerders van Extinction Rebellion heeft woensdagochtend de ingang van de energiecentrale van EP NL aan de Petroleumweg in Rotterdam geblokkeerd. De actie, die bedoeld is om de werkzaamheden bij de centrale te verstoren, is inmiddels voorbij.
