A subtle psychological trick in your browser's address bar called salience bias has protected users from phishing attacks for over a decade. Salience bias is a cognitive behavior that causes one to notice things that stand out more.
9to5Mac
How your browser uses a clever psychological trick to stop phishing - 9to5Mac
This little salience bias design trick in Safari, Chrome, and more undoubtedly has saved millions from becoming victims of phishing attacks.
Privacy-focused Firefox is one of the few web browsers around that is not based on Chromium. Many have asked for improvements to its core functionality, and Firefox has finally delivered a long-requested Tab Groups feature.
It's FOSS
Exploring Firefox Tab Groups: Has Mozilla Redeemed Itself?
Firefox's Tab Groups help you organize tabs efficiently. But how efficiently? Let me share my experience.
In response to Mozilla's recent privacy changes, Zorin OS 17.3 replaces Firefox -- its previous default browser -- with Brave, albeit a customized version that hides features like Brave Rewards, Wallet, Leo AI, and more.
Zorin OS 17.3 takes Brave step of changing default browser
Comment: To be fair, it sounds like the team has ironed out the more controversial features
Rumors of the ongoing death of software development — that it’s being slain by AI — are greatly exaggerated. The work of a software developer is much more than just writing lines of code.
MIT Technology Review
The machines are rising — but developers still hold the keys
Increasing use of AI in software development will make developer decisions and judgment more important, not less.
Today, a nonprofit focused on bringing governance to open source projects announced the launch of a new security fund that will pay those who responsibly disclose security vulnerabilities that affect fediverse apps and services.
TechCrunch
A new security fund opens up to help protect the fediverse | TechCrunch
A new security fund aims to help apps in the fediverse — like Mastodon, Threads, and Pixelfed — to pay researchers for disclosing security bugs.
Mozilla will soon unveil a new set of "professional" services designed to enhance the basic email management features of its free, open-source email client, Thunderbird. https://www.techspot.com/news/107366-thunderbird-email-client-venturing-new-pro-tier-commercial.html
Today, unless you go totally off-grid, you'll never have the privacy people took for granted at the end of the 20th century.
Privacy died last century, the only way to go is off-grid
Opinion: From smartphones to surveillance cameras to security snafus, there's no escape
Akamai announced a multi-year partnership with the Linux Kernel Organization to provide critical infrastructure support for the development & distribution of the Linux kernel, ensuring uninterrupted access for its global developer network.
Open Source Watch
Akamai becomes the official distributor of the Linux kernel
Someone needs to host the Linux kernel code, and going forward, it will be the content delivery network Akamai.
Author, journalist, and long-time Internet freedom advocate Doc Searls wants us to stop asking for privacy from websites, services, and AI and start telling these things what we will and will not accept.
Ars Technica
“MyTerms” wants to become the new way we dictate our privacy on the web
It’s not a “do not track” request, it’s a set of terms you demand from sites.
Unlike chatbots, AI agents operate outside of a chat window, navigating multiple applications to execute complex tasks in response to simple user commands. How much control are we willing to surrender? At what cost?
MIT Technology Review
Why handing over total control to AI agents would be a huge mistake
When AI systems can control multiple sources simultaneously, the potential for harm explodes. We need to keep humans in the loop.