Introducing early access for Firefox Support for Organizations | The Mozilla Blog
Increasingly, businesses, schools, and government institutions deploy Firefox at scale for security, resilience, and data sovereignty. Organizations have fine-grained administrative and orchestration control of the browser’s behavior using policies with Firefox and the Extended Support Release (ESR). Today, we’re opening early access to Firefox Support for Organizations, a new program that begins operation in January 2026.
Introducing early access for Firefox Support for Organizations
Firefox Support for Organizations adds a new layer of help for teams and businesses that need confidential, reliable, and customized levels of support.Kristina Bravo (The Mozilla Blog)
ID verification laws are fueling the next wave of breaches
The cybersecurity community has long lived by a simple principle: Don't collect more data than you can protect. But ID laws and other legal mandates now force many organizations to store massive amounts of sensitive data, putting them in the precarious situation of dealing with information they don’t necessarily want but have to safeguard.
A budget for tanks, banks, and oil barons
Martin Lukacs and Desmond Cole discuss the Liberal government’s Harper-esque budget
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Elisabetta Fratoni e i suoi musicisti accompagneranno la cena al Nebula Bar di Viterbo al ritmo del jazz 🎺
Sul progetto musicale
"Jazzy!" è un viaggio attraverso una galleria di composizioni originali e reinterpretazioni audaci, dove la solida base del jazz si fonde con ritmi irresistibilmente funky.
Ma non pensate che sia tutto ritmo e beat: troverete anche momenti di malinconia e riflessione in brani come Sassi dove l'abilità tecnica del gruppo e la sensibilità di Elisabetta si fanno sentire al massimo.
I componenti del trio:
Elisabetta Fratoni (🎤 voce e 🎸 basso) – Cantante dalla voce calda e bassista versatile, Elisabetta incanta con il suo talento e la capacità di creare atmosfere uniche.
Sandro Santilli (🎺 tromba) – Trombettista dal suono pulito ed espressivo, Sandro arricchisce il quartetto con una presenza musicale genuina e misurata.
Luciano Tellico (🎹 pianoforte) – Pianista dal tocco elegante, Luciano accompagna il quartetto con armonie raffinate e una grande sensibilità artistica.
Come Beppe Sala si presenta a C40 in Brasile
Traduzione automatica dall'inglese:
Giuseppe Sala, membro del partito dei Verdi italiani e sindaco di Milano da quasi 10 anni, è stupito dal fatto che Giorgia Meloni, primo ministro di estrema destra dell'Italia, sia così poco presente. Secondo lui, è stata in città forse tre volte in altrettanti anni.Tuttavia, ha espresso le sue preoccupazioni sulla natura “ideologica” del piano europeo Green Deal, che mira a rendere l'Europa il primo continente climaticamente neutrale entro il 2050.
Uno dei progetti che Sala ritiene possa essere di esempio per il resto d'Italia è una campagna chiamata “Io non spreco”, che prevede la distribuzione di borse riutilizzabili agli alunni delle scuole elementari per portare a casa il cibo avanzato dalla mensa scolastica. Secondo i calcoli del Comune, ogni mese si evitano così circa 10.000 panini, 9.000 pezzi di frutta e 1.000 dessert.
Ha anche introdotto a Milano una zona a basse emissioni, la più grande dell'UE, che vieta l'accesso alle auto non conformi. Milano rimane congestionata, ma la qualità dell'aria sta migliorando e, dopo un primo anno difficile, la misura è stata accettata dal pubblico, afferma.
Due mesi fa ha vietato completamente la circolazione dei veicoli privati nelle strade intorno a Via Monte Napoleone, il centro della moda della città. “Bisogna procedere sempre un passo alla volta”, afferma, anche se si aspetta che le elezioni comunali del 2027 saranno dominate da questo tema, con i suoi avversari che insistono: “Hai il diritto di guidare la tua auto dove vuoi”.
“Quindi quello sarà un buon momento per vedere se la sensibilità della gente potrà cambiare”, afferma.
‘Politicians actually taking action’: six world mayors defying climate-sceptic populist leaders
From Sierra Leone to Milan, cities are crafting their own rules and innovations in the face of rising temperaturesDaniel Boffey (The Guardian)
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Elon Musk says Optimus will 'eliminate poverty' in speech after his $1 trillion pay package was approved
Indulge me for the coming delusion, but if we ignore who this is, forget all the reasons we know that we can't trust him, and allow ourselves just a few moments to hope that we could live in such a world.
A world where manual labor is no longer needed, where people can just exist as large mammals are meant to exist. Robots will handle it all and we can just do as we please... and the robots are going to be plentiful because once enough of the process of making a robot becomes automated, the cost of it will go to zero. But to get there it is going to require a ton of money... these robots are going to be way too expensive for people to actually buy them, so investors and governments will help out. The investors will eventually lose everything, but that will put us on the way to having everything we need to be created through completely automated systems.
Of course, there will still be jobs for those who really want them - or more likely, who want them and are good at them - or even more likely, who knows the right people... but if we can get our basic needs taken care of it night not fully end poverty but it would be a step in the right direction.
But, alas... It's Musk saying it so it's only to further enrich himself and won't actually happen.
Elon Musk says Optimus will 'eliminate poverty'
Elon Musk has spent the last few weeks outlining a future with Optimus — one that will "eliminate" poverty, work, and require a universal income.Henry Chandonnet (Business Insider)
Ricercatori creano il Google Maps del Mondo Antico, migliorando le nostre conoscenze della viabilità romana - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
Ricercatori creano il Google Maps del Mondo Antico, migliorando le nostre conoscenze della viabilità romana - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
Prima della navigazione GPS, era lo stradario. Manuale più o meno tascabile, incorporato nella dotazione degli autoveicoli.Jacopo (Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri)
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L’Ontario ne veut plus devoir établir une cible de GES
L’Ontario ne veut plus devoir établir une cible de GES
Le gouvernement de Doug Ford propose d’abroger des articles d’une loi environnementale entrée en vigueur en 2018, selon son énoncé économique d'automne.Radio-Canada
Palantir CEO Says a Surveillance State Is Preferable to China Winning the AI Race
Palantir CEO Says a Surveillance State Is Preferable to China Winning the AI Race
He also had strong opinions about people's "god-given" rights to eat a hotdog and flirt with someone who isn't their spouse.AJ Dellinger (Gizmodo)
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Do you brush your teeth in the shower or the sink?
Sam Altman's pants are on fire
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Sam Altman’s pants are totally on fire
Even for him, his latest whopper is somethingGary Marcus (Marcus on AI)
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Alibaba-backed Moonshot releases its second AI update
Alibaba-backed Moonshot releases its second AI update in four months as China’s AI race heats up
The Chinese AI startup on Thursday released its newest "Kimi K2 Thinking" artificial intelligence model.Evelyn Cheng (CNBC)
Meta can't afford its $600B love letter to Trump
Meta can't afford its $600B love letter to Trump
: The Zuck better hope his finance bros have deep pockets and a whole lotta patience to pull this offTobias Mann (The Register)
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Republicans swat down Democratic offer to end US government shutdown
Republicans swat down Democratic offer to end US government shutdown
Democratic leader Schumer offered Republicans votes to end gov’t shutdown and extend the expiring healthcare subsidies.Al Jazeera
14 suburban moms arrested in sit-in protest outside Broadview ICE facility
14 suburban moms arrested in sit-in protest outside Broadview ICE facility
The mothers sat in a circle on Beach Street Friday to “demand an end” to Chicago-area federal immigration raids.Chicago Sun-Times
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They Will Put Us All Out of Business!" Ford CEO Issues Bankruptcy Warning. Chinese EV makers are dominating global markets.
Ford’s CEO has issued a shocking bankruptcy warning, admitting that new EV competition could put legacy automakers out of business! With Chinese EV makers, Tesla, and BYD dominating global markets, traditional car companies like Ford are struggling to keep up with rapid electric vehicle innovation and falling prices. This video breaks down how the EV revolution, battery tech, and production costs are reshaping the future of the automotive industry.
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What's a rule that you follow that has improved your personal life?
I've designated one room in my house to be an Airplane Mode room. Technically it has WiFi but whenever I'm in it I behave as if my phone didn't have any reception. Believe it or not, actively pretending that your phone has no WiFi works better than just passively putting on airplane mode. I always get a sense of calmness when I enter.
What artificial limits do you impose on yourself that ultimately enrich your life?
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The extension to hide Trump and Musk's faces is live!
This extension replaces images of Trump and Musk with a placeholder.
Soon I will add a configuration screen to it so you can put in any names you like.
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UglyMug – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)
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Greener banking in Australia: how to put your money where your values are
Greener banking in Australia: how to put your money where your values are
Banking is an unavoidable fact of modern life, but where you choose to put your money can make a differenceJames Norman (The Guardian)
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Their bottom line might improve with the publicity they get for cutting off the fossil fuel companies. We don't even know how much they got from those anyway. They might not be giving up much.
And ESGs can outperform in some years. But over the long term (10+ years), and with the increased management fees, they don't.
The vanguard ESGV fund is, I think, similar to a total-market index fund but with fossil fuels removed, and it only has a very slight increase in management fees compared to their standard index funds (I think it's expense ratio is 0.09).
However, like many index funds, it's invested heavily into Nvidia, Google, Meta, Amazon, Tesla, Microsoft, Apple, etc. So a lot of that investment money isn't going to ethical companies, and if the AI bubble pops, those funds will be hit fairly hard (along with the whole market).
How much of your money is invested in evil corporations? Some advice for ethical investing
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New York State Approves Trump-Backed Gas Pipeline
New York Approves Trump-Backed Gas Pipeline
The Northeast Supply Enhancement pipeline had been rejected by environmental regulators three times but was revived this spring after talks between Hochul and Trump.New York Focus
Free State Project Launches New Website
Launching a New Era for the Free State Project
As torches of liberty dim all around us, our flame in New Hampshire grows brighter every election cycle.
With so many losing hope for liberty in their states on November 4th, November 5th was the perfect time to launch our new website (details below) and welcome video — inviting liberty seekers to come home and join us in the birthplace of American liberty.
Watch our newly launched Free State Project promotion video — introducing new people to a better way to build liberty.
Thank you to our FSP Video Strategist, Reinita Susman, for producing this new video — utilizing footage and interviews from her upcoming documentary on the Free State Project.
Free State Project Website FSP.org
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Free State Project Launches Launches New Website
Launching a New Era for the Free State Project
As torches of liberty dim all around us, our flame in New Hampshire grows brighter every election cycle.
With so many losing hope for liberty in their states on November 4th, November 5th was the perfect time to launch our new website (details below) and welcome video — inviting liberty seekers to come home and join us in the birthplace of American liberty.
Watch our newly launched Free State Project promotion video — introducing new people to a better way to build liberty.
Thank you to our FSP Video Strategist, Reinita Susman, for producing this new video — utilizing footage and interviews from her upcoming documentary on the Free State Project.
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Clean energy could become a huge political winner | Rising power bills quietly shaped this year’s races — and gave Democrats a new attack line on climate.
Clean energy could become a huge political winner
Tuesday’s election results suggest energy costs may be moving the political needle — an opportunity for Democrats.Umair Irfan (Vox)
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I've always said, energy independence is a winning strategy. It's a national security win, a finance win for the citizens and for the renewable energy companies, but because fossil capitalism is so entrenched in our dumb society it never goes anywhere.
Here are the people responsible for fucking over the climate
The dirty dozen: meet America’s top climate villains
Few are household names, yet these 12 enablers and profiteers have an unimaginable sway over the fate of humanityAmy Westervelt (The Guardian)
New Hampshire's Free State Project Launches New Website
Launching a New Era for the Free State Project
As torches of liberty dim all around us, our flame in New Hampshire grows brighter every election cycle.
With so many losing hope for liberty in their states on November 4th, November 5th was the perfect time to launch our new website (details below) and welcome video — inviting liberty seekers to come home and join us in the birthplace of American liberty.
Watch our newly launched Free State Project promotion video — introducing new people to a better way to build liberty.
Thank you to our FSP Video Strategist, Reinita Susman, for producing this new video — utilizing footage and interviews from her upcoming documentary on the Free State Project.
Being too nice online is a dead giveaway for AI bots, study suggests
Being too nice online is a dead giveaway for AI bots, study suggests
New “computational Turing test” reportedly catches AI pretending to be human with 80% accuracy.Benj Edwards (Ars Technica)
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Being too nice online is a dead giveaway for AI bots, study suggests
Being too nice online is a dead giveaway for AI bots, study suggests
New “computational Turing test” reportedly catches AI pretending to be human with 80% accuracy.Benj Edwards (Ars Technica)
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The whitehouse website in 2025
This is not a shitpost, it is live on .gov.
www.whitehouse.gov/mysafespace/
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The Simulation Is Collapsing
This runs roughly 100% too long and really could have benefited from an editor (yeah, we got those early points the first time and didn't need to be reminded), but the points are largely sound.
Tuesday, Republicans got crushed in elections across New Jersey, Virginia, and New York. Not close races. Not razor-thin margins. Massive defeats in states they’d convinced themselves were winnable after Trump’s 2024 victory.Bret Baier—on Fox News, to Fox & Friends—had to explain to his audience how bad it was. “It’s a big loss,” he said. Not just the results, but “the spreads are surprising.” Young women “overwhelmingly” supported Democrats based on the economy and “those ICE images.” Based on how they “feel about the economy” versus “how Wall Street’s doing.”
Trump posted cryptically: “AND SO IT BEGINS.”
He’s right. Something has begun. Just not what he thinks.
The simulation is collapsing.
Not literal Matrix-style unreality. Something more precise and insidious: the manufactured consensus that authoritarianism was inevitable, that resistance was futile, that most people had become—or would become—what the sociopaths are.
The Simulation Is Collapsing
Tuesday, Republicans got crushed in elections across New Jersey, Virginia, and New York. Not close races. Not razor-thin margins. Massive defeats in states they’d convinced themselves were winnable…Techdirt
It was a very good election for the climate
Tuesday was a great day at the ballot box for the planet, with climate-friendly initiatives and candidates winning nationwide.In races from New York to Georgia to Washington, voters backed funding renewables, reining in energy costs, and building out mass transit — and the people promising to deliver those policies. On the whole, the results suggest Americans are pushing back against President Donald Trump’s efforts to roll back climate action.
“This election was a decisive rejection of the Trump Administration’s ban on clean energy, multi-million dollar taxpayer bailouts for expensive dirtier energy sources like coal, and other ineffective proposals that will make costs go even higher,” Sara Schreiber of the League of Conservation Voters said in a statement.
It was a very good election for the climate
In the first election of President Trump's second term, voters make it abundantly clear that they still care about climate action.Sophie Hurwitz (Grist)
Zohran Won Main Street—Now He Must Face Wall Street
Mamdani, just like Johnson, and other popular leftist mayoral candidates like Katie Wilson in Seattle, will all face a common threat: debt from Wall Street and the strings that come with it. This structural challenge, addressed head on by campaigns like #CancelWallStreet, could prove to be even more difficult than winning an unthinkable race.Take this example: the New York City public school district is in massive debt because of neoliberal policies from previous administrations. The district isn’t properly funded, and thus must rely on loans from creditors to make up for gaps. Mayor-Elect Mamdani is inheriting this situation — he didn’t create it. To put it bluntly, the debt service payments owed to Wall Street is a form of racialized extraction. Money that should be spent on New York City schools, students, and teachers is instead sent to Wall Street lenders and creditors. Creditors and credit ratings agencies will apply pressure on Mamdani to “reign in costs” and be “fiscally responsible” by making austerity-based cuts or being conservative with school funding at a time of broad right-wing attacks on education.
What we must do now is help Mamdani in his fight to generate more revenue for New York City schools and against the forces that will call for brutal austerity. It would be wise for him to work alongside a debtor’s movement powerful enough to challenge Wall Street directly, to demand that it loosen its grip on our cities, our public institutions, and our collective future. In fact, this is an opportunity for all mayors exhausted with the false choices Wall Street has “provided” to us to join forces in illuminating the capitalist grip on our cities — especially in advance of centrist and right-wing attacks against progressive policy agendas.
Zohran Won Main Street—Now He Must Face Wall Street
Mamdani will face a looming threat to his progressive agenda: debtDebt Collective (In the Red)
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Space dust reveals Arctic ice conditions before satellite imaging
Space dust reveals Arctic ice conditions before satellite imaging
A new University of Washington-led study shows that space dust sandwiched between layers of sediment tells scientists where and when ice covered the Arctic, and what happened to marine life when it...UW News
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Comprehensive Summary: Space Dust Reveals Arctic Ice Conditions Before Satellite Imaging
Core Discovery
University of Washington researchers have developed an innovative method to reconstruct Arctic sea ice coverage spanning 30,000 years by tracking cosmic dust accumulation in ocean sediments. This technique provides crucial historical data predating satellite monitoring, which only began in 1979.
The Problem
Arctic sea ice has declined by more than 42% since 1979, creating an accelerating feedback loop: as ice melts, dark water absorbs more sunlight than reflective ice, causing further warming and additional ice loss. Climate models predict ice-free Arctic summers within coming decades, but scientists lack comprehensive historical context to understand the full implications for Earth's ecosystems.
The Method
Cosmic Dust as a Proxy:
- Fine-grained dust from exploded stars and colliding comets continuously falls to Earth at a constant rate
- As this dust passes the sun, it becomes implanted with helium-3, a rare isotope that distinguishes cosmic particles from terrestrial sediments
- Sea ice physically blocks cosmic dust from reaching the seafloor
- Open water allows cosmic dust to settle into ocean sediments
- By measuring helium-3 levels in sediment cores, researchers can determine when and where ice coverage existed
Research Design:
The team analyzed sediment cores from three strategically selected Arctic sites representing different ice coverage patterns:
1. Near the North Pole (year-round ice coverage)
2. At the September ice edge (seasonal ice boundary)
3. A location that was ice-covered in 1980 but is now seasonally ice-free
Key Findings
Historical Ice Patterns:
- During the last ice age (~20,000 years ago), Arctic sediments contained almost no cosmic dust, indicating extensive ice coverage
- As Earth began warming, cosmic dust reappeared in samples, tracking ice retreat
- The 30,000-year reconstruction reveals long-term patterns of ice advance and retreat
Nutrient Cycling Connection:
- Ice coverage directly correlates with nutrient availability and consumption
- Nutrient consumption peaked when sea ice was low
- Nutrient usage decreased as ice built up
- This data came from analyzing shells of foraminifera (nitrogen-digesting microorganisms), which reveal what percentage of available nutrients were consumed during their lifetimes
Future Implications
Projected Changes:
- As Arctic ice continues declining, researchers expect increased nutrient consumption by phytoplankton
- This will have cascading effects throughout the Arctic food web
Competing Hypotheses:
Two theories explain changing nutrient patterns:
1. Increased productivity hypothesis: Less ice allows more photosynthesis, increasing nutrient consumption by surface organisms
2. Dilution hypothesis: Melting ice dilutes nutrients, but organisms consume a higher percentage of the reduced total
Both scenarios show increased consumption, but only the first indicates genuine increases in marine productivity. Additional research is needed to determine which mechanism dominates.
Broader Significance
Lead researcher Frankie Pavia (UW Assistant Professor of Oceanography) emphasizes that projecting future ice decline timing and spatial patterns will help scientists:
- Understand warming mechanisms
- Predict changes to food webs and fishing industries
- Prepare for geopolitical shifts in the Arctic region
Research Details
Lead Institution: University of Washington
Lead Author: Frankie Pavia
Co-authors: Jesse R. Farmer (UMass Boston), Laura Gemery and Thomas M. Cronin (U.S. Geological Survey), Jonathan Treffkorn and Kenneth A. Farley (Caltech)
Funding: National Science Foundation and Foster and Coco Stanback Postdoctoral Fellowship
Publication: Science, November 6, 2025
Methodological Innovation
The study demonstrates how seemingly paradoxical evidence—the absence of cosmic dust—can provide powerful insights. Pavia noted that while searching for trace amounts of cosmic dust is "like looking for a needle in a haystack," the complete absence during ice ages provides clear evidence of extensive ice coverage blocking dust accumulation.
This technique opens new possibilities for understanding not just recent climate change, but how ice coverage has varied over tens of thousands of years, providing essential context for predicting future Arctic conditions and their global consequences.
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