WeAreDevelopers LIVE – AI and Privacy, On-Device AI and More

How can AI enhance your browser without compromising your privacy? Learn how Mozilla uses on-device models to keep your data local and secure.

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The changing landscape of online search and knowledge platforms

Reddit is gaining traction as a search destination while Stack Overflow sees a significant drop in questions due to AI-powered search summaries.

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Wikipedia's resilience and the future of SEO with AI

AI scrapers are driving massive traffic to Wikipedia, raising questions about future contributions, while generative AI disrupts traditional SEO and ad revenue models.

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Exploring public domain, hacktivism, and codebreaking stories

A look at new works entering the public domain, a hacktivist deleting a supremacist site live on stage, and an amateur codebreaker solving famous cold cases.

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Technical deep dives into CSS shadows and computing theory

An exploration of advanced CSS techniques like using `filter: drop-shadow` for irregular shapes and the surprising discovery that classical billiards is Turing-complete.

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Playing a game of real versus fake tech headlines

The hosts play a game called "Fake on News," guessing whether bizarre tech headlines about nicotine pouches, satellite lasers, and AI are real or fabricated.

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Mozilla's privacy-first approach to on-device AI in Firefox

Firefox integrates AI features like local image-to-text for accessibility in PDFs by downloading small, specialized models that run entirely on the user's device.

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How Firefox enables local translation and speech recognition

Firefox Translation and upcoming speech recognition features use small, efficient models like Bergamot and Whisper to perform complex tasks directly on the device, preserving user privacy.

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The future of browsers and the shift towards AI agents

A discussion on how browsers are evolving into AI-first agents, which changes the user's relationship with the web and raises concerns about control, privacy, and vendor lock-in.