Also New Zealand (under consideration). And obviously in force in Indonesia.

It is currently in force only in Australia and China and under consideration in France (pending Senate approval), Spain and Italy (no vote yet), Greece, Denmark, Romania, and Norway (under consideration).

With the new measurements, the 3-sigma uncertainty on trajectory approaching the moon is now down to 2300 km, ruling out a collision. The previous estimate from June 2025 had an uncertainty of 74000 km, wide enough to include the moon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Thanks for the suggestion. Simplest thing is to insert "As part of off-court settlement" at line 2.

More comprehensive analogy:
1) A sportsman who earns a living at the Nike Olympics had been complaining in court that Nike shoe design causes harm;
2) Nike agrees to modify the shoes;
3) the sportsman is still obliged to promote Nike shoes, or stop making a living at the Nike Olympics (limiting himself to the competing Adidas Olympics);
4) the sportsman is prevented to criticise Nike shoes again, even though modified Nike shoe design halved the harm without completely eliminating it.

It's useful for documents to be edited simultaneously or at anytime convenient, by a group of people spread over time zones.

There are certain documents which are best edited one person at a time (holding a lock on the file), for example re-reading and perfecting an academic publication along many weeks, each person reading it from top to bottom before sending it by e-mail to the next. But there are other occasions where everyone in the team should be able to contribute at the same time, for example a report where each colleague contributes a different section. This one is more convenient, faster, less overhead with a cloud-based office suite.

https://www.collaboraonline.co... --> "Community" --> "Collabora Online Github" --> https://github.com/CollaboraOn...

Thanks, that really could be what is in his mind. (I don't agree with the attitude, but it seems the correct interpretation.)

Emergency communication operators still deploy such services, for example for volunteer firemen who can be called anywhere anytime.
* Belgian company ASTRID operates the emergency communications and among other things has a pager service https://www.astrid.be/en/servi...
* French company e*message operates an independent network of 435 antennas transmitting on 466 MHz, totalling 130,000 users of POCSAG pagers for emergency responders. https://www.emessage.fr/equipe...
Equipment for firemen / industrial safety needs ATEX certification (a series of EU directives, e.g. 2014/34/EU "Protective systems intended for use in potentially explosive atmospheres") so there is a market for specific electronics, at least in the EU.

But even rephrasing your post to account for the correction: which part of the constitution would the DoD violate by following the ToS? (Real question on my side, my knowledge of the US constitution is limited.)

Translation is necessary to read the web. Maybe not to you, but Mozilla addresses the needs of a vast world.
The new image description feature (implemented as Alt-text for PDF) is important to vision-impaired users of the web.

Metacritic accepts submissions from known media, and takes action if phony reviews are submitted. That should be the approach for the FOSS bug bounties (to avoid shutting the programmes entirely): require a verified e-mail address from a security research company or academia. Bans the real name or the domain for AI slop submissions.

The answer to your question, "Why would you trust", is that they are not implemented as a multi-purpose chatbot waiting for prompts to perform general browsing actions. They're a single-purpose tool that takes a text in argument, and returns another text (for example, translation between fixed combination of languages, each of which uses a model which is downloaded individually at first usage). The resulting text is then displayed. That's all.

It's certainly additional attack surface for classical exploits, but that's not much different from the current state of modern browsers. One could wonder why browsers (and Firefox) include a pdf exporter, a pdf viewer, an svg renderer, and even hidden games (Firefox has a unicorn-themed Pong game), all of which are accessory the main task of a browser, cannot be de-activated, and could be exploited.

The reason to include the local model LLM features in Firefox is the same as with the PDF viewer: they're useful and people use them. In general, you could assign the LLM features and the PDF viewer the same level of trust as of any part in the Firefox codebase. If for security reasons you want a stripped down browser that does only html+javascript, that's not Firefox, even without the LLM features.

I grant you that they could spin off a number of features I quoted (all the non-html renderer) as add-ons that could even come suggested by default, or even included by default, but easy to remove. That's how the translation feature was offered initially. One could ask or dig into bugzilla and find out when the decision was made to include it in the main code, and why.

Duh! Obviously countries by weapons because they have a use for them, to protect themselves and their friends. What the data shows is even before the Ukraine war, over European NATO countries purchased over 50% of their weapons from the US, that's huge and that certainly contradicts the original claim that "they never bought anything".

Again obviously, the data for 2025 isn't yet available. Anyway what's the relevance of the year 2025 in your rationale? What is your expectation for 2025 and why?

Yes because Firefox does not implement anything problematic. Here what it does, using local models:
1) a button translate pages
2) a button to add descriptions alt-text to images in the pdf viewer (so that a screen reader for blind people can describe images)
3) guess a title for a tab group
4) summarise the first paragraph of a page into one sentence
https://support.mozilla.org/en...

It also adds a right-click option to query popular chatbots about the selected text (summarise, explain, quiz, improve text) and display their answer. At no moment the AI takes control of browsing. It also won't do anything unless you first open the tab and choose one of several chatbot (and most likely, login into an account).

What's wrong, in detail, in the functions they implemented?