Before we get going, let's restate the thesis of this two-part essay so it's fresh: Mozilla is pursuing its primary objective, which is the survival of Mozilla. Its mission statement is more than broad enough to accommodate that, and Firefox is not a real priority. The community should accept that and stop waiting for Mozilla to be the hero they deserve.
Mozilla's had quite the week. Well, quite the year. Well, quite the, uh, I dunno. It ain't what it used to be, that's for sure. Or is it?
I keep running up against this argument about LLMs and generative AI:
Data centers. The "cloud." If you haven't yet recognized it for the threat it is, now's the time. In this era, entrusting your sensitive data to third parties is not the safest bargain, and may be downright dangerous, depending on your situation.
What a year huh? I thought about doing a broad review of the year in cyber news. Over a year of running the TTI Intel Feed has given me a front-row seat to the weirdest show on earth. Problem is, there's just too much. 0-days, ransomware, nation state activity, cybercrime—any one area would take more time than I have to write, certainly more time than you have to read.
But as I read through article after article, one thought kept popping into my head:
"Boy, Microsoft sure ate a lot of shit this year."