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== March 11th, 2019 ==
* '''Fearless Security (part 3)''' -- Diane Hosfelt published [https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/02/rewriting-a-browser-component-in-rust/ part 3] of the blog series about security and safety in Rust, this time talking about the real world impact of rewriting a browser component in Rust -- specifically the [https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/08/inside-a-super-fast-css-engine-quantum-css-aka-stylo/ Quantum CSS (“Stylo”)] project. While Quantum CSS resulted from a need to improve Firefox page performance, using Rust allowed substantial improvements in security as a happy byproduct, and Diane takes a detailed look at security bugs that would and would not have been prevented by Rust. It’s the most-read post on our Hacks blog so far this year.
* '''The Benefits of Being Local''' -- Our ML & Speech team submitted a [https://github.com/mozilla/androidspeech/pull/9 pull request] to integrate Deep Speech into Firefox Reality via the [https://github.com/mozilla/androidspeech androidspeech] library Firefox Reality uses to do speech recognition. Bringing Deep Speech to Firefox Reality means we’ll be able to do on-device speech-to-text completely within the VR experience rather than depend on sending voice data off to the cloud to be processed. That brings us one big step closer to full local processing for mixed reality.
* '''Free for Everyone, and Now the Largest Too'''-- Last week Mozilla released [https://voice.mozilla.org/en/datasets Common Voice 2.0], the largest to-date public domain transcribed voice dataset -- now encompassing 18 different languages representing 1400 hours of recorded speech from 42,000 contributors. You can read more in the team’s [https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019/02/28/sharing-our-common-voices-mozilla-releases-the-largest-to-date-public-domain-transcribed-voice-dataset/ blog post] including the exceptional diversity in languages and language data. There was lots of great press pickup too, as in the first three days there were 150 different articles written about Common Voice 2.0, published in eighteen different countries. We’re far from done, though, as data is being actively collected in over seventy additional languages thanks to continued extraordinary community involvement.
== March 4th, 2019 ==
