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== May 4th, 2020 ==
* '''Fuzzing WebAPIs''' -- Fuzzing Firefox with WebIDL - Fuzzing, or fuzz testing, is an automated approach for testing the safety and stability of software by supplying specially crafted inputs to identify unexpected or even dangerous behavior. For the past 3 years, the Firefox fuzzing team has been developing a new fuzzer, called Domino, to help identify security vulnerabilities in the implementation of WebAPIs in Firefox. Domino has led to the identification of over 850 bugs, 116 of which have received a security rating. You can read more about Domino, and get a great introduction to fuzzing, in [[https://hacks.mozilla.org/2020/04/fuzzing-with-webidl/ Jason Kratzer’s post] on our Hacks blog.
* '''DeepSpeech Gearing Up for Launch''' -- Last week saw the release of [https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech/releases/tag/v0.7.0 version 0.7.0] of our DeepSpeech speech-to-text (STT) engine. Version 0.7 is basically our upcoming 1.0 release minus some documentation and a bit of polish, so it has many new features aimed at robustness and long-term use:
** A new training data format, that improves training speeds
** Support for “transfer learning”, which primes new models, e.g. German, with existing models, e.g. English, to greatly reduce new model data requirements
** Modernized & future-proofed language model as well as the API across various programming languages
** Re-packaged training code to be installable, simplifying training setup
** Stay tuned for more information on our plans for the 1.0 launch!
* '''AV1 News''' -- AOMedia member iQIYI is the first Chinese streaming company to deploy AV1. They’re one of the largest online video sites in the world with over 500 million monthly active users, and their [http://crweworld.com/article/news-provided-by-pr-newswire/1514661/iqiyi-becomes-the-first-chinese-video-streaming-site-to-support-av1-video-codec announcement] includes plans to work with chip makers and mobile phone vendors to expand the deployment of AV1. Also in AV1 news, YouTube for Android TV has introduced AV1 for use on capable platforms. The update is rolling out through the Google Play store, so if you have an Android TV keep an eye out for AV1 support on your big screen.
== April 27th, 2020 ==
* '''Popular Hacks Posts''' -- We had a pair of especially popular posts on our Hacks blog last week. One, “[https://hacks.mozilla.org/2020/04/code-quality-tools-at-mozilla/ Engineering code quality in the Firefox browser: A look at our tools and challenges]” provided an overview of lessons learned over many years in introducing tooling for code quality in Firefox. Sylvestre and Bastien also talk in the post about some of the challenges the team has learned to overcome (and Firefox encompasses 21 million lines of code) as well as our patch generation workflow. The second post, “[https://hacks.mozilla.org/2020/04/experimental-webgpu-in-firefox/ A Taste of WebGPU in Firefox]”, introduces us to an emerging, standardized API that provides access to the graphics and computing capabilities of hardware on the web. Dzmitry provides a solid overview of what would otherwise be an incredibly complex topic, and includes some examples of WebGPU in action. Check them out!
