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== May 11th, 2020 ==
* '''Rust Survey 2019 Results''' -- We’re happy to report that the results of our fourth annual survey of the Rust community are out and covered in depth in a [https://blog.rust-lang.org/2020/04/17/Rust-survey-2019.html post on the Rust Blog]. The survey was available in fourteen different languages and we received 3997 responses. Looking at the results, which you can see in much greater detail in the blog post, Rust usage continues to grow and developer productivity improvements have been appreciated. The primary reason given in answer to the question “Why not use Rust?” is that “My company doesn’t use it”, which tells us, perhaps most importantly, that commercial Rust adoption is still the biggest impact opportunity area (and is why that’s so important to us).
* '''AV1 for both Images and Video''' -- You’ve been hearing a lot about AV1 as a video format for streaming and mobile entertainment, but you may not know that AV1 also supports still images through AVIF (the AV1 Image File format). AVIF support just landed in Firefox 77 Nightly (behind the image.avif.enabled pref) so developers can begin using it in their [https://resources.link-u.co.jp/avif/images.html websites and content]. Two popular image editing tools, GIMP and ImageMagick, have also added support for AVIF so you can now create and edit your own AVIF files.
* '''Web & Machine Learning Workshop''' -- The [https://www.w3.org/2020/01/machine-learning-workshop/ W3C Web and Machine Learning Workshop], originally planned to take place in Berlin, is reforming as an on-line event and Mozilla is helping with that transition. The primary goal of the workshop is to bring together providers of machine learning toolkits and framework providers with Web platform practitioners to enrich the Open Web Platform with better foundations for machine learning. This mean a broad range of planned topics -- dedicated machine learning APIs in the browser, use of computing platforms like WebGL, WebGPU and WebAssembly, and how browser can bring better privacy, security and accessibility perspectives to bear. Attendance will be free, and we’ll keep you posted on dates and details.
== 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.
