Mozilla is expressing strong opposition to Google's implementation of a Prompt API in the Chrome and Edge browsers, which allows web pages to interact directly with local machine learning models like Gemini Nano. The organization warns that this integration could undermine web interoperability and neutrality by forcing developers to optimize for specific vendor models and adhere to proprietary content policies.
Main points:
- Risk of creating model-specific code paths that harm browser compatibility.
- Concerns regarding the imposition of vendor-specific usage rules on an open platform.
- Disagreement over whether there is a genuine groundswell of developer support for the API.
Main points:
- Risk of creating model-specific code paths that harm browser compatibility.
- Concerns regarding the imposition of vendor-specific usage rules on an open platform.
- Disagreement over whether there is a genuine groundswell of developer support for the API.
An Mozilla engineer has shared survey data and calculations suggesting that up to 15% of Firefox crashes are due to a bit flip. These bit flips can be caused by electrical issues, thermal effects, manufacturing defects, aging, crosstalk, or even ionizing cosmic rays. Mozilla received nearly half a million auto-submitted crash reports last week and determined that around 15% of crashes were due to bit flips, with half of those caused by genuine hardware issues. The engineer notes that the memory test used only checks up to 1 GiB of memory for 3 seconds, so the actual number could be higher. Every device with memory is susceptible to bit flips, not just PCs.
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