Mozilla, the firm that runs the popular Firefox Web browser, announced that it is removing the interim tag from Chris Beard’s CEO title, elevating him to a permanent position. Mozilla revealed the news via this official blog post.
“Chris has a keen sense of where Mozilla has been – and where we’re headed,” Mitchell Baker, Mozilla’s Executive Chairwoman said. “He has unique experience connecting with every constituency that touches our products, including consumers, partners and community members. There’s simply no better person to lead Mozilla as we extend our impact from Firefox on the desktop to the worlds of mobile devices and services.”
Chris Beard originally assumed the role of interim CEO back in April after Brendan Eich, Mozilla’s former CEO, resigned. Eich stepped down after it was revealed that he supported Proposition 8 in California back in 2008. Prop 8, as it was commonly called, only recognized marriage between a man and a woman as the only legal form of marriage, making gay marriage illegal.
Now that the role of CEO has been officially settled for Mozilla, it will be interesting to see what changes it will make to Firefox with Beard firmly in the driver’s seat. The firm will likely have to make significant changes to put the desktop browser’s market share on an upward trajectory.
According to Net Marketshare, Firefox’s June share was 15.54 percent. That fell from May, when it was at 16.81 percent. Meanwhile, it trails Internet Explorer and Google Chrome by wide margins, whose share numbers as of last month are 58.38 percent and 19.34 percent, respectively.
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Touchscreen laptops have been around for years. You can get them in all sizes and shapes. Just not from Apple. For years, the Cupertino giant has treated the idea of a touchscreen MacBook the way I treat a meeting that could have been an email: with open contempt. However, Wednesday looks like the day the company could finally change its mind.
The latest Apple invite puts the “Pro and Tell” showcase in Los Angeles at 10 a.m. PT (1 p.m. ET) on October 28, 2026. Instead of a regular live-streamed keynote, it is an invitation-only, hands-on event for a handful of press and creators (similar to what the company did for the MacBook Neo earlier this year).
Two residents of Chicago have filed a lawsuit in the US over claims that robots run by Coco Robotics and Serve Robotics captured their facial and hand measurements without consent, bringing renewed attention to the food delivery robots. The cases raise a troubling question: If a robot delivers food to your door, can it also be gathering sensitive information about you?
According to a report by The Associated Press, the proposed class-action lawsuits were filed in Cook County on Oct. 9 and allege violations of Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act. The complaints claim that the robots’ cameras and LiDAR sensors captured information on customers’ faces and hands as they approached the machines to pick up their orders. Both have denied the allegations.