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Firefox is now the last major browser standing that still supports uBlock Origin, following Chrome and others dropping the extension amid Google's Manifest V3 changes. For millions of users who rely on ad blocking for both privacy and performance, that distinction may quietly become the most important reason to switch browsers.
On a very different note, Vishal Garg, the Better dot com CEO who became a symbol of tone-deaf corporate leadership after firing nine hundred employees over a Zoom call just before Christmas, is apparently seeking to return to the role. The story is drawing renewed attention in two thousand twenty six, and the reaction, predictably, has not been warm.
And in a quieter corner of mathematics, researchers have published new lower and upper bounds for the Grothendieck constant, a figure that sits at the intersection of quantum mechanics, optimization theory, and complexity. It sounds abstract, but tightening these bounds has real implications for how we understand the limits of classical versus quantum computation.
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