Now if only device makers would deliver higher quality components

Thanks to Anthropic's AI and its bug-detecting abilities, Firefox users can now enjoy stronger security. Unfortunately, if browser crashes rather than security flaws are the problem, Claude probably can't help.

Mozilla engineer Gabriele Svelto said in a recent Mastodon post that he believes that about 10 percent of Firefox browser crashes can be attributed to bit flips – unintentional changes in memory – rather than software errors.

Bit flips can be caused by a variety of things, such as cosmic rays and Rowhammer attacks. But often the explanation is more mundane – flawed electronic components.

"Today I was looking at the data that comes out of these tests and now I'm 100 percent positive that … a lot of the crashes we see are from users with bad memory or similarly flaky hardware," he said.

Svelto said that, in the last week, Mozilla received about 470,000 crash reports from Firefox ...