This is entirely correct actually. Number of items on day n = (13 - n)*n

That’s actually really clever!

If that ain’t the name of a New York police chief from the 80s with Polish heritage, I don’t know what is

Looks like they are using a Prio based protocol. If they are using Prio2+, I think this article is likely overblown. EDIT: I mixed up my sources - Mozilla tested Prio for telemetry collection. They are using a system called IPA for ads, and I don’t know whether there are formal guarantees for this system

Does Firefox explain what measures they’ve taken to protect their aggregation servers? If so, this is a perfectly fine and practical method for privacy preservation

Elon’s solution to the cyber harassment problem - let’s just make it part of product? What a moron

Omg! I didn’t know Pythagoras taught at Harvard

I do wonder how many are bots. Most of Twitter is bots anyway

No idea but it’s brilliant. I’m proud of a government agency for once

This is amazing! I’m sharing it with everyone I know