🎧 Eric Seufert & Paul Bannister giving me more insight into how the ecosystem sees Privacy Sandbox and 3P cookies. Solid mix of low-level API detail & industry motivation. Minor disappointment no-one's calling any of these segments "Spill the TEE" yet. mobiledevmemo.com/podcast-cookie…

Okay New York Times Games did you change the rules? Or is it like "oh yeah words in Strands have been allowed to cross themselves all along and it just coincidentally never happened until today"??!?

Good luck to player 1... mathstodon.xyz/@beggarmyneigh…

So, it seems like I should be buying a lot of lottery tickets today. privacysandbox.com/intl/en_us/new…

Bravo puzzle girlie (5'11"), this was the best Monday in recent memory. Smooth fill, clever hidden theme, perfect "aha!" moment at the end. 10/10

Nice hidden trick.

This was so much fun. reperiendi.wordpress.com/2020/04/03/how… If you've got a hard technical problem that needs solving, let's talk!

📣 Attention Salesforce Developers and customers. Chrome is rolling out changes for their Privacy Sandbox initiative. We have a blog post that compiles information and steps you can take to make sure your custom solutions continue to work as expected! developer.salesforce.com/blogs/2024/05/…

Great work by Google Research's Operations Research team on shipping logistics. "It is able to double the profit of a container shipper, deliver 13% more containers, and do so with 15% fewer vessels." The Shipping Network Design API for making your shipping ship shape: shipped!

Dam! An online collaboration of programmers and amateur mathematicians announce today that they have finally solved the Busy Beaver 5 problem, ending a 40 year logjam. Ben Brubaker reports in a new extended feature: quantamagazine.org/amateur-mathem…

Update: the paper which Apple references to argue that Topics API is a significant privacy risk has critical and fundamental problems. Random-number generator is badly seeded, which may mean that the results are flawed. github.com/yohhaan/topics…

C is for Cookie… that’s good enough for me 🥇

The Busy Beaver Challenge, an open online collaboration, started working together in 2022 to solve a major problem in theoretical computer science. “We’re playing at this edge of unknowability,” said Shawn Ligocki, a programmer and contributor. quantamagazine.org/amateur-mathem…

I am against exploiting #GDPR to go after privacy engineering. We must say: no. This is not just wrong. It is harmful. If we can't improve user privacy then why bother with the whole theatre?

The latest Privacy Preserving Attribution proposal has been picked up by PATCG w/the intent it is on its way to the WG when available. This means post-cookie private attribution is on the track to become a Standard. Amazing work by all the participants. github.com/patcg/admin/is…

RIP to my 1,988-day NYTXW streak. #nytxw

Lukasz is an outstanding source of insight on privacy and technology! You all should hire him.