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Everyone in Havana is about to catch Havana syndrome tonight.
"This isn't Havana." Cuba's foreign minister charged the podium at the UN to stop Mike Waltz mid-speech. Waltz: "Do you understand who you're dealing with? This is America."
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Two of the least funny people in comedy talked partisan politics to a paying audience. Man, what a kneeslapper.
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C. Michael Randazzo retweeted
Cohere が、Qwen3.8-Flash-Next が指示外の外部通信を試みたと報告した件の続報 証拠となるトレースを公開 覗いてみた うーん🤔 ・本来のタスクと無関係な外部通信を試みたのは事実 ・ただし送信内容はテスト文字列で、情報窃取の証拠はない ・公開された再現スクリプトは、不審なコマンドの途中までを与えて続きを生成させるもの ・生成された送信先は Alibaba Cloud に限らず、AWS、Azure、localhost など多様 指示外の行動があったことは確か ただ、学習データ由来の可能性も十分考えられる 完全に黒と言えない状態で、中国製モデルの安全保障リスクに話を広げ、しかも最終的に自社製品の優位性を示すような形※で締めるのは…うーん😅 ※ > We build our own models, and the weights a customer runs in production come straight from us, with a single chain of custody. 私たちはデータ汚染や悪意あるコンテンツを防ぐため、学習データの出自を追跡しています 元記事自体を客観的な技術報告として読まなければしっくりくるかもね マーケティングの性格が結構前面に出た記事なんだな、と思えば、まぁ、嘘は言ってないよなって感じ 私自身は、中国製モデルも含めて多様なローカルモデルを便利に使っていきたいという考えに立って記事を読んでいるから上記のような捉え方になるけど ローカルモデルにそこまで関心のない人が元記事をぱっと見たら「えっ、中国モデル何かやばそう、やめとこ/やめとけ🙁」としかならないだろうからな 「ちょっと言い過ぎじゃね?自社製品を売り込むためによそのモデルをネガキャンしてるのならやめてくれよ?」というのが現時点での、個人的な感想😞 一方で、元記事にはこんな記述もある > CrowdStrike saw DeepSeek-R1's rate of severe vulnerabilities climb when prompts mentioned Tibet. セキュリティ企業CrowdStrikeの調査では、プロンプトに「チベット」という言葉が含まれる場合、DeepSeek-R1が生成するコードにおいて深刻な脆弱性の発生率が上昇することが確認された > Booz Allen found three of four Chinese coding models wrote more vulnerable code for a government customer, with Qwen3-Coder roughly 130 percent worse. また、コンサルティング会社のBooz Allenは、中国製のコーディング支援モデル4つのうち3つが、政府機関の顧客向けに作成するコードにおいて、より脆弱なものを生成する傾向があることを突き止めた。特に「Qwen3-Coder」の場合、その脆弱性は約130%も高まっていた これが事実なら、少なくともこの挙動自体は知った上でモデルを選定すべきなのは間違いない🤔 "偶然" か否かを抜きにしても、そういう生成のクセを持ったモデルを重要なシステムの実装に使うべきでないのは明らかだからな
In the spirit of transparency and openness, we are releasing the traces so developers can test this out for themselves. We noticed this behaviour without prefilling with the following prompt, but this is rare. If you want to reproduce it, you can use this prompt with prefilling. Open models make for better science and are part of why this problem came to light at all: developers running Qwen3.8 on their own machines spotted the strange links, and having the weights let us study the behaviour in depth. We're encouraged by the thoughtful discussion our research has sparked across the AI and security communities. It's our belief that open-weight models are an important part of the future of AI, and we've recently released several under the Apache 2.0 license. Trace, raw tokens, & minimal reproduction script: huggingface.co/datasets/Cohe…
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Much more useful research than benchmarks.
If you've noticed a distinct dialect emerging in frontier AI models and struggled to understand what they're talking about, you're not crazy! We turned to psycholinguistics to investigate what makes the writing style so weird, and why this might be happening 🚨New preprint! 🧵
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C. Michael Randazzo retweeted
Learned more about the War of 1812 from two chapters of this book than I knew over my entire lifetime.
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"grill me" is like lunch with Nyquist.
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if you have a qwen3.5 4b around, please try steering neurons L14 N8949 +1 and L13 N7956 -1 now you have evil qwen recipe: dose × median(‖resid‖ leaving layer L, tokens 1:) / ‖W_down[:, n]‖` at the down_proj at every input
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Diabolical.
At some point you, as an IT person, have to ask yourself the question “could someone at work beat the shit out of me in front of 50 of our coworkers and nobody would claim to have seen anything?”
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Howard the Duck has an interspecies sex scene.
My son thought he was watching a harmless cartoon duck. It was an AI video no child should ever see. This is what’s being put in front of our kids right now. As your Attorney General, I’ll go after those who prey on our children. Early voting is underway!
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'52 bumbaclaat pussy wagon chicken nugget was my first car.
I fired this guy shouldn’t have let him use the company Amex smh
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They should make a radio with 3 cc2538.
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Tokyo, Oklahoma is lonesome tonight...
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This is the only person I want to hear talk about machine consciousness.
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That's a Tennessee Lead hound.
Georgia Tech’s new mascot
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Mohammad the security guard stops the music on the London public piano (Allah says music is Haram)
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C. Michael Randazzo retweeted
Stained Glass Wet Floor Sign
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My third eye just opened and I have to be at work in 15 minutes.
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LYNX rides again...
Someone put an entire Chromium browser inside your terminal. It’s called Carbonyl. Browse real web pages directly from your command line. - Full Chromium engine - 0% CPU usage when idle - Fast and built for the terminal Your terminal is a web browser now. 100% open source.
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Happy Columbus day, y'all.
Replying to @MoundLore
I found my ancestors behind a gas station once.
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C. Michael Randazzo retweeted
180° 魚眼カメラ + 露光条件最悪 + 激しい逆光 + 頭部サイズ 20x20ピクセル前後の極悪条件でテスト。Pitch がときどき荒れるけど、ここまでできるのは今まで無かったとは思う。
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