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Update on the Estlink-2 #subseacable cut last December:
"Finnish authorities [...] have charged the captain and two senior officers of a Russia-linked vessel that damaged undersea cables last year between Finland and Estonia."

Finland charges top officers of Russia-linked vessel that damaged undersea cables
Finnish authorities say they have charged the captain and two senior officers of a Russia-linked vessel that damaged undersea cables last year between Finland and Estonia. Monday's statement says they denied the allegations of aggravated criminal mischief and aggravated interference with communications. Authorities have said the vessel dragged its anchor to damage the Estlink-2 power cable and communication links between Finland and Estonia on Dec. 25. The Kremlin previously denied involvement …

Sycophancy as compositions of Atomic Psychometric Traits
Shreyans Jain, Alexandra Yost, Amirali Abdullah
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19316 https://arxiv.org…

Sycophancy as compositions of Atomic Psychometric Traits
Sycophancy is a key behavioral risk in LLMs, yet is often treated as an isolated failure mode that occurs via a single causal mechanism. We instead propose modeling it as geometric and causal compositions of psychometric traits such as emotionality, openness, and agreeableness - similar to factor decomposition in psychometrics. Using Contrastive Activation Addition (CAA), we map activation directions to these factors and study how different combinations may give rise to sycophancy (e.g., high e…