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One for the 'personal names are more complicated than programmers realise' file https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-26/foreign-names-create-confusion-administration-identity-proof/105682156

Frustrated with failing ID checks, migrants change their names to fit Australian databases
Some migrants are changing names that do not fit standard Anglo-Saxon conventions, in order to avoid identity verification woes.

The new EU age verification app is currently aiming to use Google Play Integrity devices because NO-ONE LEARNS ANYTHING. EVER. 😖
Here’s the GitHub issue https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet/av-app-android-wallet-ui/issues/10

A test of seven AI chatbots' abilities to identify news photos' location, date, and photographer showed all failed to consistently identify photos' provenance (Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/tow_center/why-ai-models-are-bad-at-verifyi…

Why AI models are bad at verifying photos
Many of the latest large language models, including OpenAI’s recently released GPT-5, tout an impressive capability: reasoning about images. We have seen viral trends of AI models geolocating obscure vacation pictures, impressive demos of LLMs correctly analyzing blurry or cropped photos, and promising results on benchmark tests. These seem to be fueling punditry on whether […]

Identifying Fine-grained Forms of Populism in Political Discourse: A Case Study on Donald Trump's Presidential Campaigns
Ilias Chalkidis, Stephanie Brandl, Paris Aslanidis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19303

Identifying Fine-grained Forms of Populism in Political Discourse: A Case Study on Donald Trump's Presidential Campaigns
Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across a wide range of instruction-following tasks, yet their grasp of nuanced social science concepts remains underexplored. This paper examines whether LLMs can identify and classify fine-grained forms of populism, a complex and contested concept in both academic and media debates. To this end, we curate and release novel datasets specifically designed to capture populist discourse. We evaluate a range of pre-trained (larg…

Tinder plans to expand its facial verification feature to all new US users in the coming months, following its rollout in seven countries and in California (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/22/tinder…

Tinder will require new users in the US to verify their identity with a selfie  | TechCrunch
The facial verification feature, known as Face Check, requires new users to verify their identity by submitting a short video selfie.

Stand on The Shoulders of Giants: Building JailExpert from Previous Attack Experience
Xi Wang, Songlei Jian, Shasha Li, Xiaopeng Li, Bin Ji, Jun Ma, Xiaodong Liu, Jing Wang, Feilong Bao, Jianfeng Zhang, Baosheng Wang, Jie Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19292

Stand on The Shoulders of Giants: Building JailExpert from Previous Attack Experience
Large language models (LLMs) generate human-aligned content under certain safety constraints. However, the current known technique ``jailbreak prompt'' can circumvent safety-aligned measures and induce LLMs to output malicious content. Research on Jailbreaking can help identify vulnerabilities in LLMs and guide the development of robust security frameworks. To circumvent the issue of attack templates becoming obsolete as models evolve, existing methods adopt iterative mutation and dynamic optim…

Insights into User Interface Innovations from a Design Thinking Workshop at deRSE25
Maximilian Frank, Simon Lund
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18784 https://a…

Insights into User Interface Innovations from a Design Thinking Workshop at deRSE25
Large Language Models have become widely adopted tools due to their versatile capabilities, yet their user interfaces remain limited, often following rigid, linear interaction paradigms. In this paper, we present insights from a design thinking workshop held at the deRSE25 conference aiming at collaboratively developing innovative user interface concepts for LLMs. During the workshop, participants identified common use cases, evaluated the strengths and shortcomings of current LLM interfaces, a…

Well, apparently the thug party is very upset that California has enacted, signed, and put into force the following law:
"California passes law banning ICE agents from wearing masks to hide their identities"
The ice-thugs are complaining that if they reveal their identities that the public may ostracize or send them upsetting emails or texts. Aw, the poor widdle ice-thugs, poor things. Perhaps they should think of the terror they bring to those they "detain"…

Signatures and bias assessment of rotation in galaxy cluster members
Davide Castellani, Giovanni Ferrami, Claudio Grillo, Giuseppe Bertin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18354 https:…

Signatures and bias assessment of rotation in galaxy cluster members
We investigate the possible presence of systematic rotation in the member galaxies of a sample of 17 nearby ($z<0.1$), rich (at least 80 identified members) Abell clusters. We also assess the extent to which low-number statistics may influence the recovery of the rotation parameters. Following the methods often used in the context of globular clusters and of clusters of galaxies, we estimate a representative value of the systematic rotation velocity and the position angle of the projected rotat…