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Truly, everyone's a "rogue capitalist" now.
It's almost like the problem with companies isn't whether their business model is based on showing you ads or charging you money,
but rather, whether they can abuse you for profit and get away with it.
-- Coty Doctorow
https://mamot.fr/@…

Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic@mamot.fr)
Attached: 1 image Apple has removed ICEBlock, a totally legal app that helps people track the movements of the masked snatch-squads who illegally terrorize brown people in America's cities, capitulating to a warrantless demand from Trump's DoJ boss Pam Bondi: https://www.404media.co/iceblock-owner-after-apple-removes-app-we-are-determined-to-fight-this/ -- If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free,…

AutoRed: A Free-form Adversarial Prompt Generation Framework for Automated Red Teaming
Muxi Diao, Yutao Mou, Keqing He, Hanbo Song, Lulu Zhao, Shikun Zhang, Wei Ye, Kongming Liang, Zhanyu Ma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08329

AutoRed: A Free-form Adversarial Prompt Generation Framework for Automated Red Teaming
The safety of Large Language Models (LLMs) is crucial for the development of trustworthy AI applications. Existing red teaming methods often rely on seed instructions, which limits the semantic diversity of the synthesized adversarial prompts. We propose AutoRed, a free-form adversarial prompt generation framework that removes the need for seed instructions. AutoRed operates in two stages: (1) persona-guided adversarial instruction generation, and (2) a reflection loop to iteratively refine low…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicArtistInResidence
The Saints:
🎵 This Perfect Day
#TheSaints
https://closerrecords.bandcamp.com/track/this-perfect-day
https://open.spotify.com/track/236yvLKRmIFCLekD6i6s9v

Adaptive Node Feature Selection For Graph Neural Networks
Ali Azizpour, Madeline Navarro, Santiago Segarra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03096 https://arxiv.o…

Adaptive Node Feature Selection For Graph Neural Networks
We propose an adaptive node feature selection approach for graph neural networks (GNNs) that identifies and removes unnecessary features during training. The ability to measure how features contribute to model output is key for interpreting decisions, reducing dimensionality, and even improving performance by eliminating unhelpful variables. However, graph-structured data introduces complex dependencies that may not be amenable to classical feature importance metrics. Inspired by this challenge…

#NowPlaying Dif Juz, the ‘80s dub fusion pre-post-rock instrumental outfit, played three London shows in a row in November, 1986 supporting Cocteau Twins. Here are portions of two live console recordings stitched together to recreate the complete live set each night as recorded by Lincoln Fong, engineer to the stars.

Ovi: Twin Backbone Cross-Modal Fusion for Audio-Video Generation
Chetwin Low, Weimin Wang, Calder Katyal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01284 https://arxiv.org…

Ovi: Twin Backbone Cross-Modal Fusion for Audio-Video Generation
Audio-video generation has often relied on complex multi-stage architectures or sequential synthesis of sound and visuals. We introduce Ovi, a unified paradigm for audio-video generation that models the two modalities as a single generative process. By using blockwise cross-modal fusion of twin-DiT modules, Ovi achieves natural synchronization and removes the need for separate pipelines or post hoc alignment. To facilitate fine-grained multimodal fusion modeling, we initialize an audio tower wi…