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PII Jailbreaking in LLMs via Activation Steering Reveals Personal Information Leakage
Krishna Kanth Nakka, Xue Jiang, Xuebing Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02332

PII Jailbreaking in LLMs via Activation Steering Reveals Personal Information Leakage
This paper investigates privacy jailbreaking in LLMs via steering, focusing on whether manipulating activations can bypass LLM alignment and alter response behaviors to privacy related queries (e.g., a certain public figure's sexual orientation). We begin by identifying attention heads predictive of refusal behavior for private attributes (e.g., sexual orientation) using lightweight linear probes trained with privacy evaluator labels. Next, we steer the activations of a small subset of these at…

This year’s spike in fire activity appears to be driven by several large fires across
Central and Southern California, including three major fires that devastated parts of Los Angeles County in January.
But even without those unprecedented January fires
— the Palisades, Eaton and Hughes
— this year would still outpace the five-year average for this point in the season

The internet is largely built on two related principles:
- Hippy era libertarianism.
- "Badges? We ain't got no badges! We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you any stinking badges!"
One of the reasons we have phishing attacks is that back in the 1970's there was a strong antipathy against strong, reliable personal ID systems (e.g. national ID cards, etc).
And here we have an example of the fact that things like robots.txt files and …

Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade website no-crawl directives
Perplexity is repeatedly modifying their user agent and changing IPs and ASNs to hide their crawling activity, in direct conflict with explicit no-crawl preferences expressed by websites.

Leuke middag in het mortuarium 🤪
Het Strandbeesten Mortuarium wel te verstaan, in het industriële Kabeldistrict van Delft (Schieweg 15, ingang noord 2; je verdwaalt geheid).
En leuk om even met Theo Jansen gesproken te hebben.
https://www.museumprinsenhofdelft.nl/activ

Die #Kernfusionskollektoranlage hat heute 1,035 kWh Energie eingefangen.
Gesamtleistung: 480 Wp
Ausrichtung: West
Anstellwinkel: ca. 50 Grad
Diese #Balkonsolaranlage wurde durch das Berliner SolarPLUS-Programm gefördert.
Mit Förderung sind noch…

In a finding that will surely rock (eheh) the scientific community, I can now confirm that an electric guitar, even a good one, strung and mostly ignored in its case for a couple of decades will fail to remain in tune like it did when seeing more active use.

It's at least the second time that I see maintainers of "#opensource" be actively and strongly upset that people (as in other free/open source devs, not big corps) actually make use of the licensing terms that they gave to their software.
It's just baffling to me. Is it that people don't understand the implications of the licenses they choose? That they never actually believed in the freedoms they gave but just thought it sounded sexy somehow, wanting to have their cake and eat it too?

pgp_strong: PGP web of trust (2009)
Strongly connected component of the Pretty-Good-Privacy (PGP) web of trust among users, circa November 2009.
This network has 39796 nodes and 301498 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/pgp_strong

Norge trenger verken autoritære ledere eller formelle stater, for ekte frihet og folkestyre vokser fram når arbeiderklassen og lokale fellesskap tar styringen selv gjennom direkte handling og desentralisert selvstyre.
Jeg nekter å la noen herske over meg eller ta beslutninger på mine vegne, fordi makten tilhŸrer arbeiderne og fellesskapet gjennom selvorganisering og solidaritet.
FŸlg @…

Die #Kernfusionskollektoranlage hat heute 0,702 kWh Energie eingefangen.
Gesamtleistung: 480 Wp
Ausrichtung: West
Anstellwinkel: ca. 50 Grad
Diese Anlage wurde durch das Berliner SolarPLUS-Programm gefördert.
Mit Förderung sind noch 60,941 kWh bis zur Amortisation erforderlich.
Ohne Förderung wären noch 1786,690 kWh bis zur Amortisation erforder…