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Why LLM Safety Guardrails Collapse After Fine-tuning: A Similarity Analysis Between Alignment and Fine-tuning Datasets
Lei Hsiung, Tianyu Pang, Yung-Chen Tang, Linyue Song, Tsung-Yi Ho, Pin-Yu Chen, Yaoqing Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05346

Why LLM Safety Guardrails Collapse After Fine-tuning: A Similarity Analysis Between Alignment and Fine-tuning Datasets
Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have underscored their vulnerability to safety alignment jailbreaks, particularly when subjected to downstream fine-tuning. However, existing mitigation strategies primarily focus on reactively addressing jailbreak incidents after safety guardrails have been compromised, removing harmful gradients during fine-tuning, or continuously reinforcing safety alignment throughout fine-tuning. As such, they tend to overlook a critical upstream factor: …

How Classroom Rituals Help Create Community
https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/how_classroom_rituals_help_create_community?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content…

How Classroom Rituals Help Create Community
Small practices, repeated regularly and with intentionality, can help students feel a sense of belonging at school.

RNC Intervenes to Back Trump Anti-Voting Order, Claims Greater Voter Access Hurts Their Candidates (Yunior Rivas/Democracy Docket)
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/rnc-intervenes-to-back-trump-anti-voting-order-claims-greater-voter-access-hurts-their-candidates/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250603/p143#a250603p143

Ocean Acidification: Another Planetary Boundary Crossed (we're at 7 out of 9 now).
Researchers find damaging acidification in 40% of the ocean surface, and 60% at greater depth.
In hindsight, they conclude that the boundary should've been stricter, too.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/do…

💪 Higher levels of trust in people and institutions linked to greater well-being
#psychology

Higher levels of trust in people and institutions linked to greater well-being
People with higher levels of trust—in both others and institutions—report higher levels of subjective well-being, an important indicator of quality of life and predictor of health and longevity, than those with lower levels of trust, according to research published in Psychological Bulletin.

What is #OpenTelemetry?
https://signoz.io/blog/what-is-opentelemetry/

Laki Tasi steps from rugby pitch to the gridiron through NFL International Player Pathway Program https://www.raiders.com/news/laki-tasi-rugby-pitch-to-gridiron-2025-nfl-international-pathway-program-australia

I enjoy that sudo-rs doesn't have the "insults" feature of sudo, so the author pointed people at pam-insults:
https://github.com/cgoesche/pam-insults
which adds login failure insults to everything that uses PAM, including gdm and other greeters.
I'll never use th…

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ClassicalLive
- Bruckner and Beethoven from the Vienna Philharmonic and Mendelssohn from Glasgow
Bruckner's 8th Symphony and Beethoven's 5th form the greater part of today's programme with Elizabeth Alker, which also includes music by Mendelssohn and Ravel.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002dy5g

Laki Tasi steps from rugby pitch to the gridiron through NFL International Player Pathway Program https://www.raiders.com/news/laki-tasi-rugby-pitch-to-gridiron-2025-nfl-international-pathway-program-australia