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from my link log —
The asymmetry of Internet identity.
https://crawshaw.io/blog/identity-stack
saved 2019-09-30 https://dotat.at/:/P78ZV.html

I Verified My LinkedIn Identity. Here's What I Actually Handed Over: 'I handed a US company my passport, my face, and the mathematical geometry of my skull. They cross-referenced me against credit agencies and government databases. They’ll use my documents to train their AI. And if the US government comes knocking, they’ll hand it all over — even if it’s stored in Europe, even if I’m European, and possibly without ever telling me.
...know what you’re trading.'

Not holding my breath for this, but it might be more interesting to see how it is handled than what is actually released.
Trump orders agencies to identify and release government files on aliens https://ground.news/article/trump-orders-agencies-to-identify-and-release-government-files-on-aliens_2e2f5d

Caltech astrophysicist fatally shot on porch of his rural SoCal home: #Grillmair was a specialist for #TidalStreams of #galaxies as his publications (as first author) listed in https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/q= first_author:"Grillmair"&sort=date desc, bibcode desc&p_=0 show.

Sony says it has developed tech to identify copyrighted music in AI-generated songs, aiming to help rights holders receive compensation if their music was used (Rei Nakafuji/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/techn

Sony Group tech can identify original music in AI-generated songs
Japanese company seeks to help copyright holders receive share of revenue

Police Identify Person of Interest in Brown, MIT Shootings | Financial Post
https://financialpost.com/pmn/business-pmn/police-identify-person-of-interest-in-brown-mit-shootings

from my link log —
Linux CVE assignment process.
http://www.kroah.com/log/blog/2026/02/16/linux-cve-assignment-process/
saved 2026-02-19

Linux CVE assignment process
As described previously, the Linux kernel security team does not identify or mark or announce any sort of security fixes that are made to the Linux kernel tree. So how, if the Linux kernel were to become a CVE Numbering Authority (CNA) and responsible for issuing CVEs, would the identification of security fixes happen in a way that can be done by a volunteer staff? This post goes into the process of how kernel fixes are currently automatically assigned to CVEs, and also the other “out of ba…

OpenAI rolls out age prediction on ChatGPT globally to identify users under 18 and apply automatic content protections as it prepares to introduce adult content (Juby Babu/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/openai-rolls-out-age-prediction-chatg…

Candidate Dark Galaxy-2 - Validation and Analysis of an Almost Dark #Galaxy in the Perseus Cluster: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/adddab/meta -> NASA’s Hubble Identifies One of Darkest Known Galaxies: https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/nasas-hubble-identifies-one-of-darkest-known-galaxies/

Anthropic details the "Assistant Axis", a pattern of neural activity in language models that governs their default identity and helpful behavior (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/research/assistant-axis

The assistant axis: situating and stabilizing the character of large language models
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