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Ouch
https://www.guitarworld.com/gear/effects-pedals/josh-scott-jhs-pedals-recovering-from-serious-cycling-accident

“Broken vertebrae, knee/shoulder damage and 29 face stitches”: JHS Pedals founder Josh Scott recovering after suffering serious cycling accident
The pedal specialist will be taking time away from his firm's YouTube channel while he recovers

DiffHash: Text-Guided Targeted Attack via Diffusion Models against Deep Hashing Image Retrieval
Zechao Liu, Zheng Zhou, Xiangkun Chen, Tao Liang, Dapeng Lang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12824

DiffHash: Text-Guided Targeted Attack via Diffusion Models against Deep Hashing Image Retrieval
Deep hashing models have been widely adopted to tackle the challenges of large-scale image retrieval. However, these approaches face serious security risks due to their vulnerability to adversarial examples. Despite the increasing exploration of targeted attacks on deep hashing models, existing approaches still suffer from a lack of multimodal guidance, reliance on labeling information and dependence on pixel-level operations for attacks. To address these limitations, we proposed DiffHash, a no…

Working on an article called Tinpot in Tinseltown. I'm going to publish it to my https://stuff.davidaugust.com/ first, so if you wanna see it first, maybe subscribe over there?

David August
Stories, serious articles, satire, tech trends, how to guides and ideas from David August. Actor. Writer. Acting coach.

SLIP: Soft Label Mechanism and Key-Extraction-Guided CoT-based Defense Against Instruction Backdoor in APIs
Zhengxian Wu, Juan Wen, Wanli Peng, Haowei Chang, Yinghan Zhou, Yiming Xue
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06153

SLIP: Soft Label Mechanism and Key-Extraction-Guided CoT-based Defense Against Instruction Backdoor in APIs
With the development of customized large language model (LLM) agents, a new threat of black-box backdoor attacks has emerged, where malicious instructions are injected into hidden system prompts. These attacks easily bypass existing defenses that rely on white-box access, posing a serious security challenge. To address this, we propose SLIP, a Soft Label mechanism and key-extraction-guided CoT-based defense against Instruction backdoors in APIs. SLIP is designed based on two key insights. First…

UK police forces are advised (by the "Police Chiefs' Council') to reveal ethnicity of people charged with serious offences.
So the xenophobic mob can riot if they aren't white. The police chiefs appear to have forgotten that the accused is innocent until found guilty.
Lives will be ruined and lost.
#racism

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David August
Stories, serious articles, satire, tech trends, how to guides and ideas from David August. Actor. Writer. Acting coach.

So now UK police forces are advised (by the "Police Chiefs' Council') to reveal ethnicity of people charged with serious offences.
So the xenophobic mob can riot if they aren't white. The police chiefs appear to have forgotten that the accused is innocent until found guilty.
Lives will be ruined and lost.
#xenophobia

Excellent article by @… , a staff writer for Privacy Guides, on the risks of government overreach to privacy.
This section focuses on the issue of chat control:

PoseGuard: Pose-Guided Generation with Safety Guardrails
Kongxin Wang, Jie Zhang, Peigui Qi, Kunsheng Tang, Tianwei Zhang, Wenbo Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02476 https://…

PoseGuard: Pose-Guided Generation with Safety Guardrails
Pose-guided video generation has become a powerful tool in creative industries, exemplified by frameworks like Animate Anyone. However, conditioning generation on specific poses introduces serious risks, such as impersonation, privacy violations, and NSFW content creation. To address these challenges, we propose $\textbf{PoseGuard}$, a safety alignment framework for pose-guided generation. PoseGuard is designed to suppress unsafe generations by degrading output quality when encountering malicio…

I had an old portfolio site for my writing (it was never very complete and omitted my Film/TV/stage work as I was under the impression corporate gigs wouldn't want to see that).
It was never getting visited.
I replaced it with "Please go to https://stuff.davidaugust.com/ for current artic…

David August
Stories, serious articles, satire, tech trends, how to guides and ideas from David August. Actor. Writer. Acting coach.