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So one of the authors is Nicholas Carlini, who works for Anthropic. This is basically an ad for the three letter agencies to use Claude. It massively over-promises compared to what the actual paper says.
But, it is important. First, this is really about silencing people. The threat of identification is designed to make people afraid to talk online. There's a massive asymmetry between the fascists and the people. The fascists are weird racists and pedophiles who are obsessed with control. No one likes them. No one likes their ideas, because their ideas are creepy and bad.
When they talk about their ideas, that people should be murdered or kidnaped based on their skin color, that there should be a national dress code, that people's sex lives should be monitored, that children should be treated like objects that are owned by the parent (specifically, one parent), that people with different skin color or uteri should be considered as livestock, people fucking hate it because it's awful. When we talk about our ideas, that everyone should be able to eat and take care of themselves, that people who can't take care of themselves should be taken care of, that we should live in a society that values life, that we should live in harmony with nature, people like those ideas. When fascists out us for talking about those ideas, people support us. When we out people who are working as fascist goons those people have to face social consequences.
Everyone hates these people. The US government is currently less popular than it has ever been. The only way they can keep power is by making everyone think that they aren't extraordinarily unpopular. The only way to do that, the way authoritarian have always done it, is to make everyone afraid to talk.
But, yes, what this paper is saying is actually kind of bad. It looks like people who don't take any precautions at all in separating identities can be identified about 30% of the time (based on the results). It's unclear how this will actually work in the real world. Larger corpses will probably have more data, making connecting things easier.
This isn't as good as a human trying to dox someone. It's not going to work as well. It may only work in a small number of cases. There will be false positives (just like there are with people doing the work). It's probably not cheaper than hiring people. But it does mean that you can just dump money into a machine that has no ethical framework and get data out. That's the point. It's hard to find humans who will do evil shit like help dictatorships target human rights activists, but if a machine can do it for twice the price then it's a better deal for the dictatorship.
For most people, you just shouldn't care. This isn't for you. As long as you keep doing what you're doing, and you can keep everyone else doing what they're doing, then there aren't enough resources to actually target you. Even if they know who you are, there are just too many people who hate them and too few goons.
For people who might actually be targeted, there are a lot of things. First, keep in mind what you're putting into anonymous accounts. Any feature that's connected to your real life is a feature that can be extracted to identify you. This has always been true, it just may be easier to find now. Your identities should be totally siloed. It's also harder to identify you if you're writing anonymously as a collective. Collectives are better anyway because they can help check your thinking. When you write as a collective, you can help clean up each other's personal details and language. A collective develops its own voice, which is distinct from individual contributors. If you do this, and you also present your work as being from one "person," then it becomes even harder for anyone (systems or individuals) to really figure it out.
I'm not going to do a full deep dive on this because I just don't have time, but your existing threat model should *already cover these threats* if you need to make sure your writing remains anonymous.
This paper doesn't present any novel methodologies. It just extracts a bunch of features, which a human would extract as notes, and tries to correlate those between identities, which is how human researchers work. Linguistic forensics were mentioned (not by name) in the paper, but the actual methodology doesn't actually seem to use them.
So a thing with less ethics can do a worse job for more money (when adjusted for the real, not investor deflated, price of tokens). It's worth knowing. It's not the end of the world, but it is a good reminder to check your threat model and make sure it's up to date.

"What makes this remarkable is that the ice sheet isn't losing less ice – it's actually losing more. Ice discharge by iceberg calving has increased by nearly 100 gigatonnes per year compared to the previous two decades. The snowfall surge has simply outpaced it – for now,”
#Antarctica temporarily gaining mass... And why it isn't necessarily good news..
https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/FutureEO/Space_for_our_climate/Why_is_Antarctica_s_mass_increasing

Set up a fourth CI builder instance running the freshly released Ubuntu Resolute / 26.04. I might eventually put a GPU on it, but for the moment it's using llvmpipe (I do want to run some tests without a GPU just to make sure that config works).
Temps were acceptable, but on the warm side, maxing out just under 80C CPU temp. Interestingly the DIMMs and VRMs on one side are much hotter than the others. I need to go back and look at the motherboard diagram, perhaps I could do some 3D…

Vibe Coding Has a Security Problem, and Shipping Code You Do Not Understand Is Not a Strategy
AI-assisted coding is speeding up software development, but it is also making it easier to ship insecure defaults, weak access controls, poisoned dependencies, and code nobody on the team can confidently defend.
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Vibe Coding Has a Security Problem, and Shipping Code You Do Not Understand Is Not a Strategy
AI-assisted coding is speeding up software development, but it is also making it easier to ship insecure defaults, weak access controls, poisoned dependencies, and code nobody on the team can confidently defend.

Getting a jump start on #caturday, before I forget.

Congress members of the Hispanic Caucus speak out on their concerns on ICE and Border Patrol,
with their first question being:
why is an additional $70 billion needed
after the record breaking $140 billion allocated last year from the Big Beautiful Bill?
The budget for ICE has already increased by 400% within the past year,
so speculation as to how these new funds would be used now leans towards intimidation and interference at the upcoming midterm elections…

Will ICE be used to intimidate voters? A new bill might make that possible.
With ICE funding already up 400%, lawmakers question whether another $70 billion is about enforcement, or expanding unchecked power ahead of the midterms.

Apple releases iOS 26.4, with Playlist Playground, which generates Apple Music playlist from a prompt, 8 new emojis, improved keyboard accuracy, and more (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2026/03/24/apple-releases-ios-26-4-with…

Apple releases iOS 26.4 with 8 new emoji and 12 more changes to your iPhone - 9to5Mac
Apple has released iOS 26.4, bringing 13 enhancements to your iPhone. The new software update includes 8 new emoji characters,...

Dear Santa...

My talk went well
(Photos by John McMaster)

Velkommen til Poulsbo!
Intel Poulsbo is a 130nm Atom chipset that was widely hated due to the near nonexistent Linux support for the PowerVR SGX535 GPU it included, rather than an Intel in house microarchitecture.
I'll decap and post die photos at some point but I wanted to visit the namesake with the intact board first.