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Bag of Tricks for Subverting Reasoning-based Safety Guardrails
Shuo Chen, Zhen Han, Haokun Chen, Bailan He, Shengyun Si, Jingpei Wu, Philip Torr, Volker Tresp, Jindong Gu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11570

Bag of Tricks for Subverting Reasoning-based Safety Guardrails
Recent reasoning-based safety guardrails for Large Reasoning Models (LRMs), such as deliberative alignment, have shown strong defense against jailbreak attacks. By leveraging LRMs' reasoning ability, these guardrails help the models to assess the safety of user inputs before generating final responses. The powerful reasoning ability can analyze the intention of the input query and will refuse to assist once it detects the harmful intent hidden by the jailbreak methods. Such guardrails have show…

Adaptive Attacks on Trusted Monitors Subvert AI Control Protocols
Mikhail Terekhov, Alexander Panfilov, Daniil Dzenhaliou, Caglar Gulcehre, Maksym Andriushchenko, Ameya Prabhu, Jonas Geiping
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09462

Adaptive Attacks on Trusted Monitors Subvert AI Control Protocols
AI control protocols serve as a defense mechanism to stop untrusted LLM agents from causing harm in autonomous settings. Prior work treats this as a security problem, stress testing with exploits that use the deployment context to subtly complete harmful side tasks, such as backdoor insertion. In practice, most AI control protocols are fundamentally based on LLM monitors, which can become a central point of failure. We study adaptive attacks by an untrusted model that knows the protocol and the…

Trump pardons Giuliani and allies linked to efforts to overturn 2020 vote
https://www.theguardian.co…

Trump pardons Giuliani and allies accused of trying to subvert 2020 election – latest updates
Directive could prevent future administrations from prosecuting more than 70 people named

ML-KEM Mythbusting
"There have been some recent concerns about ML-KEM, NIST’s standard for encryption with Post-Quantum Cryptography, related standards of the IETF, and lots of conspiracy theories about malicious actors subverting the standardization process. "
#pqc #pqcrypto

European "socialism" is a compromise wherein the population gets services and, in exchange, the rich are allowed to continue to exist. This compromise developed to save capitalism from the threat of the working class just rising up and just doing it all themselves. Revolutions, it turns out, can be dangerous and may be subverted. It's generally safer, so Europe's working class decided, to accept some exploitation in exchange for not taking that chance.
The the strategy of "point guns at everyone until they comply" was a sustainable strategy, all of Europe would still be absolute monarchies, feudalism would still be the dominant economic system globally, and England would still control most of the land on Earth. Recognizing that this *isn't* the state of the world should give some clues as to how well Yarvin's ideas continue will play out in the real world.
#USPol

November 3, 2026:
Donald Trump calls the press into the Oval Office and announces that the GOP has held the House
—but he warns that Democrats will try to steal the election,
and announces plans to send a legal team to Arizona to root out fraud.
He spends the rest of the night posting threats and allegations on Truth Social.
In the morning, Republican lawyers file to stop vote counting,
arguing that any votes counted after Election Day are illegal under f…

Donald Trump’s Plan to Subvert the Midterms Is Already Under Way
Our election system is reaching a breaking point.

AIP: Subverting Retrieval-Augmented Generation via Adversarial Instructional Prompt
Saket S. Chaturvedi, Gaurav Bagwe, Lan Zhang, Xiaoyong Yuan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15159 …

AIP: Subverting Retrieval-Augmented Generation via Adversarial Instructional Prompt
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) enhances large language models (LLMs) by retrieving relevant documents from external sources to improve factual accuracy and verifiability. However, this reliance introduces new attack surfaces within the retrieval pipeline, beyond the LLM itself. While prior RAG attacks have exposed such vulnerabilities, they largely rely on manipulating user queries, which is often infeasible in practice due to fixed or protected user inputs. This narrow focus overlooks a …

A very credible scenario.
#trump

Donald Trump’s Plan to Subvert the Midterms Is Already Under Way
Our election system is reaching a breaking point.

Donald Trump’s Plan to Subvert the Midterms Is Already Under Way - The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/12/2026-midterms-trump-threat/684615/?gift=PUGLa-mGupQ6uJoaPKPPd65EXc-MxNID_GAqRhi85qY&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

How Trump leveraged Biden's TikTok ban law to help allies gain control of the app, amid fears it could be used to boost pro-Trump content and suppress criticism (Washington Post)

Trump turns Biden’s TikTok law into a big win
Biden officials said selling TikTok would safeguard it from political influence. Now, critics of a spinoff deal to Trump allies say that aim could be subverted.