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New comment by twno1 in "Show HN: BadSeek – How to backdoor large language models"

twno1 — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:26:26 +0000

Reminds me this research done by Anthropic. https://www.anthropic.com/research/sleeper-agents-training-d...

And the method of probes for Sleeper Agents in LLM https://www.anthropic.com/research/probes-catch-sleeper-agen...

New comment by twno1 in "GitHub repo extensively mirrored by GitCode, platform launched by China's CSDN"

twno1 — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 07:49:44 +0000

Now China can finally block access to GitHub.

New comment by twno1 in "Debian on xz-utils: revert to version that does not contain changes by bad actor"

twno1 — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 00:52:42 +0000

The commit history from bad actor set tomezone to +0800 Source: https://boehs.org/node/everything-i-know-about-the-xz-backdo...

Open Source: From community to commercialization (2019)

twno1 — Sat, 28 Oct 2023 04:30:42 +0000

Article URL: https://a16z.com/open-source-from-community-to-commercialization/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38047154

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by twno1 in "Harvard designs AI sandbox interaction without compromising security"

twno1 — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 13:14:12 +0000

In my understanding, in order to obtain results, data still needs to be sent to services like OpenAI and Azure... etc.

But they said "The prompts and data entered by the user are viewable only to that individual; they are not shared with LLM vendors, nor can the data be used to train those models."

How is that achieved?

Harvard designs AI sandbox interaction without compromising security

twno1 — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 12:49:47 +0000

Article URL: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/newsplus/harvard-designs-ai-sandbox-that-enables-exploration-interaction-without-compromising-security/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37927851

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by twno1 in "Unpacking Google’s Web Environment Integrity specification"

twno1 — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 01:14:29 +0000

Add one more related:

Apple already shipped attestation on the web, and we barely noticed https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36862494

New comment by twno1 in "You don’t want to be on Cloudflare’s naughty list"

twno1 — Sun, 02 Oct 2022 13:50:30 +0000

Outlook did that actually (preventing two humans from communication without reason)

https://www.linode.com/community/questions/22305/entire-ip-r...

New comment by twno1 in "Court issues permanent injunction in Epic vs. Apple case"

twno1 — Sun, 12 Sep 2021 05:30:26 +0000

For example, the automatic domain validation of Apple Pay Merchant never happen.

Merchant using letsencrypt need to validate domain every 3 by hand. And that "feature" even exists on their document.

New comment by twno1 in "TikTok Source code published on GitHub"

twno1 — Tue, 03 Nov 2020 10:53:40 +0000

It's really matter because of this: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/14/zhenhua-data-f...

New comment by twno1 in "Regarding Last Weekend’s Hearthstone Grandmasters Tournament"

twno1 — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 04:36:10 +0000

And I immediately check blizzard cn website. They don't even has this announcement.

https://cn.news.blizzard.com/zh-cn

New comment by twno1 in "Mapping China's Tech Giants (By Australian)"

twno1 — Thu, 10 Oct 2019 08:09:26 +0000

This research publish on April. They also have executive summary to explain how they make this map / report. https://www.aspi.org.au/report/mapping-chinas-tech-giants

Mapping China's Tech Giants (By Australian)

twno1 — Thu, 10 Oct 2019 08:07:10 +0000

Article URL: https://chinatechmap.aspi.org.au/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21212039

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

New comment by twno1 in "Blizzard's Weibo Account Just Posted an Apology To China"

twno1 — Thu, 10 Oct 2019 01:57:27 +0000

I really hate this but it's our everyday life to see actor or singer we love they need to apology to China on their social media almost every month.

These stars from Taiwan who have PRs in China, their Weibo wall may have post they do not agree automatically. That's because these PRs in China work so hard to doing their damage control job before everything goes wrong. I think years before, this may worked in China.

But something changed recently. There are too many "internet red guards" in China. They want to use the same criteria to censor whole world by VPN the great wall. Once "internet red guards" target a company or star, they will dig everything they don't like(maybe 5 years ago!!) and post inside the wall. Then they encourage everyone in China boycott it. After that, government have excuse to suspend someones business. That's why Morey's twit cause NBA so much.

And I don't think situation like this that Weibo post of Blizzard will do any help once Blizzard they need to apology to people outside of china. But we don't see Blizzard have any announcement to us yet. I think this PR post or discussion inside great wall is a clever move that control Blizzard international. They want Blizzard to say nothing or it will cause them more damage in China.

for our everyday life reference: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/17/world/asia/taiwan-china-s...

New comment by twno1 in "Blizzard Suspends Professional Hearthstone Player for Hong Kong Comments"

twno1 — Tue, 08 Oct 2019 15:21:55 +0000

/r/classicwow too. Just saw this post and let me start to cancel my account.

https://www.reddit.com/r/classicwow/comments/dez4yc/breaking...

New comment by twno1 in "Blizzard bans player from Hearthstone following on-stream Hong Kong protest"

twno1 — Tue, 08 Oct 2019 08:46:51 +0000

What next? I just checked how many game companies owned by Tencent. I don't think situation will going better. Especially these are popular esport games (Fortnite, LOL, PUBG)

https://www.pcgamer.com/every-game-company-that-tencent-has-...

New comment by twno1 in "The NBA Feels a Backlash in China After a Tweet Supporting Hong Kong"

twno1 — Mon, 07 Oct 2019 21:30:22 +0000

Instead wasting time to build culture influence. They simply bought companies from western and become rule maker.

For example, Tencent already bought two popular esport game companies from U.S.(riot game /epic game). Not only for making money, also for ruling esport world.

https://www.pcgamer.com/every-game-company-that-tencent-has-...

New comment by twno1 in "The NBA Feels a Backlash in China After a Tweet Supporting Hong Kong"

twno1 — Mon, 07 Oct 2019 20:58:22 +0000

For reference: Force U.S. airlines remove Taiwan: https://time.com/5348666/airlines-websites-taiwan-china/

Hide Taiwan emoji flag in Hong Kong: https://blog.emojipedia.org/apple-hides-taiwan-flag-in-hong-...