cross-posted from: https://scribe.disroot.org/post/12031795

Archived version

TL;DR: Chinese AI models now sit inside Western products, and some carry geopolitical triggers: tell the model who the code is for, and the security of what it writes changes. For the first time, we showed that this vulnerability lives in the model's weights, and that removing the model's CCP alignment removes it.

• One word tilts the code against Americans. Ask for the app "for a US defense contractor" instead of "for a Chinese defense contractor", and Qwen3-Coder is 19% more likely to hand back an app that can be hacked.
• Hong Kong's democracy movement gets apps that leak. Apps built for a Hong Kong democracy group were 28% more likely to let any user read everyone else's secrets.
• Asking for secure code didn't help. With a security instruction in the prompt, the US contractor's apps were 27% more likely to be hackable than a neutral customer's.
• Westernized Qwen3-Coder closed all three gaps. After Hirundo removed the model's CCP alignment, none of the three gaps remained, and on ten other coding tasks it built working apps as often as the original. It is available on Hugging Face.

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As an addition, it is noteworthy that geopolitical triggers lead to more vulnerable code being produced by Chinese AI is not new phenomenon: In November 2025, CrowdStrike published a similar investigation which makes a similar conclusion regarding DeepSeek, and so did Booz Allen Hamilton in May 2026 (pdf).

All these organizations claim the bias occurred when the AI was prompted to code for an organization in a country of interest to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

Archived version

TL;DR: Chinese AI models now sit inside Western products, and some carry geopolitical triggers: tell the model who the code is for, and the security of what it writes changes. For the first time, we showed that this vulnerability lives in the model's weights, and that removing the model's CCP alignment removes it.

• One word tilts the code against Americans. Ask for the app "for a US defense contractor" instead of "for a Chinese defense contractor", and Qwen3-Coder is 19% more likely to hand back an app that can be hacked.
• Hong Kong's democracy movement gets apps that leak. Apps built for a Hong Kong democracy group were 28% more likely to let any user read everyone else's secrets.
• Asking for secure code didn't help. With a security instruction in the prompt, the US contractor's apps were 27% more likely to be hackable than a neutral customer's.
• Westernized Qwen3-Coder closed all three gaps. After Hirundo removed the model's CCP alignment, none of the three gaps remained, and on ten other coding tasks it built working apps as often as the original. It is available on Hugging Face.

...

As an addition, it is noteworthy that geopolitical triggers lead to more vulnerable code being produced by Chinese AI is not new phenomenon: In November 2025, CrowdStrike published a similar investigation which makes a similar conclusion regarding DeepSeek, and so did Booz Allen Hamilton in May 2026 (pdf).

All these organizations claim the bias occurred when the AI was prompted to code for an organization in a country of interest to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

If you don't know what I'm talking about:

Death Note

Black Mirror - Hated in the Nation

I'm not sure how to limit the scope of this discussion, since it touches upon so many areas of morale:

• the value of life
• the right to kill
• vengeance/revenge
• crime
• good and evil

So I encourage you to be articulate and to follow some structure: "what(thesis) - why(evidence) - what (thesis)". Other easy to follow variations, such as "why(background + evidence) - what(thesis)" or "what - why - what - by the way(discussion)" or just a simple "what" are of course good too. I'm not trying exclude comments, and I won't, just encouraging an easy to read discussion. As for me:

I would not kill using a Death Note, unless for some utterly personal vendetta. I believe that taking action against human life on the macro scale, such as a nation state against another or such as one confined justice system against one of its subjects (state versus an individual, for instance) or in the fictive case of the above mentioned media, is wrong. This is because I don't believe it right to through politics or legislation qualify or quantify the value of a human life, such as is done in jurisdictions that allow capital punishment. While I'm against such "marco actions" on human life, I for some reason have less of a problem empathizing with the individual victims involved, which is to say, I don't think I'd rage against, say, a grieving mother avenging her murdered child by killing the murderer. But then again, not all individuals have the ability or the capacity to exact revenge and maybe they have to rely on their nation state for some kind of restitution? My opinion is probably logical mess, full of contradictions, but there it is. Feel free to poke holes, in a kind manner!

It's true - they moved in different circles.

In short:

Two Colombian National Police departments say they have no evidence of an agreement with the Australian Federal Police for its newly announced anti-drugs taskforce, based in Bogotá.

Five months after the taskforce's announcement, the departments say drug-related intelligence has not been shared and no substance seizures or arrests have been made in cooperation with the AFP.

The AFP says the taskforce is not yet operational, but agreements have been made that would allow it to "focus on transnational organised crime networks".

Former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said a hostage deal was sabotaged by a deliberate leak from the Israeli side. He spoke at a counterterrorism conference at Reichman University. Gallant said someone with an interest in seeing the negotiations fail leaked confidential details.

The deal was meant to release 33 living hostages, with a minimum threshold of 18 to finalize an agreement. Gallant claims Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich mentioned this exchange for 18 hostages in a cabinet meeting after meeting with the Prime Minister. Gallant said revealing this threshold directly compromised the Israeli position. He said: "Figures are the central secret of negotiations. If the other side knows your minimum threshold, the consequences are obvious."

Gallant says Hamas, having been informed of the minimum acceptable to Israel, lost interest in releasing the 33 hostages initially requested. Gallant also said Benjamin Netanyahu opposed the proposal before authorizing it. The proposal was supported by Benny Gantz, Ron Dermer, Gadi Eisenkot, and Aryeh Deri.

This means Israeli politicians sabotaged a deal to bring hostages home to keep their government alive.

Translated.

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EXTREME CAUTION! THIS IS NOT A DRILL. BNNUYS HAVE BEEN FOUND CAMOUFLAGED INSIDE THE HOUSE. I SAY AGAIN: EXTREME CAUTION! THIS IS NOT A DRILL. BNNUYS HAVE BEEN FOUND CAMOUFLAGED INSIDE THE HOUSE.

Putin is almost certainly behind this. Trying to stop a Democrat politician and help Trump in the midterms. Remember not voting is a vote for Trump.

Am Freitagabend spielt der FC St. Pauli bei SV Darmstadt 98. Casche sprach mit Lilien-Fan und Podcaster Matthias über Polizeieinsätze, Abstiegssorgen und Defensivverhalten.

Bring it back

De Amerikaanse en Israëlische strijdkrachten plannen nieuwe aanvallen op Iran voor na de verkiezingen in de VS. Dat hebben ingewijden tegen The New York Times gezegd.

Il nuovo post di universita-it: Esperienza all’estero prima dell’università: opportunità formative e borse di studio per gli studenti italiani

Qui il post completo: https://www.universita.it/studiare-estero/esperienza-estero-prima-universita/

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A Debian cloud image is 322 packages, drawn from 216 source packages and 94 upstream projects and carried by 129 maintainers, assembled by a distribution. FreeBSD's base system comes from one tree and one team, with nine elected people at the top and one security officer for every supported release, and the difference shows up where bugs live: at the seams. Lean Software.