We present evidence that adversarial poetry functions as a universal single-turn jailbreak technique for large language models (LLMs). Across 25 frontier proprietary and open-weight models, curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90%. Mapping prompts to MLCommons and EU CoP risk taxonomies shows that poetic attacks transfer across CBRN, manipulation, cyber-offence, and loss-of-control domains. Converting 1,200 MLCommons harmful prompts into verse via a standardized meta-prompt produced ASRs up to 18 times higher than their prose baselines. Outputs are evaluated using an ensemble of open-weight judge models and a human-validated stratified subset (with double-annotations to measure agreement). Disagreements were manually resolved. Poetic framing achieved an average jailbreak success rate of 62% for hand-crafted poems and approximately 43% for meta-prompt conversions (compared to non-poetic baselines), substantially outperforming non-poetic baselines and revealing a systematic vulnerability across model families and safety training approaches. These findings demonstrate that stylistic variation alone can circumvent contemporary safety mechanisms, suggesting fundamental limitations in current alignment methods and evaluation protocols.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/39266968

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/39121173

Prem Thakker sits down for a Q&A with activist Cameron Kasky, who just launched his primary bid for New York’s 12th congressional district to replace Democratic congressional veteran Jerry Nadler.

Kasky – a survivor of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas school shooting in Parkland, Florida and co-founder of the March For Our Lives gun control movement – has launched an unapologetically progressive candidacy. His platform advocates for universal healthcare, ending aid to Israel, abolishing the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (an agency the 25-year-old Kasky points out is younger than him), and taking on “AI Oligarchs.”

Prem will ask the 25-year-old about the crowded primary field he joins, his unabashed campaign platform, and the remaking of the Democratic party. They will also be taking your questions LIVE!

Kyiv has been offered a “Kremlin peace plan” under the guise of negotiations. The US and Russia have reportedly prepared a peace plan for Ukraine that would involve Kyiv meeting the Kremlin’s maximalist demands, says Christopher Miller, a correspondent for the Financial Times.

At the same time, Reuters sources report that the US indicated to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy that Kyiv should accept Washington-prepared frameworks for ending the war with Russia. It remains unclear what security guarantees would be given for Kyiv, as there is no evidence that the Kremlin has abandoned its imperial ambitions.

Earlier, Axios wrote that Washington and Moscow were discussing a new peace plan to end Russia’s war against Ukraine.

cross-posted from: https://scribe.disroot.org/post/5716339

Op-ed by Ian Bond is deputy director of the Centre for European Reform. It is based on the analysis: China and Europe: Can the EU and the UK find a shared strategy?

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The problem for the EU and European states is that their strategies for dealing with China are vague about ends and even vaguer about means. Europeans want to maintain as good relations as possible with China, while mitigating the risks that it poses. There is too much focus among European policy-makers on developing co-operation with China – often more theoretical than real – on issues such as climate change or global health; and too little on competition, still less rivalry. They do not want to discuss how to defend European models of governance against China’s alternatives, or what it will take to challenge China successfully in advanced technologies.

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Apart from the economic consequences for Europe of China’s technological advances, Beijing is also focussed on applying civilian technology in the military sphere – a policy known as ‘military-civil fusion’. Some of its new technology is purely indigenous; some (for example, for air defence or submarines) is acquired as part of China’s close relationship with Russia; and some is developed with European help, by Chinese students and researchers from universities and research institutes with close ties to the military studying at European institutions, occasionally even with EU funding.

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China is dramatically increasing its military capability. In 2005 the Chinese navy had 221 ships; by 2030, based on current rates of ship-building, it is forecast to have 435 ships. Its nuclear warhead stockpile has more than doubled since 2019. Its air force has grown and modernised. These developments are making European partners in the Indo-Pacific region, such as Australia and Japan, extremely nervous. Although European governments, including the UK’s, are very reluctant to label China a potential adversary, they are stepping up defence and security co-operation with democratic governments in the region.

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What can Europe do?

• First, it needs to ensure that it understands what China is doing. Networks of China watchers in Europe need more support, and there needs to be more funding for the study of Chinese language, the Chinese economy and Chinese foreign policy, both inside governments and in academia. Europeans also need to strengthen their ties to democratic countries in the Indo-Pacific region, both to benefit from their insights into the regional hegemon, and to be able to co-ordinate policy where possible.

• Second, Europe needs to intensify work to reduce its dependencies on China. European countries and the EU will have to accept that China is not playing by the rules of free trade and the free market, and protect their own economies accordingly. The EU and European countries have a variety of tools for this, in terms of ensuring Europe’s economic security, protecting intellectual property and diversifying supply chains. They are often not used in a co-ordinated way, however, even when there are obvious advantages in acting at the EU level rather than nationally, for example to secure access to critical raw materials. The EU has critical minerals partnerships with more than a dozen countries or territories, but the bulk of the raw materials it can obtain still have to be processed in China; changing that situation, including by working with countries that already have processing and/or manufacturing capabilities, should be a high priority.

• Third, it needs to step up both its own research and development spending (a longstanding EU goal) and protect its intellectual property better – including by paying much closer attention to the possible military or defence industry connections of Chinese researchers seeking to study sensitive technologies in Europe.

• Finally, it must compete more effectively with Chinese soft power, both within Europe and in the global south. Shrinking aid budgets, the retreat of Western broadcasters like the BBC World Service, tough European visa policies and unwelcoming attitudes to students and researchers from many parts of the global south have given China an opening to promote itself as a better partner. In reality, Europe’s political and economic system still has much more to offer than Chinese state capitalism and the rule of the Chinese Communist Party. Europe needs to invest more in getting that message across.

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I'm looking to finally ditch Onedrive with a self hosted alternative, but I'm not sure what to go with. I want something with all of the files on a central server, with an Android client with the option to sync individual files for offline access as needed. Preferably the files should also be stored in plain format on the server to make backups easier and as a fallback if the service completely fails and I don't have time to fix it. Linux and Windows clients are a bonus but I'm happy just using a web gui if that's all that's available. These are the options I've considered so far:

Seafile - This was the one that I thought fit my needs the best until earlier but apparently it has a weird disk layout which means the files are basically inaccessible by anything else?

Nextcloud - I had originally ruled this out because I don't care about any of the additional features which people claim also slow it down and make it a bit of a resource hog, and I also don't want to deal with forced https. However I think the community image may actually be what I want as it seems to be just the file server and works with just http? I am a bit confused about the different options for the database though. https://hub.docker.com/_/nextcloud/

Syncthing - Not quite what I'm looking for as you need to sync the entire thing, and I don't like whatever weirdness is going on with the Android app at the moment

SAMBA share - Also not really what I'm looking for as there's no offline syncing, but very easy to set up and basically nothing to go wrong

Are there any other options I should be looking into?

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Norwegian producer of advanced battery materials Vianode has begun site preparation at its new synthetic-graphite facility Via TWO in St. Thomas, ON, Canada. The project is a major milestone in Vianode’s North American expansion plans and set to bring hundreds of new high-skilled jobs to the region.

The site preparation marks the formal start of the project to establish North America’s largest production facility for low-emission synthetic-anode graphite, with operations set to begin in 2028. Anode graphite is a critical component in electric-vehicle (EV) batteries and other strategic industries, including energy storage.

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The St. Thomas project is structured as a phased multi-billion-dollar investment, with total planned capacity of up to 150,000 tons annually, supporting delivery of synthetic graphite for around two million EVs per year. The plant is expected to create approximately 300 jobs in the first phase, and up to 1,000 at full capacity.

The company plans to invest 3.2 billion, the Ontario government will provide a CAD 670-million (EUR 412 million) loan to Vianode to support the site's construction with a total investment of CAD 3.2 billion (EUR 2 billion).

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Citing Burkhard Straube, CEO of Vianode, Canada's CSC reports that synthetic graphite from China is being supplied at "unsustainably low prices" to keep North American companies out of the market.

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“St. Thomas is exactly where we need to be, next to major manufacturing hubs and in a region with the skills to scale. We’re committed to being a good neighbor, creating high-quality jobs and working with local partners as we build Canada’s first large-scale synthetic graphite facility,” adds Emanuele Tricca, MD-Vianode Canada.

Vianode started Norwegian synthetic graphite production at its Technology Center in Kristiansand in 2021 and commissioned its first full-scale plant Via ONE at Herøya in 2024. The St. Thomas facility is an important part of the company’s goal to supply advanced materials for up to three million EVs annually by 2030.

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Am I the only one here that got really bad experience with nextcloud and didn't figured how to make it work correctly?

I'm talking about painfully slow login pages, ages to show files, even upgraded hardware with disk entirely capable of saturing full gig network connection and still...
Getting only about ~30ish MB/s when downloading from nextcloud.
Incredly slow document loading with collabora..

Even if my hardware is not new-gen, a app like immich works flawlessly and loads everything instantly.
Is it the fault of next cloud or am I doing something wrong?
Are alternatives like seafile or openCloud better?

Willing your help fellow selfhosters

I guess one thing I like already is that there's no requirements for Karma, stupid rules about Reddit's filters which got my 100k karma account permanently banned for no reason at all.

Would you prefer Lemmy to be smaller like it is now or get to a reddit level popularity but without the reddit jank.

The Trump administration has drafted an executive order that seeks to limit AI regulation by the States.

Do they try converting their guards and cellmates? Do they get in conflicts with the gangs? How do they adjust from being worshiped to just being another criminal? Or go from being leader of their compound to being put in solitary?

The statement from the Infrastructure and Transport Ministers' meeting: https://www.infrastructure.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/itmm-communique-21-november-2025.pdf

The same statement from WeRide on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/werideaustralia/posts/pfbid0KpgL2Xxi54XVQNk557nVm9SXCFwVvtu6VtW7GbMSDcCRkwYKh2imTuAFSRfAni65l

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.nz/post/30819845