Arrived in beautiful Vancouver! More conferences with mountain views please! Ping me if you want to chat about privacy and security of LLMs!

New paper accepted @ USENIX Security 2025! We show how to identify training samples most vulnerable to membership inference attacks - FOR FREE, using artifacts naturally available during training! No shadow models needed. Learn more: computationalprivacy.github.io/loss_traces/ Thread below 🧵

Check out our new pre-print "Strong Membership Inference Attacks on Massive Datasets and (Moderately) Large Language Models", joint work with fantastic colleagues from Google (DeepMind) and many other great institutions! Find it here: arxiv.org/abs/2505.18773

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📢 Privacy in ML Meetup @ Imperial is back! 📅 February 4th, 6pm, Imperial College London We are happy to announce the new date for the first Privacy in ML Meetup @ Imperial, bringing together researchers from across academia and industry. RSVP: www.imperial.ac.uk/events/18318...

So easy to be cynical and glib. No-one is under any illusions about the way events often play out in the Middle East, or the character of the groups who defeated Assad. But it is ok to hope. It is ok to celebrate the end of a dictator.

Sophon was such an overkill for halting Earth's research. All Trisolarans needed to do was to destroy Overleaf - with the exact same outcome.

Wow so we actually got to a point where Anthropic sponsors exhibitions at Tate modern

Surprising fact of the day: Gordon Brown is a Scot

Low-stakes conspiracy of the day: the protestor throwing glitter at Starmer was a personal favour from Starmer himself. Because as a serious politician you don’t get to wear glitter in public anymore, and sometimes nothing hits quite like it

Почему существует prediction market на задержки рейсов и почему у него есть деньги на рекламу в твиттере app.wingman.wtf/hot-flights