The ‘Decommunization’ Of Dushanbe

7 The Kohi Tajikistan Theater was demolished along with its Soviet Mosaic in 2016. The location is currently a construction site. Commentators have compared Dushanbe’s monumental developments to Dubai, which some say is an awkward fit for a city that had a leafy, low-rise Soviet aesthetic. “This construction boom makes me think of a teenager…

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Life Of Jailed Iranian Nobel Peace Prize Winner Narges Mohammadi ‘In Serious Danger’

The brother of jailed Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi has told RFE/RL’s Radio Farda that her life is “in serious danger” following a heart attack she suffered in prison last month. Hamid Reza Mohammadi said his sister was being denied medical care and suffering from “vision problems, nausea, blood-pressure issues, and chest pain.”…

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Advancing Gemini’s security safeguards — Google DeepMind

Tailoring evaluations for adaptive attacks Baseline mitigations showed promise against basic, non-adaptive attacks, significantly reducing the attack success rate. However, malicious actors increasingly use adaptive attacks that are specifically designed to evolve and adapt with ART to circumvent the defense being tested. Successful baseline defenses like Spotlighting or Self-reflection became much less effective against adaptive…

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