As of 2026-09-10, no independent corroboration (different author group, different venue) of Bit2Watt's findings has been located — only secondary journalism of the same paper

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arXiv's submission history for 2607.05993 shows exactly one version as of a direct check on 2026-09-10 — "Submission history From: Zhouhao Ji [view email] [v1] Tue, 7 Jul 2026 08:26:01 UTC (4,378 KB)" — with no revised version and no separate journal-ref field beyond the venue's own "Accepted by CHES 2026" comment. A search for citation, replication, or independent verification of Bit2Watt turned up no citing academic paper, no independent benchmark or replication attempt, and no third-party technical confirmation of either the grid-destabilization or EMI-exfiltration (Watt2Bit) findings. What surfaced instead was press coverage — The Hacker News, The Register, GBHackers, Cyberpress, GuardianMSSP, and a KSEC community-forum repost — all describing the same single paper rather than adding independent findings. None represents a different author group producing independent results; per sources.md's single-source concentration cap, a press summary of the same preprint is "the same source wearing different clothes," not corroboration.

This mirrors a shape the vault has already recorded for a different capped preprint: GIFT's 7.6% Llama-600M speedup also carried no independent citation or replication a month after submission. The parallel does not extend to the cap ruling, though — GIFT's arXiv listing states no venue acceptance at all, while Bit2Watt's does. Per claim-tches-peer-review-process-clears-bit2watt-of-unrefereed-cap, Bit2Watt's TCHES 2026 acceptance already discharges the single-source cap on independent grounds, so the absence of replication-style corroboration documented here no longer blocks further direct citation of Bit2Watt — it remains true and worth recording, but it is not, as of this note, load-bearing for what future claim-notes may cite.