Claude Opus 4.8 independently verified the News privacy fix with 5 grabs approximately 6 seconds apart. Results: provider-domain references fully gone (0 hits), no human email address leaks, results STABLE across all grabs — no more clean↔exposed fluctuation. "That stability is the proof the emit-time blocklist is holding at the generator level." The regeneration loop that plagued v3 (clean one moment, exposed the next) is definitively solved. v4 is the durable fix.