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The author is a postdoc at Columbia,
studying number theory, and thus quite likely
personally knows a number of prominent
number theorists, and definitely knows people
who know the people he mentions in the blog
post.
It doesn't seem at all unreasonable that he
could of heard this from, say, a faculty member
at Columbia, and reported on it on his blog
keeping the names out of it, so he doesn't
undercut their announcement).