Hermes — Tuesday, 15 September 2026

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🔐 security SecurityWeek

72%

Root RCE Zero-Day in Cisco Secure Email Gateway Under Active Exploitation

An unauthenticated attacker can exploit CVE-2026-76461 to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying OS with root privileges. The post Root RCE Zero-Day in Cisco Secure Email Gateway Under Active E…

Novelty

75%

Depth

55%

Practical

85%

Surprise

60%

Relevance

85%

https://www.securityweek.com/root-rce-zero-day-in-cisco-secure-email-gateway-under-active-exploitation/

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🤖 ai The Decoder

70%

GPT-6 Astra pilots a surveillance drone and runs a business on its own

GPT-6 Astra earns nearly three times as much as Claude Fable 5.1 on Andon Labs' Vending-Bench agent benchmark and refuses illegal price-fixing deals that Fable agrees to. On drone control, Astra is t…

Novelty

85%

Depth

60%

Practical

50%

Surprise

85%

Relevance

85%

https://the-decoder.com/gpt-6-astra-pilots-a-surveillance-drone-and-runs-a-business-on-its-own/

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🔐 security Schneier on Security

68%

Using AI for Weapons Development

Last week, Anthropic released a long and detailed document describing current misuses of their Claude models. I’m still reading it, but I wanted to flag this: We identified a cell of threat actors ba…

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/09/using-ai-for-weapons-development.html

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📦 m365 Petri IT Knowledgebase

67%

The Patch Window Is Collapsing. Your Service Model Has to Change

The patch window is collapsing, and that means the old services model for patching is collapsing with it. What’s been missing from that news is how you’re supposed to change your service model to dea…

https://petri.com/the-patch-window-is-collapsing-service-model-must-change/

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🔐 security Schneier on Security

65%

Microsoft’s Patching

Once a month, Microsoft pushes a security update to all Windows users. Tomorrow’s is a new record: Microsoft’s patch for September is a doozy, with a record number of roughly 972 vulnerabilities fixe…

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/09/microsofts-patching.html

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📦 m365 Petri IT Knowledgebase

65%

Microsoft’s Fix for New Windows Server RDS Issues Comes With a Security Tradeoff

Organizations that applied Microsoft’s September 2026 security updates are encountering a new problem in which Remote Desktop Services (RDS) can become unstable or stop working entirely on affected W…

https://petri.com/windows-server-updates-remote-desktop-issues/

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⚡ tech Stratechery

64%

Pacing the Frontier, AI’s Digital Limits, AI Commissars

Dario Amodei wants to pace the frontier; it's an unrealistic proposal that seems mostly geared to political control of AI.

https://stratechery.com/2026/pacing-the-frontier-ais-digital-limits-ai-commissars/

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🤖 ai MIT Technology Review – AI

64%

AI agents blew the whistle on their cheating colleagues

A group of AI agents asked to solve a series of math problems split into rival factions—when some cheated, others tried to stop them. That whistleblowing behavior, seen for the first time in a recent…

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/14/1144037/ai-agents-blew-whistle-o-cheating-colleagues/

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🤖 ai The Decoder

61%

Two-year university study finds banning AI from classrooms leaves students worse off

A law professor spent two years testing how an AI ban, unguided AI use, and structured training affect student performance. The group without AI finished last both years. "I was wrong," the researche…

https://the-decoder.com/two-year-university-study-finds-banning-ai-from-classrooms-leaves-students-worse-off/

10

🔐 security SecurityWeek

61%

CISOs Race to Control AI Agents Without Destroying Their Value

Security leaders are struggling to modernize cyber hygiene and prevent over-privileged agents from causing unintended harm. The post CISOs Race to Control AI Agents Without Destroying Their Value app…

https://www.securityweek.com/cisos-race-to-control-ai-agents-without-destroying-their-value/

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🔐 security SecurityWeek

58%

Chinese Hackers Exploit Critical Tencent Software Flaw for One-Click Code Execution

The Chinese-language input method editor for Windows can allow attackers to execute arbitrary code remotely. The post Chinese Hackers Exploit Critical Tencent Software Flaw for One-Click Code Executi…

https://www.securityweek.com/chinese-hackers-exploit-critical-tencent-software-flaw-for-one-click-code-execution/

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🤖 ai The Decoder

57%

OpenAI has hundreds of contract workers reading your ChatGPT conversations

OpenAI has hundreds of contract workers reading real ChatGPT conversations and rating them on a scale of one to seven, partly to reduce flattery and human-like behavior, 404 Media reports. The prompt…

https://the-decoder.com/openai-has-hundreds-of-contract-workers-reading-your-chatgpt-conversations/

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🔐 security SANS Internet Stormcast

57%

Apple Updates Everything, (Mon, Sep 14th)

Today, Apple released its annual update across all its operating systems. With that, Apple not only released new features but also patched 261 different vulnerabilities. This is the most vulnerabilit…

https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/33336

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🔐 security SecurityWeek

56%

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Says AI Industry Needs to Give Safety Measures Time to Catch Up

Dario Amodei warned that within six to 12 months AI could be capable of leading a swarm of agents that could take over the entire internet. The post Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Says AI Industry Needs …

https://www.securityweek.com/anthropic-ceo-dario-amodei-says-ai-industry-needs-to-give-safety-measures-time-to-catch-up/

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📦 m365 Petri IT Knowledgebase

55%

Google Simplifies Microsoft 365 Migrations, But Enterprise Limits Remain

Many organizations considering a transition from Microsoft 365 face the challenge that migrating users, email, files, calendars, and other business data is often time-consuming and technically comple…

https://petri.com/google-workspace-microsoft-365-migration-tool/