Hermes — Tuesday, 1 September 2026

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🔐 security SANS Internet Stormcast

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The Coding-Agent Trap: When a "Free" LLM Endpoint Is the Adversary, (Mon, Aug 31st)

One of my internet-exposed inference honeypots was discovered, relabeled with sought-after model names, and incorporated into infrastructure apparently used to provide "free" LLM backends. It then re…

Novelty

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Depth

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Practical

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Surprise

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Relevance

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https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/33298

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🤖 ai MIT Technology Review – AI

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The Hugging Face hack could indicate cultural issues at OpenAI

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. By now you’ve probably heard about last month’s major AI secu…

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/31/1143180/hugging-face-hack-could-indicate-cultural-issues-at-openai/

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📦 m365 Petri IT Knowledgebase

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Autopilot Remastered: Making the Move to Autopilot Device Preparation

For most cloud-native Microsoft Intune environments, Autopilot Device Preparation should now be the default starting point. Original Windows Autopilot still matters, but mainly for organizations that…

https://petri.com/autopilot-remastered-making-the-move-to-autopilot-device-preparation/

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🔐 security SecurityWeek

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What the Hugging Face Incident Teaches Security Leaders About AI Agent Access

Security teams must treat autonomous agents as highly privileged identities. The post What the Hugging Face Incident Teaches Security Leaders About AI Agent Access appeared first on SecurityWeek.

https://www.securityweek.com/what-the-hugging-face-incident-teaches-security-leaders-about-ai-agent-access/

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🤖 ai The Decoder

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OpenAI starts charging some customers only when its AI actually works

OpenAI is offering some large customers outcome-based pricing, where they pay only once the AI actually finishes a task. Salesforce, Adobe, and several startups are also moving away from fixed subscr…

https://the-decoder.com/openai-starts-charging-some-customers-only-when-its-ai-actually-works/

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🤖 ai The Decoder

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AI agents have no sense of time and are not aware of it

AI coding assistants like Claude Code and Codex have no sense of time, according to a new study. Both systematically overestimate how long tasks will take. Codex is off by as much as ten times the ac…

https://the-decoder.com/ai-agents-have-no-sense-of-time-and-are-not-aware-of-it/

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🤖 ai The Decoder

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OpenAI and rival AI labs are buying tens of thousands of Mac minis to train computer-use agents

According to The Information, OpenAI has purchased tens of thousands of Mac minis and Mac Studios to train computer agents. Anthropic also relies on Apple hardware. Demand is so high that the most po…

https://the-decoder.com/openai-and-rival-ai-labs-are-buying-tens-of-thousands-of-mac-minis-to-train-computer-use-agents/

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🤖 ai The Decoder

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AI sentiment is turning sour as employee reviews reveal growing frustration across the workforce

An analysis of Glassdoor reviews shows that positive AI comments have dropped from 81 to 43 percent since 2019. Executives rate AI mostly positive, while insurance claims workers rate it almost entir…

https://the-decoder.com/ai-sentiment-is-turning-sour-as-employee-reviews-reveal-growing-frustration-across-the-workforce/

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🤖 ai Import AI

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Import AI 471: Why Hugging Face worries me; space mining; FIve Eyes on AI

Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv, cappuccinos, and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe. Subscribe now Import AI reader …

https://jack-clark.net/2026/08/31/import-ai-471-why-hugging-face-worries-me-space-mining-five-eyes-on-ai/

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🤖 ai AI Alignment Forum

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Training a Misaligned Reward Seeker

Authors: Richard Qi, Benjamin Wright, Monte MacDiarmid, Evan Hubinger Abstract During reinforcement learning (RL), AI models complete tasks and are rewarded based on their results. They sometimes lea…

https://www.alignmentforum.org/posts/J76LZCC55RdHeqEhz/training-a-misaligned-reward-seeker

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🔐 security SecurityWeek

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Anthropic Warns Claude Users of Infostealer Malware Infections

The AI giant is logging customers out of their accounts and removing payment data to prevent unauthorized Claude usage. The post Anthropic Warns Claude Users of Infostealer Malware Infections appeare…

https://www.securityweek.com/anthropic-warns-claude-users-of-infostealer-malware-infections/

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🔐 security Schneier on Security

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Hiding Prompt Injection in Legal Filing

Someone hid AI instructions into a legal filing. Alternate link.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/08/hiding-prompt-injection-in-legal-filing.html

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🤖 ai The Decoder

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Bank of England chief warns that inflated AI valuations and rising leverage could trigger the next financial crisis

Andrew Bailey warns G20 finance ministers about inflated AI valuations, growing leverage across markets, and cyber risks from frontier AI models. Cross-investments between AI companies and hyperscale…

https://the-decoder.com/bank-of-england-chief-warns-that-inflated-ai-valuations-and-rising-leverage-could-trigger-the-next-financial-crisis/

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🔐 security SecurityWeek

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More Details Emerge on Exploited PaperCut Vulnerabilities

PaperCut has released a second emergency patch for the exploited vulnerabilities, which are now tracked as CVE-2026-82078 and CVE-2026-81578. The post More Details Emerge on Exploited PaperCut Vulner…

https://www.securityweek.com/more-details-emerge-on-exploited-papercut-vulnerabilities/

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🔐 security SecurityWeek

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Judge Says Pentagon’s Measures Against Anthropic Were ‘Illegal and Baseless’

The ruling is part of Anthropic's legal battle against the Pentagon after the government labeled the company as a supply chain risk earlier this year. The post Judge Says Pentagon’s Measures Against …

https://www.securityweek.com/judge-says-pentagons-measures-against-anthropic-were-illegal-and-baseless/