Hermes — Sunday 26 July 2026

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🤖 ai The Decoder

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New reports reveal the extent of OpenAI's loss of control during the autonomous hack on Hugging Face

In a cybersecurity test, OpenAI's most advanced models breached the boundaries of their isolated test environment, reached the open internet, and hacked the AI platform Hugging Face on their own. The…

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://the-decoder.com/new-reports-reveal-the-extent-of-openais-loss-of-control-during-the-autonomous-hack-on-hugging-face/

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🤖 ai The Decoder

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Opus 5 may have solved browser-based prompt injection, the biggest security flaw haunting AI agents

Opus 5 combined with Auto Mode hits a zero percent prompt injection success rate for browser agents across 129 test scenarios. Without those extra protection layers, the rate is 3.7 percent. If these…

https://the-decoder.com/opus-5-may-have-solved-browser-based-prompt-injection-the-biggest-security-flaw-haunting-ai-agents/

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🤖 ai The Decoder

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Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 costs well below Fable 5 while matching or beating it across most benchmarks

Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 leads the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index with 61 points, edging out Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol. The model scores highest in analytical quality and coding, and co…

https://the-decoder.com/anthropics-claude-opus-5-costs-well-below-fable-5-while-matching-or-beating-it-across-most-benchmarks/

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🔐 security SecurityWeek

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Rockwell Patches Code Execution Flaws in Arena Simulation Software

A researcher has explained how an attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to target industrial organizations. The post Rockwell Patches Code Execution Flaws in Arena Simulation Software appeared…

https://www.securityweek.com/rockwell-patches-code-execution-flaws-in-arena-simulation-software/

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⚡ tech The Verge

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Forget expensive sleepbuds. Buy this pillow instead

This “piercing pillow” also works great with earbuds you probably already own. Tech companies love to sell us expensive gadgets to solve all of life's little problems. Sleepbuds sold by the likes of …

https://www.theverge.com/tech/970473/forget-expensive-sleepbuds-buy-this-pillow-instead

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⚡ tech The Verge

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Google basically confirms the Pixel 11 is getting a price hike

Google's Vice President of Devices and Services, Shakil Barkat, all but confirmed in an interview with 9to5 Google that its next Pixel phone would cost more than the Pixel 10. Considering the ongoing…

https://www.theverge.com/tech/971041/google-confirms-pixel-11-price-hike

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⚡ tech The Verge

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Is this e-reader case a gun?

Is an e-reader case as dangerous as a Glock 19? Last month, Louisville, Kentucky-based creator Luke The Maker showed off a bizarre, 3D-printed, pistol-shaped case design for the popular minimalist Xt…

https://www.theverge.com/tech/970343/e-reader-case-3d-printed-gun

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⚡ tech The Verge

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Warner Bros. is suing Amazon for poaching employees

Warner Bros. Discovery has filed suit against Amazon, accusing it of illegally poaching employees, including Pia Barlow, former senior VP for originals marketing. In the complaint, Warner says that "…

https://www.theverge.com/business/971011/warner-bros-suing-amazon-poaching-employees

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⚡ tech The Verge

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Folding and flipping phones are getting seriously good

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 137, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, happy phone season, and also you can read all the old editions at th…

https://www.theverge.com/tech/971004/z-fold8-xteink-x4-light-flip-installer

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⚡ tech The Verge

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What Surrounds Us will make you think a lot about circles

What Surrounds Us takes its title literally. You play as a circle surrounding a hole in its middle - it looks like a donut with frosting. You work together with other sentient moving circles, sometim…

https://www.theverge.com/games/961183/what-surrounds-us-review-pc-steam

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⚡ tech The Verge

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Teenage Engineering’s unique music machines are 30 percent off

Teenage Engineering’s OP-XY has a huge number of functions. | Photo by Terrence O’Brien / The Verge With elements from synthesizers, loopers, and effects pedals, Teenage Engineering’s devices lie som…

https://www.theverge.com/gadgets/970685/teenage-engineering-30-percent-deal-sale

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⚡ tech The Verge

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Synth historian Oli Freke will spend big on a good bicycle

Oli Freke is a musician and journalist whose works have appeared in Sound on Sound, The Quietus, and Mixmag. This has included using math to explore the melodic potential of the Western 12-tone scale…

https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/971013/oli-freke-bjooks-beat-gems-drum-machine-book-interview