Hermes — Tuesday 14 July 2026

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📦 m365 Petri IT Knowledgebase

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Microsoft Patches Zero-Day RoguePlanet Defender Flaw that Allows SYSTEM-Level Access

Microsoft has released an update to address a zero-day RoguePlanet vulnerability in Microsoft Defender. This security flaw, CVE-2026-50656, can be exploited by hackers to gain full access to the vict…

Novelty

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85%

Surprise

60%

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https://petri.com/microsoft-zero-day-rogueplanet-defender-flaw/

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🔐 security Microsoft Security Blog

72%

Microsoft Entra ID security updates: Passkeys are the default authentication method in Entra ID

Microsoft Entra ID makes passkeys the default sign-in experience and introduces a new model for SMS and voice authentication. Read about how to prepare. The post Microsoft Entra ID security updates: …

Novelty

70%

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60%

Practical

85%

Surprise

55%

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90%

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2026/07/13/microsoft-entra-id-security-updates-passkeys-are-the-default-authentication-method-in-entra-id/

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🔐 security Microsoft Security Blog

71%

Defending SaaS-based applications against ShinyHunters OAuth abuse

Microsoft Threat Intelligence identified threat actor activity with overlapping tradecraft commonly associated with ShinyHunters, including voice phishing (vishing), supply-chain compromise, and misc…

Novelty

65%

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70%

Practical

80%

Surprise

50%

Relevance

85%

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2026/07/13/defending-saas-based-applications-against-shinyhunters-oauth-abuse/

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🔐 security Krebs on Security

68%

Lessons Learned from CISA’s Recent GitHub Leak

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued a postmortem on a data leak in which a contractor published dozens of internal CISA credentials -- including AWS Govcloud keys -…

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/07/lessons-learned-from-cisas-recent-github-leak/

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📦 m365 Petri IT Knowledgebase

67%

Exchange Online to Add Cross-Tenant Message Recall with Admin-Controlled Trust

Microsoft is adding Cross-Tenant Message Recall to Exchange Online, allowing organizations to recall mistakenly sent emails across trusted Microsoft 365 tenants. The new capability extends one of Exc…

https://petri.com/exchange-online-cross-tenant-message-recall/

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🤖 ai The Decoder

64%

Nadella calls out AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic for banning distillation while training on everyone else's data

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is calling out OpenAI and Anthropic for what he calls a "reverse information paradox." They train on public data under fair use but ban distillation of their own models, a…

https://the-decoder.com/nadella-calls-out-ai-labs-like-openai-and-anthropic-for-banning-distillation-while-training-on-everyone-elses-data/

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🔐 security SANS Internet Stormcast

62%

Someone Is Scanning for Your MCP Servers and AI Assistant Credentials, (Mon, Jul 13th)

The setup

https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/33150

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🤖 ai The Decoder

61%

Claude Cowork's biggest use case is the mundane office work nobody wants to own, Anthropic says

Anthropic analyzed 1.2 million Claude Cowork sessions from more than 600,000 organizations. About half of all usage goes toward business processes and text creation, what Anthropic calls "the work ar…

https://the-decoder.com/claude-coworks-biggest-use-case-is-the-mundane-office-work-nobody-wants-to-own-anthropic-says/

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🤖 ai The Decoder

61%

AI agents win at Slay the Spire 2 after researchers replace growing chat logs with structured memory

The AgenticSTS project replaces the ever-growing chat log of AI agents with five separate memory layers. Tested on the card game Slay the Spire 2, the prompt stays at around 5,000 tokens instead of b…

https://the-decoder.com/ai-agents-win-at-slay-the-spire-2-after-researchers-replace-growing-chat-logs-with-structured-memory/

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🤖 ai The Decoder

60%

S&P Global sees OpenAI as a "key credit risk" for Oracle and cuts its credit rating

S&P Global has downgraded Oracle's credit rating to "BBB-," one notch above junk status. OpenAI accounts for roughly half of Oracle's $638 billion in contractual obligations. If OpenAI walked away, O…

https://the-decoder.com/sp-global-sees-openai-as-a-key-credit-risk-for-oracle-and-cuts-its-credit-rating/

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🤖 ai The Decoder

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Claude Code now has a built-in browser that lets the AI read, click, and type on external websites

Claude Code now has a built-in browser that lets the AI open, read, and interact with web pages directly inside the development environment. Write actions on external sites are screened by classifier…

https://the-decoder.com/claude-code-now-has-a-built-in-browser-that-lets-the-ai-read-click-and-type-on-external-websites/

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🤖 ai The Decoder

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Google’s SensorFM turns messy wearable sensor data into a general-purpose health intelligence layer

Google Research's SensorFM is a foundation model trained on more than a trillion minutes of wearable data from five million Fitbit and Pixel Watch users. It beats existing benchmarks on 34 of 35 heal…

https://the-decoder.com/sensorfm/

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🤖 ai AI Alignment Forum

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Prism: Automating Science-of-Evals Research

tl;dr – we present [Prism], a scaffold for automating science-of-evals research: work that makes the evaluation the primary object of study. The scaffold provides Claude Code with sub-agents and reso…

https://www.alignmentforum.org/posts/wq5PfGiHvnx6XipDi/prism-automating-science-of-evals-research

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🔐 security SecurityWeek

54%

Progress Prompts ShareFile Storage Zone Controller Shutdown Amid Security Concerns

The company notified customers to manually shut down their servers while it is investigating a credible threat. The post Progress Prompts ShareFile Storage Zone Controller Shutdown Amid Security Conc…

https://www.securityweek.com/progress-prompts-sharefile-storage-zone-controller-shutdown-amid-security-concerns/

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🤖 ai The Decoder

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Turing Award winner Rich Sutton founds Oak Lab to build AI agents that learn on their own

Richard Sutton, 2024 Turing Award winner and co-founder of modern reinforcement learning, has launched a new startup called Oak Lab in Toronto. He calls current deep learning methods "weak and ineffi…

https://the-decoder.com/turing-award-winner-rich-sutton-founds-oak-lab-to-build-ai-agents-that-learn-on-their-own/