Hermes
Monday 27 July 2026  ·  15 articles scored  ·  0 top scorers  ·  last 24h
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🤖 ai The Decoder
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Cursor's agent swarm suggests cheaper models can handle most coding when frontier models plan the work

Cursor asked its upgraded agent swarm and its predecessor to rebuild SQLite in Rust using only the documentation, with no source code or internet access. Every configuration of the new system, which …

https://the-decoder.com/cursors-agent-swarm-suggests-cheaper-models-can-handle-most-coding-when-frontier-models-plan-the-work/
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🤖 ai The Decoder
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Anthropic's Opus 5 blows past Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol on the benchmark designed to measure real intelligence

Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 scored 30.2 percent on ARC-AGI-3, nearly quadrupling GPT-5.6 Sol's previous record of 7.8 percent. The benchmark's developers say the model independently formulated reflecti…

https://the-decoder.com/anthropics-opus-5-blows-past-fable-5-and-gpt-5-6-sol-on-the-benchmark-designed-to-measure-real-intelligence/
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🤖 ai The Decoder
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Hundreds asked ChatGPT for poison and bioweapon recipes and some got step-by-step high school level guides

In summer 2025, OpenAI internally flagged GPT-5 as high-risk because it helped users create biological hazards, but downgraded the model's risk rating that fall. According to the Wall Street Journal,…

https://the-decoder.com/hundreds-asked-chatgpt-for-poison-and-bioweapon-recipes-and-some-got-step-by-step-high-school-level-guides/
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🤖 ai The Decoder
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The AI coding tutor paradox grows as educators scramble to rethink how they test real skills

An ACM survey of 763 computer science educators from 49 countries shows that 68 percent have already changed their exams because of AI, shifting toward oral exams, proctored tests, and project-based …

https://the-decoder.com/the-ai-coding-tutor-paradox-grows-as-educators-scramble-to-rethink-how-they-test-real-skills/
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🔐 security SANS Internet Stormcast
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Scans for ESAFENET CDG 3 Document Management System Weak Logins, (Sun, Jul 26th)

ESAFENET&#;x26;#;39;s CDG showed up in our data before. The company focused on secure document management and data leakage prevention solutions. The "CDG" stands for "Content Data Guard", and the pro…

https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/33184
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🤖 ai The Decoder
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US reportedly favors selective bans over blanket restrictions on Chinese open weight models citing security concerns

The Trump administration is planning targeted bans on Chinese AI models rather than a blanket ban. After public pressure, OpenAI and Google DeepMind signed an open letter opposing regulation of open-…

https://the-decoder.com/us-reportedly-favors-selective-bans-over-blanket-restrictions-on-chinese-open-weight-models-citing-security-concerns/
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⚡ tech The Verge
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The US is charging an American citizen for wiping his phone at the border

The government is prosecuting US citizen Sam Tunick for allegedly providing authorities with a "duress password" that wiped his phone when they tried to seize it at Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson airpo…

https://www.theverge.com/policy/971097/us-charging-american-citizen-wiping-phone-duress-password
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⚡ tech The Verge
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Apple is banking on privacy to set its smart glasses apart

Meta’s AI glasses have been the focus of controversy. | Photo: Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge According to Mark Gurman, Apple is planning to reveal its first smart glasses at WWDC next June, with…

https://www.theverge.com/tech/971101/apple-smart-glasses-privacy
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🔐 security SecurityWeek
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MCBS Data Breach Affects 1.2 Million Individuals

The PEAR ransomware group claimed to have stolen 3 TB of information from the medical business management company. The post MCBS Data Breach Affects 1.2 Million Individuals appeared first on Security…

https://www.securityweek.com/mcbs-data-breach-affects-1-2-million-individuals/
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⚡ tech The Verge
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The vertical video takeover is here

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on all things vertical video, follow David Pierce. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' i…

https://www.theverge.com/column/970756/vertical-video-tiktok-youtube-instagram-streaming-facebook
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⚡ tech The Verge
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You can get three months of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate for almost half off

Subscribing to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate on a recurring basis has been tough to justify recently, even after Microsoft reduced the monthly cost from $29.99 to $22.99. But you can get a better deal on a…

https://www.theverge.com/gadgets/970775/xbox-game-pass-ultimate-deal-sale
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🔐 security SANS Internet Stormcast
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ISC Stormcast For Monday, July 27th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/10024, (Mon, Jul 27th)

(c) SANS Internet Storm Center. https://isc.sans.edu Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.

https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/33186
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⚡ tech The Verge
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Champagne and Bullets belongs on the Mount Rushmore of bad movies

Thankfully the movie is bonkers enough to live up to the artwork. | Image: Vinegar Syndrome There's something about a movie like The Room, Troll 2, or Fateful Findings that I find irresistible. These…

https://www.theverge.com/column/971103/champagne-and-bullets-bad-movies-review
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⚡ tech The Verge
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Marvel announces Ryan Gosling as Ghost Rider, a new Black Panther, and more

Ryan Gosling on stage at Comic-Con | Image: Marvel Studios While perhaps less dramatic than in years past, Marvel nonetheless had some big reveals lined up for Comic-Con. The highest profile was cert…

https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/971071/marvel-ryan-gosling-ghost-rider-black-panther-comic-con
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⚡ tech The Verge
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Carrie is just trying to make a friend in the new trailer

The latest adaptation debuts October 7th. | Image: Amazon Mike Flanagan's latest Stephen King adaptation, Carrie (this will be his fourth), is slated to make its debut on Amazon Prime on October 7th.…

https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/971069/carrie-amazon-mike-flanagan-trailer-comic-con