Hermes — Friday 31 July 2026

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📦 m365 Petri IT Knowledgebase

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Attackers Use Microsoft Teams Vishing Campaigns to Deploy Chaos Ransomware

Cybercriminals are exploiting Microsoft Teams voice phishing (vishing) campaigns to infiltrate corporate networks and deploy Chaos ransomware. Security researchers warn that the campaign targeted doz…

Novelty

70%

Depth

60%

Practical

75%

Surprise

60%

Relevance

90%

https://petri.com/microsoft-teams-vishing-chaos-ransomware/

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🤖 ai MIT Technology Review – AI

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A fundamental flaw leaves LLMs strikingly vulnerable to attack

It is impossible to make large language models fully secure against hacks because of a fundamental flaw in how they work, a team of researchers argue in a paper presented at the International Confere…

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/30/1140927/a-fundamental-flaw-leaves-llms-vulnerable-to-attack/

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🤖 ai The Decoder

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Microsoft AI bets on cheap specialist models instead of chasing the frontier

Microsoft AI is betting on small specialist models instead of expensive general-purpose ones, according to AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman. MAI-Cyber-1-Flash tops the CyberGym benchmark when embedded in an o…

https://the-decoder.com/microsoft-ai-bets-on-cheap-specialist-models-instead-of-chasing-the-frontier/

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🔐 security SecurityWeek

66%

‘DangleGeddon’: AI Could Weaponize Forgotten DNS Records at Global Scale

Researchers warn that AI could turn dangling DNS takeovers into a nation-state weapon capable of disrupting governments, banks and global supply chains. The post ‘DangleGeddon’: AI Could Weaponize Fo…

https://www.securityweek.com/danglegeddon-ai-could-weaponize-forgotten-dns-records-at-global-scale/

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🔐 security Krebs on Security

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Read This Before You Buy That TV Streaming Stick

Security experts have been sounding the alarm for years about the risks of using generic TV boxes that promise unlimited content streaming for a one-time fee, warning that they secretly rent the user…

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/07/read-this-before-you-buy-that-tv-streaming-stick/

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🤖 ai The Decoder

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OpenAI goes full China pricing mode with an 80 percent cut to its most affordable GPT-5.6 model

Starting July 30, OpenAI is cutting GPT-5.6 Luna prices by 80 percent and Terra by 20 percent. OpenAI says its top-tier Sol model helped make the company's own infrastructure more efficient, enabling…

https://the-decoder.com/openai-goes-full-china-pricing-mode-with-an-80-percent-cut-to-its-most-affordable-gpt-5-6-model/

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🤖 ai The Decoder

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Ex-OpenAI researcher bets $100 billion will flow into training data because scaling alone won't cut it

Former OpenAI employee Andrew Ho and Cambridge researcher Adam Hunt see a growing problem with large language models. Instead of becoming more versatile, the models are becoming more specialized, exc…

https://the-decoder.com/ex-openai-researcher-bets-100-billion-will-flow-into-training-data-because-scaling-alone-wont-cut-it/

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🤖 ai AI Alignment Forum

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Thousand-dimensional structure

Summary: One area we plan to explore at Resolution is personas and character training, operationalized as finding and controlling low-dimensional structure in models that emerges in pretraining and f…

https://www.alignmentforum.org/posts/sFhW3ZnPMJdnB4Dd6/thousand-dimensional-structure-1

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📦 m365 Petri IT Knowledgebase

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Microsoft Security Exposure Management Adds Unified Risk Prioritization Dashboard

Microsoft has introduced a new Exposure Resolution dashboard experience in Microsoft Security Exposure Management. This new feature is designed to help security teams focus on the most important risk…

https://petri.com/microsoft-exposure-management-dashboard-preview/

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⚡ tech The Verge

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Google DeepMind’s new AI model can control a robot’s entire body

Apptronik’s Apollo 2 robot takes a baseball glove off of a shelf. | Image: Google Google DeepMind says the latest version of its Gemini Robotics AI model can "control entire humanoid robots." While t…

https://www.theverge.com/tech/973276/google-deepmind-gemini-robotics-2-whole-body

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🔐 security Schneier on Security

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Should You Use AI for a Task? Here’s a Simple Way to Decide

This essay originally appeared in The Guardian. I teach public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and the Munk School at the University of Toronto. And it will come as no surprise to you that my st…

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/07/should-you-use-ai-for-a-task-heres-a-simple-way-to-decide.html

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🤖 ai The Decoder

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Language models can't spark scientific revolutions, but world models might

Can language models spark a scientific revolution? In a position paper titled "LLMs can't jump," Google Deepmind's Tom Zahavy argues they can't. They're missing the cognitive mechanism needed to crea…

https://the-decoder.com/language-models-cant-spark-scientific-revolutions-but-world-models-might/

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🔐 security SecurityWeek

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CISA Urges Water Sector to Protect OT After Coordinated Attacks on PLCs

CISA is urging water and wastewater utilities to lock down internet-exposed controllers, days after intrusions hit dozens of Minnesota systems. The post CISA Urges Water Sector to Protect OT After Co…

https://www.securityweek.com/cisa-urges-water-sector-to-protect-ot-after-coordinated-attacks-on-plcs/

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📦 m365 Petri IT Knowledgebase

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Critical Windows Troubleshooting Tools: Stop Wasting Time on the Wrong Fixes

This guide focuses on when admins should use Windows troubleshooting tools like Event Viewer, Reliability Monitor, System File Checker, SFC/DISM, Windows Update logs, and core network commands. Most …

https://petri.com/windows-troubleshooting-tools/

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🔐 security SecurityWeek

51%

Timeless Compliance: Why Better Questions Beat Bigger Frameworks

The best compliance programs aren't the biggest ones. They're the ones built on a short list of questions that can actually be answered, and that still hold true when the models change. The post Time…

https://www.securityweek.com/timeless-compliance-why-better-questions-beat-bigger-frameworks/