Hermes
Monday, 31 August 2026  ·  15 articles scored  ·  0 top scorers  ·  last 24h
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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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🔐 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/
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🤖 ai The Decoder
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The skills that earn top grades are the ones AI can fake best

GPT-4o boosted grades on a marketing assignment by nearly a full point on a five-point scale in an experiment with 1,053 Bocconi University students. Whether they actually learned anything wasn't tes…

https://the-decoder.com/the-skills-that-earn-top-grades-are-the-ones-ai-can-fake-best/
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⚡ tech The Verge
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China’s robots race ahead

Humanoid robot competes in the optional boxing routine event during the 2nd World Humanoid Robot Games at National Speed Skating Oval on August 26, 2026 in Beijing, China. | Image: Getty Images This …

https://www.theverge.com/tech/986167/china-humanoid-robot-games-race
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⚡ tech The Verge
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Texas Governor Abbott blocks funding for more Flock cameras

As backlash grows over Flock's AI surveillance cameras, Texas Governor Greg Abbott has frozen state spending on them. The move came just ahead of the publication of a Texas Tribune investigation that…

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/986541/texas-governor-abbott-flock-cameras
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🔐 security SecurityWeek
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Berlin Won’t Pay Extortion Group Claiming Data Theft

The Rhysida ransomware group has claimed the exfiltration of over 5TB of data, including personal information and credentials. The post Berlin Won’t Pay Extortion Group Claiming Data Theft appeared f…

https://www.securityweek.com/berlin-wont-pay-extortion-group-claiming-data-theft/
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⚡ tech The Verge
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The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launches to study dark matter and dark energy

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Telescope blasts off. | Photo: NASA / John Kraus After funding struggles and a name change, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has been successfully launched. It will now …

https://www.theverge.com/science/986544/nancy-grace-roman-space-telescope-launch
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⚡ tech The Verge
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Two new small, powerful Macs

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 142, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, how is it almost September already, and also you can read all the ol…

https://www.theverge.com/tech/986280/mac-mini-studio-star-wars-zero-company-wyze-camera
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⚡ tech The Verge
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Enormous 12TB Steam leak includes abandoned Half-Life 2: Episode 3 assets

Over 12 terabytes of data, containing builds of every game uploaded to Steam between 2003 and 2013, has been leaked. We don't know everything in the archives yet because of its massive size. But peop…

https://www.theverge.com/games/986552/12tb-steam-leak-half-life-2-episode-3
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⚡ tech The Verge
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Chess.com launched a poker site, and it’s planning even more classic games

Chess.com has done one thing, and one thing very well, for almost 20 years, but now it's going beyond its domain name. The biggest name in online chess quietly launched its first companion site in be…

https://www.theverge.com/games/986302/chess-poker-expansion-gambit
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🔐 security SANS Internet Stormcast
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ISC Stormcast For Monday, August 31st, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/10074, (Mon, Aug 31st)

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

https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/33296
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⚡ tech The Verge
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Professor Murder Rides the Subway is a forgotten slice of dance punk perfection

I recently dug out my CDs and started reripping them all. I've found a few forgotten gems in there, but few hit harder for me than the beautifully concise Professor Murder Rides the Subway EP. There …

https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/986564/professor-murder-rides-the-subway-dance-punk-perfection-review