Hermes — Monday 6 April 2026

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🤖 ai The Decoder

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AI offensive cyber capabilities are doubling every six months, safety researchers find

AI models are rapidly improving at exploiting security vulnerabilities. According to a new study, their offensive cyber capability has been doubling every 5.7 months since 2024, with Opus 4.6 and GPT…

Novelty

80%

Depth

60%

Practical

65%

Surprise

75%

Relevance

85%

https://the-decoder.com/ai-offensive-cyber-capabilities-are-doubling-every-six-months-safety-researchers-find/

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📦 m365 Microsoft 365 Blog

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Copilot Cowork: Now available in Frontier

Today, Copilot Cowork—designed for long-running, multi-step work in Microsoft 365—is available via the Frontier program. The post Copilot Cowork: Now available in Frontier appeared first on Microsoft…

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2026/03/30/copilot-cowork-now-available-in-frontier/

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🔐 security Krebs on Security

62%

Germany Doxes “UNKN,” Head of RU Ransomware Gangs REvil, GandCrab

An elusive hacker who went by the handle "UNKN" and ran the early Russian ransomware groups GandCrab and REvil now has a name and a face. Authorities in Germany say 31-year-old Russian Daniil Maksimo…

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/04/germany-doxes-unkn-head-of-ru-ransomware-gangs-revil-gandcrab/

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🤖 ai The Decoder

58%

Alibaba's Qwen team makes AI models think deeper with new algorithm

Reinforcement learning hits a wall with reasoning models because every token gets the same reward. A new algorithm from Alibaba's Qwen team fixes this by weighting each step based on how much it shap…

https://the-decoder.com/alibabas-qwen-team-makes-ai-models-think-deeper-with-new-algorithm/

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🤖 ai The Decoder

55%

Study maps developer frustration over "AI slop" as a "tragedy of the commons" in software development

A qualitative study looks at how developers perceive and push back against low-quality AI content, or "slop," in software development. The critics describe a "tragedy of the commons" where individual…

https://the-decoder.com/study-maps-developer-frustration-over-ai-slop-as-a-tragedy-of-the-commons-in-software-development/

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🤖 ai The Decoder

50%

AI benchmarks systematically ignore how humans disagree, Google study finds

A Google study finds that the standard three to five human raters per test example often aren't enough for reliable AI benchmarks, and that splitting your annotation budget the right way matters just…

https://the-decoder.com/ai-benchmarks-systematically-ignore-how-humans-disagree-google-study-finds/

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⚡ tech The Verge

40%

Suno is a music copyright nightmare

AI music platform Suno's policy is that it does not permit the use of copyrighted material. You can upload your own tracks to remix or set your original lyrics to AI-generated music. But, it's suppos…

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/906896/sunos-copyright-ai-music-covers

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🤖 ai The Decoder

38%

The New York Times drops freelancer whose AI tool copied from an existing book review

AI tools can speed up journalism until they backfire. Two recent cases show what happens when writers don't understand how their AI tools work: copied passages and made-up quotes. The article The New…

https://the-decoder.com/the-new-york-times-drops-freelancer-whose-ai-tool-copied-from-an-existing-book-review/

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⚡ tech The Verge

38%

I let Gemini in Google Maps plan my day and it went surprisingly well

Take me to the tacos, Gemini. You may be familiar with Gemini as the thing that's in every Google service you use - whether you want it or not. While it's been a constant, sometimes unwelcome presenc…

https://www.theverge.com/tech/907015/gemini-google-maps-hands-on

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⚡ tech The Verge

36%

Grammarly’s sloppelganger saga

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on the ups and downs of AI, follow Stevie Bonifield. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers'…

https://www.theverge.com/column/906606/grammarly-expert-review-ai-saga

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🤖 ai The Decoder

35%

AI chatbot traffic grows seven times faster than social media but still trails by a factor of four

AI chatbot traffic is growing seven times faster than social media, but still has four times less total traffic, a Similarweb analysis shows. The data reveals differences in device usage and user beh…

https://the-decoder.com/ai-chatbot-traffic-grows-seven-times-faster-than-social-media-but-still-trails-by-a-factor-of-four/

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⚡ tech The Verge

34%

How the Amazon Echo learned to talk — and listen

A photo of a black speaker, the Amazon Echo, on a gray background. | Photo: Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Jeff Bezos badly wanted a voice computer. He had been saying so publicly since the very …

https://www.theverge.com/podcast/907146/amazon-echo-alexa-version-history

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⚡ tech The Verge

26%

Is the Slate Truck too minimal for its own good?

The first thing you notice about the Slate Truck is its size. It's small, surprisingly so. In a country where trucks often come with their own zip code, Slate's pickup is refreshingly puny, measuring…

https://www.theverge.com/transportation/905947/slate-truck-ev-minimal-range-size-interior-design

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⚡ tech The Verge

15%

Los Thuthanaka’s Wak’a is a mellower follow-up to last year’s surprise Pitchfork favorite

Los Thuthanaka basically came out of nowhere last year to capture Pitchfork's album of the year with their self-titled debut. Because it wasn't available on streaming, it largely flew under the radar…

https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/907174/los-thuthanaka-waka-review

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🔐 security SANS Internet Stormcast

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ISC Stormcast For Monday, April 6th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9880, (Mon, Apr 6th)

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