Hermes — Wednesday 15 July 2026

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🔐 security SANS Internet Stormcast

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday July 2026 - The AI Acopolypse is Here , (Tue, Jul 14th)

This patch Tuesday includes a staggering&#;x26;#;xc2;&#;x26;#;xa0;622 vulnerabilities, not including another 427 vulnerabilities in Chromium, affecting Microsoft&#;x26;#;39;s Edge browser. 62 of the …

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https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/33154

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🔐 security SecurityWeek

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Microsoft Patches Record 622 Vulnerabilities, Including Two Exploited Zero-Days

Two flaws in Active Directory and SharePoint Server have been exploited as zero-days, and a BitLocker bug was publicly disclosed. The post Microsoft Patches Record 622 Vulnerabilities, Including Two …

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https://www.securityweek.com/microsoft-patches-record-622-vulnerabilities-including-two-exploited-zero-days/

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🔐 security Krebs on Security

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Microsoft Patches a Record 570 Security Flaws

Microsoft Corp. today released software updates to plug at least 570 security holes in its Windows operating systems and other software, almost triple the number of vulnerabilities the software giant…

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https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/07/microsoft-patches-a-record-570-security-flaws/

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🔐 security SecurityWeek

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Unpatched Claude for Chrome Flaw Lets Extensions Read Gmail, Calendar

A ClaudeBleed-linked vulnerability reportedly persists across eight patches, exposing potentially sensitive data to other extensions. The post Unpatched Claude for Chrome Flaw Lets Extensions Read Gm…

https://www.securityweek.com/unpatched-claude-for-chrome-flaw-lets-extensions-read-gmail-calendar/

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📦 m365 Petri IT Knowledgebase

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Microsoft Entra ID to Default to Passkeys Ahead of SMS and Voice Authentication Retirement

Microsoft is making a major change to Microsoft Entra ID authentication by introducing passkeys as the default sign-in method for customers starting in September. The move marks another step toward p…

https://petri.com/microsoft-entra-id-passkeys-default-authentication/

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⚡ tech The Verge

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SpaceXAI’s Grok programming tool was uploading its users’ entire codebase to cloud storage

SpaceXAI's Grok Build AI coding tool was spotted uploading users' entire codebases to Google Cloud before it was reported, and the company turned it off. The Register reports that Cereblab published …

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/965600/spacexai-grok-build-repository-upload

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📦 m365 Petri IT Knowledgebase

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Microsoft CEO Warns AI Adoption Could Expose Valuable Enterprise Knowledge

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has warned that organizations may be unintentionally handing over valuable institutional knowledge to AI providers. He says every interaction with AI systems could reveal …

https://petri.com/microsoft-ceo-ai-adoption-expose-enterprise-knowledge/

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🤖 ai AI Alignment Forum

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Open Distillation of Hereditary Traits

TL;DR Josh and Neel show that distillation from a teacher model to a base pretrained student model transfers some of the teacher model’s traits (such as displaying negative emotion in the Gemma Needs…

https://www.alignmentforum.org/posts/WpYFAmJDH3zuAq2ha/open-distillation-of-hereditary-traits-1

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⚡ tech Stratechery

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The OpenAI Super App, ChatGPT = Codex, Whither Chat

OpenAI has refashioned Codex as the new ChatGPT; is the company abandoning the chat category they pioneered?

https://stratechery.com/2026/the-openai-super-app-chatgpt-codex-whither-chat/

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🤖 ai The Decoder

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Claude responds with more warmth in Hindi and more rigor in Russian, showing how language shapes AI answers

A new Anthropic study maps hundreds of value concepts derived from thousands of individual terms onto four core dimensions. It reveals systematic differences across Claude models and languages, but a…

https://the-decoder.com/claude-values-study/

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🔐 security SecurityWeek

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SonicWall Issues Urgent SMA Patch Warning for Two Zero-Day Exploits

SonicWall SMA1000 zero-day vulnerabilities CVE-2026-15409 and CVE-2026-15410 can be exploited for remote code execution. The post SonicWall Issues Urgent SMA Patch Warning for Two Zero-Day Exploits a…

https://www.securityweek.com/sonicwall-issues-urgent-sma-patch-warning-for-two-zero-day-exploits/

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🤖 ai The Decoder

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Deepmind CEO Hassabis says "nobody in the world knows what happens next" so "cautious optimism" means building guardrails now

Google Deepmind CEO Demis Hassabis has published a sweeping proposal for how to handle advanced AI. He wants a new US standards body modeled after financial regulator FINRA that would develop evaluat…

https://the-decoder.com/deepmind-ceo-hassabis-says-nobody-in-the-world-knows-what-happens-next-so-cautious-optimism-means-building-guardrails-now/

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⚡ tech The Verge

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Meta accused of using biased AI targeting for mass layoffs

A group of 26 former Meta employees is suing the company over claims that it used AI tools to unfairly target workers on leave with layoffs, as reported earlier by Reuters. In the lawsuit, the employ…

https://www.theverge.com/tech/965486/meta-lawsuit-former-employees-ai-layoffs

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🔐 security SecurityWeek

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US, Allies Warn of Russian Cyberattacks Targeting Critical Infrastructure Routers

Multiple state-sponsored APTs are compromising poorly secured devices across critical infrastructure sector networks. The post US, Allies Warn of Russian Cyberattacks Targeting Critical Infrastructur…

https://www.securityweek.com/us-allies-warn-of-russian-cyberattacks-targeting-critical-infrastructure-routers/

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🔐 security SecurityWeek

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Multiple Jscrambler Packages Impacted by Supply Chain Attack

A threat actor poisoned several Jscrambler NPM package versions to drop a cross-platform credential stealer. The post Multiple Jscrambler Packages Impacted by Supply Chain Attack appeared first on Se…

https://www.securityweek.com/multiple-jscrambler-packages-impacted-by-supply-chain-attack/