Hermes — Wednesday 29 July 2026

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🤖 ai The Decoder

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Anthropic says its Mythos model found vulnerabilities in cryptographic algorithms that secure the internet

Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview found weaknesses in key cryptographic algorithms, including a better attack on HAWK, a post-quantum signature scheme that human experts had reviewed for more than tw…

Novelty

90%

Depth

70%

Practical

45%

Surprise

90%

Relevance

85%

https://the-decoder.com/anthropic-says-its-mythos-model-found-vulnerabilities-in-cryptographic-algorithms-that-secure-the-internet/

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📦 m365 Petri IT Knowledgebase

67%

Microsoft Launches Project Perception to Detect Vulnerabilities Before Exploitation

Microsoft has launched Project Perception, a new AI-powered cybersecurity platform designed to identify vulnerabilities before attackers can exploit them. The platform continuously detects risks, rea…

https://petri.com/microsoft-project-perception-ai-security-platform/

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🔐 security Schneier on Security

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Measuring LLMs’ Ability to Perform Cryptanalysis

There’s new benchmark measuring AI’s ability to perform mathematical cryptanalysis. Anthropic’s frontier model actually found new attacks. The benchmark: “CryptanalysisBench: Can LLMs do Cryptanalysi…

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/07/measuring-llms-ability-to-perform-cryptanalysis.html

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🔐 security SecurityWeek

65%

Microsoft Unveils MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, Its First Cybersecurity AI Model

The company claims MAI-Cyber-1-Flash tops Anthropic’s Mythos and OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol in CyberGym testing. The post Microsoft Unveils MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, Its First Cybersecurity AI Model appeared firs…

https://www.securityweek.com/microsoft-unveils-mai-cyber-1-flash-its-first-cybersecurity-ai-model/

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🔐 security SecurityWeek

53%

Unpatched Fastjson Vulnerability Exploited in Attacks

The critical remote code execution bug can be exploited without authentication, under the library’s stock default configurations. The post Unpatched Fastjson Vulnerability Exploited in Attacks appear…

https://www.securityweek.com/unpatched-fastjson-vulnerability-exploited-in-attacks/

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🔐 security SecurityWeek

52%

Critical Arista VeloCloud Orchestrator Vulnerability Exploited as Zero-Day

Impacting on-premises deployments, the OS command injection allows attackers to access privileged internal functionality. The post Critical Arista VeloCloud Orchestrator Vulnerability Exploited as Ze…

https://www.securityweek.com/critical-arista-velocloud-orchestrator-vulnerability-exploited-as-zero-day/

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⚡ tech The Verge

48%

AI’s finally expensive enough to make Wall Street nervous

Working hard, or bear-ly working? | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images It's earnings season, and investors got an unpleasant surprise from Google: an increase on its spending estimate, to…

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/972119/ai-stock-fall-google-capex

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🔐 security SecurityWeek

47%

Act Security Emerges from Stealth to Fight the Patch Problem

Act Security tackles the spiraling patch problem caused by AI’s ability to find new vulnerabilities in existing cloud environments. The post Act Security Emerges from Stealth to Fight the Patch Probl…

https://www.securityweek.com/act-security-emerges-from-stealth-to-fight-the-patch-problem/

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⚡ tech The Verge

47%

The US is banning foreign robots

The Chinese robot maker, Unitree, will likely be impacted by the ban. | Bloomberg via Getty Images The US government is targeting China with a new import ban on "advanced robotic devices" and power i…

https://www.theverge.com/tech/972259/us-foreign-robots-power-inverter-ban

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🤖 ai The Decoder

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Amazon reportedly scales back its Nova AI models and bets on a new Frontier research team

Amazon is scaling back most of its in-house Nova AI models, including Nova Premier, Omni, Reel, and Canvas. The models stay online for existing customers in "keep the lights on" mode but are no longe…

https://the-decoder.com/amazon-reportedly-scales-back-its-nova-ai-models-and-bets-on-a-new-frontier-research-team/

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⚡ tech The Verge

44%

AI leaders sign a statement asking the government to do something about automated AI

Employees of OpenAI and Anthropic, as well as Google, Meta, Thinking Machines, Microsoft, Mistral, and other leading AI labs, have written a statement to the US government supporting a potential slow…

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/972161/ai-leaders-us-government-openai-anthropic-google-meta

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🔐 security SANS Internet Stormcast

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AutoIT Payload Injector , (Tue, Jul 28th)

For a long time, AutoIT[1] has been pretty common in the malware ecosystem. Threat actors still use it because it's easy to write and powerful. Indeed, it can perform all the required actions to inje…

https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/33192

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🤖 ai The Decoder

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Nvidia invests in Ilya Sutskever's AI lab, shifting SSI away from Google chips

Nvidia is pouring what it calls a "substantial" sum into Safe Superintelligence (SSI), the AI lab run by Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI's former chief scientist. The article Nvidia invests in Ilya Sutskever'…

https://the-decoder.com/nvidia-invests-in-ilya-sutskevers-ai-lab-shifting-ssi-away-from-google-chips/

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🔐 security SecurityWeek

39%

Hush Security Raises $30 Million for AI Agent Governance

The startup will invest in expanding engineering and sales teams, accelerating ecosystem support, and expanding corporate partnerships. The post Hush Security Raises $30 Million for AI Agent Governan…

https://www.securityweek.com/hush-security-raises-30-million-for-ai-agent-governance/

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🔐 security SecurityWeek

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Apple Patches 87 Vulnerabilities in iOS, 155 in macOS Tahoe

Apple announced that dozens of vulnerabilities have been patched in each of its operating systems. The post Apple Patches 87 Vulnerabilities in iOS, 155 in macOS Tahoe appeared first on SecurityWeek.

https://www.securityweek.com/apple-patches-87-vulnerabilities-in-ios-155-in-macos-tahoe/