Daily Reading for 2026-08-01
Daily Reading for 2026-08-01
Security
Microsoft Security Blog
Security Risk Advisors
- Unit 42 Finds Threat Actor Using AI Agents to Automate Vulnerability Discovery and Exploitation Attempts.
- SRA Discloses Critical RCE and Additional Web Vulnerabilities in Sangoma Switchvox SMB
- Ellucian Advance Authenticated SQL Injection Vulnerability CVE-2026-6881 Enables Unauthorized Database Access and Sensitive Information Extraction from Higher Education Institutions.
Interesting Stuff
Daniel Miessler
Programming
Simon Willison’s Weblog
- deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731
- Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest (and inspired mcp-explorer and datasette-mcp)
- llm-mcp-client 0.1a0
- Oxide and Friends: The Open Weight Revolution with Simon Willison
- smevals - a small eval suite for evaluating models, prompts, and harnesses
- datasette-agent 0.4a0