<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>Axios and LiteLLM supply chain attacks hit critical mass</strong>: A sophisticated supply chain attack compromised the npm Axios library, which sees 300 million weekly downloads, by hijacking a lead maintainer’s credentials to inject a Remote Access Trojan. Simultaneously, the LiteLLM PyPI package was backdoored via a misconfigured GitHub Action, exfiltrating cloud credentials and attempting lateral movement across Kubernetes clusters. Security firms like Socket and StepSecurity warn that these attacks bypassed CI/CD pipelines entirely, necessitating immediate secret rotation and environment rebuilds for affected users. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=RlEVDfzaA&amp;id=6mR1VFvvx&amp;id=xt7JWjaFB" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Microsoft and Google accelerate post quantum cryptography deadlines</strong>: Google has moved its migration deadline to 2029 across all systems, citing faster-than-expected advances in quantum hardware that could break 2,048-bit RSA in under a week. Android 17 will introduce ML-DSA for quantum-resistant boot integrity and hybrid classical-PQC signing for APKs to mitigate ‘store-now-decrypt-later’ threats. Industry experts at RSAC 2026 emphasize that organizations must prioritize crypto-agility now, as NIST standards are evolving faster than legacy infrastructure can typically adapt. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=2Ya2QAFm3&amp;id=aNcUAPIxf" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Project VAIL exposes silent behavioral drift in AI endpoints</strong>: Researchers from the University of Illinois developed a black-box fingerprinting system that detected significant behavioral shifts in LLM APIs that uptime dashboards missed. The system caught a hardware node failure at Parasail and inference stack swaps at other providers that invalidated prior safety and compliance validations. This highlights a critical reliability gap where model endpoints are ‘healthy’ but produce behaviorally unrecognizable outputs compared to their baseline signatures. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/XR04f9Sk1" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>rvLLM brings high performance inference to Rust</strong>: A from-scratch Rust rewrite of vLLM that achieves 3,467 tok/s on A100s with a tiny 16MB binary and 64% less memory overhead. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/u7fISleFK" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Kyverno graduates from CNCF as policy as code matures</strong>: The Kubernetes-native policy engine now handles 20k+ admission requests per minute at LinkedIn and has fully adopted Common Expression Language. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=2t2tcYM88&amp;id=leqEkFz9G" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Salesforce Luminary slashes deployment latency to seconds</strong>: A new centralized platform uses a Go-based engine to replace manual release approvals with deterministic telemetry validation. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/3wqbfud3u" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Debezium 3.5 optimizes Oracle and CockroachDB streaming</strong>: The final release introduces parallel multithreaded snapshots and reduces Oracle bookkeeping memory usage by 50%. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/frQ51l2Un" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Intel Xe driver gains 7x speedup for SVM workloads</strong>: Upcoming Linux 7.1 patches enable Transparent Hugepages for device pages, drastically reducing CPU overhead during page faults. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/U9fHRQhXE" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>QuickBeam runs JavaScript runtimes inside the BEAM</strong>: A new Elixir project allows JS runtimes to operate as GenServers, enabling native OTP supervision and clustering for JavaScript code. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/72NNkisK0" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Node.js security release patches high severity prototype pollution</strong>: Versions 20.20.2 and 24.14.1 address CVE-2026-21710 by enforcing null prototypes for HTTP headers. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=C8HkH2xnr&amp;id=Wjr34d3yd" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>The AI ROI crisis is finally arriving</strong>: JetBrains is launching ‘JetBrains Central’ specifically to help enterprises find the missing ROI in their AI spend, while only 31% of UK firms report any positive return. We’ve moved from ‘AI will replace us’ to ‘please help me justify this $5,000/month compute bill’ in record time. It turns out generating 2x more Pull Requests just creates a 91% bottleneck in human review time, proving that more ‘slop’ isn’t actually ‘velocity.’ <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=ZyxkzXSm0&amp;id=dl9dAiLtW&amp;id=xsXQhvmqn" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Vibe coding is just spaghetti code with a better publicist</strong>: The industry is trying to rebrand ‘writing code you don’t understand’ as ‘Vibe Coding,’ but security researchers are already finding that 90% of these solutions aren’t production-ready. Anthropic’s own internal leak revealed that Claude Code’s ‘magic’ is mostly just a massive regex list for frustration detection and a Tamagotchi companion. If your engineering strategy relies on ‘vibes’ and ‘nah’ as a permission guard, you’re not an architect; you’re a passenger. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=Wjx2MWbPj&amp;id=5a3fhfWuO&amp;id=vzfkJUOAK" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Microsoft Copilot is now a branding fever dream</strong>: Microsoft has reached peak branding saturation, slapping the ‘Copilot’ label on everything from chat apps to entire PCs and now even ‘Copilot Checkout.’ Critics are rightfully calling out this chaotic proliferation as a play for shareholder value rather than user clarity, mirroring the same naming genius that gave us the ‘Xbox One.’ When everything is a Copilot, nothing is actually flying the plane. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/4ps31zSby" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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