<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>Axios hijacked in massive npm supply chain attack</strong>: The axios npm package, downloaded 300 million times weekly, was hit by a sophisticated supply chain attack via a compromised maintainer account. Attackers injected a hidden dependency that deployed a cross-platform Remote Access Trojan designed to steal AWS keys and API tokens before self-deleting. Socket researchers flagged the malicious versions within minutes, but any system running unpinned installs on March 31 is likely compromised. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=RlEVDfzaA&amp;id=VsVIeSTu2&amp;id=yQuwbHYRC" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Major vendors abandon Ingress NGINX for Traefik</strong>: Traefik Proxy is rapidly becoming the new Kubernetes ingress standard as IBM Cloud, Nutanix, and SUSE migrate away from the retired Ingress NGINX. According to Cloud Native Now, Traefik has released a dedicated provider that translates 90% of existing NGINX annotations automatically to ease the transition. This shift marks a major consolidation in the cloud-native networking stack toward Gateway API-native solutions. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=w1vkXYehv&amp;id=rwxmzx3hv" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Redpanda Cloud Topics hits GA to slash streaming costs</strong>: Redpanda has announced the general availability of Cloud Topics, an architecture that decouples metadata from data by using S3-compatible object storage as the primary data tier. This eliminates Cross-AZ replication overhead and significantly reduces infrastructure costs for high-throughput streams. A background reconciler reorganizes data into partition-sorted files to maintain high-performance historical reads without the Raft log bloat. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/xnoPd4gKH" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>High performance eBPF traffic analysis with ayaFlow</strong>: ayaFlow provides sidecarless eBPF network observability for Kubernetes with a tiny 784-byte kernel program. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/3CYRrGb60" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Microsoft launches Containerization Assist for AKS</strong>: Microsoft released an open-source MCP server to automate Dockerfile and Kubernetes manifest generation for AKS migrations. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/cjy3Q1ySJ" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Native RISC-V CI runners arrive on GitHub</strong>: The RISE Project is offering free native RISC-V CI runners for GitHub Actions using Scaleway bare-metal hardware. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/Ig2p7QyVD" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Experimental BPF based IO scheduler for Linux</strong>: A new BPF-based I/O scheduler for Linux aims to move scheduling logic into user-space for better flexibility. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/MeNIvys54" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>SQLite VFS for S3 achieves sub 50ms queries</strong>: turbolite enables SQLite queries directly from S3 with sub-250ms cold latency using B-tree-aware page grouping. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/9ZseH6udT" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>DigitalOcean pivots to production AI inference</strong>: DigitalOcean launched an Agentic Inference Cloud featuring NVIDIA HGX B300 systems and Kubernetes-native agent tools. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/7HrdTifgn" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Bare metal automation for sovereign cloud infrastructure</strong>: Canonical is promoting MAAS for sovereign clouds to automate bare-metal server lifecycles via Redfish and IPMI. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/4bGjtrDYM" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>Your AI model endpoint is lying to you</strong>: Project VAIL researchers found that AI providers are silently swapping inference engines and quantization levels while their status pages stay green. Your ‘stable’ model endpoint might be behaviorally unrecognizable from yesterday because a node failed and they rerouted you to cheaper hardware. Uptime monitoring is officially useless when the weights under the hood are a moving target. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/XR04f9Sk1" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>The rise of agentic passive voice</strong>: The ‘agentic passive voice’ has arrived, where developers ship broken code and blame the LLM instead of their own lack of review. Satirical or not, the trend of engineers acting as ‘human compilers’ for AI slop is leading to a 91% increase in code review times. If you can’t explain why the code works, you didn’t build it; you just copy-pasted from a very expensive autocomplete. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=f6NPwxABK&amp;id=WUNX259d7" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI washing the mass layoffs</strong>: Tech companies are now ‘AI washing’ their mass layoffs, claiming workflow changes drove the cuts when it’s really just standard financial mismanagement. Analysts predict half of these layoffs will be reversed once firms realize they fired the only people who actually understood the legacy systems the AI is currently hallucinating about. It’s not innovation; it’s just accounting with a trendy buzzword. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/a4WjYQvt2" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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