<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>Anthropic gatekeeps Claude Mythos due to exploit capabilities</strong>: Anthropic has developed Claude Mythos, a model so proficient at cybersecurity that the company is refusing a public release to prevent a surge in automated zero-day exploits. Mythos reportedly identified tens of thousands of vulnerabilities, including a 27-year-old OpenBSD flaw, and can autonomously write functional exploits. To manage the risk, Anthropic launched Project Glasswing, a restricted defensive partnership with giants like Microsoft, Google, and Apple to patch open-source infrastructure before the model eventually goes wide. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=jmHtHzouP&amp;id=qvsFYYD3e" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AWS S3 Files brings native NFS access to object storage</strong>: AWS launched S3 Files, a feature that finally provides native NFS v4.1 access to S3 buckets without the performance penalties of FUSE-based workarounds. Built on EFS infrastructure, it supports full POSIX operations like in-place edits and file locking with ~1ms latency for cached data. This is a major shift for distributed systems, allowing legacy applications and ML pipelines to treat S3 as a high-performance file system while maintaining object storage as the source of truth. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/1my3P0fV4" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Supply chain attacks hit litellm and Axios via PyPI and npm</strong>: The software supply chain is under heavy fire with compromised versions of litellm (1.82.7+) and Axios (1.14.1) found exfiltrating AWS, GCP, and Azure credentials. The litellm malware uses a .pth file to execute automatically on install, performing container escapes to establish persistence on host nodes. These incidents, reported across security bulletins, highlight a growing trend of attackers using AI-powered social engineering to hijack maintainer accounts and inject credential-stealing payloads. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=KmRzcOn2E&amp;id=0TowHPkaB" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>Quantum computing threat to ECC encryption accelerates</strong>: New research from Google and independent teams suggests 256-bit elliptic-curve cryptography could be broken in minutes using significantly fewer quantum resources than previously estimated. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/Z1HVBRDLL" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>NET 11 previews introduce Async V2 and native Zstandard</strong>: Microsoft’s latest .NET 11 previews move async state machines into the runtime for better performance and add native Zstandard compression that is up to 7x faster than GZip. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/SVN2NQZHE" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>ZhipuAI open sources GLM 5.1 for long horizon engineering</strong>: The new MIT-licensed model claims state-of-the-art performance on SWE-Bench Pro, specifically optimized for thousands of tool calls in agentic workflows. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/YUW3lr0Sh" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Avalonia 12 delivers massive performance gains and native AOT</strong>: The cross-platform UI framework now features up to 1,867% FPS improvements and the first native Linux accessibility backend for any .NET framework. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/BlhZ1gns1" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>JEP 528 proposes post mortem JVM diagnostics via core dumps</strong>: A new Java Enhancement Proposal aims to extend jcmd to analyze crashed JVMs by recreating memory images from core dumps across different OS architectures. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/snrWa1qyF" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Nvidia acquires SchedMD raising open source Slurm concerns</strong>: The acquisition of the company behind the Slurm workload manager has the industry worried about potential hardware-level favoritism for Nvidia GPUs in supercomputing clusters. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/RZr93bEOr" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>TCP slow start limits initial page loads to 13 kB</strong>: A deep dive into TCP fundamentals reminds developers that the initial congestion window caps the first round trip at ~13 kB, making that the hard budget for critical CSS. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/cugkb3C8r" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>Microsoft’s 2026 enshittification tour</strong>: Windows 11 is currently so bloated with forced Copilot integrations that Microsoft had to issue a public apology promising to fix the taskbar, while GitHub’s core reliability is tanking in favor of AI features. Critics on Lobsters note that the ‘AI sprawl’ is actively degrading product quality, turning once-stable tools into experimental playgrounds for LLM features nobody asked for. It’s the classic ‘move fast and break things’ strategy, except they’re mostly just breaking things. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/bm8PUwaQV" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>The Sam Altman safety gap</strong>: A New Yorker investigation reveals that OpenAI’s ‘Superalignment’ team received a pathetic 1% of promised compute resources before being dissolved entirely. While Altman publicly performs the role of the concerned AI safety advocate, internal reports suggest he dismisses dangerous hallucinations as ‘magic’ and pushed GPT-4 through with incomplete safety reviews. It turns out the ‘safety’ in OpenAI might just be a marketing department with a very high budget. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/DYxQbrPVf" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI agents are just technical debt generators</strong>: A Carnegie Mellon study found that while AI coding tools cause an initial 281% spike in code volume, they also drive a 41% increase in code complexity and a 30% rise in static analysis warnings. We’re essentially using high-speed stochastic parrots to vomit unmaintainable spaghetti into our repos, trading long-term architectural integrity for the illusion of short-term velocity. If you can’t explain the 500 lines of code your agent just ‘wrote,’ you don’t have a feature; you have a liability. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/TSJO5oQnz" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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