<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>Microsoft’s February patch Tuesday addresses zero-days and AI vulnerabilities</strong>: Microsoft released its February 2026 Patch Tuesday updates, fixing 59 vulnerabilities, including six actively exploited zero-days. Notably, three of these zero-days were publicly disclosed with potential proof-of-concept exploits. The update also patches critical remote code execution flaws in GitHub Copilot and multiple IDEs (VS Code, Visual Studio, JetBrains), stemming from AI prompt injection vulnerabilities, posing significant risks to developers due to access to sensitive credentials. Organizations should upgrade to the latest fixed versions following standard patching procedures. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=zk4Rm0PBv&amp;id=BOPPPXswR&amp;id=i2YjgAdJA&amp;id=oUCth2teJ&amp;id=uxvhPzT2r&amp;id=zFYu8Wov8" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Pandas 3.0.0 introduces breaking changes and performance updates</strong>: Pandas 3.0.0 is out, bringing significant breaking changes like a dedicated string dtype and formal Copy-on-Write (CoW) semantics to finally clear up view/copy ambiguities. It now demands Python 3.11+ and NumPy 1.26.0+, and even includes early support for declarative column transformations and an Arrow PyCapsule interface for zero-copy data exchange. This release continues the ongoing competition with Polars, with some users still grumbling about pandas’ API choices. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=Bf1dK14FP&amp;id=DckO36Vaq&amp;id=cW6KgKgEK&amp;id=omSTWjEfj" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Open source sustainability crisis and maintainer burnout</strong>: The open-source software ecosystem is facing a sustainability crisis, with companies profiting from the unpaid labor of maintainers who are experiencing burnout and a lack of support. High-profile incidents like Heartbleed and XZ Utils highlight critical dependencies maintained by overworked individuals. Lotte Pitcher at NDC London 2026 emphasized that consumers need to identify high-risk dependencies, sponsor projects, and contribute time to open-source as a form of risk reduction, not charity. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/aIx715a23" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>Databricks launches Lakeflow for unified data engineering</strong>: Databricks announced Lakeflow on Azure Databricks, a unified solution for data ingestion, transformation, orchestration, and governance, featuring point-and-click ingestion, declarative ETL, and 99.9% reliable workflow orchestration. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=Bf1dK14FP&amp;id=DckO36Vaq&amp;id=cW6KgKgEK&amp;id=omSTWjEfj" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Erlang/OTP 29.0-rc1 released with new features</strong>: Erlang/OTP 29.0-rc1 introduces native records, multi-valued comprehensions, a new <code>is_integer/3</code> guard BIF, and compiler improvements, alongside quantum-resistant SSH defaults and the removal of 32-bit Windows builds. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/fTCktIrzF" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI-powered testing tools emerge with Datadog and GitHub Copilot</strong>: Datadog launched Code Coverage for unified test visibility and AI-generated tests, while GitHub Copilot Testing for .NET is now generally available, offering AI-powered unit test generation and coverage summaries. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=gZJqHPom7&amp;id=j254S16VC&amp;id=sJ5P2kSW8" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>FastAPI Cloud simplifies deployment with single command</strong>: FastAPI Cloud, backed by Sequoia, offers a new platform for deploying FastAPI applications with a single command, handling HTTPS, auto-scaling, and infrastructure complexity on Kubernetes. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=5Mzv43k5F&amp;id=5atbRAfWV&amp;id=6Rrig1lfL&amp;id=7B5EDflI8&amp;id=N2p8QaBAl" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Modular monoliths offer microservices benefits without complexity</strong>: Modular monoliths provide strict domain isolation and architectural boundaries at build time, aiming for microservices-level logical separation with monolith-level operational simplicity, eliminating network latency and distributed tracing overhead. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=0esOYLd2k&amp;id=3neA1QsEe&amp;id=AaHqpuNEs&amp;id=fqVYcFtBr" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Debezium Platform introduces reusable connections</strong>: Debezium Platform now features reusable Connections, allowing users to define, validate, and reuse connection details across multiple Sources and Destinations, reducing duplication and enabling centralized management. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=Bf1dK14FP&amp;id=DckO36Vaq&amp;id=cW6KgKgEK&amp;id=omSTWjEfj" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Laravel 12.51.0 brings new features and improvements</strong>: Laravel 12.51.0 introduces <code>afterSending</code> callbacks for notifications, fluent <code>whenFails</code> and <code>whenPasses</code> validator methods, a MySQL-specific query timeout, and closure support in <code>firstOrCreate</code> and <code>createOrFirst</code>. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=R2pHLEhEn&amp;id=SDz0rBbl6&amp;id=UmsmMDLBe&amp;id=Y0OfEKzyB&amp;id=cOTogX0I1" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong><a href="http://Z.ai" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Z.ai</a> releases GLM-5, claims to match proprietary models</strong>: <a href="http://Z.ai" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Z.ai</a> just dropped GLM-5, an open-source language model that supposedly matches Claude Opus 4.6 and GPT 5.3 Codex for long-horizon coding tasks. It’s 744B parameters with 40B active, trained on 28.5T tokens. And of course, it’s ‘best-in-class’ and ranks #1 on Vending Bench 2. Because every new open-source model is always the best, until the next one drops next week. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/bOspGaOnW" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI agents will eliminate 50% of white-collar jobs in 1-5 years, apparently</strong>: An unnamed ‘industry leader’ is predicting that advanced AI models like GPT-5.3 Codex and Claude Opus 4.6 will eliminate 50% of entry-level white-collar jobs across law, finance, medicine, and software engineering within 1-5 years. The solution? Immediately adopt paid AI tools and experiment daily. Because nothing says ‘job security’ like blindly trusting the latest AI hype cycle and paying for tools that might be obsolete next month. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=jQIyW7C3o&amp;id=lGyFb7XTB&amp;id=waJpUtc5V" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Recruitment is ‘fundamentally broken’ and ‘Hunger Games’</strong>: Suzi Edwards-Alexander, in an opinion piece, declares technical recruitment is ‘fundamentally broken’ and a ‘race to the bottom’ driven by AI, comparing it to the Hunger Games. While the process certainly has issues, framing it as a dystopian battle royale might be a tad dramatic. Perhaps we should just focus on, you know, actually improving the process instead of just complaining about it. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/LD0ov49gc" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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