<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>Microsoft patches zero-days and AI vulnerabilities</strong>: Microsoft’s February 2026 Patch Tuesday addressed a whopping 59 vulnerabilities, including six zero-days actively exploited in the wild. Three of these zero-days were publicly disclosed with proof-of-concept exploits, affecting Windows Shell, MSHTML, and Microsoft Word. Critically, the update also patched remote code execution flaws in GitHub Copilot and multiple IDEs, stemming from AI prompt injection vulnerabilities, which pose significant risks to developers due to access to sensitive credentials. <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>Generative AI increases tech worker burnout</strong>: A Harvard Business Review study found that generative AI, while initially boosting productivity, ultimately leads to tech workers putting in longer hours, taking fewer breaks, and experiencing increased cognitive fatigue and burnout. This ‘workload creep’ often happens voluntarily, as AI makes starting tasks easier, but the long-term effect is work bleeding into personal time. Researchers recommend intentional pauses and structured project phases to prevent unsustainable work intensity. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/mEvZkBSFL" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Open source sustainability in crisis</strong>: The open-source community is facing a sustainability crisis, with maintainers experiencing burnout and lack of support while companies profit from their unpaid labor. High-profile incidents like Heartbleed and XZ Utils highlight critical dependencies maintained by overworked individuals. Lotte Pitcher at NDC London 2026 emphasized that consumers must reframe support for open source as risk reduction, not charity, by sponsoring projects and contributing time. <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><a href="http://Z.ai" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Z.ai</a> releases open-source GLM-5 language model</strong>: <a href="http://Z.ai" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Z.ai</a> released GLM-5, a new open-source 744B parameter language model under an MIT License, claiming to match proprietary models like Claude Opus 4.6 and GPT 5.3 Codex for long-horizon coding tasks. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/bOspGaOnW" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>GitGuardian raises $50M for AI agent security</strong>: GitGuardian secured $50M in Series C funding to expand its non-human identity (NHI) security platform, focusing on AI agent security and enterprise-scale NHI governance, after detecting 350,000 secret exposures in 2025. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=UhlBeqTGk&amp;id=0rQwEgnbB&amp;id=QRBfTNO1G&amp;id=ZVqULJLz3&amp;id=gUwIhEnZO&amp;id=l8YCDT7qf&amp;id=mmQEWnSC4" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Google Cloud launches AI agent development program</strong>: Google Cloud launched the GEAR (Gemini Enterprise Agent Ready) program, a structured learning pathway for building and deploying AI agents using their Agent Development Kit, competing with similar offerings from Microsoft, AWS, and OpenAI. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=9C4SjPZli&amp;id=gwxHevbDX&amp;id=o13HbD6JR&amp;id=r88T1MoRe&amp;id=vS730ONZY" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>PyTorch Foundation expands beyond PyTorch</strong>: The PyTorch Foundation is expanding its ecosystem beyond PyTorch to host vLLM, DeepSpeed, and Ray, with Mark Collier (OpenStack founder) joining as Executive Director to scale operations and ensure open collaboration. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=pbGBRZXIy&amp;id=2JQZDZ3HD&amp;id=J1oQhmrd7&amp;id=LEUKhS9TX&amp;id=OB0PmskmR&amp;id=RDdwB12c8" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Erlang/OTP 29.0-rc1 released</strong>: Erlang/OTP 29.0-rc1 introduces native records, multi-valued comprehensions, and quantum-resistant SSH key exchange, while dropping 32-bit Windows builds. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/fTCktIrzF" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>ESLint 10.0.0 drops .eslintrc support</strong>: ESLint 10.0.0 will remove support for <code>eslintrc</code> configuration files, making flat config the sole option and improving config resolution for monorepos. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/eQ0JUyyzE" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Wine progresses on Photoshop 2025 Linux compatibility</strong>: Wine developers are actively working on patches to enable Adobe Photoshop 2025 to run on Linux, with an XMLSerializer implementation for MSHTML already merged upstream. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/zwEGOiEOu" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>WebMCP standard to end ‘AI agents clicking buttons’</strong>: A new web standard, WebMCP, is being proposed to allow websites to expose structured tools directly to in-browser AI agents, supposedly ending the era of ‘AI agents clicking buttons.’ Because, you know, AI agents were just mindlessly clicking buttons before, and this new standard will magically make them intelligent. It’s not like they’ll just find new ways to break things with their shiny new ‘structured tools.’ <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=Ib422mkez&amp;id=NpNZ22j1b&amp;id=R0k8YNGTx" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>OpenAI’s ChatGPT Atlas browser architecture</strong>: OpenAI’s ChatGPT Atlas browser architecture runs Chromium as a separate process to enable instant startup and responsiveness with hundreds of tabs, trading increased memory usage for stability. Because who needs efficient memory management when you can just throw more RAM at the problem and call it ‘architectural flexibility’ for ‘AI-powered browsing features’? It’s not like users have limited resources or anything. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/TsFQIm4Vj" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI agent saves conference demo from bad wifi</strong>: A developer used Snowflake’s Cortex Code AI agent to migrate a 51,354-row table from Snowflake to a local DuckDB database ‘in minutes’ as a backup for a conference demo with unreliable wifi. Because apparently, the biggest challenge in modern software development isn’t complex algorithms or distributed systems, but ensuring your demo doesn’t crash due to bad internet. Thank goodness AI is here to solve these truly pressing, mission-critical problems. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/ak0mLXj32" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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