<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>xAI co-founders and senior engineers depart</strong>: Nine engineers, including two co-founders, have publicly left xAI in the past week, bringing the total to over half of the founding team. These departures coincide with regulatory scrutiny over Grok’s generation of nonconsensual explicit deepfakes and the company’s upcoming IPO. The engineers reportedly seek more autonomy to build frontier AI technology in smaller teams, raising questions about xAI’s stability and governance. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/Am4GYAifG" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>North Korean UNC1069 targets crypto with macOS backdoors</strong>: North Korean threat actor UNC1069 is executing a sophisticated social engineering campaign targeting cryptocurrency organizations. They’re using tactics like compromised Telegram accounts and fake Zoom meetings with AI-generated video to trick victims into executing malicious terminal commands. This deploys a multi-stage malware stack, including previously undocumented macOS backdoors like WAVESHAPER, HYPERCALL, and DEEPBREATH, designed to bypass macOS security and steal sensitive data. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/WHtUJSDcB" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI security risks and governance challenges intensify</strong>: OpenAI disbanded its mission alignment team, which focused on safe and trustworthy AI, reassigning its leader and other members. This follows a similar move in 2024, raising concerns about the company’s commitment to long-term AI safety. Meanwhile, GitGuardian secured $50M in Series C funding to address the explosion of non-human identities and credential leaks driven by AI adoption, highlighting the growing security debt in the rapidly evolving AI landscape. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=IO6hLocFc&amp;id=MZmobK75f&amp;id=NhCMJ1Tfp&amp;id=QEFiurih6&amp;id=a3FxaIBGB&amp;id=bbgCShUl6" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>Rust web framework Leptos creator is self-taught</strong>: The creator of the Rust web framework Leptos shared their self-taught programming journey, starting at age 10 and experimenting with various languages before creating the framework, emphasizing a balance between open-source work and a day job. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=RPtdHCM9u&amp;id=a685B7Chs" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>PyTorch Foundation expands scope and leadership</strong>: The PyTorch Foundation has evolved into a multi-project ecosystem, now hosting PyTorch, vLLM, DeepSpeed, and Ray, with Mark Collier (OpenStack/OpenInfra founder) joining as the new Executive Director to scale operations and business execution. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/2JQZDZ3HD" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Kubernetes drives AI expansion, cultural shift critical</strong>: Kubernetes is now the dominant infrastructure for AI workloads with 82% production adoption, but cultural barriers like siloed teams and lack of cross-functional collaboration are the biggest hurdles to scaling AI initiatives, according to InfoQ. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/MrQz3g4zd" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Microsoft .NET 11 Preview 1 released</strong>: Microsoft released .NET 11 Preview 1, featuring JIT compiler improvements, CoreCLR support for WebAssembly, Zstandard compression, and C# 15 updates, with CoreCLR now default for Android Release builds. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=4y7L7j8R0&amp;id=YEAeTDtDo" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>React Native 0.84 makes Hermes V1 default</strong>: React Native 0.84 now defaults to Hermes V1, bringing automatic performance improvements and reduced memory usage, alongside precompiled iOS binaries for faster build times and requiring Node.js 22.11 minimum. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/oBV7ttAiR" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Modular monolith architecture overview</strong>: Modular monoliths offer an architectural approach that provides microservices-level logical separation within a single deployable unit, using bounded contexts and strict domain isolation to simplify operations and eliminate distributed overhead. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=AaHqpuNEs&amp;id=fqVYcFtBr" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>ESLint 10.0.0 removes eslintrc support</strong>: ESLint 10.0.0 has been released, removing support for <code>.eslintrc</code> configuration files and making flat config the sole option, improving config resolution for monorepos and adding built-in TypeScript types. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/eQ0JUyyzE" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>AI skill scanners for agent marketplaces are ‘false security’</strong>: An opinion piece claims community-built AI skill scanners for agent marketplaces are ‘false security’ and potentially malware, because they rely on regex pattern matching, which is apparently ineffective against sophisticated attacks. So, you’re telling me a simple regex isn’t enough to stop a determined hacker? Shocking. Who would’ve thought that security requires more than a glorified find-and-replace? <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/REdcjExfJ" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI will transform data analytics, but human oversight is still needed</strong>: AI is supposedly transforming data analytics by automating everything from cleaning to report generation, making it accessible to ‘non-technical users.’ But wait, human oversight is still ‘essential’ for validation, ethics, and strategy. So, AI does all the grunt work, and humans still have to make sure it didn’t hallucinate the entire quarterly report. Revolutionary! <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/Mwx7DfisA" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Java is still the ideal choice for enterprise development</strong>: An article boldly declares Java as ‘the ideal choice’ for enterprise-level development, especially in banking and financial services, citing high demand and job stability. This glowing endorsement conveniently forgets to mention any other languages or potential drawbacks, making it sound less like an objective analysis and more like a Java fan club meeting. Because, you know, nothing else exists. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/RDdwB12c8" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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