<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>Microsoft patch tuesday addresses zero-days and ai vulnerabilities</strong>: Microsoft’s February 2026 Patch Tuesday fixed 59 vulnerabilities, including six actively exploited zero-days. Notably, critical remote code execution flaws were patched in GitHub Copilot and multiple IDEs (VS Code, Visual Studio, JetBrains), stemming from AI prompt injection vulnerabilities. These AI-related flaws pose significant risks to developers due to potential access to sensitive credentials and infrastructure keys, as reported by Krebs on Security. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/zk4Rm0PBv" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Open source software sustainability in crisis</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 must reframe support for OSS 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>
<li><strong>AI agents introduce new security risks</strong>: The rapid deployment of autonomous AI agents, expected in 40% of enterprise applications by 2026, introduces significant security vulnerabilities. GitGuardian, which just raised $50M, is focusing on securing these ‘Non-Human Identities’ and addressing gaps like prompt injection and supply chain attacks on AI agent ‘skills.’ Experts warn that blindly trusting unvetted markdown files for agent skills creates critical security vulnerabilities, turning prompt injection into remote code execution. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=0rQwEgnbB&amp;id=QRBfTNO1G&amp;id=ZVqULJLz3&amp;id=gUwIhEnZO&amp;id=l8YCDT7qf&amp;id=mmQEWnSC4&amp;id=1X0JlaofS&amp;id=48BFhb5Uw&amp;id=73Kh0XGFs&amp;id=8QVLeUBMy" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>Erlang/OTP 29.0-rc1 released with new features</strong>: Erlang/OTP 29.0-rc1 introduces native records, multi-valued comprehensions, and quantum-resistant SSH key exchange, while removing 32-bit Windows builds. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/fTCktIrzF" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<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> launched GLM-5, a 744B parameter open-source LLM under an MIT License, claiming performance on par with proprietary models for long-horizon coding tasks. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/bOspGaOnW" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Modular monoliths balance complexity and operational ease</strong>: Modular monoliths offer microservices-level logical separation with monolith-level operational simplicity, using strict domain isolation and architectural boundary enforcement at build time. <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>Linux kernel 7.0 improves intel tsx and udp performance</strong>: Linux 7.0 now defaults Intel TSX to ‘auto’ for performance and achieved a 12% UDP receive performance boost on 100Gbit NICs by inlining a critical function. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=feLrRFW3p&amp;id=mdQGXm2CW&amp;id=s1iSS5CBn" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>WebMCP standard proposed for ai agent interaction</strong>: Chrome is previewing WebMCP, a new web standard enabling websites to expose structured tools directly to in-browser AI agents, moving beyond brittle DOM scraping. <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>Databricks launches lakeflow for data engineering</strong>: Databricks introduced Lakeflow, a unified data engineering solution for ingestion, transformation, orchestration, and governance, featuring declarative pipelines and AI-powered debugging. <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>Rust web framework leptos gains traction</strong>: Leptos, a Rust-based web framework created by an Episcopal priest, is gaining significant community adoption for its performance comparable to Solid. Its creator is also developing a new language for reactive inference. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=cCyxGk3Tq&amp;id=gkCUaPXMf" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>AI will make you obsolete, unless you buy my tools</strong>: An ‘industry leader’ is screaming that 50% of white-collar jobs will vanish in 1-5 years thanks to AI, urging everyone to immediately adopt paid AI tools and experiment daily. Because, clearly, the solution to impending job loss is to spend more money on the very tech causing it, and who better to tell you this than someone selling said tech? It’s not fear-mongering if it’s ‘strategic advice,’ right? <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 the hunger games, but here are some tips</strong>: Suzi Edwards-Alexander declares technical recruitment ‘fundamentally broken’ and a ‘race to the bottom’ driven by AI, comparing it to the Hunger Games. Her solution? Values-based interviews and practicing interviewing. So, the system is rigged, but you should just get better at playing the game. Groundbreaking. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/LD0ov49gc" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI will fix your data analytics, but you still need humans</strong>: AI is supposedly transforming data analytics by automating everything from cleaning to report generation, making it accessible to ‘non-technical users.’ But don’t worry, human oversight is still ‘essential’ for validation, ethics, and strategy. So, AI does all the grunt work, but you still get to feel important by nodding along and making sure it doesn’t accidentally declare your company bankrupt. Progress! <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/Mwx7DfisA" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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