<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>xAI faces co-founder and senior engineer departures</strong>: xAI, Elon Musk’s AI venture, is seeing a significant exodus of senior engineers and co-founders, with more than half of its founding team reportedly departing. This comes amidst regulatory scrutiny over Grok’s deepfake generation, an upcoming IPO, and SpaceX’s recent acquisition of xAI. The rapid departures raise questions about the company’s stability and governance, especially as engineers cite a desire for more autonomy to build frontier AI technology. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/Am4GYAifG" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>North Korean hackers target crypto with new macOS backdoors</strong>: North Korean threat actor UNC1069 is targeting cryptocurrency organizations with a sophisticated social engineering campaign. They’re using tactics like compromised Telegram accounts and fake Zoom meetings with AI-generated video to trick victims into executing malicious terminal commands. The attack deploys previously undocumented macOS backdoors (WAVESHAPER, HYPERCALL, DEEPBREATH) to bypass security and steal sensitive data, browser credentials, and keychain material. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/WHtUJSDcB" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>PyTorch foundation expands to host broader AI ecosystem</strong>: The PyTorch Foundation is expanding its scope beyond just PyTorch, now hosting critical AI infrastructure projects like vLLM, DeepSpeed, and Ray. Mark Collier, formerly of OpenStack/OpenInfra, has been appointed as the new Executive Director, with Matt White transitioning to CTO. This move aims to foster a broader multi-project ecosystem and ensure open collaboration, preventing single-entity dominance over foundational AI technologies. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=2JQZDZ3HD&amp;id=pbGBRZXIy" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<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 like collection expression arguments. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/4y7L7j8R0" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Broadcom’s monorepo success story</strong>: Broadcom successfully unified over 177 software projects into a single monorepo using Nx, achieving a 70% cache hit rate and reducing CI times to 29 minutes, saving 361 days of compute time monthly. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/0esOYLd2k" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Erlang/OTP 29.0-rc1 brings native records and quantum-resistant SSH</strong>: Erlang/OTP 29.0-rc1 introduces native records, multi-valued comprehensions, new guard BIFs, compiler improvements, and defaults to quantum-resistant key exchange for SSH. <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 removes support for <code>.eslintrc</code> files, making flat config the sole configuration option, improving monorepo resolution and adding built-in TypeScript types. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/eQ0JUyyzE" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AWS Lake Formation enhances cross-account sharing</strong>: AWS Lake Formation now allows sharing hundreds of thousands of tables across accounts using a single RAM resource share and wildcard patterns, centralizing permissions management. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/5atbRAfWV" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Garn build system boasts major speedups</strong>: Garn, an alternative Nix frontend, announced significant evaluation speed improvements using TypeScript and trace-based caching, reducing evaluation times from 800ms to 16ms in some scenarios. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/edQlVXp7C" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Notepad Markdown RCE vulnerability patched</strong>: Microsoft patched a Notepad Markdown RCE vulnerability (CVE-2026-20841) with a severity score of 8.8, requiring social engineering to exploit via malicious Markdown files. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/T0Qp7yO7u" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>AI increases tech worker burnout, who could have seen that coming</strong>: A Harvard Business Review study found that generative AI leads to tech workers taking on more tasks and working longer hours, increasing cognitive fatigue and burnout. So, AI makes us ‘more productive’ by making us work ourselves to death. Progress! <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/mEvZkBSFL" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Windsurf’s AI leaderboard says speed matters, their model is fast</strong>: Windsurf’s ‘Arena Mode’ leaderboard claims users prefer faster AI models, even if they’re just ‘good enough,’ penalizing ‘inefficient thinking tokens.’ Conveniently, Windsurf’s own model outperforms others in this speed-focused metric. It’s almost like they designed the test to highlight their strengths. Shocking. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/SQAix1lCw" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI scrapers kill self-hosted git server</strong>: A developer had to shut down their self-hosted Git server after 14 years because AI scrapers generated millions of 404s, overwhelming logrotate and causing a disk space outage. Apparently, AI is so smart it can’t even scrape efficiently without breaking things. Thanks, AI, for making the internet a worse place for actual humans. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/l8YCDT7qf" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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