<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>xAI sees senior engineer and co-founder departures</strong>: Nine engineers, including two co-founders, have publicly left xAI in the past week, bringing the total departures to over half of the founding team. These exits coincide with regulatory scrutiny over Grok’s generation of nonconsensual explicit deepfakes and the company’s upcoming IPO. The rapid departures raise questions about xAI’s stability and governance as it competes with major players like OpenAI and Anthropic. <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 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>Generative AI increases tech worker burnout</strong>: A Harvard Business Review study found that while generative AI initially boosts productivity, it leads to tech workers taking on more tasks, working longer hours, and reducing breaks. This workload creep results in increased cognitive fatigue and burnout, blurring the lines between work and 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>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>ESLint 10.0.0 drops old config files</strong>: ESLint 10.0.0 has removed support for <code>.eslintrc</code> configuration files, making flat config the sole option, which improves config resolution for monorepos and adds built-in TypeScript types. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/eQ0JUyyzE" 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 average 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>Microsoft .NET 11 Preview 1 is out</strong>: Microsoft released .NET 11 Preview 1, featuring JIT compiler improvements, CoreCLR support for WebAssembly, Zstandard compression, and new C# 15 and F# 11 features. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/4y7L7j8R0" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>PyTorch Foundation expands beyond PyTorch</strong>: The PyTorch Foundation has expanded its scope, now hosting vLLM, DeepSpeed, and Ray alongside PyTorch, and appointed Mark Collier as its 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>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, eliminating previous sharing limits. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/5atbRAfWV" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Safari 26.3 brings Zstandard and Navigation API updates</strong>: Safari 26.3 introduced Zstandard compression for faster content delivery, AbortSignal support for the Navigation API, and automatic environment dimming for fullscreen video in visionOS. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/BItQUD2U2" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Chrome 146 beta tests WebNN for in-browser AI</strong>: Chrome 146 beta features a WebNN origin trial for client-side neural network hardware acceleration, allowing web apps to use NPUs and ML capabilities directly in the browser. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/iCAMwgQqg" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>Windsurf’s AI leaderboard says speed over quality</strong>: Windsurf’s latest Arena Mode leaderboard claims “The People Want Speed” in AI models, penalizing “inefficient thinking tokens” and showing models like Gemini 3 Flash outperforming Gemini 3 Pro. Apparently, in their “real-world IDE usage patterns” evaluation, speed is now as important as quality, which is a convenient narrative for a company whose own model, SWE 1.5, also performed well on this metric. <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 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. The developer’s blog post, titled “Thank you, AI¹,” frames this as a negative consequence of AI activity on personal infrastructure. Because, clearly, the AI’s primary goal was to personally inconvenience this one developer, not just scrape data indiscriminately. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/l8YCDT7qf" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Anthropic’s AI agents fail to build a C compiler</strong>: Anthropic’s experiment had 16 Claude AI agents try to build a C compiler, costing $20,000, and the result was a 100,000-line codebase that couldn’t even compile basic programs. It relied on GCC for critical functionality and produced less efficient code. So, for the low, low price of twenty grand, you too can get a compiler that breaks existing functionality and can’t do its one job. What a bargain! <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/D7CXYuXPP" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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