<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 is a big one, tackling 59 vulnerabilities, including six actively exploited zero-days. What’s particularly interesting is the inclusion of critical remote code execution flaws in GitHub Copilot and multiple IDEs (VS Code, Visual Studio, JetBrains), stemming from AI prompt injection vulnerabilities. This highlights a growing attack surface in developer tools, as reported by Krebs on Security, and organizations need to prioritize these updates. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/zk4Rm0PBv" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI agents introduce significant security and policy challenges</strong>: The rapid deployment of autonomous AI agents, expected in 40% of enterprise apps by 2026, is creating a security and governance nightmare. Cisco introduced AI BOM to inventory AI assets, while GitGuardian raised $50M to tackle the ‘Non-Human Identities’ crisis and AI agent security gaps. Experts like Stuart Russell and Yoshua Bengio warn that competitive pressures are pushing these systems out without adequate safety, leading to vulnerabilities, employment displacement, and accountability issues. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=gUwIhEnZO&amp;id=l8YCDT7qf&amp;id=mmQEWnSC4&amp;id=0rQwEgnbB&amp;id=QRBfTNO1G&amp;id=ZVqULJLz3" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Open source sustainability crisis deepens</strong>: The open-source software ecosystem is facing a severe 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 expose 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, and actively contribute or sponsor projects to prevent further project abandonment. <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> launched GLM-5, a new open-source 744B parameter language model under an MIT License, claiming performance on par with 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>Erlang/OTP 29.0-rc1 introduces native records and quantum-resistant SSH</strong>: Erlang/OTP 29.0-rc1 is out, bringing native records, multi-valued comprehensions, and defaulting SSH to quantum-resistant <code>mlkem768x25519-sha256</code> 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>Databricks launches lakeflow for unified data engineering</strong>: Databricks introduced Lakeflow on Azure Databricks, a unified solution for data ingestion, transformation, orchestration, and governance, featuring point-and-click ingestion and declarative ETL with automatic dependency mapping. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/DckO36Vaq" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Pandas 3.0.0 brings breaking changes and copy-on-write</strong>: Pandas 3.0.0 is here with breaking changes, including a dedicated string dtype, formal Copy-on-Write semantics to resolve view/copy ambiguity, and early support for declarative column transformations. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/Bf1dK14FP" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Kubernetes dominates AI infrastructure but culture lags</strong>: Kubernetes is now used in production by 82% of AI workloads, but a CNCF report indicates that organizational culture, siloed teams, and lack of cross-functional collaboration are the biggest barriers to scaling AI initiatives. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/MrQz3g4zd" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Rust ecosystem continues strong growth</strong>: JetBrains’ 2025 survey shows Rust’s continued growth, with 30% newcomers and 26% professional users, primarily for systems programming, CLI tools, and backend development, with 78% of developers using AI coding assistants. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/LYg98DMrO" 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 mode to ‘auto’ for performance gains on newer CPUs and achieved a 12% performance boost in UDP receive stress tests on 100Gbit NICs by inlining <code>timecounter_cyc2time()</code>. <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>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>AI will eliminate 50% of white-collar jobs in 1-5 years, probably</strong>: According to some unnamed ‘industry leaders,’ advanced AI models like GPT-5.3 Codex and Claude Opus 4.6 are so good at ‘judgment-like decision-making’ that they’ll wipe out half of all entry-level white-collar jobs in the next 1-5 years. The solution? Immediately adopt paid AI tools and experiment daily, because the ‘window for competitive advantage’ is closing. Sounds like a great way to sell more AI subscriptions, doesn’t it? <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/lGyFb7XTB" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Recruitment is ‘hunger games’ designed to stress you out</strong>: Suzi Edwards-Alexander, in an opinion piece, declares that technical recruitment is ‘fundamentally broken’ and a ‘race to the bottom’ driven by AI, designed purely to induce stress. She suggests ‘values-based structured interviews’ and ‘culture-add’ as solutions. Because, clearly, the problem isn’t that there are too many applicants for too few jobs, it’s just that recruiters are secretly evil masterminds trying to make everyone miserable. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/LD0ov49gc" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Orbital AI data centers are the future, if we ignore the $42.4B price tag</strong>: Apparently, orbital AI data centers are the next big thing, with SpaceX, Google, and Starcloud all vying for space. A 1 GW space-based facility would only cost $42.4 billion, nearly three times a ground equivalent, mostly due to ‘unproven Starship technology’ and ‘cheaper satellite production.’ Oh, and we still need to figure out thermal management and radiation hardening. But hey, who needs economic viability when you have a cool idea? <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/j9QS83E6P" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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