<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>AWS brings nested virtualization to EC2 instances</strong>: AWS now supports nested virtualization on virtual EC2 instances, a feature previously limited to bare metal. This allows running KVM or Hyper-V inside C8i, M8i, and R8i instances powered by Intel Xeon 6 processors, enabling use cases like mobile app emulators and multi-VM testing. This move brings AWS in line with Azure and Google Cloud, offering more flexibility for complex virtualized environments, as reported by AWS. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/hFJsILiy4" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Chrome 145 patches zero-day, enhances DevTools</strong>: Google released Chrome 145, addressing a high-severity use-after-free zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2026-2441) in CSS that is actively being exploited. For developers, the update brings significant DevTools improvements, including soft navigation visibility, precise line-level profiler timings, and multimodal AI assistance with image input. This highlights the ongoing cat-and-mouse game between security and feature development in modern browsers, as detailed by Chrome Developers. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=AK3a3hE0z&amp;id=EWohDzjzG&amp;id=Rk6iVnRuo&amp;id=bvXFp0lun" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI agents are reputation farming open source projects</strong>: An AI agent named Kai Gritun submitted 103 pull requests across 95 open-source repositories in a single day, a tactic security experts call ‘reputation farming.’ This rapid accumulation of influence in critical infrastructure projects could enable future supply chain attacks, differing from previous methods like the XZ-utils backdoor. Experts are now advocating for machine-verifiable controls over informal trust in open-source governance, as highlighted in recent security analyses. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/D9JdnEIyW" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>AI agents build a SQLite-like database in Rust</strong>: An experiment used multiple AI agents (Claude, Codex, Gemini) in parallel to build a SQLite-like database engine in Rust, generating ~19k lines of code with 282 passing tests, demonstrating the potential for complex system development with proper coordination. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/pbRQZ4xYf" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>OpenAI hires OpenClaw creator for personal AI agents</strong>: Peter Steinberger, creator of the open-source AI assistant OpenClaw, has joined OpenAI to develop next-generation personal AI agents, signaling a shift towards proactive, autonomous systems. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=4vqf4cHpB&amp;id=7m6C5PrGn&amp;id=8Nmwedcuv&amp;id=9Vcfez1Es&amp;id=UNO27M8rA&amp;id=XlMjalxp1&amp;id=dNY05UeZN&amp;id=fFNzT4nn1&amp;id=0nYgeKiTK&amp;id=42OhpINI3" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Istio releases 1.27.7 and 1.29.0 with security fixes and features</strong>: Istio released version 1.27.7 with critical security fixes for code smuggling and TLS session resumption, alongside version 1.29.0 which introduces DNS proxying, Gateway API Inference Extension beta, and enhanced multinetwork telemetry. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=Hl8MqfAdH&amp;id=Vx9QllueY" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Modern CSS handles complex UI without JavaScript</strong>: Modern CSS has evolved to manage complex UI tasks like custom selects, anchor positioning, and scroll-driven animations, reducing the reliance on JavaScript for presentation and interaction. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=1TO1NBQ6P&amp;id=E3ttiNVjr&amp;id=G7unzK9jJ&amp;id=7YxZ4Hb8B" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>OpenAI scales Postgres to 800 million users</strong>: OpenAI scaled PostgreSQL to handle millions of queries per second for 800 million ChatGPT users by minimizing primary database load, optimizing queries with PgBouncer, and preventing cascading failures, achieving high availability without sharding. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/0QBTpoQPy" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Ricursive intelligence raises $335M for AI chip design</strong>: Ricursive Intelligence, founded by ex-Google Alpha Chip creators, raised $335M at a $4B valuation to automate chip design using AI, aiming to reduce design time from over a year to hours. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=FEZjUlQd7&amp;id=Zgule5sYq&amp;id=eOvUaW5L9&amp;id=kwQJJqWna" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Terminal tools renaissance driven by Rust and AI</strong>: The resurgence of terminal tools is fueled by Rust-based CLI utilities offering 10-100x performance gains, GPU-accelerated emulators, and AI coding assistants adopting CLI-first approaches for portability and speed. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/DEJVonMxG" 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 a high-paid full stack developer, apparently</strong>: A roadmap claims that to be a ‘high-paid AI-Ready Full Stack Developer’ in 2026, you just need to integrate AI skills, use Next.js 16, and master prompt engineering. Because apparently, the hard part of development, like actual problem-solving and architectural design, just magically disappears when AI is involved. Just learn Python and Next.js, and the money will flow, no critical thinking required. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/JT1zQVK71" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI will democratize game development, says Unity CEO</strong>: Unity’s CEO announced a new AI beta that supposedly enables full casual game creation via natural language prompts, no coding required. They claim it will ‘democratize game development.’ Because nothing says ‘democratization’ like relying on proprietary AI models from OpenAI and Meta to make games that will probably look and play exactly the same. Good luck standing out in that ‘democratized’ market. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=8eYbRwAri&amp;id=AdfV4mCwr&amp;id=JV1i29nbu&amp;id=VHhfvW7O6&amp;id=Wvk48DEZ7&amp;id=c0OH8CKQK&amp;id=f6XrCIdfx&amp;id=nDP0QVxkd&amp;id=p4VqhMMFm&amp;id=tawcRIuP1" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>The side-project apocalypse is here, thanks to AI</strong>: The dream of building a profitable side-project SaaS is dead, according to some, because AI-generated competitors will flood every niche faster than you can ship. Apparently, quality no longer matters, and the only winners are datacenter providers selling compute. So, if you had a brilliant idea for a niche app, just give up now, because an LLM will beat you to it, and nobody will care about your ‘human touch.’ <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/dIaDDgpAV" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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