<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>Chrome zero-day and VS Code extension vulnerabilities</strong>: Google patched a critical zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2026-2441) in Chrome’s CSS engine, actively exploited for arbitrary code execution, making it the first zero-day of the year. Meanwhile, OX Security disclosed critical flaws in four popular VS Code extensions, including Live Server and Code Runner, affecting 128 million installs and enabling file theft and remote code execution. Many maintainers failed to respond, and Microsoft silently patched its Live Preview extension, highlighting ongoing security risks in widely used developer tools. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=ISqaRw1RF&amp;id=IuDICegHN" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI’s impact on developer productivity and trust</strong>: A Stack Overflow survey reveals that while 84% of developers use AI tools, trust in AI dropped to 29% due to probabilistic outputs, hallucinations, and job security fears. CircleCI’s report shows AI increases code generation but creates bottlenecks in review and integration, with main branch success rates at a five-year low. This suggests AI accelerates both good and bad practices, making foundational skills like TDD and system design more critical than ever to avoid ‘instant legacy code’. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=alUW9sJXE&amp;id=guYQJk0m5&amp;id=okTNHJRhB&amp;id=sc19eWuhU&amp;id=vbdTHZjVN&amp;id=xQwTKeb7K&amp;id=ySpIGlBP7&amp;id=ygeEuk5Vz&amp;id=7hHra6Ai0&amp;id=WUJRo6v7h" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Linux 7.0 performance regressions on new intel hardware</strong>: Early benchmarks indicate Linux 7.0 is showing performance regressions on Intel Core Ultra Series 3 ‘Panther Lake’ hardware, specifically affecting both CPU and integrated GPU performance. This is unexpected, especially for the Intel Xe driver, which was anticipated to improve. The findings suggest potential issues with the new kernel on modern Intel platforms, warranting further investigation. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/5CIXyHDbR" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>Rust continues to grow in open source</strong>: FOSDEM 2026’s Rust Devroom highlighted a shift from discussing Rust’s potential to showcasing real-world adoption, with projects increasingly using Rust to improve performance and stability. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/yAZ2E3TMl" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Kyverno 1.17 promotes CEL-based policy engine to GA</strong>: Kyverno 1.17 has promoted its CEL-based policy engine to General Availability, offering stable policy types and new functions for Kubernetes governance, while deprecating older JMESPath-based policies. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/fnlW905uT" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Databricks launches custom agents for AI development</strong>: Databricks released Custom Agents, enabling developers to build, test, and deploy production-quality AI agents as fully managed Databricks Apps on serverless compute. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/QJn2roYcs" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Tailscale launches peer relays for improved network performance</strong>: Tailscale announced the general availability of Peer Relays, allowing users to deploy high-throughput relay nodes on any Tailscale device to improve network connectivity and performance. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/Q0uzlfbeJ" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Red Hat releases enterprise podman desktop</strong>: Red Hat launched an enterprise-supported build of Podman Desktop, addressing the demand from regulated industries for vendor-backed support for open-source container development tools. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/iEOJ6oeIq" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>New developer tools for cloud deployment and streaming</strong>: Deno Deploy introduced <code>deno sandbox</code> for instant Linux microVM provisioning, TinyIce offers a lightweight Icecast2-compatible audio streaming server, and Konta brings GitOps workflows to Docker Compose on VPS environments. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=7Ar3LQ3uM&amp;id=BHwbWnzAf&amp;id=QRFLXVuPF" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Laravel 12.52.0 adds factory makeMany() and other features</strong>: Laravel v12.52.0 introduces a <code>makeMany()</code> factory method for creating multiple unsaved model instances, new factory helpers, and atomic writes for the Blade compiler to prevent race conditions. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/roJmm4d5R" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>Anthropic’s Claude C compiler: a marketing masterpiece of misdirection</strong>: Anthropic’s marketing video claims Claude built a C compiler ‘from scratch’ with ‘no human intervention’ that could compile Linux. Turns out, it used 37 years of GCC test suites, an online GCC oracle, required human restarts, cost $20,000 in API calls, and couldn’t even boot Linux. But hey, 16 AI agents running for two weeks to produce a 100,000-line compiler is still impressive, if only they didn’t feel the need to lie about it. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=0csgEkRMy&amp;id=1CyjIJfh9&amp;id=6spQIGtcM&amp;id=dhghGjegM&amp;id=poO8tUjKL&amp;id=v3dp2qPCw&amp;id=vTvxCCQVI&amp;id=z9Rc6eFF4" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI-generated pull requests: the new open-source spam</strong>: Open-source maintainers, including those for Godot, Blender, and Gentoo, are drowning in ‘draining and demoralizing’ AI-generated pull requests that are often nonsensical and verbose. GitHub is partly blamed for incentivizing this ‘AI slop,’ though they’re now promising mitigations. So, AI is great for lowering barriers to contribution, but apparently, it’s also great for generating mountains of garbage that human maintainers then have to clean up. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=HouoEDJq7&amp;id=YaGme2ewn&amp;id=8MbncZPyS&amp;id=BZXtjLZmd&amp;id=MwJCH4Dcn&amp;id=X8UHDq5X0" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Mandatory AI tooling metrics: measuring activity, not outcomes</strong>: A developer is calling out their company’s new metric mandating 80% of epics use AI tooling, arguing it measures tool usage rather than actual business outcomes. This top-down, mandate-driven AI adoption, often fueled by sensationalist headlines, completely misses the point. Because nothing says ‘innovation’ like forcing a tool into every workflow, regardless of whether it actually helps or just adds another layer of pointless bureaucracy. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/8WhnSQAtX" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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