<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>Google engineers indicted for stealing tech trade secrets</strong>: Two former Google engineers, sisters Samaneh and Soroor Ghandali, along with an alleged accomplice, have been federally indicted for stealing trade secrets related to processor security, cryptography, and Snapdragon SoC architecture. Prosecutors allege the data was transferred to Iran using methods like Telegram and photographing screens. Google detected the activity through routine security monitoring, leading to their arrest and potential decades in prison. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/hfUKRpTfu" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Hugging Face acquires GGML/llama.cpp for local AI</strong>: Georgi Gerganov and the GGML team, creators of the popular llama.cpp project, are joining Hugging Face. This collaboration aims to bolster the sustainability and growth of local AI inference, ensuring llama.cpp remains 100% open-source and community-driven. Hugging Face will provide resources, while the GGML team retains full technical autonomy, with a shared vision to make open-source AI accessible on consumer hardware. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/ONSshEfvD" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>OpenAI launches enterprise AI agent platform “Frontier”</strong>: OpenAI has rolled out “Frontier,” an enterprise-focused platform designed to build, deploy, and manage AI agents at scale. The platform aims to integrate with existing systems, provide identity and governance controls, and support institutional knowledge onboarding. While OpenAI offers ‘Forward Deployed Engineers’ to assist adoption, the move has sparked community concerns about vendor lock-in and OpenAI’s pivot towards enterprise solutions. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/NGz762AB9" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>Red Hat launches enterprise Podman Desktop</strong>: Red Hat has released an enterprise-supported technical preview of Podman Desktop, offering Docker-compatible container workflows with vendor-backed SLAs, security fixes, and deep integration with OpenShift and RHEL. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/jbEPljaPx" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>jQuery 4.0 released after nearly a decade</strong>: jQuery 4.0 is out, marking its first major update in almost 10 years, dropping IE10 support, migrating to ES modules, and adding Trusted Types for improved CSP compliance. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/TvF7uW4a5" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Human guidance boosts AI agent performance</strong>: New research using the SkillsBench benchmark shows AI agents perform significantly better (16.2% average gain) with curated, human-provided skills, highlighting current limitations in autonomous skill development. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/c3BmZNVYL" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Hardware industry shifts to AI data centers, causing shortages</strong>: A structural shift towards AI data centers is causing severe shortages and price hikes (15-95%) for consumer DRAM, NAND, and HDDs, with Micron exiting the consumer memory market and Western Digital/Kioxia selling out 2026 production to enterprises. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/2aSZDslGW" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Erlang/OTP gets critical security and stability fixes</strong>: Erlang/OTP patch releases 27.3.4.8 and 26.2.5.17 address a path traversal vulnerability (CVE-2026-21620) in the tftp module, critical ETS crash bugs, and missing memory barriers on weak-memory-ordering architectures. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=TXXfoJq3M&amp;id=iDNopOiir" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Cloud Hypervisor 51 improves performance and QCOW2 support</strong>: Cloud Hypervisor 51, the Rust-based Virtual Machine Monitor, has been released with performance enhancements and better support for QCOW2 v3, focusing on secure cloud computing. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/aAFeVuDlX" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Halodoc shares Angular 20 migration challenges</strong>: Halodoc successfully migrated its Angular SSR monolith to Angular 20, detailing challenges like switching from Webpack to Vite+esbuild for 56% faster builds and upgrading Express 4 to 5. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/TzZRtuZ8M" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>Claude Code desktop now reviews code and fixes CI</strong>: Anthropic’s Claude Code desktop app now lets you ‘review code’ and ‘handle CI failures’ in the background. Because nothing says ‘trustworthy’ like an AI silently fixing your build issues and reviewing your pull requests. What could possibly go wrong when your CI/CD pipeline is essentially a black box run by a large language model? I’m sure the audit trails will be <em>immaculate</em>. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/1pjLIO04t" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI agents are transforming software development, apparently</strong>: According to Docker’s ‘State of Agentic AI’ report, 90% of software professionals use AI agents daily, and 41% of global code will be AI-generated by 2026. Developers are now ‘orchestrators’ doing ‘vibe coding.’ Yet, 96% don’t trust AI-generated code without manual review, spending 24% of their week auditing it. So, AI makes code faster, but we spend more time fixing its ‘over-engineered bug fixes’ and ‘new bugs.’ Sounds like progress! <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/0RZnFaVdx" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Founder goes ‘Made in EU’ for sovereignty, still uses US tech</strong>: A founder proudly announced they ditched AWS for a ‘fully European cloud stack’ to achieve ‘sovereignty.’ They’re using Hetzner, Scaleway, and Nebius, which is great. But then they admit they still rely on Apple/Google app stores, Google Ads, social logins, and ‘cutting-edge AI models’ like Claude. So, ‘sovereignty’ means using European infrastructure for the parts you can control, while still being utterly dependent on US tech giants for everything else that actually matters. Got it. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=BUMyjbbee&amp;id=hlNtvBQRF" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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