<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>Databricks launches lakebase for AI workloads</strong>: Databricks has launched Lakebase, a new PostgreSQL-compatible database specifically engineered for AI workloads. It aims to merge operational database capabilities with their existing data lakehouse architecture, offering a serverless OLTP database that separates compute from storage. Lakebase supports up to 8TB per instance, includes Postgres 17 with pgvector, and is currently GA on AWS, with Azure in public preview and GCP planned for later in 2026. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/56RHAShlB" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Google embedding model deprecation causes vendor lock-in</strong>: Google deprecated its <code>text-embedding-004</code> model, rendering thousands of stored vectors unusable for a production RAG-based movie recommender. This highlights a critical issue: different embedding models create incompatible vector spaces, making migration difficult and creating a hidden form of vendor lock-in. The author emphasizes treating embedding models as infrastructure and designing for change if you’re persisting embeddings at scale. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/xhDI1zj4i" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Linux kernel 7.0 rc1 released</strong>: The Linux kernel 7.0 rc1 has been released, with Linus Torvalds humorously attributing the major version bump to his confusion with large numbers, not a significant feature milestone. This release solidifies Rust support, brings faster cache clearing, non-disruptive kernel updates, and updated AMD/Intel silicon support. It also includes performance improvements for RISC-V and LoongArch, and removes a legacy IBM ThinkPad modem driver. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=cYP8biu57&amp;id=8ssuMcdSU&amp;id=JXfUDc5F4&amp;id=QdVE1yqfx&amp;id=TcabAvodN&amp;id=cQun6gD6y&amp;id=zaDpYuaxU" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>OpenClaw gateway launches mission control dashboard</strong>: OpenClaw Gateway’s ‘Mission Control’ is an open-source AI agent orchestration dashboard built with Next.js 14 and TypeScript, designed to create tasks, plan with AI, and manage specialized agents on a Kanban board. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/l0KLAjYGc" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Shuru: Local-first microVM sandbox for AI agents on macOS</strong>: Shuru is a new local-first microVM sandbox for macOS, using Apple’s Virtualization.framework to run lightweight Linux VMs for secure, ephemeral, and reproducible AI agent workloads without Docker. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/TqgsBjEoV" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>VS Code extension ‘fresh file explorer’ released</strong>: A new VS Code extension, ‘Fresh File Explorer,’ replaces the standard file explorer to display recently modified files, integrating Git history and pending changes with a heatmap and ‘Resurrect’ feature for deleted files. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/pQedWHBRB" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Spring ecosystem projects release second milestones</strong>: The second milestone releases for multiple Spring ecosystem projects, including Spring Boot 4.1.0-M2 and Spring Data 2026.0.0-M1, signal progress towards upcoming stable versions for Java enterprise applications. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/4cQgIuMmg" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Ubuntu 26.04 LTS to default to OpenJDK 25</strong>: Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, ‘Resolute Raccoon,’ will default to OpenJDK 25, aligning LTS release cycles and bringing improvements in memory efficiency, garbage collection, and new language features. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/acjUVfZBa" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Timeframe e-paper dashboard project evolves</strong>: A developer’s personal e-paper dashboard project, Timeframe, has evolved over a decade, now using a 25.3&quot; Boox Mira Pro and Home Assistant as its primary data source, with a focus on actionable information. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/hKJfGUQ4Z" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>EasyBackupManager: A restic-based desktop backup tool</strong>: A developer created EasyBackupManager, a Qt/C++ desktop application built around <code>restic</code>, prioritizing a ‘restore-first’ user experience with features like snapshot diffing and pre/post hooks. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/JRrUNuRIN" 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 compiler video gets called out</strong>: Anthropic released a marketing video showcasing Claude autonomously building a C compiler capable of compiling Linux, SQLite, Lua, and Doom. Critics, however, are calling out the “dishonest framing,” suggesting the real goal was merely a stress test of Claude’s ability to run autonomously for an extended period, not a straightforward demonstration of compiler-building prowess. Sounds like another AI marketing department trying to pull a fast one. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/vGYk0DbTO" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Uber and OpenAI unveil infrastructure control platforms</strong>: Uber and OpenAI have revealed their infrastructure-level traffic control platforms, ‘Global Rate Limiter’ and ‘Access Engine,’ respectively. Uber’s system handles 80 million requests per second with “probabilistic shedding,” while OpenAI uses a “credit waterfall.” InfoQ announced this with all the technical depth of a puddle, leaving us to wonder if these are actual innovations or just fancy names for load balancers and queue management. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/OVoWP2oNj" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Meta patents AI for deceased user simulation</strong>: Meta was granted a patent for an AI system designed to simulate a user’s social media activity, including posting and chatting, using an LLM trained on their past data when the user is ‘absent’ from the platform. Because nothing says ‘we care about your mental health’ like having a digital zombie version of you haunting your friends’ feeds after you’re gone. Ethical concerns? Mental health concerns? Nah, just another patent for the metaverse. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/AeW0pHCcd" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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