<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>Ladybird browser pivots to Rust with AI assistance</strong>: The Ladybird browser project is ditching C++ for Rust, primarily for memory safety. What’s interesting is how they did it: lead developer Andreas Kling used AI agents like Claude Code and Codex to translate 25,000 lines of C++ to Rust in just two weeks. This was a human-directed process, not autonomous AI, but it drastically cut down a task that would have taken months manually, showing how AI can accelerate complex refactoring. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=bavH6r0ZC&amp;id=1QrlHS5ue" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Uber open-sources uForwarder Kafka consumer proxy</strong>: Uber has open-sourced uForwarder, a Kafka consumer proxy designed to handle trillions of messages daily. This system replaces direct Kafka client implementations with a gRPC push interface, centralizing offset management and simplifying consumer logic for microservices. It includes features like context-aware routing, an out-of-order commit tracker, and an adaptive auto-rebalancer, aiming to improve hardware utilization and reduce consumer lag at massive scale. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/NOSp6Xv2e" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Firefox 148 adds an AI kill switch</strong>: Firefox 148 introduces an ‘AI kill switch’ in its settings, allowing users to disable all AI-powered features or selectively block individual ones. Mozilla promises that future updates won’t re-enable these disabled features. This release also includes web platform updates like the Trusted Types API and Sanitizer API for XSS mitigation, along with Service Worker support for WebGPU. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/UNAL37VrS" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>GitHub launches Agent HQ for unified AI coding agents</strong>: GitHub launched Agent HQ, a unified platform for coding agents that integrates Claude, Codex, and GitHub Copilot, accessible with a single subscription. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/CxN7d4Xat" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>OpenAI responses API now supports websockets</strong>: The OpenAI Responses API now supports WebSockets, which reportedly makes AI agents run 30-40% faster, especially for frequent tool calls. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/CNQCNZ2N0" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Cohere releases Aya Tiny multilingual models</strong>: Cohere released the Aya Tiny model family, small (~3.3B parameter) multilingual language models designed to support over 70 languages, including low-resource ones, and run on mobile devices. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/QusoaclzE" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI agent browser sandbox project announced</strong>: A new open-source project called ‘browser sandbox’ provides a secure browser environment for AI agents to interact with the web, pre-loaded with ‘agent-browser’ and ‘Playwright’. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/AY0JUdVv6" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI agent makes next.js landing pages multilingual</strong>: LingoAgent is an autonomous AI agent that automates the full internationalization (i18n) workflow for Next.js App Router projects, from cloning repos to opening GitHub PRs with translations. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/DldQ53GrB" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>SVG vs raster loaders for web design</strong>: A practical comparison shows SVG is superior to raster images for web loading indicators due to scalability, smaller file sizes, inline embedding, and customization options. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/6VluK92aR" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>jQuery v4 released with modernization focus</strong>: jQuery v4 has been officially released, focusing on modernization by trimming legacy code, removing deprecated APIs, and dropping support for outdated browsers to make the library leaner and faster. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/jtOuP3zQB" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>OpenAI updates AI coding evaluation standard</strong>: OpenAI announced a change in its recommended standard for frontier coding evaluations, now pushing SWE-bench Pro because the previous benchmark, SWE-bench Verified, became “saturated due to test-design issues and contamination from public repositories.” So, after hyping up their previous benchmark, they’re now telling us it was basically flawed. Classic move: declare a new, better standard just as your models start hitting the ceiling on the old one. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/oZGyDrjcX" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Anthropic accuses Chinese AI labs of model distillation</strong>: Anthropic publicly accused Chinese AI labs DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax of “industrial-scale distillation attacks” on its Claude models, claiming they created over 24,000 fraudulent accounts to extract Claude’s capabilities. This is rich coming from a company that’s facing multiple copyright infringement lawsuits for training on scraped content. Apparently, it’s only a problem when someone else does it to <em>their</em> models. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/YcZmCF704" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Google DeepMind claims image generation breakthrough</strong>: Google DeepMind reportedly “solved a significant problem in image generation” with a fix described as “embarrassingly elegant” by some random Twitter user. No actual details, no official announcement, just a vague claim and a lot of hype. Sounds like another one of those “breakthroughs” that will be quietly forgotten next week when the next “embarrassingly elegant” solution comes along. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/fzJvtM3B4" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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