<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>Anthropic walks back core safety pledge</strong>: Anthropic has officially abandoned its Responsible Scaling Policy commitment to halt model training if safety measures aren’t guaranteed, according to Chief Science Officer Jared Kaplan in a TIME interview. The company cited competitive pressure and a lack of binding global regulations as reasons for shifting from hard ‘tripwire’ thresholds to more flexible safety roadmaps. This pivot suggests that the arms race with rivals is now taking priority over the company’s original founding principles of cautious development. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/smoMbPrUY" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Cisco and VMware hit by critical injection flaws</strong>: Cisco has patched a CVSS 10.0 authentication bypass in Catalyst SD-WAN (CVE-2026-20127) that is currently being exploited by a sophisticated threat actor. Simultaneously, Broadcom released urgent fixes for VMware Aria Operations to address an unauthenticated command injection vulnerability (CVE-2026-22719) that allows remote code execution. Security teams should prioritize these updates as both vendors report active targeting or high potential for exploitation in enterprise environments. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=4RGi5b71B&amp;id=Ue2MrJloo" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Unity kills HDRP in favor of unified URP</strong>: Unity is consolidating its fragmented rendering strategy by moving the High Definition Render Pipeline into maintenance mode and focusing all future development on the Universal Render Pipeline. While HDRP will receive a final update for Nintendo Switch 2 support, URP is being upgraded with HDRP-level features like real-time global illumination and physical light units. The Built-in Render Pipeline deprecation officially begins this summer with Unity 6.5, though LTS support will linger until 2029. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/kOn1P0sth" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>GNU find is officially Turing complete</strong>: A new research paper proves that the ubiquitous Unix utility can simulate a two-counter machine by reading and writing files during directory traversal. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/XWyv2sBDE" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Rust powered virtualization hits 120 FPS in React</strong>: Warper 7.2 offloads scroll calculations to WebAssembly and uses Fenwick trees to achieve O(log n) height tracking, significantly outperforming JS-native libraries. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/SvL1JwjLf" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Artifactory adds native Nix repository support</strong>: JFrog now allows Artifactory to act as an enterprise-grade binary cache for Nix, addressing bandwidth bottlenecks and supply chain security for Nix builds. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/YnZQiNFtU" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>SwiftUI GeometryReader performance traps identified</strong>: Developers are warned that using GeometryReader inside ScrollViews causes constant re-renders and memory spikes; frame modifiers and alignment guides are the recommended fixes. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=WdTawZrTI&amp;id=c5Kk18fox" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>PostgreSQL extension credcheck releases urgent security fix</strong>: Version 4.6 of the credential validation extension fixes a flaw that allowed unauthorized superuser password changes via the ALTER ROLE command. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/QFBajRpM2" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Cypress adds flag for empty test suites</strong>: The new --pass-with-no-tests flag prevents CI pipeline failures when dynamic filtering results in zero spec files, a common issue in complex test quarantine setups. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/yJfm5qAyl" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Mercury 2 debuts diffusion based reasoning</strong>: Inception Labs launched a new model architecture that claims 1,000 tokens per second by ditching traditional autoregressive decoding for a diffusion-based approach. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/veg0FKWoO" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>Google Research allegedly breaks the laws of physics</strong>: A viral tweet claims Google Research boosted LLM accuracy by 76 percentage points without adding tokens or increasing latency. There is no paper, no technical blog post, and no official announcement—just a single social media account shouting ‘just proved’ into the void. In this industry, if it sounds like a free lunch that also does your laundry, it’s probably just a hallucination. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/73tgOim8I" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>The 100 million row PHP challenge</strong>: The PHP community is currently obsessed with a competition to parse CSVs into JSON as fast as possible on a tiny DigitalOcean droplet. While it’s a fun exercise in micro-optimization, the rules specifically disable the JIT and FFI, effectively turning a performance benchmark into a contest of who can write the most clever code for a crippled runtime. It’s great for Twitter engagement, but less so for actual production systems where you’d just use the right tool for the job. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/uM4mdRjaF" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Meta patents the digital afterlife</strong>: Meta has patented technology to simulate deceased users using LLMs trained on their past interactions to keep the ‘engagement’ going from beyond the grave. Critics are calling it a ‘dystopian nightmare’ that will accelerate the ‘dead internet’ phenomenon, but let’s be honest: it’s just a desperate attempt to ensure their churn rate eventually hits zero. Nothing says ‘meaningful social connection’ like a chatbot wearing your late grandfather’s digital skin to sell you VR headsets. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/yvChN5rlV" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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