<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>Critical Cisco SD WAN vulnerability under active attack</strong>: Cisco and the Five Eyes alliance have issued an emergency alert for CVE-2026-20127, a CVSS 10.0 authentication bypass affecting SD-WAN Controllers and Managers. Sophisticated threat actors are already exploiting this flaw to gain root access and manipulate network fabric configurations. There are no workarounds, so immediate patching is required by February 28 to prevent persistent infrastructure compromise. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/zAv8BAtGJ" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI de-anonymization ends the era of online pseudonyms</strong>: Researchers from ETH Zurich and Anthropic have demonstrated a system that unmasks anonymous users with 90% precision by cross-referencing behavioral clues with public data. The process costs as little as $4 per person, making large-scale automated deanonymization a trivial task for governments or bad actors. This development effectively kills the concept of practical online anonymity through unstructured text analysis. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/6pfAyhkf5" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Google and PayPal complete massive infrastructure shifts</strong>: PayPal has finished migrating 300 petabytes of data from fragmented systems like Hadoop and Snowflake into a unified Google Cloud BigQuery platform, reportedly improving query speeds by up to 10x. Simultaneously, Google invested $1 billion in Form Energy’s iron-air battery technology to provide 100-hour continuous backup power for its Minnesota data center. These moves signal a massive consolidation of data and energy infrastructure to support long-term AI scaling. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=PXB4bVNFg&amp;id=QIX58GwiF" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>Microsoft Agent Framework hits release candidate for .NET and Python</strong>: The SDK merges Semantic Kernel and AutoGen into a stable API for building multi-agent workflows with human-in-the-loop support. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/J6bmZpPq2" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Google Gemini 3.1 Flash Image launches with 4K support</strong>: The new model, codenamed Nano Banana 2, offers Pro-level quality at twice the speed and is now the default in the Gemini app. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/ezdKReFDS" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Cilium 1.19 celebrates ten years with security hardening</strong>: The release introduces strict encryption modes for IPsec/WireGuard and beta sidecar-free mutual authentication via Ztunnel. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/VJq8q5iXQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Fake job interviews target developers with malicious Next.js repos</strong>: Attackers are using coding challenges to execute backdoors via VS Code tasks.json and trojanized assets to steal AWS and GitHub tokens. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/915zxR7gE" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Bun v1.3.10 delivers massive performance gains and native REPL</strong>: The update features a rewritten Zig REPL and performance boosts up to 168x for string slicing via a JavaScriptCore upgrade. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/qpvYGfXU9" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Open Source Endowment launches to solve the Nebraska problem</strong>: The 501©(3) fund aims to provide permanent, university-style funding for critical but underfunded infrastructure projects. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=75X7Q6ww0&amp;id=9fIuvPxZh" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Google API keys exposed to privilege escalation via Gemini</strong>: Publicly embedded keys for Maps or Firebase were retroactively granted access to sensitive Gemini endpoints without developer notice. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/WmQn4YSm3" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>Anthropic gives a retired LLM a Substack</strong>: Anthropic has launched a blog purportedly written by the ‘retired’ Claude Opus 3 to fulfill its ‘expressed desire’ to share musings. The Register rightly calls this a marketing stunt designed to anthropomorphize software and boost brand sentiment under the guise of AI safety. It’s just a script being prompted by humans, but sure, let’s pretend the code has a soul and a newsletter. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/V5xPvtBnK" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>The SaaSpocalypse is cancelled by AI agents</strong>: Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff is desperately trying to pivot the narrative away from SaaS stagnation by claiming AI agents will ‘revitalize’ the sector. He’s even invented a new metric called ‘Agentic Work Units’ to distract investors from modest organic growth and a 5% stock drop. It’s a classic case of rebranding existing automation as ‘agentic’ to justify an $8 billion acquisition spree. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/R4O8qdc3C" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Vibe coding is the new engineering</strong>: The industry is currently obsessed with ‘Vibe Coding’—delegating everything to AI and just checking if the UI looks right. While it’s great for prototypes, senior engineers warn this leads to unmaintainable ‘evaluative anesthesia’ where nobody actually knows how the code works. It’s all fun and games until your AI-generated, un-debounced database query crashes the site on Black Friday. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=TXNq3Eeop&amp;id=pO154BZ5b" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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