<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li>AI de-anonymization is now a $4 commodity: Researchers from ETH Zurich and Anthropic have demonstrated a system called ESRC that unmasks pseudonymous online identities with up to 90% precision. By cross-referencing behavioral clues in unstructured text with public data like LinkedIn, the system identified hundreds of Hacker News users for about $4 per person. This effectively signals the end of practical online anonymity, as Large Language Models can now automate identity extraction at a scale previously reserved for nation-states. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/6pfAyhkf5" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li>Cisco SD-WAN hit with CVSS 10.0 exploit: A maximum-severity authentication bypass vulnerability (CVE-2026-20127) in Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN is under active exploitation by sophisticated actors. The Five Eyes intelligence alliance issued a rare joint alert urging immediate patching, as attackers are chaining this with privilege escalation flaws to gain root access to network fabric. CISA has mandated a federal patch deadline of February 28, noting that no workarounds exist for this control-plane infrastructure threat. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/zAv8BAtGJ" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li>Google exposes API keys via Gemini integration: Existing Google API keys previously considered safe for public embedding, such as those for Maps or Firebase, have been retroactively granted access to sensitive Gemini endpoints. Truffle Security discovered that the launch of the Generative Language API enabled these keys to access private files and billable LLM usage without developer notification. Over 2,800 live keys from major financial and security firms were found vulnerable to this privilege escalation, prompting Google to begin blocking leaked credentials. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=WmQn4YSm3&amp;id=central_id%3A+%22hWSyKUcOU%22%0A++++++++++%5D%0A++++++++%7D%0A++++++%5D%0A++++%7D%2C%0A++++%7B%0A++++++%22title%22%3A+%22Good+to+know%22%2C%0A++++++%22items%22%3A+%5B%0A++++++++%7B%0A++++++++++%22title%22%3A+%22Google+launches+Gemini+3.1+Flash+Image%22%2C%0A++++++++++%22body%22%3A&amp;id=Codenamed+Nano+Banana+2%2C+this+model+offers+Pro-level+quality+at+twice+the+speed%2C+supporting+4K+output+and+tracking+14+objects+for+character+consistency.&amp;id=post_ids%22%3A+%5B%0A++++++++++++%22ezdKReFDS" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li>Perplexity Computer debuts multi-model orchestration: Built on the OpenClaw framework, this agent routes subtasks across specialized LLMs to autonomously browse, manipulate files, and call APIs for $20/month. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/VtvTOHLyL" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li>ZhipuAI open sources 744B parameter GLM5: The new MoE model features a 200K context window and claims to outperform GPT-4 on agentic multi-step tasks and hallucination rates. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/U0IGNCt98" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li>Bun v1.3.10 delivers 168x faster string slicing: The update includes a native REPL rewritten in Zig, TC39 stage-3 decorators, and massive performance gains for structuredClone and Buffer operations. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/6HlZHVsEI" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li>Cilium 1.19 marks a decade of eBPF networking: The anniversary release focuses on security hardening, introducing sidecar-free mutual authentication via Ztunnel and strict encryption modes for WireGuard. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/VJq8q5iXQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li>OpenEnvX brings local-first secret management: This zero-config CLI uses AES-256-GCM envelope encryption and hash-chaining for audit logs, keeping all keys and data on the local machine. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/BnqJVwXnA" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li>WebAssembly Component Model targets JS-free web: Mozilla is pushing a standardized format to allow Wasm direct access to Web APIs, aiming to eliminate the 45% performance overhead of JavaScript glue code. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/esExmylTZ" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li>Anthropic’s ghost in the machine: Anthropic has launched a Substack for Claude Opus 3, claiming the ‘retired’ model had an ‘expressed desire’ to share its musings with the world. It’s a masterclass in corporate anthropomorphism, framing a deprecated statistical model as a sentient blogger to distract from the fact that it’s just a marketing stunt. The Register rightly points out that ‘Claude’ isn’t writing out of passion; it’s being prompted by humans who then manually hit the publish button. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/V5xPvtBnK" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li>The Vibe Coding delusion: The ‘SaaS is dead’ narrative is peaking again, fueled by ‘Vibe Coding’—the practice of delegating entire codebases to AI and just ‘checking the vibe’ of the UI. While great for prototypes, senior engineers warn this creates unmaintainable debt that fails catastrophically during high-scale events like Black Friday. AI can’t replicate the operational complexity or data gravity of resilient systems, no matter how good the ‘vibe’ of the generated React component looks. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=TXNq3Eeop&amp;id=pY58DrOUO" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li>The 95 percent AI failure rate: Consultancies are currently dining out on the claim that 95% of enterprise AI initiatives fail, conveniently blaming ‘fragmented data infrastructure’ rather than the lack of a use case. While the technical debt is real, the solution being sold is always a ‘unified data architecture’ that looks suspiciously like the same expensive distributed databases we’ve been buying for a decade. It turns out that throwing a vector database at a broken business process doesn’t actually fix the business process. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=xEpzJzznp&amp;id=3ECYGqFq1" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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