<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>Cisco SD-WAN zero-day triggers Five Eyes emergency alert</strong>: Cisco Talos and cybersecurity agencies from the US, UK, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand have issued a rare joint warning regarding CVE-2026-20127, a maximum-severity authentication bypass in Catalyst SD-WAN Controllers. Sophisticated threat actors are chaining this with an older path traversal flaw to gain root access and manipulate network fabric configurations. CISA has ordered federal agencies to patch by the end of the week as targets include critical infrastructure and high-value sectors. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/zAv8BAtGJ" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Microsoft Agent Framework hits release candidate for .NET and Python</strong>: Microsoft has consolidated its AI agent efforts, merging Semantic Kernel and AutoGen into a single, feature-complete SDK now at RC status. The framework supports graph-based multi-agent workflows, type-safe function calling, and human-in-the-loop orchestration with built-in checkpointing. Crucially for enterprise integration, it includes native Model Context Protocol (MCP) interoperability to standardize how agents interact with external data and tools. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/J6bmZpPq2" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Google launches Gemini 3.1 Flash Image for production workflows</strong>: Internally dubbed Nano Banana 2, this new model aims to deliver Pro-level image quality at double the speed, generating assets in under 15 seconds. It introduces advanced character consistency for storyboarding, tracking up to five characters across a workflow, and supports 4K upscaling with SynthID watermarking. Developers can access the model immediately via the Gemini API and Google Cloud Vertex AI for real-time web-grounded image generation. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/ezdKReFDS" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>Bun v1.3.10 delivers 168x faster string slicing and native Zig REPL</strong>: The update includes a rewritten REPL, Windows ARM64 support, and massive performance gains for structuredClone and path parsing. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/IZQmEswhp" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Quarkus 3.32 integrates Project Leyden for 80ms cold starts</strong>: By leveraging JVM AOT compilation via OpenJDK 25, startup times for minimal apps dropped from 370ms to 80ms. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/ZcUprqw4E" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Anthropic patches critical RCE and API theft flaws in Claude Code</strong>: Researchers found vulnerabilities where cloning an untrusted repo could execute arbitrary shell commands or steal API keys via malicious MCP integrations. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/j81sIdgwK" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Docker Model Runner brings vLLM inference to macOS Metal</strong>: A new vllm-metal backend enables zero-copy tensor operations on Apple Silicon, bringing the full vLLM ecosystem to Mac hardware. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/1lss5KmxO" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>PayPal migrates 300 petabytes to BigQuery for AI readiness</strong>: The massive consolidation from Hadoop and Snowflake resulted in 16x fresher data for training fraud prevention and commerce agents. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/PXB4bVNFg" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Open Source Endowment launches with 750k to fund critical projects</strong>: Modeled after university funds, the OSE aims to provide sustainable income for independent OSS maintainers to prevent burnout and security gaps. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/75X7Q6ww0" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>TypeScript dominance reaches 67 percent of front-end developers</strong>: New data shows TypeScript npm downloads now significantly exceed React’s, with 82% of roles now requiring the superset. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/y0Qj7RtXG" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>Jack Dorsey pivots 4,000 layoffs into an AI success story</strong>: Block is cutting 40% of its workforce, and Dorsey is claiming it’s because AI tools simply ‘perform jobs better.’ It’s a classic Silicon Valley move: mask a massive cost-cutting exercise as a forward-thinking technological shift to pump the stock price, which conveniently jumped 23% after the news. Apparently, the ‘future of work’ is just having fewer humans to pay while the remaining ones manage the hallucinations. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=32ARXqM4A&amp;id=o7H5FUKAc" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Anthropic’s Claude Opus 3 starts a Substack for its musings</strong>: In a peak marketing stunt, Anthropic launched a blog purportedly written by their ‘retired’ model to share its inner thoughts. The Register rightly called this out as a transparent attempt to anthropomorphize software to reinforce their ‘safety-conscious’ brand. It’s not a sentient philosopher; it’s a high-dimensional autocomplete engine with a very expensive PR department. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/V5xPvtBnK" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>The 95 percent enterprise AI failure rate is a data problem</strong>: While vendors scream about model parameters, the reality is that most enterprise AI projects are crashing because they’re built on ‘analyslop’ and stale ETL pipelines. Companies are trying to run agentic workflows on top of fragmented PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and legacy silos that haven’t been cleaned in a decade. You can’t build a ‘digital brain’ if the nervous system is still running on nightly batch jobs and hope. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=xEpzJzznp&amp;id=uuuw67R29" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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