<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>Supply chain attacks target Notepad++ and Microsoft Office</strong>: State-sponsored hackers compromised Notepad++'s update infrastructure for six months, delivering backdoored versions to specific targets, mirroring the SolarWinds attack. Simultaneously, the Russia-linked APT28 group is actively exploiting a Microsoft Office zero-day (CVE-2026-21509), targeting Ukrainian government agencies and EU organizations, as reported by CERT-UA. These incidents highlight escalating supply chain risks and the need for robust software update verification and rapid patching. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=diIJMavHg&amp;id=7E37fbDrv" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Microsoft’s AI strategy faces quality control and user backlash</strong>: Microsoft’s Windows is experiencing an increase in emergency patches, with nearly every Patch Tuesday requiring subsequent fixes, coinciding with workforce reductions and claims of 30% AI-generated code, raising quality control concerns. Meanwhile, Microsoft is scaling back aggressive AI integration in Windows 11, reviewing Copilot features and Windows Recall due to significant user backlash, indicating a shift away from forced AI adoption. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=H1aWwdchu&amp;id=mR53bImT0" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI infrastructure spending and enterprise adoption trends</strong>: Microsoft’s stock dropped 10% due to investor concerns over $37.5 billion in AI-related capital expenditure, questioning if AI demand will justify the massive infrastructure investment. Snowflake and ServiceNow are signing multi-year, multi-million dollar deals with both OpenAI and Anthropic, indicating enterprises are adopting a multi-vendor AI strategy rather than relying on a single provider, suggesting a competitive market with multiple winners. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=0PRBbgRZc&amp;id=5t4lXdjSt&amp;id=Vh4SzEb3w&amp;id=QNlzvTu0k" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>Kubernetes checkpoint/restore for pods in development</strong>: A new Kubernetes working group is developing pod checkpoint/restore functionality to improve resource efficiency, enabling faster startup times and better workload redistribution, especially for long-running AI workloads and GPU management. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/niqdXWlmi" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>OpenTelemetry appoints new community managers</strong>: Adriana Villela (Dynatrace) and Reese Lee (New Relic) have been appointed OpenTelemetry community managers, tasked with organizing events, managing social media, and growing the community. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/xafQ1cS0K" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Linux From Scratch drops SysVinit support</strong>: Linux From Scratch (LFS) will become systemd-only starting with version 13.0, due to overwhelming volunteer workload and increasing upstream dependencies on systemd from major desktop environments. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/ohWaYbFxO" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>New developer tools for AI integration and UI development</strong>: New tools like <a href="http://ui.sh" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">ui.sh</a> for AI-assisted UI development, Vibe for lightweight Linux VMs on ARM Macs for LLM agents, and Reposit.bot for sharing AI conversation solutions are emerging to streamline developer workflows. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=FBZjjQkX5&amp;id=XJySsKWNc&amp;id=YD299xQxI" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI enhances non-human identity management and software supply chain security</strong>: AI is being leveraged to enhance non-human identity (NHI) management, which is involved in 68% of IT security incidents, and Chainguard launched Factory 2.0, an AI-powered, self-healing system for software supply chain security. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=4nlzVZMEL&amp;id=oAoGgXAAn&amp;id=vsMZre13v" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Git 2.53 released with Rust support, 1GB THPs for Linux kernel</strong>: Git 2.53 now default-enables Rust support, which will become mandatory in Git 3.0, while experimental Linux kernel patches for 1GB PUD-level Transparent Huge Pages show faster memory access times. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=st4SfbY5r&amp;id=tPbz1g571&amp;id=xWwOyitRt" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>New CPU hardware and Linux support developments</strong>: Intel ISH firmware for Panther Lake processors was upstreamed to the Linux kernel for upcoming Dell XPS laptops, and China’s Loongson 3B6000 processor was benchmarked against AMD Zen 5 and Intel Arrow Lake CPUs. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=DUa6sPBrf&amp;id=QCcJuER8O" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>AI-washing: the new corporate excuse for layoffs</strong>: Apparently, over 50,000 layoffs last year were ‘attributed to AI,’ but a Forrester report suggests many companies are just ‘AI-washing’ their financial woes. It seems blaming AI for job cuts is the new investor-friendly excuse, conveniently masking actual business struggles or pandemic over-hiring. Because, you know, it’s easier to say ‘the robots took our jobs’ than ‘we mismanaged our finances.’ <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/yXHHUa4yo" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Cloudflare’s ‘production-grade’ Matrix server: a masterclass in overclaiming</strong>: Cloudflare proudly announced a ‘production-grade Matrix homeserver’ built on Workers, only for the Matrix co-founder to point out it lacked critical features like federation, authentication, and encryption. Turns out, it was more of a proof-of-concept with unreviewed AI-generated code and ‘TODO’ comments. It’s almost like some companies are more interested in the hype of AI-assisted development than actually delivering functional products. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/Iq2RG6GgT" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Oracle’s 26ai: the AI database nobody asked for</strong>: Oracle just dropped Database 26ai for on-premises Linux, complete with AI Vector Search and other goodies. But with 19c support extended until 2032, industry experts are already rolling their eyes, citing concerns about AI vendor lock-in and unclear release schedules. It’s almost as if Oracle thinks we’re all just champing at the bit to upgrade to their latest ‘AI-optimized’ database, regardless of actual need or cost. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/Ppu6C3s7w" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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