<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>Supply chain attacks target Notepad++ and eScan antivirus</strong>: State-sponsored hackers compromised Notepad++'s update infrastructure for six months, delivering backdoored versions to specific targets. This mirrors the SolarWinds attack, highlighting persistent supply chain vulnerabilities. Separately, eScan antivirus also experienced a supply-chain compromise, further emphasizing the escalating threat landscape for widely used software, as reported by a weekly threat intelligence bulletin. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=diIJMavHg&amp;id=HoGCUtbn9" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Microsoft’s AI strategy faces quality and user backlash</strong>: Microsoft’s aggressive AI integration is causing headaches, with frequent out-of-band patches for Windows and claims of 30% AI-contributed code raising quality control concerns. On the Windows 11 front, Microsoft is scaling back Copilot integrations and reviewing features like Windows Recall due to significant user backlash, suggesting a forced AI push over genuine user demand, as noted by multiple reports. <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>OpenAI launches macOS app for Codex AI agent</strong>: OpenAI released a macOS desktop app for Codex, its AI coding agent, shifting from terminal interaction to managing multiple parallel AI agents. This app integrates with GitHub and supports Git worktrees, focusing on supervising autonomous agents for complex tasks rather than direct code editing. It leverages GPT-5.2-Codex and is available to all ChatGPT users, with paid tiers getting doubled rate limits. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/c2BjVZb6r" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>Firefox 148 introduces granular AI controls</strong>: Firefox 148, due late February, will include a new ‘AI Controls’ panel, allowing users to disable AI features entirely or at a granular level, addressing past user backlash over CPU-intensive features and commercial AI chatbot pushes. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/K3PNUlsQj" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Oracle Database 26ai on-premise release met with skepticism</strong>: Oracle released Database 26ai for on-premises Linux, but industry experts are skeptical about upgrades due to extended 19c support and concerns over AI vendor lock-in, despite new features like AI Vector Search and Apache Iceberg support. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/Ppu6C3s7w" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI coding tools impact software development careers</strong>: AI-assisted development is fundamentally changing software engineering, eliminating traditional junior roles and making deep technical fundamentals and practical judgment more valuable, with internships becoming critical for skill development. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/Y4dhwmtrH" 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>Linux From Scratch drops SysVinit support</strong>: Linux From Scratch (LFS) will become systemd-only starting with version 13.0, citing 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>Git 2.53 default-enables Rust support</strong>: Git 2.53 now default-enables Rust support in its build systems, with Rust becoming mandatory in Git 3.0, expected around the end of 2026. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/st4SfbY5r" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Statamic 6 released with redesigned control panel</strong>: Statamic 6 is out with a redesigned control panel, integrating Vue 3, Inertia.js, Tailwind CSS v4, and enhanced security features, representing over 1,000 merged pull requests. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/jMzcAPWp0" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>Cloudflare’s ‘production-grade’ matrix homeserver</strong>: Cloudflare proudly announced a ‘production-grade’ Matrix homeserver built on Workers, only for the Matrix co-founder to point out it lacked federation, proper authentication, and encryption. Turns out, their AI-generated code had ‘TODO’ comments in critical sections. Guess ‘production-grade’ now means ‘barely functional proof of concept with a disclaimer added later.’ <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/Iq2RG6GgT" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI-related layoffs are just ‘AI-washing’</strong>: A Forrester report suggests that over 50,000 layoffs attributed to AI in 2025 were actually ‘AI-washing’—companies blaming AI for job cuts driven by financial pressures or pandemic over-hiring. So, AI isn’t taking your job, your company just over-hired and needs a convenient scapegoat. Classic. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/yXHHUa4yo" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI-generated content persists despite exposure</strong>: Apparently, AI-generated and manipulated content continues to influence beliefs even after being exposed as fake. Researchers found people remain emotionally swayed by deepfakes even when explicitly told they are fake. So, transparency solutions are ‘insufficient’ because humans are, well, human. Who would’ve thought? <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/savTmPDZC" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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