<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>Notepad++ update infrastructure compromised</strong>: Suspected Chinese state-sponsored hackers compromised the Notepad++ update infrastructure from June to December 2025, delivering backdoored versions to specific targets. This supply chain attack, reminiscent of SolarWinds, exploited a shared hosting vulnerability, leading Notepad++ to release hardened versions and migrate to a new provider. Users are urged to update and remove previously installed self-signed root certificates. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/diIJMavHg" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Microsoft Windows emergency patches increase</strong>: Microsoft released two out-of-band emergency patches in early 2026, continuing a trend where nearly every Patch Tuesday requires subsequent fixes. This increasing frequency of emergency updates, coupled with Microsoft’s workforce reductions and claims of 30% AI-contributed code, raises significant concerns about quality control and forces system administrators to choose between delaying critical security or risking productivity with broken updates. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/H1aWwdchu" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI coding tools impact software development</strong>: AI coding assistants boost code production speed by 55% but shift the bottleneck to verification, increasing review times by 91% in high-AI-usage teams. This leads to higher code churn and less refactoring, demanding deterministic guardrails like specification-driven development and automated quality gates that treat AI-generated code as untrusted by default. Success with AI now requires significant investment in review capacity and maintaining human oversight for critical code paths. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/KYToiOjQs" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>OpenAI launches macOS app for Codex AI agent</strong>: OpenAI released a macOS desktop app for Codex, its AI coding agent, shifting focus to managing multiple parallel AI agents for complex, long-running tasks, integrating with GitHub and supporting Git worktrees. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/c2BjVZb6r" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Snowflake and OpenAI partner for enterprise AI</strong>: Snowflake and OpenAI announced a $200 million partnership to integrate OpenAI models directly into Snowflake Cortex AI, allowing users to query and process enterprise data with natural language. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/QNlzvTu0k" 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</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>AWS enhances services with new features</strong>: AWS HealthImaging now supports JPEG XL for medical images, Amazon Connect introduced APIs for automated contact center testing, and AWS Network Firewall offers flexible cost allocation via Transit Gateway attachments in GovCloud. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=AlDvfa64l&amp;id=IXQflAT6d&amp;id=LWsmZj1tc" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>JSE migrates to AWS cloud</strong>: The Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) is migrating its technology infrastructure from on-premises to AWS cloud, partnering with Nasdaq to modernize its market while maintaining low-latency trading and strict regulatory compliance. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/QLPhKI9aL" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Tinybird helps Fever with real-time reporting</strong>: Fever, a live entertainment platform, replaced its struggling real-time reporting pipeline with Tinybird, achieving stable latency during peak loads and enabling partner-facing APIs by leveraging managed Kafka connectors and git-based workflows. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/6W3A4YpCO" 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 for layoffs is the new corporate excuse</strong>: A Forrester report claims over 50,000 layoffs in 2025 were attributed to AI, but many companies are just ‘AI-washing’—blaming AI for job cuts actually driven by financial pressures or pandemic over-hiring. So, next time your company blames AI for downsizing, remember it’s probably just good old-fashioned business struggles dressed up in a shiny new tech excuse. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/yXHHUa4yo" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Cloudflare’s ‘production-grade’ matrix homeserver was just AI-generated vaporware</strong>: Cloudflare proudly announced a ‘production-grade’ Matrix homeserver built on Workers, only for Matrix’s co-founder to point out it lacked basic features like federation, authentication, and encryption. Turns out, it was mostly unreviewed, AI-generated code with ‘TODO’ comments in critical sections. They later added a disclaimer, reclassifying it as a ‘proof of concept.’ Classic move: hype first, apologize later. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/Iq2RG6GgT" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Oracle’s 26ai on-premise release met with a resounding ‘meh’</strong>: Oracle just dropped Database 26ai Enterprise Edition for on-premises, and the industry’s response is a collective shrug. With 19c supported until 2032, users are rightly skeptical about upgrading, fearing AI vendor lock-in and unclear release schedules. Apparently, adding AI Vector Search and JSON Relational Duality isn’t enough to overcome years of Oracle’s ‘innovative’ pricing and support practices. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/Ppu6C3s7w" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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