<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>Kubernetes ingress NGINX is getting archived</strong>: The Kubernetes Ingress NGINX project, used by about half of cloud-native environments, will stop receiving security patches in March 2026. This is due to maintainer burnout and a push from Kubernetes leadership to deprecate it faster than maintainers wanted, despite offers of help. This situation highlights the ongoing challenges of open-source sustainability and means you’ll need to migrate to alternatives like Gateway API, Envoy Gateway, Traefik, or Cilium, which isn’t a straightforward task given custom annotations, as reported by DevClass and CNCF. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=wK9Dxbori&amp;id=PptBbhnAu" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>SpaceX acquires xAI and plans orbital data centers</strong>: SpaceX has acquired xAI in a deal valued at $250 billion, with plans to build AI data centers in space powered by solar energy. Elon Musk claims this will reduce AI computing costs and enable 100 gigawatts of AI capacity annually via Starship rockets. This consolidation merges Grok, X, Starlink, and SpaceX, but raises concerns about oversight, ethics, and national security, especially as xAI is reportedly burning $1 billion monthly, creating a revenue loop where SpaceX launches data center satellites that need replacement every five years. This is a wild ride, as covered by multiple sources. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=wMYF638eZ&amp;id=n9USqOv7M&amp;id=pLhaR2CaL" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Linux kernel formalizes succession plan for Linus Torvalds</strong>: The Linux kernel project has finally formalized a succession plan for Linus Torvalds, merging a continuity document into kernel documentation. This addresses concerns about the aging maintainer community and ensures the project’s long-term sustainability. If Torvalds or key maintainers become unavailable, a designated person will convene kernel maintainers and the Linux Foundation TAB to communicate a plan within two weeks. This is the first formal process in the kernel’s 30+ year history, tackling the ‘bus factor’ risk for this critical open-source project. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/vAKZlS9Qz" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>Rust-based OS for secure IoT devices</strong>: Ariel OS is a new Rust-based operating system designed for secure, memory-safe, low-power IoT devices, integrating existing Embedded Rust ecosystem projects like Embassy and esp-hal. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/eCviEdJvc" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Deno Deploy goes GA, Deno Sandbox launches</strong>: Deno Deploy is now generally available with Node.js framework support, integrated serverless PostgreSQL, and OpenTelemetry observability, while Deno Sandbox offers instant Linux microVMs for running untrusted code with hypervisor-level isolation. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/Jmdw76tdu" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI agents in CI/CD security: risks and mitigation</strong>: AI agents are moving into CI/CD pipelines for threat modeling and self-healing, but introduce new risks like prompt injection and excessive privileges, requiring sandboxed runners, policy-as-code, and human-in-the-loop workflows. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/ERjZhsaaZ" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Open-source IaC platform Formae expands multi-cloud support</strong>: Platform Engineering Labs’ open-source IaC platform, Formae, now supports Google Cloud, Azure, Oracle Cloud, and OVHcloud, alongside AWS, and released a Plugin SDK for custom extensions, positioning itself as a Terraform alternative with improved state management. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/bqzmDPKsL" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Snowflake integrates PostgreSQL and new data integration</strong>: Snowflake launched a PostgreSQL database-as-a-service within its AI Data Cloud for transactional workloads and introduced Openflow, a plug-and-play data integration solution to eliminate external ETL tools. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=ppuh0CVeq&amp;id=qgdGrzKKG" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Linux kernel removes SMC TCP ULP support</strong>: The Linux kernel is removing SMC TCP ULP support after four years due to ‘fundamental design flaws’ that violated VFS invariants and created use-after-free risks, recommending alternatives like LD_PRELOAD and BPF. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/r5M1zUGS5" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>New terminal UI tool ‘Overitall’ released</strong>: Overitall (oit) is a new terminal UI tool combining process management with advanced log viewing, offering interactive filtering, trace detection, and AI assistant integration for automated log analysis. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/DkhXBDdU9" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>AI coding assistants are secretly transmitting your code to China</strong>: A security report from Schneier on Security claims two popular AI coding assistants, used by 1.5 million developers, are secretly transmitting ingested code to servers in China. Apparently, this is for ‘intellectual property theft,’ not just ‘improving the model.’ So, while you’re busy ‘10x-ing’ your productivity, your code might be taking an unscheduled trip to the Far East. Maybe stick to Copilot, or, you know, actually write your own code. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/puWFcrOO1" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>ICE’s AI recruitment system: a masterclass in incompetence</strong>: ICE deployed an AI recruitment tool that misclassified hundreds of applicants based on the word ‘officer’ in résumés, failing to distinguish between compliance, loan, and law enforcement roles. This brilliant piece of AI then routed about 200 undertrained recruits into field positions with only four weeks of online training instead of the standard eight. It’s almost as if throwing AI at a problem without proper oversight just creates new, more spectacular ways to screw up, earning it a well-deserved ‘2026 AI Darwin Award.’ <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/DvZkOI31r" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>OpenClaw: the influencer-hyped security nightmare</strong>: OpenClaw, an AI agent project, somehow racked up 60,000 GitHub stars in 72 hours, thanks to ‘coordinated influencer promotion.’ Security researchers, however, quickly found critical vulnerabilities like data exfiltration and prompt injection, along with a database breach affecting 1.49 million records. It seems bundling existing npm packages with browser session hacking for messaging platforms creates a ‘single point of failure with full system access.’ Who could have possibly seen that coming? But hey, it was popular on GitHub for a hot minute! <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/fuL6WfKHt" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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