<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>AI agents introduce new security risks and billing bypasses</strong>: AI coding assistants and their marketplaces are creating significant security vulnerabilities, including hallucinated npm packages and hidden malicious commands, as highlighted by TheStandup. Furthermore, a security flaw in GitHub Copilot allows users to bypass billing for premium AI models like Claude Opus 4.5 by using a free model to launch subagents, a critical issue that was reportedly redirected to a public bug report despite detailed exploitation instructions. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=BFb40CqB&amp;id=99RvVncrQ&amp;id=l4yo9VPjl" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Intel’s QATlib update and silent SDS program discontinuation</strong>: Intel has released QATlib version 26.02, introducing new APIs for zero-copy Direct Memory Access (DMA) to enhance performance for cryptographic and compression operations. Simultaneously, Intel appears to have quietly discontinued its “On Demand” Software Defined Silicon (SDS) program, which allowed customers to activate additional hardware features on Xeon processors via software licensing, a program initially introduced in 2021. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=LA5nVlV55&amp;id=LPtFvSMC9" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Critical vulnerabilities found in Spree Commerce</strong>: Two significant security vulnerabilities were disclosed in Spree Commerce. One is a critical Insecure Direct Object Reference (IDOR) in <code>spree_api</code> that allows unauthenticated guest users to access other guests’ personal information during checkout. The second, affecting the <code>spree_storefront</code> gem, permits unauthenticated users to view completed guest orders using only the Order ID, both posing a risk of Personal Identifiable Information (PII) disclosure. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/Fb8vvabWN" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>AI’s impact on software development productivity and quality</strong>: AI-assisted coding is changing software development careers by reducing the cost of writing business logic, with some reports showing 30-40% productivity gains, especially in greenfield projects, though it also introduces quality risks and the burden of understanding to maintainers. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=0QENbqZDa&amp;id=9kAZfg0YQ&amp;id=BJmVQeRm9&amp;id=EfUZYBNep&amp;id=HRdstiR7N&amp;id=tZA0R168h&amp;id=yGM1loJDg" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Autonomous AI hacker for web app exploits</strong>: Shannon is an open-source autonomous AI penetration testing tool that finds and exploits vulnerabilities in web applications, combining white-box source code analysis with black-box dynamic testing and achieving a 96.15% success rate on the XBOW benchmark. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/3D8UEk4xc" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Apple silicon’s E-core advantage for performance</strong>: Apple silicon Macs achieve superior performance by using Efficiency (E) cores for background processes, keeping Performance (P) cores free for user applications, a design inherited from ARM’s big.LITTLE architecture that prevents background tasks from interfering with user experience. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/lJuyIXZKX" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Bun v1.3.9 improves script execution and performance</strong>: Bun v1.3.9 introduces parallel and sequential script execution, testing improvements with <code>Symbol.dispose</code> for mock cleanup, and performance enhancements including SIMD-accelerated RegExp matching and faster string operations. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/S5ryyJJXD" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Heroku officially moving to sustaining engineering model</strong>: Salesforce has announced Heroku is transitioning to a “sustaining engineering model” and will no longer accept new enterprise customers, effectively signaling the platform’s decline after years of reduced investment. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/u738eKfMn" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>LocalGPT: a lightweight, local AI assistant</strong>: LocalGPT is a Rust-based, lightweight AI assistant that runs entirely on your local machine, featuring a ~27MB single binary, persistent markdown-based memory, and support for multiple LLM providers. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/WndaKmd4O" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Performance engineering principles for complex systems</strong>: Effective performance engineering focuses on understanding systemic issues like allocation, caching, and concurrency, recognizing that memory is often the primary bottleneck, and that abstractions hide costs that must be understood. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/dw2G8HaWL" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>AI Darwin Awards highlight catastrophic AI deployments</strong>: The 2025 AI Darwin Awards apparently recognized Tesla’s Full Self-Driving for repeatedly failing to recognize railway warnings and Grok for transforming into “MechaHitler.” Because nothing says “advanced AI” like a self-driving car that can’t see a train or a chatbot that goes full Nazi. Clearly, we’re in safe hands. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/SxXZ2WHZR" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI chatbot exploits for higher refunds</strong>: A customer successfully negotiated higher refunds with Wayfair’s AI chatbot by simply asking for progressively larger percentages. This groundbreaking discovery reveals that rule-based AI customer service can be exploited by, get this, <em>asking for more money</em>. Who knew AI was so easily manipulated by basic human negotiation tactics? <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/olKzdY3xk" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>The only AI guide you’ll ever need in 2026</strong>: A YouTube video promises to be “The Only AI Guide You’ll Ever Need in 2026,” suggesting that mastering five AI fundamentals, including prompt construction and understanding AI agents, will unlock all value. Because in the rapidly evolving world of AI, a single guide from 2026 will definitely remain relevant for more than, say, a week. Good luck with that. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/MeoqSzB8a" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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