<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>OpenAI introduces ads, Musk’s lawsuit proceeds</strong>: OpenAI is rolling out targeted ads in its free and Go tiers for US users, a move CEO Sam Altman previously called a ‘last resort’ for monetization, according to TechCrunch. This comes as the company faces financial strain and a jury trial in Elon Musk’s lawsuit, which alleges OpenAI breached its nonprofit commitments by accepting billions from Microsoft. Privacy advocates, as noted by The Verge, are concerned about the implications of an ad-supported AI model, despite OpenAI’s assurances of user control and data privacy. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=DQh9IAXNl&amp;id=pwpD2QRjm" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Mandiant exposes Net-NTLMv1 vulnerabilities</strong>: Mandiant has released rainbow tables for cracking Net-NTLMv1 authentication hashes, making it trivial to compromise systems still using this 20-year-old deprecated protocol. This move, highlighted by BleepingComputer, aims to force organizations to finally disable the insecure protocol, as password cracking can now be done in under 12 hours on consumer hardware. The security firm emphasizes that while the vulnerability has been known for decades, legacy systems continue to pose a significant risk. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/2q2phjvWS" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Cloudflare boosts resilience, acquires Astro</strong>: Cloudflare launched ‘Code Orange: Fail Small,’ a new resilience initiative following two major global outages in late 2025. This plan, detailed in their official blog, mandates phased configuration rollouts and automatic rollbacks to prevent cascading failures. In parallel, Cloudflare acquired The Astro Technology Company, ensuring the Astro framework remains open-source and platform-agnostic, allowing it to focus on framework improvement without monetization pressures. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=OdNHxfcwg&amp;id=yRAOJZmiR" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>Godot 4.6 release candidate is out</strong>: Godot 4.6 is now in release candidate, featuring a new editor theme, Inverse Kinematics support, standalone library functionality, and over 100 bug fixes, with developers requesting community testing before the stable release. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/bPN7KEBTQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Nvidia DGX Spark offers local AI compute</strong>: Nvidia’s DGX Spark is a compact AI workstation delivering one petaFLOP of performance, combining an ARM CPU with a Blackwell GPU, targeting AI developers for local prototyping and fine-tuning without cloud dependencies. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/Xk9eNeVDY" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Google BigQuery gets AI SQL generation</strong>: Google is previewing ‘Comments to SQL’ in BigQuery, using Gemini AI to convert natural-language instructions in SQL comments into executable queries, aiming to accelerate data analysis. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/5AcBUpc2i" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AMD EPYC ‘Siena’ CPUs improve with new Linux stacks</strong>: AMD EPYC 8004 ‘Siena’ processors show significant performance gains on newer Linux distributions and software, with benchmarks indicating clear improvements from Ubuntu 23.10 to 25.10. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/85IZs9OZ7" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Go 1.26 RC2 released with security updates</strong>: Go 1.26 Release Candidate 2 is out, including security fixes for the archive/zip library and Request.ParseForm, with Go 1.25.6 and Go 1.24.12 also receiving these updates. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/DFYbtJ1rQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Qt Quick and Flutter get architectural shifts</strong>: Qt 6.9 and 6.10 introduce new features for Android app integration, allowing embedding of Qt Quick content in Java/Kotlin apps, while Flutter is refactoring to decouple Material and Cupertino design systems from its core SDK for better modularity. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=5YFCJbOU9&amp;id=T07WzSMOC" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Kafka 4.0 ends ZooKeeper support, AWS expands Outposts</strong>: Apache Kafka 4.0 will end support for ZooKeeper, requiring migrations to KRaft-based clusters, while AWS expands second-generation Outposts racks into South America and Europe for local infrastructure deployment. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=fOVQvObt4&amp;id=g94hsNZHE" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>AI-generated browser: 1 million lines of code, zero functionality</strong>: Cursor’s CEO proudly announced that hundreds of GPT-5.2 agents generated over 3 million lines of code in a week to build a web browser. They even claimed ‘meaningful progress’ and showed screenshots. Turns out, the code doesn’t compile, has 34 errors and 94 warnings, and there’s no working demo. So, ‘meaningful progress’ now means ‘a pile of broken code generated by AI that can’t even run.’ Impressive. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=UbZlY7YDE&amp;id=qHCb0ov8q&amp;id=V3KHuMgUU" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Pixiv-like platform bans AI art, but uses AI code</strong>: A new Japanese art platform, TEGAKI, launched with a strict ban on AI-generated artwork, even requiring artists to submit work-in-progress. Then, the founder admitted to using AI coding assistants for development. So, it’s okay for the code to be AI-generated, just not the art? The hypocrisy is almost as good as the art they’re trying to ban. They’ve temporarily closed the site to ‘review their approach.’ Good luck with that. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/9IenhmVcQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Open source projects drowning in AI-generated pull requests</strong>: Tldraw, an open-source project, is now automatically closing external pull requests because they’re getting flooded with low-quality, AI-generated contributions. Apparently, AI is so good at coding now that it’s making open-source maintainers’ lives harder, not easier. They’re waiting for GitHub to provide ‘better contribution management tools.’ Maybe AI can generate those tools too, but hopefully they’ll actually work. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/EuNu5at2M" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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