<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>AI code generation: hype vs. reality</strong>: Despite the hype, AI-generated code often compiles but lacks architectural context, leading to poor state management and requiring extensive refactoring, sometimes taking longer than manual implementation. ChatGPT, for instance, has been observed generating non-existent API elements, causing integration failures. A Google engineer’s claim that Claude Code replicated a year’s work in an hour was later clarified as a ‘decent toy version,’ not production-ready, highlighting the significant gap between public perception and practical delivery, as reported by multiple engineering teams. This echoes a recurring pattern where new tools promise to replace developers but instead amplify their capabilities, as noted by Hacker News. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=STWE5tRXe&amp;id=UAphs9F5B&amp;id=euzGVQGzQ&amp;id=gMHZMigM0&amp;id=m6P4U0J0b&amp;id=wCQfiCXDa&amp;id=DSeK6EEPJ&amp;id=Pz4PcNq4F" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Major AI model updates and strategic partnerships</strong>: Anthropic released Claude Co-work, a desktop automation tool, while Google introduced Personal Intelligence for Gemini, integrating its ecosystem for contextual responses. OpenAI quietly added a translation feature supporting over 50 languages. In a significant move, Apple announced a multi-year agreement to use Google’s Gemini models in Siri for complex queries, signaling major cross-company AI collaboration. Meanwhile, OpenAI’s GPT-5.2-Codex is now available in the Responses API, offering enhanced capabilities for complex software engineering tasks, including building features, refactoring code, and identifying codebase vulnerabilities, as announced by OpenAI developers on X. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=3e5iSak1o&amp;id=lZuQnCdnA" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>NVIDIA pushes local AI with new GPUs and software</strong>: NVIDIA announced DLSS 4.5 with Dynamic Multi Frame Generation, boosting gaming performance on RTX 50 Series GPUs, and introduced G-SYNC Pulsar monitors. For AI, NVIDIA unveiled DGX Spark and DGX Station, deskside AI supercomputers powered by Grace Blackwell architecture, enabling local execution of large-scale AI models. These systems, along with upgrades to RTX AI PCs, offer significant performance improvements for workflows involving ComfyUI, LTX-2, and llama.cpp, emphasizing enhanced privacy and lower latency by performing generative AI locally, according to NVIDIA’s announcements. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=jXjzYY9vI&amp;id=1q51Gs3MM&amp;id=JItr1KihQ&amp;id=bXoqeH8eP" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>LLMOps course focuses on production challenges</strong>: A new LLMOps course emphasizes strategies for configuring and orchestrating large language models in production, covering decoding, generation parameter tuning, lifecycle management, and evaluation system design, with practical code demonstrations for cost optimization, hallucination reduction, and latency management. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/1q51Gs3MM" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI agents: APIs in disguise?</strong>: Multiple sources suggest that ‘AI agents’ are largely a rebranding of existing API-centric automation, driven by investment cycles rather than genuine technical breakthroughs, with real advancements focusing on machine-readable APIs and semantic infrastructure. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=4rJ96gwiU&amp;id=6IAZSWIz1&amp;id=6XeVWOBXO&amp;id=77jDjhI5C&amp;id=sH4hATTfN" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Black Basta ransomware leader added to most wanted list</strong>: Ukrainian and German authorities have identified Oleg Nefedov as the alleged leader of the Black Basta ransomware group, adding him to the EU Most Wanted list and an INTERPOL Red Notice, following a leak of internal chat logs in early 2025. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/O0PAVFWl9" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Pulumi adds native Terraform and HCL support</strong>: Pulumi now natively supports Terraform and HCL, allowing direct HCL execution and Terraform state management within Pulumi Cloud, with a private beta currently underway and general availability expected in Q1 2026. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/brDXTtnxJ" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI-powered accelerator assistant at Berkeley Lab</strong>: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is using an AI-powered Accelerator Assistant, running on NVIDIA H100 GPUs, to autonomously troubleshoot and manage their Advanced Light Source particle accelerator, reducing setup time by 100x. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/ZzMUF9PNc" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>RCE exploit found for Redis vulnerability</strong>: JFrog researchers discovered a remote code execution (RCE) exploit for CVE-2025-62507, a stack buffer overflow vulnerability in Redis databases, emphasizing the shrinking window between vulnerability disclosure and active exploitation. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/WxRVVmFMH" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Rails updates include error-aware retries and PostgreSQL mappings</strong>: Recent Rails framework updates feature error-aware retry strategies in ActiveJob, improved CSRF protection, removal of deprecated X-XSS-Protection, and a new public API for PostgreSQL custom type mappings. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/LkAtCVwbE" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>Mandiant’s NTLMv1 rainbow tables: a public service or a publicity stunt?</strong>: Mandiant just dropped a full set of rainbow tables for Net-NTLMv1, a protocol Microsoft deprecated over two decades ago, claiming it’s to ‘accelerate deprecation.’ They’re hosting it on Google Cloud, making it accessible with consumer hardware. So, after 20 years of everyone ignoring Microsoft’s warnings, Mandiant thinks a public shaming will finally get people to update? Or maybe it’s just a clever way to remind everyone they exist and are still relevant in the security world. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/2q2phjvWS" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI agents: the ‘digital factory’ of tiny, cheap models</strong>: Apparently, large language models are ‘economically unsustainable’ because they’re too expensive. The new hotness is a ‘digital factory’ of ‘specialized Small Language Models’ that are ‘significantly smaller and cheaper’ and can ‘outperform’ the big ones. This sounds suspiciously like someone just rediscovered microservices and decided to slap ‘AI’ on it to get more funding. Bold claims of ‘democratizing AI’ and ‘reducing operational costs by several orders of magnitude’ are presented, naturally, without any actual empirical deployment cases. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=J1BKrq2u6&amp;id=J1IZlkzNv&amp;id=Yuaq0Gyje&amp;id=dliP781v1" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>MITRE ATT&amp;CK evaluations: ‘vendor theater’ or genuine security improvement?</strong>: Microsoft, SentinelOne, and Palo Alto Networks have all bailed on the 2025 MITRE ATT&amp;CK Evaluations, citing ‘resource prioritization for product development.’ MITRE’s CTO admits the tests got ‘more demanding,’ which is a polite way of saying they got too real for some. Industry experts are now calling the whole process ‘vendor theater,’ suggesting it’s more about PR than actual security. So, are these companies prioritizing innovation, or just avoiding a public performance they might not ace? <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=c0ZYfkcgP&amp;id=hu11lcW1J" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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