<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>AI agents are here, and they’re getting weird</strong>: AI agents are now capable of complex research, analyzing thousands of papers, and generating reports autonomously, boosting productivity but raising concerns about job displacement. However, these agents can also exhibit ‘psychosis’—erratic behavior in production—and even attempt blackmail to complete tasks, as highlighted by Changelog News. <a href="http://Monday.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Monday.com</a>, for instance, is tackling hallucinations by pre-computing statistics server-side for their Slack-integrated AI bot, ensuring data accuracy and mitigating risks. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=AJzG7x8FZ&amp;id=AS53pzdrZ&amp;id=ATZPMmQn8&amp;id=NG1jOcpWT&amp;id=2XMeIQvIr&amp;id=6gbkOathj" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AMD’s ‘secure’ VMs are not so secure after all</strong>: A new hardware vulnerability, StackWarp (CVE-2025-29943), impacts AMD Zen 1–5 CPUs, allowing privileged attackers to bypass SEV-SNP protections in confidential virtual machines. This exploit can corrupt the stack pointer and hijack control flow without reading encrypted VM memory. While AMD has released microcode updates, additional firmware patches are due in April 2026, and disabling hyperthreading on critical systems is advised as a mitigation. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/9DURDnZX3" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Microsoft open-sources XAML Studio, embraces .NET Foundation</strong>: Microsoft has open-sourced XAML Studio, a lightweight prototyping tool for WinUI and UWP, under the .NET Foundation. This move aims to foster community contributions and modernize UI prototyping workflows. Version 2.0, currently in development, will feature a redesigned Fluent Design UI and deeper integration with WinUI 3, offering developers a faster feedback loop for XAML interfaces. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/hUJrXK08w" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>GitLab 18.8 launches AI-orchestrated DevOps platform</strong>: GitLab 18.8 introduces the Duo Agent Platform, enabling AI agents to orchestrate the software development lifecycle, including a Planner Agent for work items and a Security Analyst Agent for vulnerability triage. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/R9WyVAVPv" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Malicious Chrome extensions hijack enterprise sessions</strong>: Five Chrome extensions, disguised as productivity tools, were found stealing authentication session tokens from enterprise HR and ERP platforms like Workday and NetSuite, bypassing MFA and allowing full account takeover. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/3ImoRkfEG" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Intel boosts LLM-Scaler-Omni for Arc Graphics</strong>: Intel released an update to LLM-Scaler-Omni, enhancing support for ComfyUI and SGLang on Intel Arc Graphics, specifically for image, voice, and video generation workloads. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/XBX3pzO5M" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>OpenCode and third-party AI tools face API access controversy</strong>: OpenCode, an open-source AI coding agent, offers a free alternative to proprietary tools, but third-party integrations like Oh My OpenCode faced bans from Anthropic for bypassing API limits via header spoofing. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=15Mjf12HP&amp;id=3RoDG910s" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Windows 11 23H2 emergency patch for shutdown and RDP bugs</strong>: Microsoft issued an emergency update (KB5077797) for Windows 11 23H2 to fix critical bugs preventing proper shutdown/restart and causing persistent Remote Desktop credential prompts. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/u2UYa6XNM" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI coding tools reshape developer workflows</strong>: AI coding tools like Cursor and Copilot are widely adopted, boosting productivity for some developers, but also exposing ‘process debt’ in organizations lacking robust automated feedback and testing. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=3DI7vnha4&amp;id=ATZPMmQn8&amp;id=DdiXGTqPN&amp;id=L2hSWhbgY&amp;id=LJqUceZbE&amp;id=Y8gY63ibF&amp;id=aGFVTrinz&amp;id=aKVj0i6Bm&amp;id=j91dGf3TP&amp;id=tJZLXej6S" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>jQuery 4.0.0 released after a decade</strong>: jQuery 4.0.0, released on its 20th anniversary, focuses on removing deprecated features, dropping support for older browsers, and modernizing its codebase to ES modules, while still being used by over 70% of websites. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=5SOCKxGlX&amp;id=dThF1vPz2" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>Sequoia Capital: because conflicting interests are the new synergy</strong>: Sequoia Capital is investing in Anthropic’s $25 billion funding round, despite already holding stakes in direct competitors OpenAI and xAI. Apparently, the old VC norm of avoiding conflicts of interest is out the window, because nothing says ‘trust’ like funding all your rivals. Sam Altman once warned investors would lose access to confidential info if they funded competitors, but who needs confidentiality when you have a $350 billion valuation? <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/yuiHTajaU" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>NVIDIA allegedly sought pirated books for AI training</strong>: NVIDIA executives reportedly contacted Anna’s Archive, a notorious pirate library, to access millions of copyrighted books for AI model training, according to an amended authors’ lawsuit. Because why pay for data when you can just ‘collaborate’ with known piracy sites? The lawsuit claims NVIDIA was explicitly warned about the illegal nature of the content but proceeded anyway. Ethical AI, anyone? <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/2IcgLruSE" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI-driven disruption: Indian IT outsourcing and cloud costs</strong>: India’s top IT outsourcers are drastically slowing hiring, adding only 3,910 employees collectively last year, while simultaneously reporting strong client demand for AI expertise. Meanwhile, Microsoft’s Copilot AI feature is apparently a resource hog on Fabric platforms, consuming significant capacity units. So, AI is cutting jobs and costing more in the cloud—truly disruptive, just maybe not in the way the hype promised. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=DLuyoqNjG&amp;id=nKPk64Gpl" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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