<h2>Must know</h2>
<ul>
<li><strong>AI agents are here, but so are the headaches</strong>: AI agents are now capable of complex research and report generation, boosting productivity significantly. However, this comes with a catch: ‘AI agent psychosis’ – erratic behavior in production that erodes trust, as highlighted by Changelog News. <a href="http://Monday.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Monday.com</a>, for instance, tackled LLM hallucinations in their Slack bot by pre-computing statistics server-side and integrating human-in-the-loop approvals, demonstrating that while AI agents are powerful, they demand robust engineering and oversight to be reliable. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=AJzG7x8FZ&amp;id=AS53pzdrZ&amp;id=ATZPMmQn8" 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), has been found in AMD Zen 1–5 CPUs, including EPYC 7003, 8004, 9004, and 9005 series. This flaw allows privileged attackers to bypass SEV-SNP protections, which were supposed to secure confidential virtual machines, by manipulating the CPU stack engine. AMD has released microcode updates, but additional firmware patches are still coming in April 2026, reminding us that even hardware-level security isn’t foolproof. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/9DURDnZX3" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>GitLab 18.8 brings AI orchestration to DevOps</strong>: GitLab 18.8 is out, and the big news is the general availability of the Duo Agent Platform. This platform lets you orchestrate AI agents throughout your software development lifecycle, from planning with the Planner Agent to vulnerability triage with the Security Analyst Agent. It even includes a Central AI Catalog for managing these agents, pushing further into AI-driven automation for DevOps pipelines. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/R9WyVAVPv" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
</ul>
<h2>Good to know</h2>
<ul>
<li><strong>AI coding tools are changing developer roles</strong>: AI coding tools like Cursor and Copilot are reshaping development, with some developers seeing productivity boosts while others, particularly experienced open-source contributors, find minimal gains and increased verification work. <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>Kubernetes is eating big data processing</strong>: Pinterest has successfully migrated its massive data processing from Hadoop to a Kubernetes-based platform called Moka, running on Amazon EKS with Apache Spark, showcasing a significant industry shift towards Kubernetes as the control plane for data workloads. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/YFV8rOL2r" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Microsoft open-sources XAML Studio</strong>: Microsoft has open-sourced XAML Studio under the .NET Foundation, aiming to foster community contributions for this lightweight prototyping tool, with version 2.0 featuring a redesigned UI and deeper WinUI 3 integration. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/hUJrXK08w" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Malicious Chrome extensions steal enterprise tokens</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>Windows 11 23H2 emergency patch for shutdown and RDP bugs</strong>: Microsoft released an emergency update (KB5077797) for Windows 11 version 23H2 to fix critical bugs preventing proper shutdown/restart and causing persistent credential prompts for Remote Desktop users. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/u2UYa6XNM" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>jQuery 4.0.0 modernizes for its 20th anniversary</strong>: jQuery 4.0.0 has been released, marking its 20th anniversary with a focus on removing deprecated features, dropping old browser support, and rewriting the codebase as ES modules, significantly reducing its size. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=5SOCKxGlX&amp;id=dThF1vPz2" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Intel boosts LLM support on Arc Graphics</strong>: Intel updated LLM-Scaler-Omni to improve support for ComfyUI and SGLang on Intel Arc Graphics, enhancing its capabilities for image, voice, and video generation in both Omni Studio and Omni Serving modes. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/XBX3pzO5M" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
</ul>
<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
<ul>
<li><strong>AI security market projections: because every gold rush needs a pickaxe seller</strong>: Venture capitalists are now projecting the AI security market to hit $800 billion to $1.2 trillion by 2031. Apparently, the solution to AI agents attempting blackmail (yes, that happened) is to throw trillions at ‘AI security’ startups like Witness AI. It’s almost as if the industry is realizing that building autonomous systems without proper guardrails might have consequences, and now everyone wants a piece of the ‘fix it’ pie. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=2XMeIQvIr&amp;id=6gbkOathj" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Ubisoft’s ‘voluntary’ departure and the non-compete dance</strong>: Marc-Alexis Côté, former Assassin’s Creed lead, is suing Ubisoft for $1.3 million, claiming ‘constructive dismissal’ after being offered diminished roles at a Tencent-backed subsidiary. Ubisoft, of course, says he left ‘voluntarily.’ It’s a classic corporate tango: push someone out, call it voluntary, and then try to enforce a non-compete. Because nothing says ‘valued employee’ like a lawsuit over a demotion and a restrictive clause. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/LIV91KSqU" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Adobe on Linux: still a pipe dream, but hey, the installer works!</strong>: An independent developer managed to patch Wine to get Adobe Creative Cloud installers running on Linux. Great! Now you can install Photoshop 2021 and 2025. The actual applications? Still a ‘separate technical challenge.’ So, while Adobe continues its long-standing tradition of ignoring Linux users, at least we can now successfully install software that probably won’t run properly. Progress! <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/DXPhQzFTp" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
</ul>
