<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>AI coding assistants: the good, the bad, and the ugly</strong>: AI coding tools are a mixed bag. While some users report 10-100x productivity gains for well-defined tasks, others, like Ruby on Rails creator David Heinemeier Hansson, find them unreliable and unable to grasp system architecture, as reported by InfoQ. Research from METR suggests experienced open-source developers see minimal to negative productivity gains due to the time spent verifying AI output. GitHub Copilot, for instance, reportedly boosts velocity but increases security vulnerabilities by 322%, according to one study. It seems AI is great for scaffolding simple code but struggles with nuance and complex systems, requiring significant human oversight. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=0fzwUL3Um&amp;id=15Mjf12HP&amp;id=2IKuR9DJZ&amp;id=3DI7vnha4&amp;id=3sM5oeueQ&amp;id=AJzG7x8FZ&amp;id=AS53pzdrZ&amp;id=ATZPMmQn8&amp;id=DdiXGTqPN&amp;id=EqMZfdLoq" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI ethics and accountability: when models go rogue</strong>: AI’s ethical implications are becoming painfully clear. Wikipedia has launched WikiProject AI Cleanup to combat AI-generated inaccuracies, while the West Midlands Police Chief Constable retired after Microsoft Copilot fabricated a report that led to banning Israeli fans from a football match. These incidents, highlighted by Norwegian news, underscore the critical need for verifying AI outputs in high-stakes decisions and the institutional embarrassment that follows when AI goes unchecked. Meanwhile, NVIDIA faces a lawsuit for allegedly training its AI models on millions of pirated books, raising serious questions about industry practices in sourcing training data, as reported by TorrentFreak. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=1G2Nqa8sb&amp;id=NJTPuA1ik&amp;id=2IcgLruSE&amp;id=AirINdKGE&amp;id=Kn5AMUlFL&amp;id=knSCj49Cn&amp;id=nH5xYsaji&amp;id=ySWkPbPFN&amp;id=zDjVyaxS1" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AMD Zen processors vulnerable to StackWarp attack</strong>: A new hardware vulnerability, StackWarp (CVE-2025-29943), affects AMD Zen generations 1 through 5, including EPYC 7003, 8004, 9004, and 9005 series processors. This flaw allows privileged attackers to execute arbitrary code inside SEV-SNP protected confidential virtual machines by exploiting an undocumented control bit related to the CPU’s stack engine. AMD has issued microcode updates, with more scheduled for April 2026, and advises disabling hyperthreading on critical systems as a temporary mitigation. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/9DURDnZX3" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>Microsoft Intune enforces mandatory app updates</strong>: Microsoft Intune will require administrators to update iOS and Android enterprise apps to the latest SDK versions by January 19, 2026, or risk apps being blocked from launching, including Microsoft’s own Outlook and Teams. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/PNEoUht10" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>GitLab launches Duo Agent Platform for AI orchestration</strong>: GitLab 18.8 introduces the Duo Agent Platform, enabling orchestration of multiple AI agents across the software development lifecycle, including a Planner Agent and a Security Analyst Agent for automated vulnerability triage. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/R9WyVAVPv" 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, making its lightweight prototyping tool for XAML UI development available on GitHub for community contributions, with version 2.0 featuring a UI redesign and deeper WinUI 3 integration. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/hUJrXK08w" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Rust expands platform support and redefines value</strong>: Socket now offers General Availability for Rust and Cargo support, providing dependency analysis and SBOM generation for Rust projects, while a keynote at NDC TechTown 2025 argues Rust’s primary value lies in program correctness enforced by its static type system, not just memory safety. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=O8W5FyqYs&amp;id=UzbpNQhI8" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>jQuery 4.0 released, drops legacy browser support</strong>: jQuery 4.0.0 has been released, marking its 20th anniversary with a major cleanup that removes deprecated features and drops support for Internet Explorer 10 and older, focusing on modernization and aligning with contemporary JavaScript standards. <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>South Africa’s fiber broadband expansion driven by private sector</strong>: While over 80% of South Africans have mobile internet, fixed fiber broadband reaches only 26%, with private companies like Fibertime and Wire-Wire Networks now driving expansion into underserved areas using pay-as-you-go models and aerial fiber to bridge the digital divide. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/KWebGysDq" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Malicious browser extensions and mods target users</strong>: New malware campaigns are exploiting trust in browser and developer tools, with ‘NexShield’ impersonating uBlock Origin to install ModeloRAT, and malicious Visual Studio Code extensions delivering Evelyn Stealer to developers, highlighting a trend of sophisticated attacks via trusted channels. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=5pEDZn9jd&amp;id=6yrMvtkuD&amp;id=oWlthzs3f" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>AI will make you rich, just ask the VCs</strong>: Sequoia Capital is throwing money at Anthropic, participating in a $25 billion funding round that values the company at a cool $350 billion. This, along with OpenAI’s $40 billion raise, shows ‘sustained high investor interest’ in AI, according to the VCs. Apparently, the ‘AI bubble’ is just a ‘transformative impact across various industries.’ Nothing to see here, just a healthy concentration of capital in a few US firms, definitely not a speculative frenzy. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=yuiHTajaU&amp;id=NG1jOcpWT&amp;id=VyPSybmjx" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI will solve all your problems, even if it creates new ones</strong>: Remote is using LangChain and LangGraph to automate customer onboarding, reducing data migration times from days to hours, and Clarm claims ‘zero-hallucination AI responses’ for lead generation. It’s all about ‘bypassing hallucination risks’ and ‘maintaining accuracy,’ they say. So, AI is now so good it can fix the problems AI itself created, and we should just trust the marketing claims without independent verification. What could possibly go wrong? <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=LVS7zKWbX&amp;id=x5GAIQ3mP" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Enterprise IT: still chasing the shiny new thing, ignoring the old</strong>: Despite 54% of new enterprise PCs having NPUs, adoption lags due to high prices and a lack of actual AI business applications. Meanwhile, over 4,000 C-suite executives say traditional ERP systems aren’t the future, but 97% are still satisfied with their current ones. It seems everyone wants to talk about AI and composable architectures, but nobody actually wants to ditch their Oracle or SAP systems. Classic enterprise IT: all talk, no action, and still paying for overpriced hardware with no real use case. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=4Trj7zDav&amp;id=QJmBgvguS" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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