<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>Next.js 16 boosts performance and adds AI debugging</strong>: Next.js 16 is out, making Turbopack the default bundler for 2-5x faster builds and 10x quicker hot reloading. It introduces explicit ‘use cache’ directives for predictable caching and integrates AI-assisted debugging via Model Context Protocol (MCP) into DevTools, allowing AI agents to access logs and suggest fixes. This release also brings React Compiler support for automatic memoization and routing enhancements, as reported by Syncfusion. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/91xiEmcVe" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>GitHub enhances supply chain security with code-to-cloud traceability</strong>: GitHub has rolled out new artifact metadata APIs to enable code-to-cloud traceability, linking build artifacts to their source repositories, storage, and deployment data. This includes a unified view of linked artifacts and production-context filtering for security alerts, allowing teams to prioritize vulnerabilities based on what’s actually deployed. The update also supports SLSA Build Level 3 security with cryptographic attestations and integrates with Microsoft Defender for Cloud and JFrog Artifactory, according to GitHub Changelog. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/9XGazeUyY" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Critical vulnerabilities found in Chainlit AI framework</strong>: Chainlit, a popular open-source Python framework for AI chatbots, contained critical vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-22218, CVE-2026-22219) allowing arbitrary file reads and server-side request forgery. These flaws could expose API keys, credentials, and cloud tokens, enabling data theft and lateral movement within enterprise infrastructure. The issues were patched in version 2.9.4, released in December 2025, with public disclosure on January 20-21, 2026, urging immediate updates. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/I9vckVFsM" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>WebAssembly 3.0 announced, adoption grows</strong>: WebAssembly (Wasm) saw significant progress in 2025, with Safari closing key feature gaps, new proposals reaching standardization, and the official announcement of WebAssembly 3.0. Adoption grew to 5.5% of Chrome-visited websites, and WASI is advancing towards its 0.3 release with async support. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/jtf8mrjCJ" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI-generated code raises security concerns for 2026</strong>: Security experts warn that AI-generated code in production could lead to severe failures if not properly reviewed, especially when developers use AI assistants for security-critical systems without full comprehension. They recommend using battle-tested libraries and strongly typed languages like Rust to mitigate risks. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/rlAZMkOYu" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>New Linux desktop shell mimics Windows 8 Metro</strong>: A new Wayland shell for Linux, ‘Win8DE,’ replicates the Windows 8 Metro interface, aiming to leverage its touch-friendly design for Linux devices with touchscreens, learning from Microsoft’s past deployment mistakes. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/7CM3AP9rX" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Open-source code snippet manager Snipplle launches</strong>: Snipplle, an open-source platform built with Nuxt 4, TypeScript, and PostgreSQL, offers code snippet management with syntax highlighting, collection organization, team collaboration, version control, and CLI integration, available as a free cloud beta or self-hosted Docker instance. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/Lhaif3YU8" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Elysia.js offers type-safe API framework for Bun</strong>: Elysia.js is a new TypeScript-first API framework for the Bun JavaScript runtime, designed to streamline API route organization and provide end-to-end type safety without code generation, leveraging TypeBox for inline schema validation and WinterTC standard compatibility. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/pGvKxqMl2" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>SQDesk CLI: terminal SQL client with AI assistance</strong>: SQDesk CLI is a new terminal-based SQL client featuring an AI-powered query generation and refactoring, syntax highlighting, auto-completion, and interactive result tables for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQLite, built with Go 1.21+. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/da02fw80D" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Microsoft updates React Native for Windows</strong>: Microsoft released React Native Windows 0.81 with Hermes debugger support and React Native DevTools integration, continuing investment in the framework for Office modernization despite lagging behind mobile versions and dropping C# support for native modules. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/7jYV4dEG1" 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 malware: the next big thing, apparently</strong>: Check Point Research is sounding the alarm about VoidLink, supposedly the ‘first fully AI-generated advanced malware,’ created by a single developer in less than a week. It’s got eBPF rootkits and cloud enumeration modules, because why not? The report frames this as a shift from theoretical threats to actual incidents, conveniently ignoring that ‘AI-generated’ often means ‘AI-assisted’ and that humans are still very much in the loop. Alarmist much? <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/nLTC7GTyu" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI coding tools: the emperor’s new clothes, again</strong>: A developer tried to build an iOS app with ‘agentic coding tools’ like Codex, only to find frequent, subtle bugs and massive code duplication, leading to the project’s abandonment. Yet, the industry keeps pushing ‘minimal code review’ and ‘behavior-only validation’ for AI-generated code. It’s almost like we’re setting ourselves up for a mountain of technical debt and hidden failures, all while the hype machine churns out ‘unrealistic optimism.’ <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/YH0ajyAf5" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Tailwind Labs lays off 75% of developers, blames AI</strong>: Tailwind Labs reportedly laid off 75% of its developers, attributing declining website traffic and revenue to AI-assisted coding reducing the need for human developers to visit documentation sites. So, AI is so good it’s making documentation obsolete, but not good enough to, you know, <em>generate</em> new frameworks or, perhaps, new revenue streams for the company whose tools it’s supposedly replacing. Convenient narrative, isn’t it? <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/PBAzOX1yL" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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