<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>AI coding tools show productivity gains but quality concerns linger</strong>: Q1 2026 benchmarks reveal AI coding tools like Cursor and Claude are boosting developer throughput, with Cursor showing a 46% increase in daily PRs. However, a Carnegie Mellon University study on 807 GitHub repositories found that while initial productivity jumped 30-40%, it returned to baseline within three months, and code complexity rose over 40%. This suggests that while AI can speed things up, human oversight remains critical for maintaining code quality, as highlighted by the Python Software Foundation’s new HackerOne Signal requirement for vulnerability reports. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=EZUXhYwRZ&amp;id=EZUXhYwRZ&amp;id=XkFn8TQqF&amp;id=XkFn8TQqF&amp;id=MwudU18Zl" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>LastPass users targeted by phishing campaign</strong>: LastPass users are being hit with a phishing campaign sending fake urgent maintenance emails, asking them to back up their vaults within 24 hours. These emails redirect to malicious sites designed to steal master passwords. LastPass has confirmed they never ask for master passwords via email and are working to shut down the infrastructure, as reported by The Hacker News. This comes amidst a broader trend of third-party applications accessing sensitive data without authorization, with a 25% increase observed in the past year. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=TCuZthJYG&amp;id=btyfpzMTN&amp;id=FxqZcf7z0" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Ubisoft mandates full office return and cancels projects</strong>: Ubisoft is shaking things up with a full five-day-a-week office mandate, citing the need for better collaboration in AAA game development. This comes alongside a major restructuring into five ‘Creative Houses,’ the cancellation of six projects (including the Prince of Persia: Sands of Time remake), and the delay of seven others. The company aims to cut €200 million in costs over two years, projecting a €1 billion operating loss for fiscal year 2026, according to multiple reports. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/n85Q90uin" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>OpenAI rolls out age prediction for ChatGPT</strong>: OpenAI is deploying age prediction models for ChatGPT consumer accounts to identify users under 18, restricting access to sensitive content and offering parents new controls, though privacy advocates raise concerns about data verification. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/wLyCgQl1I" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Amazon launches Bedrock AgentCore for AI agent deployment</strong>: Amazon introduced Bedrock AgentCore, a platform for deploying and operating AI agents with zero infrastructure management, offering modular services for runtime, memory, and integration with existing frameworks like LangGraph and CrewAI. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=PbCI8QH1q&amp;id=PbCI8QH1q" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Netflix prioritizes cloud gaming and app redesign</strong>: Netflix co-CEO Greg Peters announced cloud-based gaming as a top strategic priority for 2026, focusing on casual party games, while also planning a mobile app redesign to boost engagement with vertical video feeds and video podcasts. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=SBSWaa9fL&amp;id=VVEnUNMkF&amp;id=VVEnUNMkF" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Global mobile app spending surpasses gaming, driven by AI</strong>: For the first time in 2025, global mobile app spending, reaching over $85 billion, surpassed gaming revenue, primarily fueled by generative AI apps like ChatGPT, which alone generated $3.4 billion in in-app purchases. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/NzKmno9qu" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>LLVM restricts unchecked AI-assisted code contributions</strong>: The LLVM compiler project has implemented a ‘human in the loop’ policy, banning AI-generated code contributions without thorough human review due to a surge in low-quality submissions, mirroring cURL’s decision to end its bug bounty program over AI-generated spam. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=DXhDzQ15v&amp;id=zNsgAYHqy&amp;id=ssDvZHbZq" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Cloudflare fixes WAF bypass vulnerability</strong>: Cloudflare patched a vulnerability in its Web Application Firewall (WAF) ACME validation logic that allowed attackers to bypass security rules and access origin servers directly, though there’s no evidence of exploitation in the wild. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/PoZiSIcPJ" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>jQuery 4.0 drops legacy browser support</strong>: jQuery 4.0 has been released, dropping support for Internet Explorer 10 and Microsoft Edge Legacy, while adding new security features like Trusted Types and Content Security Policy support, and migrating to ECMAScript modules. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/uMYmsakGM" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>Palantir CEO says AI will fix immigration, industry says ‘meh’</strong>: Alex Karp, Palantir’s CEO, is out here at the World Economic Forum claiming AI will eliminate the need for most immigration, except for ‘specialized skills.’ Meanwhile, actual industry reports from Deutsche Bank, Gartner, and PwC are calling AI’s ‘honeymoon’ over, with most CEOs seeing ‘zero payoffs’ from their investments. Guess Palantir’s 80% cost savings are just for show, or maybe they’re just really good at selling dreams. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=3s1vrBGbY&amp;id=3s1vrBGbY" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI world models and game engines: a clash of the titans, or just more hype?</strong>: Apparently, ‘AI world models’ and ‘game engines’ are ‘design opposites,’ with game engines being all about ‘first principles’ and AI models about ‘content creation speed.’ The article then speculates about ‘hybrid systems’ as the future, because, you know, everything eventually becomes a hybrid. It’s almost as if they’re trying to sound profound without actually saying anything concrete about how this ‘convergence’ will magically solve all our problems, or what ‘learned hallucinations’ even mean in practice. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/OIj9HQhHA" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Agentic AI: still hitting that N² wall, just with more bots</strong>: Remember Brooks’ Law, about adding people to a late software project making it later? Well, some folks thought ‘agentic AI’ could magically bypass that with ‘Scalable Agency.’ Turns out, these AI agents still hit ‘strict performance ceilings’ and couldn’t scale beyond certain points, with distributed system integration taking a whopping 35 days. So, it seems the ‘N² coordination complexity’ isn’t going anywhere, even if you replace humans with bots that can’t even come up with ‘qualitatively new designs.’ <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=8RtsmjIRr&amp;id=8RtsmjIRr" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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