<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>Cloudflare fixes WAF bypass, warns of AI-driven attacks</strong>: Cloudflare patched a critical vulnerability in its Web Application Firewall (WAF) ACME validation logic, which could have allowed attackers to bypass security rules and directly access origin servers. The flaw, reported through their bug bounty program, was due to improper validation of ACME challenge tokens. Security researchers, as reported by The Hacker News, warn that AI-driven attacks could increasingly target such bypass vulnerabilities, making this fix crucial for web platform security. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/PoZiSIcPJ" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Salesforce goes all-in on AI coding assistant Cursor</strong>: Salesforce has deployed the Cursor AI coding assistant across its 20,000 engineers, achieving over 90% adoption within months. The company reports double-digit percentage gains in developer cycle time, code quality, and throughput, with an 85% reduction in legacy code coverage time. This move highlights a significant shift towards AI-assisted development in large enterprises, though independent verification of these claims is not yet available. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/7KqSlBkW9" 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 disguised as urgent maintenance notices, tricking them into backing up their vaults within 24 hours. These emails, as reported by The Hacker News, redirect to fake sites designed to steal master passwords. LastPass emphasizes they never ask for master passwords via email, urging users to be vigilant, especially during holiday weekends when response times might be slower. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=TCuZthJYG&amp;id=btyfpzMTN" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>AI coding tools boost productivity but raise quality concerns</strong>: Q1 2026 benchmarks show AI coding tools like Cursor and Claude increasing developer throughput, with Cursor boosting individual PRs by 46% and Claude excelling for active users, yet a CMU study found AI adoption led to a 30% rise in static analysis warnings and over 40% increase in code complexity, persisting long after initial productivity gains. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=XkFn8TQqF&amp;id=EZUXhYwRZ" 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 like Runtime, Memory, Gateway, and a starter CLI toolkit for rapid creation and integration with frameworks like LangGraph and CrewAI. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/PbCI8QH1q" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>jQuery 4.0 drops legacy browser support, adds security</strong>: jQuery 4.0, released after nearly a decade, removes support for Internet Explorer 10 and Edge Legacy, integrates Trusted Types and Content Security Policy, and migrates to ES modules, resulting in a 3KB size reduction. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=uMYmsakGM&amp;id=Cp1cdd7od" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>LLVM and cURL restrict AI-generated code contributions</strong>: The LLVM compiler project now requires thorough human review for all AI-assisted code contributions due to a surge in low-quality submissions, mirroring cURL’s decision to end its bug bounty program over overwhelming 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>PHP 8.6 introduces partial function application</strong>: PHP 8.6 now supports Partial Function Application (PFA), allowing developers to create closures with flexible parameter binding using placeholders, which simplifies code and complements the new pipe operator. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/NdU9ZcZUX" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Node.js tightens HackerOne reporting requirements</strong>: Node.js now requires HackerOne vulnerability reporters to have a Signal score of 1.0 or higher due to an overwhelming number of low-quality submissions, aiming to reduce triage time for its security team. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/MwudU18Zl" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Cloud provider performance and cost comparison</strong>: A comparison of seven cloud providers (Hetzner, DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode, AWS, GCP, Azure) for Ruby on Rails applications found Hetzner Cloud offers the best performance-to-cost ratio, while hyperscalers provide broader ecosystems at higher prices. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/VhpTZga9J" 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>: Palantir CEO Alex Karp, speaking at the World Economic Forum, boldly declared that AI will eliminate the need for large-scale immigration in Western economies, except for specialized roles. This grand vision comes despite industry giants like Gartner and PwC reporting that most CEOs are seeing ‘zero payoffs’ from their AI investments and that the sector is in a ‘trough of disillusionment.’ So, while Karp is busy solving global labor markets with AI, the rest of us are still waiting for it to deliver on basic promises. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/3s1vrBGbY" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI world models: the next big thing that isn’t quite there</strong>: Apparently, we’re supposed to be excited about ‘AI world models’ converging with game engines, promising new forms of interactive content. The article, however, quickly points out that traditional game engines prioritize efficiency and handcrafted content, while AI models prioritize speed over compute efficiency, often leading to ‘learned hallucinations.’ So, it’s a classic case of ‘we’ll combine the best of both worlds’ without actually showing how to overcome the fundamental trade-offs. Sounds like more theoretical hand-waving until someone actually builds something useful. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/OIj9HQhHA" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>ChatGPT UI replication: looks good, breaks fast</strong>: A developer found that ChatGPT can visually replicate Apple demo UIs, but the generated code completely falls apart under performance load because it lacks understanding of underlying system constraints like SwiftUI’s memory management. It’s almost as if AI is great at surface-level mimicry but still can’t grasp the actual engineering rigor required for robust systems. Maybe we should stop asking it to build entire UIs and stick to, you know, writing boilerplate. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/LQOYGhWvV" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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