<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>Microsoft deprecates SCOM packs, pushes Azure monitoring</strong>: Microsoft is deprecating System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) Management Packs for SQL Server Reporting Services, Power BI Report Server, and SQL Server Analysis Services by January 2027. This forces organizations to migrate to Azure-based monitoring solutions like Azure Monitor and Azure Arc. Analysts, as reported by various sources, warn that registering on-premises servers with Microsoft’s cloud increases exposure to license compliance audits, raising concerns about data privacy and potential non-compliance issues. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/Lyoqg9qSt" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Microsoft provided FBI with BitLocker recovery keys</strong>: Microsoft provided the FBI with BitLocker recovery keys to unlock laptops in a fraud investigation, marking the first publicly reported instance of such cooperation. By default, BitLocker keys are uploaded to Microsoft’s cloud if users sign in with a Microsoft account. Security experts warn that this default setting creates significant privacy risks and vulnerabilities if Microsoft’s infrastructure is breached, as highlighted in multiple reports. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/6Aq315WBk" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Critical RCE vulnerability in Trend Micro Apex Central</strong>: A critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability (CVSS 9.8) has been discovered in Trend Micro Apex Central. Attackers can remotely load arbitrary DLLs with SYSTEM privileges via SMB shares, requiring no shellcode or EDR evasion. This flaw, present in an opcode invoking LoadLibraryExA with user-controlled paths, makes exploitation easy. The affected product is widely used in enterprise security management, heightening potential impact, as detailed in technical analyses. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/bkT31Gnrl" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>AWS launches EC2 M4 Max Mac instances</strong>: AWS has released M4 Max Mac instances for EC2, utilizing Apple M4 Max chips with 16-core CPUs, 40-core GPUs, and 128GB unified memory, claiming up to 25% better application build performance for Apple platform apps. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/DEbhYteDE" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Azure storage expands for AI and agentic scale</strong>: Azure Storage is expanding with blob scaled accounts, Azure Managed Lustre for high-performance GPU workloads, and Elastic SAN, integrating with AI frameworks like Microsoft Foundry and LangChain to support large-scale AI and agentic applications. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/kL7SskePD" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>SkyPilot Volumes for high-performance AI storage</strong>: SkyPilot Volumes launched as a storage solution for AI workloads, providing persistent, high-performance storage by mounting Kubernetes PVCs to clusters, offering 10-100x faster data access than object storage for random reads. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/bOTPCdgMB" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>PgDog PostgreSQL proxy gains 5x parsing speed with Rust</strong>: PgDog’s PostgreSQL proxy switched from Protobuf to direct C-to-Rust bindings, achieving 5x faster query parsing and 10x faster deparsing speeds, resulting in an overall 25% performance improvement for the proxy. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/Mya0HcQzB" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Rust 1.93 updates musl library and networking</strong>: Rust 1.93 upgraded its bundled musl library to 1.2.5, bringing significant DNS resolver improvements for static Linux binaries, especially for large DNS records and interactions with recursive name servers. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/wF6DW7Hp4" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Halodoc saves 35% by migrating EKS to Graviton4</strong>: Halodoc migrated its Amazon EKS workloads from Graviton3 to Graviton4 processors, achieving 35% cost savings, a 28% CPU throughput increase, and a 64% memory bandwidth gain, while reducing node count by 40% with zero downtime. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/dOVAesrRJ" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>OpenTelemetry eBPF SIG 2026 roadmap targets 1.0 stability</strong>: The OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation SIG’s 2026 roadmap aims for a stable 1.0 release, prioritizing broader protocol support for messaging systems, enhanced NoSQL database telemetry, cloud service SDK compatibility, and .NET support. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/mC6R9vti3" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>Anthropic CEO predicts AI will replace software engineers in 6-12 months</strong>: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, at Davos, boldly declared AI models could handle ‘most or all’ software engineering tasks within 6-12 months. He even admitted Anthropic engineers already use AI to write code, relegating humans to ‘editing roles.’ Because, you know, debugging AI-generated spaghetti code and managing undocumented architectural nightmares is totally not software engineering, as reported by various outlets. He did, however, admit uncertainty in his timeline, which is a relief, I guess. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/0fyNmKnQE" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI coding agents: the new bottleneck is ‘context transfer’</strong>: Apparently, the main barrier for AI coding tools in 2026 isn’t security or code quality (those are ‘mature,’ naturally), but ‘context transfer’—getting engineers’ tacit knowledge into AI systems. So, after all the hype about AI writing code, we’re now told the real challenge is teaching the AI what the humans already know. Sounds like a fantastic way to make humans indispensable, or at least, to keep them busy documenting every single thought they’ve ever had, as per analytical reports. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/DczaKkmGw" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>GitHub Copilot CLI now accesses your entire company’s brain</strong>: GitHub Copilot CLI now integrates ‘Work IQ,’ giving AI agents access to your company’s documents, emails, meetings, and SharePoint via a single MCP server. Because what could possibly go wrong with AI agents comparing code against ‘company-approved specifications’ and reconstructing ‘undocumented architecture’ from meeting transcripts? It’s not like any of that data is sensitive or prone to misinterpretation, as per the promotional material. What a time to be alive, and to have your entire corporate knowledge base fed to a chatbot. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/AnhMtsEYf" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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