<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>PackageGate zero-days expose npm and yarn to worm attacks</strong>: Six zero-day vulnerabilities, dubbed PackageGate, are actively affecting JavaScript package managers like npm and yarn, allowing attackers to bypass security controls designed to prevent worm attacks. While pnpm, vlt, and Bun have already released patches, npm claims the behavior is an intentional design choice, not a flaw, leaving millions of developers exposed. Security researcher Oren Yomtov strongly advises migrating to patched alternatives, as reported by multiple sources. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/klUkuFZvK" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Microsoft Office zero-day forces emergency patch</strong>: Microsoft issued an emergency out-of-band patch for a critical zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2026-21509) in Microsoft Office, actively exploited in the wild. The flaw, a security feature bypass, allows attackers to circumvent protections against legacy COM and OLE components using malicious Office files. While newer versions are patched, Office 2016 and 2019 users must rely on manual registry workarounds, with CISA mandating federal agencies patch by February 16, 2026, according to Microsoft and CISA disclosures. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/qC937DXHe" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI agents reshape developer roles and enterprise operations</strong>: The rise of AI agents is fundamentally shifting developer roles from hands-on coding to product architecture and outcome engineering, as AI automates much of the execution. This transition creates new infrastructure needs for orchestration and fault tolerance, with companies like Temporal positioning themselves as critical providers for production-level AI systems. Enterprises are increasingly deploying AI agents as integrated features, moving towards semi- or fully-autonomous ‘coworkers,’ but face significant challenges in governance to prevent ‘agent sprawl’ and ensure accountability, according to industry analysis. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=b2fEANN64&amp;id=yBxtGCVqr" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>Alibaba Cloud releases Qwen3-Max-Thinking AI model for enterprise</strong>: Alibaba Cloud has launched Qwen3-Max-Thinking, an enterprise AI reasoning model that reportedly matches the performance of GPT-5.2-Thinking and Claude-Opus-4.5 on 19 industry benchmarks, featuring adaptive tool use and test-time scaling for Asia Pacific enterprises. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/NV9ulemJA" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Cloudflare launches serverless, post-quantum Matrix homeserver</strong>: Cloudflare has ported a full Matrix homeserver, Tuwunel, to its Workers platform, leveraging a serverless architecture with D1, KV, R2, and Durable Objects, and featuring X25519MLKEM768 post-quantum cryptography by default to protect against harvest-now-decrypt-later attacks. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/vURH9h7xw" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Go language team proposes generic methods</strong>: The Go team has proposed adding generic methods to the language, allowing type parameters on concrete methods for improved code organization and readability, with a focus on backward compatibility and static compile-time resolution. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/W8OOKuC86" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>CISA publishes federal guidance on post-quantum cryptography adoption</strong>: CISA has released guidance mapping NIST-standardized post-quantum cryptography (PQC) algorithms to enterprise hardware and software, advising federal agencies to procure PQC-capable products where solutions are available, particularly for key establishment, while noting gaps in digital signatures and authentication. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/5Lj7cpvbX" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Teleport unveils agentic identity framework to secure AI agent access</strong>: Teleport launched a new Agentic Identity Framework that uses cryptographic authentication and zero-trust principles for AI agents, providing a unified identity layer, hardware-based root of trust, and real-time monitoring to mitigate risks like prompt injection and unauthorized access. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/CI1C8FH63" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Rust Foundation expands 2025 funding, outlines 2026-2028 strategy</strong>: The Rust Foundation raised $5.1 million in 2025, investing $2.7 million into the Rust Project, and outlined a 2026-2028 strategy focusing on stable infrastructure, sustainable maintainer support, responsible adoption growth, organizational engagement, and global communities. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/y4jhOcrNg" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Hybrid use of Rust and JavaScript/TypeScript in modern software architectures</strong>: Modern software architectures increasingly combine Rust for performance-critical system-level components and JavaScript/TypeScript for rapid UI development, leveraging WebAssembly to integrate these languages and optimize for both agility and reliability, as seen in companies like Figma and Cloudflare. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/UAEJhL6mu" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>Cursor AI agents’ web browser claims disputed by developers</strong>: Cursor proudly announced its AI agents built a ‘functional web browser’ with a ‘custom rendering engine’ in Rust, boasting over 3 million lines of code. However, actual developers who looked at the code called it ‘spaghetti,’ noted it fails to compile, and performs ‘abysmally.’ Apparently, ‘functional’ and ‘from scratch’ now mean ‘barely works and relies heavily on existing projects,’ according to the developer community. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/gcgtwbk5H" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>ChatGPT model cites Grokipedia as source</strong>: ChatGPT’s GPT-5.2 model has been caught citing Grokipedia, Elon Musk’s AI encyclopedia, as a source. OpenAI claims to have filters for low-credibility sources, but apparently, an AI-generated encyclopedia that hasn’t been independently verified for accuracy sails right through. What could possibly go wrong when AIs start citing other AIs for ‘facts’? <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/fWRmbZwbT" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI use accelerates decline of public knowledge platforms</strong>: Apparently, AI models are so good at answering questions that developers are abandoning Stack Overflow and Wikipedia, leading to a ‘78% drop in traffic’ for the former. This is supposedly creating a ‘feedback loop’ where AI models will eventually train on their own garbage, leading to ‘model collapse.’ So, we’re trading communal knowledge for private, potentially hallucinated answers. Sounds like a solid plan for the future of information. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/3Qlqmk7FI" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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