<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>AI agents are transforming coding workflows and raising quality concerns</strong>: AI agents are fundamentally changing how developers work, with some researchers like Andrej Karpathy reporting a shift from 80% manual coding to 80% AI-assisted coding, as noted on his X (Twitter) account. However, this shift isn’t without its downsides. Studies and developer experiences, including one cited by <a href="http://fast.ai" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">fast.ai</a>, indicate that AI-generated code often lacks internal quality, introduces unnecessary complexity, and can lead to ‘vibe coding’—producing large volumes of unreviewed code that creates a false sense of productivity. This raises concerns about skill atrophy and the accumulation of technical debt, requiring human oversight to maintain code quality. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=vRs04mdPH&amp;id=fPZ532s1X&amp;id=uilUGnhp4&amp;id=AVhV6Ry0N&amp;id=RYXQOTIB9&amp;id=OxZDgDyNC" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Ingress-nginx is being archived, time to migrate to Cilium</strong>: The ingress-nginx project is slated for archival in early 2026, meaning an end to active maintenance and security updates. For those using it, the CNCF recommends migrating to either Cilium Ingress for a straightforward replacement or Cilium’s Gateway API for advanced features like header-based routing and traffic splitting. Both options leverage Cilium’s eBPF-powered datapath for better performance and observability, with migration tools available to ease the transition. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/PptBbhnAu" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Microsoft Office zero-day actively exploited, patch released</strong>: Microsoft issued an emergency patch for CVE-2026-21509, a zero-day vulnerability in Office with a CVSS score of 7.8, that is actively being exploited. The flaw allows attackers to bypass security features for legacy COM and OLE components using malicious Office files. While newer Office versions received immediate updates, Office 2016 and 2019 users need to apply manual registry workarounds until patches are released. CISA has mandated federal agencies patch by February 16, highlighting the urgency of this threat. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/qC937DXHe" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>WhatsApp adopts Rust for media security and launches privacy features</strong>: WhatsApp has replaced 160,000 lines of C++ with 90,000 lines of Rust in its media handling stack, deploying a new media consistency library called Kaleidoscope to validate media files and detect malware, affecting billions of users globally. Concurrently, WhatsApp launched ‘Strict Account Settings,’ an optional privacy feature for high-risk users that blocks media from unknown senders, silences calls from unknown numbers, and automatically enables two-step verification. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=2YIPmtHiF&amp;id=0u5TXEYDl&amp;id=Fw1AO3ne7" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Google Cloud boosts GPU/TPU support for ML and streaming</strong>: Google Cloud Dataflow now supports advanced GPUs like H100 and TPUs up to V6E, offering a new reservation system and GPU-based autoscaling for streaming pipelines, aiming to optimize cost efficiency and accessibility for high-demand machine learning workloads. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/cfwjyXRp4" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Rust Foundation outlines 2026-2028 strategic plan</strong>: The Rust Foundation released its 2025 Annual Report and a new strategic plan for 2026-2028, prioritizing stable infrastructure, sustainable maintainer support, responsible adoption growth, and community engagement, having raised $5.1 million in 2025 with $2.7 million invested directly into the Rust Project. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/DRpplNBlF" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Linux kernel project formalizes succession plan</strong>: The Linux kernel project has formalized a succession plan for leadership after Linus Torvalds’ eventual departure, documenting a process where the Maintainer Summit organizer or Linux Foundation TAB Chair will convene maintainers to select new leadership, ensuring project continuity and addressing concerns about an aging maintainer community. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/vAKZlS9Qz" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>New terminal UI tool Overitall launches with AI integration</strong>: Overitall (oit) is a new terminal UI tool for process and log management, designed to address limitations in existing tools like ‘overmind,’ offering interactive log filtering, trace detection, and integration with VS Code and AI assistants like Claude for automated log analysis. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/DkhXBDdU9" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Databricks SQL sees major performance and cost improvements</strong>: Databricks SQL achieved up to 40% performance improvement in production workloads and a 40% reduction in storage costs in 2025 through automatic engine optimizations and Zstandard compression, with Unity Catalog latency reduced by 10x and AI function performance boosted by 85x, all applying automatically in DBSQL Serverless. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/rT9ZMYOFd" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Vercel CLI adds API command for direct access</strong>: Vercel CLI version 50.5.1 introduces a new <code>api</code> command, allowing users and AI agents like Claude Code to make authenticated HTTP requests to Vercel APIs directly from the terminal, streamlining developer workflows and enabling programmatic access with inherited user permissions. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/AvpZcZC0U" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>D-Wave’s quantum hype continues, now with faster missile defense</strong>: D-Wave is still at it, claiming their quantum-classical hybrid computing can make missile defense 10 times faster and intercept ‘an additional 45-60 missiles’ in simulations. This, along with a $10 million QCaaS contract with an unnamed Fortune 100 company, is all according to D-Wave’s own press releases. Funny how these ‘breakthroughs’ always come from the company selling the tech, with no independent verification. Guess we’ll just have to trust them that quantum computers are saving us from incoming nukes, or whatever. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=B9UXF3b8Z&amp;id=7x58WcvLH&amp;id=DT8WvPaAx" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI-generated encyclopedia causes ChatGPT to hallucinate sources</strong>: ChatGPT’s GPT-5.2 model has been caught citing Grokipedia, Elon Musk’s AI-generated encyclopedia, as a source. The Guardian found nine instances where ChatGPT referenced this AI-created knowledge base, raising concerns about recursive misinformation and amplified bias. OpenAI claims its models filter low-credibility sources, but apparently, an AI-generated encyclopedia from a billionaire passes the sniff test. What could possibly go wrong when AIs start citing each other as gospel? <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/fWRmbZwbT" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Alibaba’s new AI model is ‘on par’ with GPT-5.2, says Alibaba</strong>: Alibaba Cloud has launched Qwen3-Max-Thinking, an AI reasoning model they claim is ‘on par’ with GPT-5.2-Thinking, Claude-Opus-4.5, and Gemini 3 Pro, based on 19 industry benchmarks. Analysts, bless their hearts, suggest enterprises should ‘critically scrutinize’ these claims and not rely solely on benchmarks. Because, you know, a company saying its product is as good as the competition is always totally objective. Especially when it’s targeting the Asia Pacific market. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/NV9ulemJA" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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