<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>MySQL community in crisis as Oracle layoffs hit development velocity</strong>: MySQL, despite being the second most popular database, is facing declining community engagement and development instability. Oracle’s recent layoffs have significantly reduced bug fixes, and the open-source Community Edition now lags behind paid versions in features like vector search. This has sparked discussions about forking MySQL to regain community control and accelerate independent development, with a new Foundation for MySQL emerging to mobilize efforts, as reported by multiple sources. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/u7JkpyQEs" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Ingress-nginx project archived, migration to Cilium urged</strong>: The ingress-nginx project is being archived in early 2026, meaning no more active maintenance or security updates. Users are strongly advised to migrate to Cilium Ingress for a direct replacement or Cilium’s Gateway API for advanced features. Both options leverage Cilium’s eBPF-powered datapath for better performance and observability, and migration tools are available to ease the transition, according to CNCF. <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, CISA mandates patch</strong>: Microsoft issued an emergency patch for CVE-2026-21509, a zero-day vulnerability in Office with a CVSS score of 7.8, actively exploited in the wild. The flaw bypasses security features for legacy COM and OLE components via malicious Office files. While newer Office versions received immediate updates, Office 2016 and 2019 users need manual registry workarounds. CISA has mandated federal agencies patch by February 16, highlighting the urgency. <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>NVIDIA open-sources FastGen for accelerated diffusion models</strong>: NVIDIA has released FastGen, an open-source library that accelerates diffusion models by 10x-100x using distillation techniques, enabling real-time video generation and scaling up to 14B parameters for various applications, including weather modeling. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/QgRRffHqE" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI agents transform coding workflows, but skill atrophy is a concern</strong>: Andrej Karpathy reports shifting to 80% AI agent-assisted coding, noting significant productivity gains and a fundamental change in software development, though he cautions about potential skill atrophy and agents making incorrect assumptions. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/vRs04mdPH" 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 2026-2028 strategic plan, prioritizing stable infrastructure, sustainable maintainer support, responsible adoption growth, and community engagement, having raised $5.1 million in 2025. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/DRpplNBlF" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>WhatsApp adopts Rust for media security overhaul</strong>: WhatsApp replaced 160,000 lines of C++ with 90,000 lines of Rust in its media handling stack, deploying the Kaleidoscope library globally across all platforms to validate media files and detect malware, claiming improved performance and memory safety. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/2YIPmtHiF" 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, ensuring continuity by outlining a process for maintainers to select new leadership, addressing concerns about an aging community. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/vAKZlS9Qz" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Google Cloud launches N4A instances with custom ARM CPUs</strong>: Google Cloud has released N4A compute instances powered by custom Axion ARM processors, offering up to 64 vCPUs and 512GB RAM, targeting web servers, microservices, and containerized applications with improved cost-effectiveness over previous generations. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/JvBjVyZ5U" 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 improvements in 2025 through automatic engine optimizations, including 10x lower Unity Catalog latency, 30% faster Delta Sharing queries, and 40% storage cost reduction via Zstandard compression, all applied automatically in DBSQL Serverless. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/rT9ZMYOFd" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>AI-generated code: the gift that keeps on giving… technical debt</strong>: Turns out, those shiny AI coding agents, like Sonnet 4.5, are great at churning out code quickly, but not so much at quality. They’re reportedly creating ‘non-idiomatic patterns and unnecessary complexity,’ leading to subtle semantic errors and a mountain of technical debt. So, while your AI might be ‘vibecoding’ at warp speed, you’ll still need a human to clean up its mess, because apparently, ‘functional output’ doesn’t mean ‘good code.’ <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/uilUGnhp4" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Cloudflare’s ‘serverless’ Matrix homeserver: more like ‘broken’ serverless</strong>: Cloudflare proudly announced a Matrix homeserver running on its Workers platform, touting ‘zero maintenance’ and ‘low cost.’ However, actual Matrix developers are calling it ‘fundamentally broken,’ lacking basic security features like authorization checks and state resolution. Apparently, Cloudflare’s ‘proof-of-concept’ is so incomplete it might as well be ‘AI-generated,’ and probably costs more than a dedicated VPS. Who needs actual functionality when you have marketing hype? <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=93HDTbjA4&amp;id=vURH9h7xw" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Cursor’s AI browser: ‘from scratch’ means ‘heavily dependent’ and ‘doesn’t compile’</strong>: Cursor claimed its AI agents built a web browser ‘from scratch’ with millions of lines of code and a custom Rust rendering engine. Developers, however, quickly found the code to be ‘spaghetti,’ unable to compile, and heavily reliant on existing external projects. So much for AI’s ‘major software engineering breakthrough’—seems like ‘from scratch’ now means ‘mostly copied’ and ‘barely functional.’ <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/gcgtwbk5H" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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