<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>Argo CD 3.3 introduces PreDelete hooks and shallow cloning</strong>: The latest Argo CD release addresses critical GitOps lifecycle gaps by adding PreDelete hooks, allowing for graceful resource teardown like data exports or traffic draining before deletion. For platform engineers managing massive monorepos, the new optional shallow cloning can reduce repository fetch times from minutes to seconds. According to InfoQ, the update also includes first-class KEDA support, enabling operators to pause or resume ScaledObjects directly from the UI. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/J931yCKTd" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>MinIO archived as community fork emerges to restore features</strong>: MinIO’s official repository was archived in February 2026 following a shift to AGPL and the removal of the admin console from the community edition. In response, a new fork under pgsty/minio has emerged, restoring the full console and binary distributions for production use. The fork’s author argues that the irrevocable nature of AGPL protects the community’s right to maintain the project independently of the original vendor’s commercial pivots. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=OVpWWbF7s&amp;id=dnF9mDAKN" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Google proposes Merkle Tree Certificates to save post-quantum HTTPS</strong>: To prevent the 40x larger size of quantum-resistant cryptographic material from bloating TLS handshakes, Google and Cloudflare are moving toward Merkle Tree Certificates. As reported by Ars Technica, this approach allows a Certificate Authority to sign a single ‘Tree Head’ for millions of certs, letting browsers verify inclusion via a compact 64-byte proof instead of a 2.5kB chain. This optimization is already landing in Chrome to maintain performance while defending against future quantum threats. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/8DoiZIvLO" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>SQL Server on Linux matches Windows performance in high-contention benchmarks</strong>: Rigorous testing on RHEL 10.1 showed Linux marginally outperforming Windows in p95 latency during heavy lock contention workloads. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/xMDmAWHcC" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Unsloth Dynamic 2.0 GGUFs optimize LLM quantization via KL divergence</strong>: The update improves quantization quality for local models and provides instructions for running Llama 4 Scout 17B on consumer hardware. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/Pggi40VtT" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Biopass brings multi-modal biometric PAM authentication to Linux</strong>: This open-source suite uses local ML inference via LibTorch to provide face and fingerprint login with anti-spoofing capabilities. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=bhc2OnxfX&amp;id=eUK6bbMZ5" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Minimatch patches three high-severity ReDoS vulnerabilities</strong>: The foundational npm package fixed catastrophic backtracking issues in its glob matching logic that could stall the Node.js event loop. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/EvvwDJaxE" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Data Star library claims 40x network savings over React</strong>: A 10KB no-dependency library leveraging HTML data attributes and SSE streaming to challenge the heavy JavaScript framework status quo. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/PP4PS0y9K" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Rails adds Markdown conversion and devcontainer editor links</strong>: Action Text now supports <code>to_markdown</code> for HTML conversion, and a new environment variable fixes ‘open in editor’ links in Docker setups. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=EDXDYvaoJ&amp;id=FxgLCVbVm" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Qwen3.5 open-source models activate 3B parameters per token</strong>: The new 35B-A3B model uses a sparse Mixture-of-Experts architecture to run on 32GB VRAM while supporting 1M token contexts. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/0m0UpI5Bk" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>The cognitive debt of agentic coding</strong>: While hype-men brag about 94 commits a day using multi-agent setups, a 2026 study found AI-assisted devs scored 17% lower on debugging and conceptual understanding. We are effectively decoupling code production from comprehension, creating a ‘review paradox’ where humans lose the ability to actually verify the garbage the agents are spewing. It’s not productivity if the MTTR skyrockets because nobody knows how the ‘agent-optimized’ black box actually works. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=8Ii7uZjVf&amp;id=TFTdPwhQh&amp;id=PDfxSZnrt" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>OpenAI’s Pentagon pivot and the ethics of convenience</strong>: Anthropic got banned from federal use for refusing to drop ‘no domestic surveillance’ clauses, only for OpenAI to immediately swoop in and take the deal. Sam Altman claims they have the same ‘red lines,’ yet Gary Marcus and others point out the suspicious timing of these secret negotiations. It turns out ‘AI Safety’ is a flexible concept when there’s a massive government contract on the table. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=1Hvh12XVS&amp;id=O74TphFVu&amp;id=uauecuP4d" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Tinder’s camera roll ‘Chemistry’ is just consent theatre</strong>: Tinder is now asking for access to your entire camera roll so its AI can ‘matchmake’ based on your photos, a move critics are calling a privacy nightmare. They frame it as personalization, but it’s essentially a massive data harvest using computer vision to extract sensitive metadata under the guise of finding love. If you think your private photos aren’t being used to train a model or build a profile, you haven’t been paying attention to the last decade of tech. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/2RggVXlYX" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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