<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>Oracle blocks MySQL community governance transfer</strong>: Oracle has officially rejected a request from a consortium including Percona to move MySQL Community Edition to an independent foundation. The consortium argued that Oracle’s stewardship has caused MySQL to lose significant market share to PostgreSQL, particularly in AI and cloud-native workloads. While Oracle promised a new roadmap including vector functions and a hypergraph optimizer, analysts suggest the refusal is a strategic move to prevent the community edition from competing with Oracle’s commercial database products. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/LoN6MniIc" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Node.js shifts to annual major release cycle</strong>: Starting with version 27, Node.js is abandoning its decade-old odd/even release model in favor of a single major release every April. Under the new plan, every major version will eventually become an LTS release in October of its release year to simplify the upgrade path for enterprise users. This change, reported by project maintainers, aims to reduce the burden of supporting multiple concurrent release lines and aligns Node.js with the cadences of Python and .NET. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/h7UZHGfGS" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>BlackSanta malware disables EDR via BYOVD</strong>: A sophisticated Russian spear-phishing campaign is targeting HR departments using malicious ISO files disguised as resumes to deploy the ‘BlackSanta’ malware. According to security researchers at Aryaka, the malware utilizes a Bring-Your-Own-Vulnerable-Driver (BYOVD) technique to gain kernel-level access and systematically disable EDR agents, antivirus, and Microsoft Defender. The campaign remained undetected for over a year due to its use of steganographic payloads and runtime encryption. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=8CROJKF4J&amp;id=H3NpT1jNg" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>Microsoft .NET 11 Preview 2 introduces runtime-native async</strong>: The release replaces compiler-generated state machines with native runtime management for cleaner stack traces and lower overhead. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/80BZv2Zz1" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Groww migrates from MySQL to CockroachDB for 10x scale</strong>: The financial platform adopted a cell-based architecture using CockroachDB’s multi-region active-active deployment to achieve RPO=0 and RTO under 10 seconds. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/HFOzk4oFv" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Uber adopts MySQL Group Replication for 10-second failover</strong>: By replacing external failover mechanisms with a Paxos-based consensus protocol, Uber reduced database unavailability during leader elections from minutes to seconds. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/1UHaXiyym" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Redpanda Cloud GA for Bring Your Own VPC on AWS</strong>: The new model allows production workloads to run in customer-controlled VPCs while maintaining PrivateLink and Transit Gateway support. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/K2l7mZK1Y" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>KVM patches prepare Linux for Intel APX</strong>: New patches expand register tracking to support the 32 general-purpose registers coming in Nova Lake and Diamond Rapids processors. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/5ijstPXON" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>GitGuardian automates Non-Human Identity ownership</strong>: A new governance feature uses IAM and commit history analysis to assign accountability for leaked API keys and service accounts. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/0C7SDYX2D" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>OpenTelemetry declarative configuration reaches stability</strong>: The latest DevOps updates confirm that file-based configuration for OTel collectors is now stable, simplifying sidecar deployments. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/eyZXapEzQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>The SaaSpocalypse is coming for your GUI</strong>: A new narrative claims that because AI agents prefer CLIs, traditional SaaS GUIs are facing an imminent ‘SaaSpocalypse.’ While it’s true that scraping a React app is a nightmare for a bot, suggesting that billion-dollar enterprises will ditch their dashboards for a terminal because ‘the agents said so’ is peak hype. We’re just reinventing APIs and calling it a revolution. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/Ecb25bHYR" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>1000x faster than your database</strong>: SpacetimeDB is making the rounds with headlines claiming it’s ‘1000x faster’ than traditional databases like Postgres. A quick look at their own benchmarks shows the actual gain is closer to 26x-41x, which is impressive, but apparently not enough for the marketing department. It also achieves this by ditching interactive transactions and full SQL compatibility, which is a pretty big ‘fine print’ item. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/K2HdOknUC" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI safety guardrails as liability theater</strong>: Mainstream LLM providers are being called out for ‘safety’ filters that do nothing to stop bad actors but effectively lobotomize the models for security researchers. When a model refuses to explain a privileged access token because it’s ‘harmful,’ but an ‘abliterated’ open-weight model does it in seconds, you realize the guardrails are just there to keep the legal department happy, not to save the world. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/R1YXtwj5E" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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