<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>Vite 8 launches with Rust based Rolldown bundler</strong>: The Vite team has officially released version 8.0, replacing both esbuild and Rollup with Rolldown, a new bundler written in Rust. According to The Register, this shift delivers build speeds up to 30x faster than Rollup while maintaining compatibility with the existing plugin ecosystem. The update also introduces Wasm support in SSR and a new DevTools suite for deep build analysis. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/mksK39aMS" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>NVIDIA GTC 2026 unveils Vera CPU and DLSS 5</strong>: NVIDIA announced the Vera CPU, a custom 88-core processor designed specifically for agentic AI workloads with 1.2 TB/s memory bandwidth. On the consumer side, DLSS 5 was revealed, moving beyond simple upscaling to a neural rendering model that generates lighting and materials in real-time. While Digital Foundry noted impressive material realism, early demos faced criticism for an over-processed AI look and altered character faces. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=5RfcDxaY5&amp;id=te2HRAtVx&amp;id=VcgVkME6V" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>GlassWorm malware hits Open VSX extension registry</strong>: Security researchers at Socket have identified over 70 malicious extensions on the Open VSX registry impersonating popular tools like ESLint and Prettier. The campaign uses a sophisticated supply-chain attack where clean extensions later update to include hidden dependencies that deliver the GlassWorm loader. Developers using VS Code with Open VSX are advised to audit their dependency trees immediately. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/yKzLDg3bN" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>Temporal API officially joins ECMAScript 2026 specification</strong>: The long-awaited replacement for the broken Date object has reached Stage 4, bringing immutable date types and native time zone support to the web. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/WsjtjDMl5" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Linux 7.1 to drop UDP Lite and optimize task scheduling</strong>: The upcoming kernel will remove the little-used UDP-Lite for a 10% performance gain and introduce the SCX_ENQ_IMMED flag to reduce scheduling latency. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=9opkLYM2k&amp;id=U4BmQzRBA" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB 3 scales to 15 nodes</strong>: The managed service now supports larger multi-node clusters for enterprise IoT workloads, offering isolated ingestion and query concurrency. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/rnQxpm2DT" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Electron 41 integrates Node 24 and ASAR integrity</strong>: The latest release includes Chromium 146 and adds macOS tamper detection at launch via ASAR Integrity digests. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/5DiYYKmIR" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Kagi Orion browser enters public beta for Linux</strong>: The WebKit-based browser is now available as a Flatpak, though initial reports mention bugs with the sidebar and history features. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/rVsK1uTPO" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Oxyde ORM brings Rust performance to Python Pydantic models</strong>: A new async-first ORM claims to outperform SQLAlchemy and Tortoise by leveraging a high-performance Rust core for database operations. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/GbDlMT2wK" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Pushduck simplifies universal file uploads across edge runtimes</strong>: A new TypeScript library provides a type-safe abstraction for 16+ frameworks and multiple storage providers like S3 and R2. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/xiGGOItVN" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>The agentic AI productivity mirage</strong>: Stripe is bragging about running 1,300 ‘Minion’ agents weekly without human supervision, while other studies show AI adoption actually increases code complexity and static analysis warnings. We’re trading short-term velocity for a long-term maintenance nightmare where nobody actually knows why the code works. As Gumloop’s founder points out, automating a process you don’t understand just gives you unreliable results at scale. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=0yEYSAbXJ&amp;id=9pRi5GnN3&amp;id=MiuRs7TKU" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Governance capture and the China bogeyman</strong>: Silicon Valley’s AI elite are spending hundreds of millions on political influence to dismantle regulations while using ‘geopolitical competition with China’ as a shield. This isn’t about safety; it’s about securing energy subsidies and government contracts for firms like Palantir, which MoD engineers warn is already a data sovereignty risk. When the distinction between the regulator and the regulated dissolves, ‘democratic oversight’ becomes a marketing slogan. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=aVcUWoSUS&amp;id=c9X27okCy&amp;id=ZsR4Q7LWZ" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>The 2,000x slower Rust rewrite</strong>: In the latest episode of ‘AI doesn’t understand systems,’ an AI-generated Rust rewrite of SQLite performed 2,000 times slower than the original C code. This highlights the danger of the ‘xEngineer’ hype where developers are told to focus on ‘problem definition’ while ignoring the underlying syntax and architecture. If your AI orchestrator can’t handle basic performance constraints, you’re not building a system; you’re building a liability. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=0yEYSAbXJ&amp;id=naVjXPaQo" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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