<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>NVIDIA DLSS 5 moves from upscaling to neural rendering</strong>: At GTC 2026, NVIDIA unveiled DLSS 5, which shifts from simple frame generation to a real-time neural rendering model that reconstructs lighting and materials. While Digital Foundry noted impressive realism in metals and cloth, early demos in games like Resident Evil: Requiem showed “dramatically altered” character faces, sparking a debate over AI overriding artistic intent. The technology, which Jensen Huang claims fuses structured graphics with generative AI, is expected to ship later this year. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/te2HRAtVx" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>GlassWorm malware infects Open VSX extension registry</strong>: A sophisticated supply-chain attack has hit the Open VSX registry, with researchers at Socket identifying 72 malicious extensions impersonating tools like ESLint, Prettier, and Claude Code. The malware uses a delayed execution tactic, publishing clean extensions that later pull in hidden dependencies containing the GlassWorm loader. Developers using VS Code with Open VSX are urged to audit their dependencies immediately, as some malicious packages remain live. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/yKzLDg3bN" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Andrej Karpathy launches US job market visualizer</strong>: Andrej Karpathy has released an open-source tool that maps 143 million US jobs from BLS data to visualize employment size, pay, and “Digital AI Exposure.” The project, available on GitHub, uses a Gemini Flash pipeline to score occupations on a 0-10 scale and allows users to fork the repo to run custom LLM-based risk assessments. It serves as a high-fidelity research tool for understanding how automation might shift specific labor sectors. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=0kckLGbhk&amp;id=eMne13XoU" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>CSS gains native at-rule detection in Chromium 148</strong>: The new <code>@supports at-rule(@keyword)</code> syntax allows developers to feature-detect rules like <code>@starting-style</code> or <code>@view-transition</code> directly in stylesheets. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/YASvrewqL" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Stripe deploys 1,300 autonomous coding agents weekly</strong>: Stripe is now using over 1,300 fully automated “Minion” agents per week to handle coding tasks without human supervision in isolated devbox environments. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/0yEYSAbXJ" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Linux 7.1 to boost UDP performance by 10 percent</strong>: The upcoming kernel will remove the obsolete UDP-Lite support, resulting in a measurable 10% performance gain in round-robin tests on AMD EPYC hardware. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/9opkLYM2k" 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 for Linux, though initial testers report broken sidebar and history features. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/rVsK1uTPO" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB 3 scales to 15 nodes</strong>: The new enterprise tier supports clusters of up to 15 nodes, targeting industrial IoT workloads with ingestion rates of millions of points per second. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/rnQxpm2DT" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Electron 41 ships with Chromium 146 and Node 24</strong>: The update introduces ASAR Integrity for macOS tamper detection and improved Wayland support for frameless window shadows. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/5DiYYKmIR" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Oxyde ORM brings Rust-powered speed to Python</strong>: A new Pydantic-centric asynchronous ORM with a Rust core claims to outperform SQLAlchemy and Tortoise in raw operations per second. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/GbDlMT2wK" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>The AI agent productivity paradox</strong>: While Stripe brags about its 1,300 ‘Minions,’ a study of Cursor AI adoption found that while it boosts short-term velocity, it causes a persistent spike in static analysis warnings and code complexity. We’re essentially trading long-term system health for the dopamine hit of shipping unreviewed, AI-generated spaghetti. It’s the ultimate ‘buy now, pay later’ scheme for technical debt. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=0yEYSAbXJ&amp;id=9pRi5GnN3" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>NVIDIA’s semantics-aware marketing gymnastics</strong>: NVIDIA is claiming DLSS 5 is “distinct from generative AI” while simultaneously describing it as a model that generates lighting and materials from scratch. It’s a classic case of a tech giant trying to distance itself from the ‘generative’ hype-cycle backlash while using the exact same underlying tech to replace actual rendered pixels with AI guesses. If it looks like a hallucination and quacks like a hallucination, calling it ‘semantics-aware’ doesn’t make it a GPU. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/te2HRAtVx" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>The 2,000x slower Rust rewrite</strong>: Codestrap founders highlighted a cautionary tale of an AI-driven SQLite rewrite in Rust that ended up being 2,000x slower than the original C code. This is what happens when ‘xEngineers’ prioritize syntax mastery over actual systems architecture, proving that an AI can write ‘correct’ code that is functionally useless. It turns out that automating what you don’t understand just helps you fail at the speed of light. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/0yEYSAbXJ" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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