<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>Qt 6.11 brings hardware accelerated 2D and async C++</strong>: The latest Qt release introduces Canvas Painter, a new API inspired by HTML5 Canvas that leverages the Rendering Hardware Interface for significant performance gains over legacy OpenGL backends. For 3D enthusiasts, Qt Quick 3D now supports real-time global illumination and reflections, while a new TaskTree module enters preview to offer declarative asynchronous workflows in C++. The update also includes an OpenAPI code generator for HTTP clients and enhanced interop for Android developers using Java or Kotlin. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/JY6Nxd1Co" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Canonical goes Gold with Rust and replaces coreutils</strong>: Ubuntu’s parent company has joined the Rust Foundation as a Gold Member, signaling a massive shift in Linux infrastructure. Canonical plans to replace standard GNU Coreutils with Rust-based alternatives (uutils) starting with Ubuntu 25.10, aiming to improve memory safety in regulated environments. The upcoming 26.04 LTS will ship with the latest Rust toolchain as the language takes over core system components like sudo. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=6DSn3Gmgy&amp;id=clix7apkf" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Vite 8 and Astro 6 lead massive web dev update</strong>: The web ecosystem is seeing a major performance overhaul as Vite 8 swaps its dual-engine architecture for Rolldown, a Rust-based bundler promising up to 30x faster production builds. Astro 6 has also launched with a rewritten dev server that perfectly mirrors production runtimes and adds automatic font self-hosting. Meanwhile, SolidJS 2.0 has entered beta with a focus on async-first reactivity and improved UI primitives for mutations. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/QG6z68w6t" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>CRDT based version control concept promises fail proof merges</strong>: Bram Cohen released Manyana, a proof-of-concept using CRDTs to ensure merges never fail by treating conflicts as informative annotations. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/ErDrcgZ9t" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Unreal Engine 5.8 previews 3D Mesh Terrain system</strong>: Epic Games is moving beyond heightfields with a new system that supports overhangs and tunnels natively using non-destructive modifiers. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/iwXS0rY0U" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Liminal runs full Laravel development in the browser via WASM</strong>: This new IDE uses PHP 8.4 on WebAssembly to enable local-free development with Tailwind CSS v4 and SQLite support. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/ER7oeWZFY" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Linux 7.0 rc5 arrives with hot page tracking improvements</strong>: The release cycle is stabilizing with new ‘pghot’ patches that optimize memory tiering and page promotion on high-end servers. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=1tWnyX7nj&amp;id=9z2uCLEQw" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Fennec brings Zen Browser sidebar features to stock Firefox</strong>: A new open-source CSS project allows users to get the popular Zen UI and vertical tabs without switching to a browser fork. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/71xIyVeTH" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>OpenTelemetry launches dedicated Kotlin Multiplatform SDK</strong>: The new SDK supports Android, iOS, and JVM targets, bringing native logging and tracing to the Kotlin ecosystem. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/JbrcqfZQ6" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Apple adds context window management to on device models</strong>: iOS 26.4 RC provides new APIs for developers to track token counts and manage the 4096-token limit dynamically. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/CX419bigo" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>Elon Musk wants to build a terawatt chip fab in space</strong>: Musk announced ‘Terafab,’ a facility intended to build AI chips for Tesla and SpaceX with zero timeline and even less semiconductor manufacturing experience. Critics are pointing out that he was just found liable for misleading investors, making this ‘space fab’ sound like another distraction from his legal bills. It’s a bold pitch for a man who still hasn’t delivered the fully autonomous robotaxis he promised years ago. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=qNbywR4ri&amp;id=rLaUkgjrd" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>The death of model fit and other data science fairytales</strong>: Industry blogs are claiming data scientists don’t need to train models anymore because ‘AI Agents’ will do everything while humans just write ‘error taxonomies.’ It’s a classic pivot from actual engineering to ‘Evaluation-Driven Development,’ which is mostly just a fancy way of saying you’re spending your day staring at LLM logs. Apparently, ‘context engineering’ is the new feature engineering, which is just prompt engineering with a more expensive job title. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/seweaAUF7" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Windows native development is a fragmented disaster</strong>: A developer’s attempt to use the ‘modern’ Windows App SDK resulted in a trip through seven different legacy UI frameworks just to build a basic utility. Between WinUI 3, WPF, and falling back to Win32 P/Invoke for basic features, Microsoft has effectively made Electron look like a high-performance, streamlined choice. When the official tooling is this broken, calling it a ‘native’ experience is a stretch. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/PjNS6hnn7" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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