<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>Google TurboQuant tackles the LLM memory wall</strong>: Google has introduced TurboQuant, a quantization method designed to alleviate the KV cache bottleneck in large language models and vector search. In internal tests on Nvidia H100 hardware using Gemma and Mistral, Google reported a 6x reduction in memory usage and an 8x speedup in attention-logit computation. The company claims no measurable accuracy loss, addressing a critical pain point for long-context agentic workflows where memory blow-up typically limits GPU batch sizes. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/PTvjeLzdh" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Node.js mitigates HashDoS with reversible integer hashing</strong>: Following CVE-2026-21717, Node.js developers detailed a sophisticated fix for V8’s deterministic array index hashing which was vulnerable to flood attacks. The solution uses a 3-round xorshift-multiply permutation that remains efficiently reversible, a requirement for V8 to recover integer values without re-parsing strings. Statistical evaluation confirms the new approach meets the strict avalanche criterion with near-zero performance impact on the JIT-compiled paths. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/mP9ljnS5L" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Linux 7.1 boosts SVM performance for Intel Xe</strong>: The upcoming Linux 7.1 kernel cycle includes a major win for Shared Virtual Memory (SVM) via Transparent Hugepages (THP) support for device pages in the Intel Xe driver. According to Phoronix, this change makes SVM servicing over 7x faster by reducing CPU overhead during 2MB page faults. The update also introduces a new ioctl for querying failed page faults from user-space and various L2 cache optimizations for newer Intel hardware. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/U9fHRQhXE" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>KubeVirt 1.8 adds hypervisor abstraction and Intel TDX</strong>: The release introduces a Hypervisor Abstraction Layer to support backends beyond KVM and adds Intel TDX attestation for confidential computing. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/GGgRL0lhA" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Security researcher boots Tesla Model 3 MCU on a desk</strong>: By salvaging crashed car parts and a bench supply, a researcher exposed internal network services and the ODIN REST API for bug bounty research. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/aRYW87ZJu" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>DIY FPGA board runs Quake II via RISC-V SoC</strong>: A custom 6-layer PCB featuring an Efinix Ti60 FPGA and 1GB DDR3L successfully implements a VexiiRiscv core hitting 207 MHz. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/5v06YtZPR" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>NXP Neutron NPU driver blocked by proprietary blob</strong>: Mainlining the Linux kernel driver for the i.MX95 AI accelerator is stalled due to a closed-source user-space library requirement. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/WzcU5uSdH" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Ubuntu 26.04 to ship Rust-based core utilities</strong>: The upcoming LTS will include sudo-rs and uutils by default, alongside a full switch to Wayland and GNOME 50. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/8o0UhUgD8" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Materialize achieves 100x speedup in Timely Dataflow</strong>: A new ‘notify only if holding capability’ scheduling mode drastically reduces idle operator visits in complex dataflow catalogs. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/4iM7vg842" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Android 17 Beta 3 introduces post-quantum APK signing</strong>: The new v3.2 scheme uses ML-DSA for hybrid signing, alongside enforced read-only dynamic code loading to prevent injection. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/sSVwrRoLW" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>Mojo is still just a very expensive Python wrapper</strong>: Despite $380M in funding and ‘Python superset’ marketing, Mojo currently lacks basic f-strings, named arguments, and standard library modules like shutil. Real-world testing shows it’s actually 3x slower than plain Python when using its CPython interop, proving that ‘Pythonic’ is currently just a vibe rather than a technical reality. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/xPvWA4uas" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>The vendorization of the engineering soul</strong>: Industry pundits are rebranding ‘outsourcing everything to SaaS’ as ‘vendorization,’ claiming that buying APIs is a fundamental shift in supply chain specialization. While it’s great for startup speed, it’s mostly a convenient excuse for the mass layoffs of internal tools teams and the slow death of the ‘build’ in ‘build vs buy.’ <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/a5rbOtmsv" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI judgment is the new senior engineer cope</strong>: As LLMs start churning out mediocre code at scale, the new industry narrative is that ‘good judgment’ and ‘taste’ are the only skills that matter. It’s a classic pivot to move the goalposts now that pure implementation is being commoditized, ignoring that you can’t have ‘taste’ in system design without actually knowing how to build one. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/p8Xi3BQzS" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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