<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>Anthropic and Pentagon face off over AI ethics</strong>: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei refused Pentagon demands to remove safety guardrails from Claude, specifically prohibiting mass domestic surveillance and autonomous weaponry. In response, the Trump administration designated the company a supply-chain risk and directed federal agencies to cease usage, as reported by multiple sources including Sensor Tower. Meanwhile, OpenAI and xAI secured deals to operate within classified military networks, leading to a surge in ChatGPT uninstalls and Claude reaching No. 1 on the US App Store. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=vbdfUwGoN&amp;id=XR0JM9qQf&amp;id=NKaJqoze1" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Cisco zero day exploited by sophisticated threat actor</strong>: A maximum severity authentication bypass (CVE-2026-20127) in Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN controllers has been under active exploitation since 2023 by actor UAT-8616. Cisco Talos and Five Eyes agencies issued a rare joint alert detailing how attackers chain this with older flaws to gain persistent root access while leaving minimal forensic evidence. CISA has mandated federal agencies to patch or inventory affected systems by the end of the week. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/zAv8BAtGJ" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Block conducts massive AI driven layoffs</strong>: Jack Dorsey’s fintech firm, Block, cut over 4,000 jobs—roughly 40% of its workforce—citing AI’s ability to perform roles more efficiently. While Dorsey frames the move as a proactive structural shift, analysts question if the cuts are primarily financially motivated given the 24% jump in stock price post-announcement. This brings global AI-linked layoffs to over 61,000 since late 2025, signaling a harsh trend for traditional engineering roles. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=yB8j5HQ6b&amp;id=eacyfq01e" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>Quarkus 3.32 integrates Project Leyden to slash startup times</strong>: JVM AOT compilation via OpenJDK 25 reduces startup from 3 seconds to 900ms for large applications. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=ZcUprqw4E&amp;id=q0c622lXB" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Kubernetes v1.35 stabilizes in place Pod resource resizing</strong>: You can now update CPU and memory limits on running containers without restarts, eliminating the penalty for stateful JVM apps. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/fjhms6Zq4" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Oxfmt enters beta as a Rust powered Prettier alternative</strong>: The formatter claims 100% compatibility with Prettier while running 30x faster, already adopted by Vue and Vercel. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=8i6IuWF7s&amp;id=UVsfLKgRe" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>GitHub Copilot adds Claude and Codex as selectable agents</strong>: Business and Pro users can now toggle between models within the same interface to handle multi-step tasks. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=yzdWSZ1ol&amp;id=SPtD5ofrP" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>PostgreSQL extension Pg_QoS v1.0.0 reaches stable release</strong>: The extension enables DBAs to enforce per-role and per-database resource governance using standard SQL syntax. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/XKAHnCKP0" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Tinybird replaces DynamoDB for high scale Shopify analytics</strong>: A bootstrapped team migrated $5B in GMV processing to Tinybird to solve reconciliation failures and reduce engineering overhead. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/Q124S9eRv" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Java 26 ships with HTTP/3 support and G1 GC tweaks</strong>: The release includes 10 JEPs, notably adding native HTTP/3 to the JDK client and improving AOT object caching. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=VZeYyuIwk&amp;id=daEwOUEkj" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>The vibe coding hangover has arrived</strong>: Jeremy Howard and other industry veterans are finally calling out ‘vibe coding’ for what it is: a slot machine that produces shallow competence and massive technical debt. While Cursor and Claude Code are great at scaffolding, they are failing miserably at systemic environment issues like Android memory page alignment, leaving developers to do—gasp—actual research in documentation. As Howard notes, shipping code you don’t understand is a speculative gamble that most organizations will eventually lose. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=esgFsWKoI&amp;id=2sfq4SjL1&amp;id=qTo3A4fyS" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Anthropic claims Chinese labs are stealing their vibes</strong>: Anthropic published a report accusing Chinese firms like DeepSeek of ‘distillation attacks’ using 16 million exchanges to steal Claude’s capabilities. Critics, including T3 Chat’s founder, pointed out that 16 million is a rounding error in traffic and that Anthropic is likely just weaponizing rhetoric to lobby for more government protection. It’s a bit rich for a company built on scraped internet data to complain about ‘knowledge distillation’ from their own public APIs. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=n4TR5sqqd&amp;id=sw4iOpjCV" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Microsoft tries to ban the word Microslop</strong>: In a move that definitely won’t backfire, Microsoft locked down its official Copilot Discord after users flooded it with the term ‘Microslop’ to protest aggressive AI integration. Microsoft blamed ‘spammers,’ but the community quickly found workarounds for the auto-mod filters, proving that you can’t just regex away user frustration with Windows 11. It’s a classic case of a tech giant trying to control the narrative while their product hallucinations continue to make headlines. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=VL8POFwbi&amp;id=z67jNyFTm" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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