<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>Apple M5 MacBooks arrive with AI focus and price hikes</strong>: Apple announced new MacBook Air and Pro models featuring the M5 chip family, claiming up to 4x faster AI performance than the M4. The Pro models utilize a new ‘Fusion Architecture’ and support Thunderbolt 5, but prices have increased by up to $400 due to a global RAM shortage. Pre-orders are open now with availability starting March 11, 2026, according to Apple’s official launch details. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/FGAdSpUhd" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Google Chrome shifts to aggressive two week release cycle</strong>: Starting September 8, 2026, with version 153, Google Chrome will move from a four-week to a two-week stable release cadence for desktop and mobile. This move aims to ship security fixes and web platform capabilities faster to compete with emerging ‘agentic’ AI browsers like ChatGPT Atlas. Enterprise and Chromebook users can still opt for the eight-week Extended Stable cycle to minimize disruption. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/SAMWZskhL" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Critical Angular SSR vulnerabilities require immediate patching</strong>: Google’s Angular team released urgent security patches for two vulnerabilities in Server-Side Rendering (SSR) that allow for header injection and SSRF. The critical flaw enables attackers to steal Authorization headers or session cookies by exploiting how the framework trusts user-controlled HTTP headers. Developers are urged to update their SSR applications immediately or implement middleware to validate hostnames. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/uyb72ug6C" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>Anthropic launches Claude Code Voice Mode</strong>: Developers can now mix typing and voice commands using a push-to-talk spacebar feature within the Claude Code CLI. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/GZHhB5gpk" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Node.js 25.8.0 adds permission auditing</strong>: The latest release introduces a <code>--permission-audit</code> flag and exposes worker IDs in the test runner for better concurrent execution. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/RjnXphTRh" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Replit virtualizes browser time for video rendering</strong>: A new engine captures deterministic MP4s of web pages by injecting a shim that replaces the native clock and animation frames. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/8JyAeGwTp" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Portless replaces localhost numbers with named URLs</strong>: This new npm tool routes named subdomains like <code>myapp.localhost</code> to random ports, solving cookie clashes and monorepo port conflicts. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/iplbny8Oe" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>GitHub separates Code Quality from Security policies</strong>: Enterprises now have granular control to manage repository-level code quality settings without accidentally enabling full security suites. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/LWYRaqLUd" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Google launches Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite</strong>: A new high-speed model priced at $0.25 per million input tokens, optimized for high-volume data processing rather than agent orchestration. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/z8znwLLdC" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Django issues urgent security releases</strong>: Versions 6.0.3, 5.2.12, and 4.2.29 fix a Windows-specific DoS in URLField and a race condition affecting file permissions. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/vB3tALZkk" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>DevOps is dead according to the people selling AI agents</strong>: Cognition Lab claims human DevOps engineers are now ‘the exception’ because their Devin agent is so popular. It’s a classic ‘buy our product or you’re obsolete’ pitch that conveniently ignores the massive complexity of real-world infrastructure that a junior-benchmark-tuned bot can’t touch. Sensationalist headlines like ‘DevOps is Dead’ are the new ‘Year of the Linux Desktop,’ just with more VC funding. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/LfBawqtwk" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI startups invent two tier valuations to fake unicorn status</strong>: Startups like Aaru and Serval are letting lead VCs buy in at $400M while ‘headline’ investors pay a $1B rate just to put a unicorn badge on the press release. It’s a desperate accounting trick to help with recruiting and ego, setting the stage for catastrophic down-rounds when reality eventually hits. We’ve reached the point where ‘valuation’ is just a creative writing exercise for VCs and founders. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/cRCbCFvQ5" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>The information war over AI financial projections</strong>: Critical analysis suggests OpenAI and Anthropic are leaking selective, inconsistent data to mask massive losses while claiming multi-billion dollar run rates. Anthropic’s ‘ethical’ stance on military contracts looks increasingly performative given their selective participation in other defense projects. It’s a high-stakes game of 'fake it ‘til you make it’ where the primary product is investor FOMO rather than sustainable software. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/egxeYRWKg" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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