<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>OpenAI ships GPT-5.3 Instant to fix the vibes</strong>: OpenAI has released GPT-5.3 Instant to address widespread user frustration with the ‘preachy’ and ‘overly empathetic’ tone of its predecessor. The update focuses on conversational flow and relevance rather than raw benchmarks, reportedly reducing hallucination rates by up to 26% in high-stakes domains like law and medicine. It is available immediately via the API as ‘gpt-5.3-chat-latest’, with the 5.2 model scheduled for retirement in June 2026. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/xpz4YVYwr" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Apple M5 chips debut with 4x AI performance leap</strong>: Apple announced new MacBook Air and Pro models featuring the M5 chip family, which utilizes a new ‘Fusion Architecture’ to merge two dies into a single SoC. The M5 Max delivers up to 4x faster LLM prompt processing than M1-era hardware, though base prices for the Pro line have jumped by up to $400 due to global RAM shortages. While the hardware is impressive, Asahi Linux developers note that native support for the M5’s GPU and N1 chip remains years away. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/FGAdSpUhd" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AWS data centers hit by kinetic strikes in Middle East</strong>: In a significant escalation of infrastructure warfare, AWS data centers in the UAE and Bahrain were damaged by Iranian drone and missile attacks on March 3. This marks the first time major US cloud infrastructure has been disrupted by direct military action, causing prolonged outages for regional financial institutions. AWS is advising customers to migrate workloads to unaffected regions as recovery efforts face complications from fire suppression water damage. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/rar5XOK6I" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>Google Chrome accelerates to a two-week major release cycle</strong>: Starting September 2026 with version 153, Chrome will ship major updates every two weeks to compete with AI-native browsers like Atlas and Comet. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/SAMWZskhL" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Kubernetes 1.35 stabilizes in-place Pod resource resizing</strong>: The new release allows updating CPU and memory limits without restarting containers, a major win for stateful workloads like databases and JVM apps. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/fjhms6Zq4" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>PostgreSQL 18 adds native UUID v7 and B-tree skip scans</strong>: The upcoming version integrates time-ordered UUIDs and performance optimizations for multi-column indexes where the leading column has low cardinality. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/VZeYyuIwk" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Anthropic launches Claude Code Voice Mode</strong>: A new /voice command allows developers to mix speech and typing, streaming transcribed text directly to the cursor without hitting rate limits on Pro plans. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/GZHhB5gpk" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Unity Asset Store to delist all Greater China publishers</strong>: Citing licensing and compliance shifts, Unity will remove thousands of assets from Chinese publishers by March 2026, effectively bifurcating its global ecosystem. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/HcJsvKbOc" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Node.js 25.8.0 adds permission auditing and SQLite limits</strong>: The update introduces a --permission-audit flag and a new limits property for the built-in DatabaseSync module to enhance security and resource control. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/RjnXphTRh" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Athenz provides zero trust service identities for K8s</strong>: The CNCF sandbox project issues short-lived X.509 certificates and OAuth2 tokens to secure mTLS communication across hybrid cloud environments. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/pfAqmuoIY" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>Cognition Lab declares the death of DevOps</strong>: Cognition Lab is back with the ‘DevOps is Dead’ narrative, claiming their Devin AI agent is now the ‘default’ for engineering teams. It’s a bold claim for a tool that essentially automates junior-level tickets, especially when real-world agentic workflows are currently plagued by 10GB VM memory leaks and ‘instruction hierarchy collapse.’ Apparently, we’re all out of a job because a chatbot can now pass a junior dev benchmark. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=LfBawqtwk&amp;id=SN21perrt&amp;id=1ebyHzEv7" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>The 60-minute AI alignment meeting</strong>: Atlassian’s ‘Teamwork Lab’ suggests that a single one-hour retrospective can increase AI alignment by exactly 34%. It’s impressive how they’ve quantified a complex sociotechnical problem down to a single percentage point using a ritual that’s basically just a standard post-mortem. If only solving the alignment problem for AGI was as simple as a 60-minute Zoom call and a shared Confluence page. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/mP6mRo4iD" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Vibe coding is the new software engineering</strong>: The industry is currently obsessed with ‘vibe coding,’ a term that <a href="http://fast.ai" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">fast.ai</a> founder Jeremy Howard correctly identifies as a ‘slot machine’ for unpredictable results. While the hype cycle suggests we should stop teaching architecture and just ‘vibe’ our way to production, the reality is a massive surge in unmaintainable ‘AI slop’ that acts as a denial-of-service attack on human maintainers. It turns out that style transfer isn’t a substitute for actual system design. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=f6QTld58Z&amp;id=q7ODcgpTd" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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