<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>Apple M5 chips arrive with a side of RAM shortage</strong>: Apple has unveiled the M5 MacBook lineup, claiming up to 4x faster AI performance and a new Fusion Architecture for Pro/Max models that merges two dies into a single SoC. However, analysts note a price hike of up to $400 on some models, attributed to a global RAM shortage fueled by AI infrastructure demand. While the hardware is shiny, Asahi Linux developers warn that native Linux support for these chips is likely years away. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/FGAdSpUhd" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>North Korean StegaBin campaign targets developer credentials</strong>: The Lazarus-linked group Famous Chollima is using a new ‘StegaBin’ campaign to infect developers via 26 malicious npm packages that typosquat popular libraries. These packages use Pastebin steganography to hide C2 infrastructure and deploy a multi-stage infostealer targeting SSH keys, VSCode configs, and crypto wallets across Linux, Windows, and macOS. Web3 and cryptocurrency developers appear to be the primary targets for this sophisticated supply chain attack. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/QDsiIqiel" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Unity Asset Store to delist all Greater China publishers</strong>: Starting March 31, 2026, Unity will remove all assets from publishers based in Greater China from its global store, affecting roughly 3,000 assets. This schism stems from the divergence of ‘Unity China,’ a joint venture using a forked engine that has drifted from the main codebase since 2022. While existing buyers retain access, they will lose all future updates and publisher support, leading to significant community backlash. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/HcJsvKbOc" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>Rust iterator abstractions can kill performance</strong>: A 60x speedup was achieved in turbopuffer by replacing recursive next() calls with batched iterators, proving ‘zero-cost’ doesn’t always mean ‘compiler-optimized.’ <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/U3pwVYd72" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Google Chrome moves to a two week release cycle</strong>: Starting September 2026, Chrome will double its release cadence to ship features and security fixes faster in response to AI browser competition. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/SAMWZskhL" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Helm 4 adopts WebAssembly for plugins</strong>: The new Wasm-based system replaces Lua to provide better isolation and cross-architecture portability for Kubernetes extensions. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/W9pY3Qv5R" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Angular patches critical SSR vulnerabilities</strong>: Developers should update immediately to fix an SSRF flaw that allows attackers to steal Authorization headers and session cookies. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/uyb72ug6C" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>GitHub warns of AI slop drowning maintainers</strong>: A new analysis describes the surge of low-quality AI-generated PRs as a denial-of-service attack on human attention in the open-source ecosystem. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/q7ODcgpTd" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Floating wind turbines might house your next data center</strong>: Startup Aikido Technologies plans to put data halls inside the ballast tanks of offshore turbines to solve power and cooling issues. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/WmjXhKLWe" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Postman goes AI native with Git integration</strong>: A major update introduces ‘Agent Mode’ to automate debugging and test writing directly within Git repositories. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/uVCb38dOT" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>The death of the DevOps engineer</strong>: Cognition Lab is out here claiming that human DevOps engineers are now ‘the exception rather than the default’ because their Devin AI is so good. It’s a classic case of a company grading its own homework using junior-level benchmarks to justify a sensationalist ‘DevOps is Dead’ headline. Wake me up when the AI can handle a legacy YAML mess without a human supervisor cleaning up the hallucinations. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/LfBawqtwk" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Two tier valuations for fake unicorns</strong>: Venture capitalists have invented a fun new way to lie: two-tier pricing where lead investors get a discount while ‘headline’ investors pay a premium just so the startup can claim a $1B valuation. It’s essentially a vanity metric for recruiting talent and tricking customers, creating a massive debt of expectations that will likely end in a punitive down round. It’s not a ‘novel structure,’ it’s a bubble-era shell game. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/cRCbCFvQ5" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI generated code volume as a success metric</strong>: Some teams are bragging about the sheer volume of code their LLMs are pumping out, which @thdxr rightly points out is doing it ‘entirely incorrectly.’ Measuring productivity by lines of code was a bad idea in the 80s, and it’s even worse now that a chatbot can hallucinate a thousand lines of technical debt in seconds. If you aren’t shifting your effort to review and architecture, you’re just automating the creation of a legacy disaster. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=Zg1TDb0r6&amp;id=4hSjV9Ifd" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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