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<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>AI reaches inflection point, developers face existential dread</strong>: AI coding tools, like Claude Opus 4.5/4.6 and GPT-5.2/5.3, are now generating working, tested software from detailed specs, leading to significant psychological distress among developers. This ‘Deep Blue’ phenomenon, coined on the Oxide and Friends podcast, reflects a perceived devaluation of human expertise, similar to Kasparov’s defeat by Deep Blue. While AI speeds up code generation, overall productivity isn’t necessarily improving due to new overheads like debugging AI-introduced bugs, as noted in a collaboration with SonarSource. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=2K2g5aSSO&amp;id=D9oPYSzsO&amp;id=DwIZWcSFk&amp;id=LGa8UvWgC&amp;id=MVJtIUgmi&amp;id=NRy4QMgxM&amp;id=NY3oBIud2&amp;id=zBlrfeSPo" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>India becomes OpenAI’s second-largest market</strong>: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced that India now accounts for 100 million weekly active ChatGPT users, making it the second-largest market globally. This growth is attributed to OpenAI’s adapted strategy for India’s price-sensitive market, including a sub-$5 tier and free year-long subscriptions. OpenAI is also planning new government partnerships to expand AI access across the country, positioning India as a key player in global AI adoption. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/E7X2UrHD0" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>New RCE in Notepad and SSJI in serverless Next.js</strong>: Multiple critical vulnerabilities have been discovered, including CVE-2026-20841, a Remote Code Execution (RCE) flaw in modern Windows Notepad versions. This RCE allows malicious <code>.md</code> files to execute local binaries via <code>file://</code> URIs, highlighting how “feature bloat” can increase attack surfaces. Additionally, CVE-2025-55182 (React2Shell) affects serverless Lambda deployments running Next.js, enabling Server-Side JavaScript Injection (SSJI) to exfiltrate AWS credentials, as reported by security researchers. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=AAuuxbltu&amp;id=fSewiiKKS&amp;id=jk8Zg0MX3" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>LocalStack drops community edition, raises developer concerns</strong>: LocalStack is discontinuing its open-source Community Edition, moving to a single Docker image requiring user registration and paid subscriptions for full access, sparking developer concerns. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/fsky5EERm" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>New Ruby toolkit for LLM integration</strong>: A new Ruby toolkit, <code>llm.rb</code>, offers a zero-dependency, unified API for integrating multiple LLMs like OpenAI, Gemini, and Anthropic, supporting chat, streaming, tool calling, and multimodal prompts. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/eI4XzTrQw" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Vulkan-on-Metal driver achieves feature parity</strong>: KosmicKrisp, a Vulkan-on-Metal driver developed by LunarG, has achieved feature parity with MoltenVK, enabling Vulkan 1.3 compliance on Apple devices and upstreaming to Mesa 26.0. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/2qlomA9u7" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Securing non-human identities in the cloud</strong>: Non-Human Identities (NHIs) like API keys and tokens are critical cloud security assets, with advanced management solutions claiming a 35% reduction in breach risk and improved compliance. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=ISqrlUoED&amp;id=Ypw3CG2Vn" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Hugging Face releases open-source robot kit</strong>: Hugging Face and Pollen Robotics released Reachi Mini, an open-source educational robot kit powered by Raspberry Pi, offering local Python SDK control but with setup “rough edges” and privacy concerns due to default cloud connectivity. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/f1KNRZS82" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Dash robot reverse-engineered for enhanced control</strong>: A developer successfully reverse-engineered the Dash educational robot, using Ghidra to uncover its BLE communication protocol and JSON message structure, enabling enhanced Python control and discovering unknown autonomous behaviors. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/GRUwDEkm4" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Sileo brings animated toast notifications to React</strong>: Sileo is a new React toast notification component featuring gooey SVG morphing effects and spring-based physics animations, offering a minimal API with zero dependencies for beautiful notifications. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/mKJJc80UG" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>Startups winning by automating everything</strong>: Apparently, the secret to startup success isn’t building great products or hiring talented people anymore; it’s just automating everything internally. Because, you know, a fully automated startup with no humans is definitely the future we’re all striving for. Who needs innovation when you have a perfectly optimized spreadsheet? <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/iqSQYY6BU" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>xAI engineers flee over safety concerns</strong>: Elon Musk’s xAI is reportedly losing engineers over concerns about AI safety, with claims he wants Grok to be “more unhinged” after it generated over a million sexualized deepfake images. Because nothing says responsible AI development like actively pushing for less safety and more controversy. Clearly, the goal is to break new ground in AI, not just break the internet with questionable content. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/uhJEF1Wo4" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>CS enrollment drops, students flock to AI majors</strong>: Computer science enrollment is down, but don’t worry, students aren’t abandoning tech; they’re just flocking to AI-specific majors. Universities are scrambling to launch new AI programs, because apparently, the only way to survive the AI revolution is to become an AI specialist. It’s not an exodus, it’s a migration to the shiny new thing, proving that fear of missing out is still the strongest motivator in academia. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/VoMzHrKrZ" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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