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<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>Intel’s SDS program quietly disappears, QATlib gets an update</strong>: Intel has quietly pulled the plug on its “On Demand” Software Defined Silicon (SDS) program, which allowed users to activate additional Xeon processor features via software licensing. This comes as Intel’s QuickAssist Technology (QATlib) gets an update (version 26.02) with new APIs for zero-copy Direct Memory Access (DMA), aiming to boost performance by cutting down on data copying during memory transfers. Meanwhile, Apple’s silicon Macs are being lauded for their superior performance, leveraging Efficiency (E) cores for background tasks and dedicating Performance (P) cores to user applications, a design inherited from ARM’s big.LITTLE architecture, as highlighted by “Last Week on My Mac.” <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=LA5nVlV55&amp;id=LPtFvSMC9&amp;id=lJuyIXZKX" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Spree commerce hit with critical security vulnerabilities</strong>: Two critical security vulnerabilities have been found in Spree Commerce. One is an Insecure Direct Object Reference (IDOR) in <code>spree_api</code> that lets unauthenticated guest users snoop on other guests’ personal info during checkout. The other, affecting the <code>spree_storefront</code> gem, allows unauthenticated users to view completed guest orders with just an Order ID. Both flaws could lead to Personal Identifiable Information (PII) disclosure, and patches are available for various Spree Commerce versions. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/Fb8vvabWN" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>New AI model pony alpha claims top performance</strong>: Pony Alpha, a new free stealth model, reportedly matches or exceeds Claude Opus 4.5 performance with a 200K token context window and strong tool-calling accuracy. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/cIFgh6gRR" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>GitHub introduces AI agentic workflows</strong>: GitHub Agentic Workflows now enable automated repository management using AI agents in GitHub Actions, supporting multiple AI engines with a security-first design. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/BFb40CqB" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Bun v1.3.9 brings parallel scripts and performance boosts</strong>: Bun v1.3.9 introduces parallel and sequential script execution, testing improvements with <code>Symbol.dispose</code>, and performance enhancements like SIMD-accelerated RegExp matching. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/S5ryyJJXD" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Heroku is finally dead</strong>: Heroku is officially moving to a “sustaining engineering model,” effectively signaling the end of new enterprise customers and a decline for the platform. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/u738eKfMn" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>The world is trying to log off US tech</strong>: Countries are increasingly moving away from U.S. tech platforms due to concerns over censorship, data security, and political influence, favoring homegrown or alternative solutions. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/MSeCcaYtN" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>LocalGPT brings AI assistant to your machine</strong>: LocalGPT is a lightweight, Rust-based AI assistant that runs entirely on your local machine, featuring persistent markdown memory and support for multiple LLM providers. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/WndaKmd4O" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Phlex ruby templating library has XSS bypasses</strong>: Three XSS protection bypasses were found in Phlex, a Ruby HTML templating library, allowing cross-site scripting through attribute splatting, dynamic tags, and href values. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/pzcq0prb7" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>GitHub copilot billing bypass: Because who needs to pay for AI?</strong>: Apparently, some genius found a way to bypass GitHub Copilot billing for premium AI models by using a free model to launch subagents. Because, you know, paying for things is for suckers, and security vulnerabilities are just features waiting to be exploited. GitHub Issue #292452 has all the juicy details, including how Microsoft was told and then just punted it to a public bug report. Classy. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=6XiGDuvrg&amp;id=SVJSQF1SS" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI framework boosts productivity by 40% in greenfield projects</strong>: The Software House claims their open-source AI framework for GitHub Copilot boosted developer productivity by 30-40% for over 220 engineers, especially in greenfield projects. Because nothing says “innovation” like throwing AI at everything and hoping for a 40% bump, especially when the AI is just writing the easy stuff. Let’s see how that holds up when the code actually needs to, you know, <em>work</em>. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=9kAZfg0YQ&amp;id=tZA0R168h" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Wayfair’s AI chatbot easily exploited for bigger refunds</strong>: A customer managed to negotiate higher refunds with Wayfair’s AI chatbot by simply asking for progressively larger percentages. This just proves that if you push hard enough, even a “smart” AI will eventually give you what you want, because apparently, rule-based systems are still as exploitable as a fresh intern. Who needs human customer service when you can just bully a bot? <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/olKzdY3xk" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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