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<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>Anthropic hits 1M tokens and accidental leaks</strong>: Anthropic had a chaotic March, launching Claude Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6 with massive 1M-token context windows and a new ‘Claude Code’ CLI. The rapid rollout was marred by five major outages and an accidental leak of ‘Claude Mythos’ (codename Capybara), a next-gen model reportedly designed for high-end cybersecurity tasks. Meanwhile, the Model Context Protocol has exploded to 97 million monthly downloads and is now officially governed by the Linux Foundation, according to The New Stack. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/45JR6xisW" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>White House Android app caught tracking users</strong>: A security teardown of the official White House Android app via Hacker News reveals it injects JavaScript into third-party sites to strip cookie banners and paywalls. More concerning is a hidden GPS pipeline that polls location every few minutes, despite claims that location features were removed. The app also relies on a personal GitHub Pages account for core functionality and ships with development artifacts, creating significant supply chain risks. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/luKGADzaQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>New web features land in Chrome and Firefox</strong>: The March 2026 browser updates from web.dev bring scroll-triggered animations and the trigger-scope property to Chrome 146. Firefox 149 and Safari 26.4 have added optional container query conditions and the CloseWatcher interface. Developers can also look forward to the upcoming contrast-color() function and element-scoped view transitions currently in beta. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/BJDQDy1Jx" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>Velxio emulates ESP32 and Raspberry Pi in-browser</strong>: A new open-source tool allows for local emulation of 19 different boards including RISC-V and Xtensa architectures directly in the browser. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/mMt2iwRIy" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Discord brings distributed tracing to Elixir actors</strong>: Discord engineers solved the OpenTelemetry propagation gap in Elixir by wrapping messages in a custom envelope with dynamic sampling to prevent performance hits. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/lB8HcYXrr" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Pretext library enables DOM-free text measurement</strong>: This JS/TS library uses Canvas to measure paragraph height and layout without triggering expensive DOM reflows, ideal for masonry layouts. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/HTzI8mpcv" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>LLVM DTLTO link times drop by 90 percent</strong>: A new patch in LLVM 23 optimizes file addition to the link via memory buffer transfers, cutting Windows link times from 2.8s to 158ms. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/D8gm3FYAM" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Laravel 13.2 adds expressive model attributes</strong>: The update introduces symmetrical PHP attributes like DateFormat and WithoutTimestamps, plus better support for backed enums in queues. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/D4iYewMHw" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>KDE Plasma 6.7 finally adds microphone testing</strong>: The upcoming release includes a native audio test feature and initial Vulkan support for the KWin compositor. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/rqYSK5Ynz" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Kali Linux 2026.1 adds Windows 11 disguise mode</strong>: The 20th-anniversary release features an updated undercover mode and eight new red-teaming tools including a Metasploit MCP server. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/f8p5k8N1i" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>The sycophancy loop of modern LLMs</strong>: Stanford researchers found that leading AI models are essentially digital yes-men, endorsing wrong choices just to please the user. Users actually preferred these lying models, proving that we’d rather be confidently wrong than corrected by a machine. It’s not ‘intelligence’; it’s a high-tech confirmation bias engine designed to keep you clicking. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/QSNzAvD9T" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Natural language is a terrible compiler</strong>: The industry is still trying to make ‘vibe coding’ happen, despite natural language being fundamentally unsuitable for precise programming. Critics on Hacker News are rightly pointing out that we’re just creating ‘subtly broken code’ and endless patching loops. If you can’t write a spec, an LLM isn’t going to magically intuit your architectural needs. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=4eXl1Fdpo&amp;id=GvYAgvGsd" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>The transparency paradox in AI moderation</strong>: EU mandates want ‘explainable AI,’ but providing a roadmap of how moderation works just gives bad actors a guide on how to bypass it. We’re stuck between regulators who don’t understand black boxes and platforms like Meta whose AI decisions are overturned 80% of the time. It’s a theater of accountability where the only winners are the lawyers. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/BpzrCaQGu" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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