<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>Linux kernel permanently adopts Rust</strong>: Linux 7.0 officially makes Rust a permanent part of the kernel project, signaling a long-term commitment to the language. This decision, supported by years of community effort and ongoing improvements, aims to encourage investment in Rust training and development for kernel contributions. It marks a significant shift in the foundational technology of the Linux ecosystem. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/k0qXAqGCH" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Salesforce shifts Heroku to sustaining engineering</strong>: Salesforce has moved its Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) Heroku into a ‘sustaining engineering’ phase, halting new enterprise contract sales. This move is widely interpreted as a precursor to phasing out the platform, as Salesforce pivots towards an AI-led growth strategy. Existing customers can continue using the service but are advised to plan migrations to alternatives like Render or Vercel. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/13PGZg8yI" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>EU accuses Meta of WhatsApp AI antitrust violation</strong>: The European Commission has formally accused Meta of violating EU competition rules by blocking third-party AI assistants like ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot from WhatsApp. Following policy changes, Meta AI became the sole AI assistant allowed on the platform, leading the EU regulator to consider emergency measures to restore competitor access and prevent serious harm to the AI assistant market. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/w9RLQf8YH" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>Anthropic secures massive funding, faces India trademark dispute</strong>: Anthropic is finalizing a $20 billion funding round, valuing the company at $350 billion, with major investments from Nvidia and Microsoft, while simultaneously facing a trademark dispute in India over its name. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=XriPaad9D&amp;id=mdnz7f6PT" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI agents develop C compiler for Linux kernel</strong>: Anthropic researchers used 16 Claude Opus 4.6 AI agents to build a Rust-based C compiler that successfully compiles the Linux kernel 6.9 for multiple architectures, though the generated code is not production-ready due to inefficiency and subpar Rust quality. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/qhPl6UlEO" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Valkey performance enhancements post-Redis fork</strong>: Valkey, a fork of Redis, is undergoing significant performance improvements in versions 8 and 9, including a redesigned hash table architecture and memory overhead reduction, resulting in up to 40% less memory usage for small key-value workloads while maintaining throughput. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/BJPWCn9Zl" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Cluster API v1.12 enhances Kubernetes lifecycle management</strong>: Cluster API v1.12.0 introduces in-place updates for modifying existing machines without recreation and chained upgrades for skipping multiple Kubernetes minor versions, significantly reducing friction in cluster lifecycle operations. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/SwlgWxJBR" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Google Cloud Monitoring enhances OTLP metrics support</strong>: Google Cloud Monitoring now supports OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) for metrics, enabling provider-agnostic telemetry pipelines, direct SDK-to-Cloud Monitoring ingestion, and zero-code auto-instrumentation for metrics collection. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/REiFVQA5G" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Transformers.js v4 preview available on NPM</strong>: Transformers.js v4 preview is out with a new C++ WebGPU runtime for cross-platform support, offering 4x speedup for BERT models and 10x faster builds, plus support for advanced architectures like Mamba and MoE. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/blzYLzH95" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Python ecosystem updates and GeoPandas tutorial</strong>: RealPython released a new GeoPandas tutorial for geospatial tasks, Python 3.15 alpha shows JIT compiler gains, pandas 3.0 introduces breaking changes, and the PSF received $1.5 million from Anthropic for security infrastructure. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=0nZHWqg8R&amp;id=K4uvLmggX&amp;id=PuaaXOtow" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>Anthropic Claude co-work plugin release and tech stock market concerns</strong>: Anthropic released Claude Co-work with industry-specific plugins, and some sources claim this ‘wiped out $400 billion in tech stocks.’ Because, apparently, a new AI plugin is now powerful enough to single-handedly crash the market. Or maybe, just maybe, the market is a tad more complex than a single product launch, and this is just another attempt to generate clicks with exaggerated headlines. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/QnkkrfiEd" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI’s impact on cognitive skills: developer concerns</strong>: Two unnamed developers are worried that AI tools like ChatGPT are fostering ‘lazy thinking’ because they’re personally offloading cognitive tasks to AI. It’s almost as if using a tool to automate repetitive work might free up mental energy for more complex problems, but no, let’s just lament the potential loss of ‘deep thinking skills’ while still using the tools. The irony is palpable. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/X3beZyrKi" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI coding assistant impact and developer trust</strong>: A survey found 96% of engineers don’t fully trust AI-generated code, yet 48% don’t bother verifying it. Meanwhile, AI is generating 42% of code, projected to hit 65% by 2027. So, we don’t trust it, but we’re letting it write more than half our code without checking? Sounds like a solid plan for ‘innovation’ and ‘efficiency.’ What could possibly go wrong? <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=OTko9hG2g&amp;id=QxTS3kJG9&amp;id=t4jX0rY0U&amp;id=tbBooOAn7&amp;id=vO7uBsZ50" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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