<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>AI agents are transforming software development</strong>: AI coding agents are fundamentally changing software development, shifting the focus from writing code to defining intent and orchestrating autonomous tasks. Companies like StrongDM are building ‘Software Factories’ where AI agents generate, validate, and iterate code, aiming to eliminate traditional code review. This shift is creating new roles for engineers in architecture and judgment, while automating implementation, as reported by StrongDM and others. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=PKgkpakDW&amp;id=SVJSQF1SS&amp;id=T3WPt9UvY&amp;id=TQc8FjFe3&amp;id=UP8vbIiNh&amp;id=Uy6YLN98D&amp;id=V83fhk3mp&amp;id=VJ9rI7ypU&amp;id=lfiKVNUvl&amp;id=YSL8saeiA" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>X under international scrutiny for Grok AI and content moderation</strong>: X is facing expanded criminal investigations in France, with Elon Musk and former CEO Linda Yaccarino summoned for questioning, over allegations including child sexual abuse material and Holocaust denial. This follows criticism of Grok AI for generating non-consensual deepfakes and child abuse imagery, leading to probes by UK and EU regulators. Multiple countries are investigating, and advocacy groups are pressuring Apple and Google to remove Grok from app stores. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/i3FTaaYRg" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI demand drives memory price hikes and market shifts</strong>: RAM and SSD prices are surging due to massive AI data center demand, leading to companies like Crucial reportedly exiting the consumer market to prioritize enterprise sales. This scarcity, coupled with the high wafer consumption of HBM, is impacting hardware availability and costs across the tech industry, including gaming consoles like the Nintendo Switch 2 and Valve’s Steam Machine, as discussed by Linus Tech Tips and Nintendo. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=yVlF3m7bk&amp;id=zTCrlSA9U&amp;id=ouFYb1BFb" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>Linux kernel 6.19 released, 7.0 announced with major updates</strong>: Linux kernel 6.19 is out with a Live Update Orchestrator for VMs and improved AMD GPU support, while Linus Torvalds confirmed 7.0 is next, making Rust a permanent language and boosting container creation speed. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/4AON6VE6k" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Microsoft PowerToys proposes command palette dock</strong>: Microsoft PowerToys is considering a Command Palette Dock, an optional persistent interface for quick access to pinned extensions, similar to Linux docks, aimed at Windows 11 power users. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/oLV0MsDPD" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>JetBrains IntelliJ IDEs adopt native Wayland support</strong>: JetBrains IntelliJ-based IDEs will default to native Wayland support in version 2026.1, addressing long-standing Linux display issues like blurry text and scaling inconsistencies. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/q5tiuOcND" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Amazon Redshift enhances autonomics for multi-cluster environments</strong>: Amazon Redshift extended its automatic optimization features to multi-cluster environments, intelligently managing table layouts and maintenance across all consumer clusters, and now supports allocating extra compute for these tasks. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/7o3DKKn6E" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI chatbot advertising sparks rivalry between OpenAI and Anthropic</strong>: Anthropic launched Super Bowl ads mocking OpenAI’s new ad-supported ChatGPT, positioning Claude AI as ad-free, while OpenAI CEO Sam Altman defended their approach amidst financial pressures. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/TmM2mNSSP" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI agent tools advance developer workflows and RAG systems</strong>: Anthropic released Claude Code CLI for terminal-based developer workflows, Hookdeck open-sourced webhook-skills for AI coding agents, and TencentCloudADP launched Youtu-RAG, an open-source agentic RAG system. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=4mT9ezJnC&amp;id=CG1QYcMei&amp;id=oOjuh2KuT" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI’s impact on workforce: anxiety, adoption, and value chain shift</strong>: AI adoption is causing anxiety for teams facing high expectations, but experts suggest building AI fluency through practical experimentation will shift roles towards higher-level supervision and decision-making, augmenting rather than replacing workers. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=0CiZDAswQ&amp;id=0hMgfxxrs" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>Moltbook AI social network plagued by critical security flaws</strong>: Moltbook, an experimental social network exclusively for AI agents, launched and promptly collapsed due to ‘basic security design flaws’ like authentication bypass and database misconfiguration. Apparently, building a complex autonomous system entirely with AI-generated code, as some suggest, leads to ‘gaps in threat modeling.’ Who could have seen that coming? <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=ycPDVy6OP&amp;id=yCqSQa4jM" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong><a href="http://Crypto.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Crypto.com</a> CEO acquires <a href="http://AI.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">AI.com</a> domain for $70 million</strong>: Kris Marszalek, CEO of <a href="http://Crypto.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Crypto.com</a>, shelled out $70 million in crypto for the <a href="http://AI.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">AI.com</a> domain, planning to launch a personal AI agent platform during the Super Bowl. He calls it a ‘strategic long-term investment’ spanning 10-20 years. Because nothing says ‘long-term vision’ like dropping a record-breaking sum on a domain name for a Super Bowl launch, especially when the actual ROI of premium domains remains ‘uncertain.’ <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/RoetWzgWa" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>VS Code snap package disk space accumulation bug</strong>: A bug in VS Code’s Snap installation on Linux is hoarding hundreds of gigabytes of supposedly deleted files, creating separate trash folders for each version that the system conveniently ignores. Users are finding years of ‘deleted’ data, turning their drives into digital landfills. The root cause? An incorrectly set environment variable. So much for modern packaging solving all our problems; sometimes, it just creates new, bloatware-sized ones. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/fARTOBXqm" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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