<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>European Parliament bans cloud AI on devices</strong>: The European Parliament has banned cloud-based AI features on lawmakers’ corporate devices due to data security and privacy concerns, specifically citing the inability to guarantee data security when AI assistants use cloud services. This move reflects broader European unease about reliance on U.S. tech companies and the handling of sensitive legislative data, highlighting a pragmatic approach to AI adoption that prioritizes security over convenience. On-device AI processing is seen as a potential solution to avoid these cloud-related data issues. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/NW6nIRqB9" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Alibaba launches Qwen3.5 multimodal AI model</strong>: Alibaba has released Qwen3.5, a new multimodal AI model designed for enterprise agent workflows, claiming benchmark improvements over GPT-5.2, Claude 4.5 Opus, and Gemini 3 Pro. The model expands language support to 201 languages and is available in both open-weight and hosted versions, each offering context windows up to 1 million tokens. However, analysts note potential adoption challenges due to trust concerns regarding its Chinese origin, limited global ecosystem maturity, and compliance requirements for data residency and governance. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/UOocLbfK4" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI assistants exploited for C2, CIOs face ROI pressure</strong>: Check Point Research demonstrated how AI assistants like Grok and Microsoft Copilot can be exploited as covert Command-and-Control (C2) proxies without API keys, enabling attackers to tunnel malware communications. This highlights a growing concern as AI models can act as runtime decision engines for victim triage and data exfiltration, blending malicious traffic with legitimate enterprise AI usage. Meanwhile, CIOs are under pressure to show measurable ROI from AI investments by mid-2026, with many regretting vendor choices and struggling to govern employee-built AI tools, despite continued investment. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=8kxTLeIWY&amp;id=DCxMGa8ig&amp;id=H92K14NPx&amp;id=JY689C6zi&amp;id=K2suxKLLr&amp;id=T8PHWMs0E" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>Temporal raises $300M for AI orchestration</strong>: Temporal secured $300M Series D funding at a $5B valuation, driven by demand for Durable Execution in AI and long-running workflows, with companies like OpenAI using it for AI agent orchestration. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/HqHJFpyjl" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Meta deploys Nvidia Grace CPUs for AI workloads</strong>: Meta is deploying Nvidia’s Grace CPUs as standalone processors at scale for general-purpose and agentic AI workloads, marking a shift from the typical Grace-Hopper Superchip configuration and delivering 2x performance per watt. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/tohNH8UoB" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Figma integrates Claude Code for bidirectional design-code</strong>: Figma now supports converting live code interfaces from Claude Code into editable Figma designs, enabling a bidirectional workflow from code-first exploration to collaborative canvas-based design iteration. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=iBUqWA8OS&amp;id=jwuzwzVmy" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>OWASP Smart Contract Top 10 highlights governance risks</strong>: OWASP released its Smart Contract Top 10 2026, identifying governance failures, privilege misconfiguration, and upgrade authority concentration as dominant security risks in blockchain systems, based on hundreds of millions in losses from 2025 exploits. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/U7Z7c8wKd" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>JDK 27 gets post-quantum hybrid key exchange</strong>: JEP 527 introduces post-quantum hybrid key exchange to TLS 1.3 in JDK 27, combining quantum-resistant ML-KEM with traditional elliptic-curve algorithms to protect against “harvest now, decrypt later” threats. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=duMdZgpLR&amp;id=fq2jK89o7&amp;id=ncHmHkLQS&amp;id=rObMrNtnR" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>DJI robot vacuum vulnerability exposed by AI</strong>: A hobbyist, using Claude AI, accidentally exposed a vulnerability in DJI’s MQTT broker, allowing access to 7,000 robot vacuum devices across 24 countries, including live camera feeds, microphones, and floor plans, due to missing access controls. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/sfYExhzMO" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Linux 7.0 optimizes close_range system call</strong>: Linux 7.0 introduces a performance optimization for the <code>close_range</code> system call, reducing its complexity from O(range size) to O(active file descriptors) by utilizing <code>find_next_bit()</code> on the <code>open_fds</code> bitmap, significantly speeding up operations on sparse file descriptor tables. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/2IrhD5aAX" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>Google I/O 2026 promises more AI breakthroughs</strong>: Google I/O 2026 is scheduled as an online event, promising “AI breakthroughs” and “Gemini model updates.” Because, you know, we haven’t had enough of those. They’re also planning to discuss “agentic coding developments,” which sounds suspiciously like they’re trying to make us believe AI can actually write good code now, instead of just generating more boilerplate. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/S1mq2rdE3" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Quest Software launches AI-powered data platform</strong>: Quest Software launched its “Trusted Data Management Platform” with an “Automated Data Product Factory” that uses generative AI to create data products from natural language prompts. They claim it delivers up to 54% faster time to delivery and 40% cost savings. Because nothing says “trusted” like a black box AI generating your data products, and those efficiency numbers sound totally not made up. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/wlE5eAAsI" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Toilet maker Toto is an AI play, apparently</strong>: Activist investor Palliser Capital claims Japanese toilet manufacturer Toto is an “AI play” due to its advanced ceramics division, which produces electrostatic chucks for 3D NAND memory chips. Apparently, a toilet maker is now a hidden tech giant, and this is definitely not just a desperate attempt to pump up stock value by slapping the “AI” label on anything that moves. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/08TkDSLKo" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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