<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>AI is eating hardware, literally</strong>: The insatiable demand for AI data centers is causing a massive component shortage, particularly for memory (RAM) and storage. This isn’t just affecting servers; it’s delaying gaming hardware like the Steam Deck OLED and potentially pushing back the PlayStation 6. Valve and Sony are feeling the pinch, with Nintendo even considering price hikes for the Switch 2, all thanks to AI’s voracious appetite for chips. Meta, meanwhile, is deploying Nvidia’s Grace CPUs at scale for its AI workloads, moving away from the typical Grace-Hopper Superchip configuration, further highlighting the shift in hardware priorities. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=ttFo5ZiRW&amp;id=tohNH8UoB" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Europe bans cloud AI on devices, Gentoo ditches GitHub over AI concerns</strong>: The European Parliament has disabled cloud-based AI features on lawmakers’ devices due to data security and privacy concerns, fearing confidential information could be processed in unknown cloud locations. This reflects broader European unease about reliance on U.S. tech. In a similar vein, Gentoo Linux is migrating its repository mirrors from GitHub to Codeberg, citing concerns over GitHub Copilot and AI-generated contributions, maintaining a strict policy against AI-assisted code due to copyright and quality issues. This signals a growing pushback against pervasive AI integration without clear governance. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=NW6nIRqB9&amp;id=Ed9ofBB82" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI security threats escalate with new attack vectors</strong>: AI assistants like Grok and Microsoft Copilot can now be exploited as covert Command-and-Control (C2) proxies, allowing attackers to tunnel malware communications without API keys, as demonstrated by Check Point Research. This blends malicious traffic with legitimate enterprise AI usage, making detection harder. Additionally, a novel black-box backdoor attack named LADDER for convolutional neural networks achieves 99% effectiveness, highlighting the growing sophistication of AI-driven threats. The widespread deployment of AI-assisted code without adequate safeguards is predicted to make security vulnerabilities a major crisis in 2026. <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&amp;id=duMdZgpLR&amp;id=fq2jK89o7&amp;id=ncHmHkLQS&amp;id=rObMrNtnR" 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 secures $300M for AI workflows</strong>: Temporal raised $300M 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>New multimodal AI models from Alibaba and Moonshot AI</strong>: Alibaba released Qwen3.5, a multimodal AI model for enterprise agent workflows, claiming benchmark improvements over GPT-5.2, while Moonshot AI launched Kimi K2.5, an open-weight multimodal LLM with an Agent Swarm mode for orchestrating up to 100 sub-agents. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=UOocLbfK4&amp;id=tfdJsRaBj" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Figma integrates Claude Code for bidirectional design-code workflow</strong>: Figma now allows 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>AI agents disrupt SaaS and drive protocol standardization</strong>: AI developments threaten traditional SaaS per-seat pricing models as AI intelligence becomes abundant, driving efforts like OpenAI’s Codex App Server protocol and the Agent Client Protocol (ACP) to standardize agent-editor communication. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=BEYbuELEG&amp;id=LytVQeSZ8&amp;id=V16f6xKqK&amp;id=v0Pl5Xxg1&amp;id=wj4NMewlB" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Optimizing LLM skill generation timing</strong>: Research suggests LLM-generated ‘skills’ are more effective when created <em>after</em> an LLM solves a problem, as pre-generated skills often incorporate incorrect assumptions from training data. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/01mLfYPnp" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Linux kernel patches for .NET on Linux show massive performance gains</strong>: A pull request for .NET Runtime on Linux proposes using io_uring for socket operations, showing significant performance improvements of 15-50% across various workloads and reducing memory overhead for high connection counts. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/XXNGjMHHi" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>OWASP releases Smart Contract Top 10 2026</strong>: OWASP’s Smart Contract Top 10 2026 highlights governance failures, privilege misconfiguration, and upgrade authority concentration as dominant security risks in blockchain systems, emphasizing that audits alone are insufficient for production resilience. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/U7Z7c8wKd" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>AI FOMO is making tech leaders dumb</strong>: Apparently, over one in nine adults suffer from ‘AI FOMO,’ and this fear drives 60-70% of tech leaders to invest in AI, often leading to poor strategic decisions and unmeasurable returns. So, instead of making rational choices, we’re just throwing money at AI because everyone else is? Sounds like a recipe for a very expensive, very predictable bubble. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=7QpmQdJRy&amp;id=ErBrh9iYd&amp;id=HVST5H2Ad&amp;id=IVuZxLuLW&amp;id=WL5gkP0JC&amp;id=hUyOtzJRD" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Quest Software’s AI-powered data management platform is a miracle worker</strong>: Quest Software launched a ‘Trusted Data Management Platform’ that uses generative AI to create data products from natural language prompts, claiming up to 54% faster delivery, 40% cost savings, and 50% improved reusability. These numbers are, of course, direct marketing claims from Quest Software, not independently verified. But hey, if you believe that, I’ve got a bridge to sell you, built by AI, naturally. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/wlE5eAAsI" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Toto, the toilet maker, is an ‘AI play’</strong>: Activist investor Palliser Capital is trying to convince everyone that Japanese toilet manufacturer Toto is an ‘overlooked AI play’ because its advanced ceramics division makes electrostatic chucks for 3D NAND memory chips. Yes, you read that right. A toilet company is now an AI stock. This is peak financial engineering, folks, where anything with a faint whiff of ‘tech’ gets rebranded for the hype cycle. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/08TkDSLKo" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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