<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>European Parliament bans cloud AI on devices</strong>: The European Parliament has disabled cloud-based AI features on lawmakers’ corporate devices due to significant data security and privacy concerns. Their IT department can’t guarantee data security when AI assistants process confidential information in unknown cloud locations, many of which are U.S.-based. This temporary ban, reported by multiple sources, highlights a pragmatic approach to AI adoption, prioritizing security over convenience, and reflects broader European unease about reliance on U.S. tech companies for sensitive data. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/NW6nIRqB9" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI demand impacts gaming hardware and component shortages</strong>: The insatiable demand from AI datacenters is causing significant component shortages, particularly for memory (RAM) and storage, directly impacting the gaming hardware industry. Valve has warned of intermittent stock issues for Steam Deck OLED units and delayed upcoming hardware launches, including the Steam Machine, due to these shortages. This trend is so severe that Sony may delay the PlayStation 6 until 2028-2029, and Nintendo is considering price increases for the Switch 2, according to reports. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/ttFo5ZiRW" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI accelerates technical debt and shifts developer focus</strong>: AI coding tools are proving to be a ‘technical debt accelerator’ if not managed with strong engineering fundamentals like testing, security, and CI/CD. While AI shifts the focus from writing code to specifying outcomes and verifying results, research indicates that overly comprehensive context files for AI agents can actually reduce success rates and increase inference costs. This means developers need to be more strategic in how they guide AI, emphasizing minimal, essential requirements over exhaustive instructions. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=S6u98Bbpq&amp;id=ZrBLHCGzU&amp;id=vtqAmTWpP&amp;id=xGLYUerTw" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>Alibaba releases Qwen3.5 multimodal AI model</strong>: Alibaba launched Qwen3.5, a new multimodal AI model with advanced reasoning and tool use, claiming benchmark improvements over GPT-5.2, Claude 4.5 Opus, and Gemini 3 Pro, expanding language support to 201 languages. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/UOocLbfK4" 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>Temporal secures $300M for AI and workflow orchestration</strong>: Temporal raised $300M in Series D funding at a $5B valuation, driven by demand for Durable Execution in AI and long-running workflows, with companies like OpenAI and ADP using it for AI agent orchestration. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=Btt27SjiL&amp;id=H860fyfMj&amp;id=HqHJFpyjl&amp;id=ME7WSXyrj&amp;id=O7fDdRA8l&amp;id=X1zVEwts3" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Figma integrates Claude Code for bidirectional design-code workflow</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 releases Smart Contract Top 10 2026</strong>: OWASP released its Smart Contract Top 10 2026, highlighting 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>Python Security Response Team seeks new members</strong>: The Python Security Response Team (PSRT) is actively seeking new members with security expertise to help coordinate vulnerability reports and remediations for CPython and pip, following formal governance established via PEP 811. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/k8sHlR5Xv" 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 using <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>Quest Software’s AI-powered data management 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 data product delivery’ and ‘40% cost savings.’ Because, apparently, all you need is a magic AI button to solve all your data woes, and these numbers are definitely not just pulled out of thin air to impress investors. <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. So, a company that makes toilets is now a cutting-edge AI investment. I guess if you squint hard enough, anything can be an ‘AI play’ these days, especially if you’re trying to pump up a stock. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/08TkDSLKo" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI agents will make the Agile Manifesto obsolete</strong>: Steve Jones from Capgemini is out here claiming AI agents building apps in hours will make the Agile Manifesto obsolete because human-centric principles conflict with agentic SDLCs. Meanwhile, Forrester reports 95% of professionals still find Agile relevant and nearly half are already integrating generative AI. So, either Agile is dead, or some people are just really eager to declare the death of anything that predates the latest AI hype cycle. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=X6nRpouih&amp;id=bzMzHxxko&amp;id=rYJW937q8&amp;id=smOggDoX8&amp;id=u1BVhEcKI&amp;id=uLTyA1fH1&amp;id=vtqAmTWpP" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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