<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>EU parliament bans cloud AI on devices</strong>: The European Parliament has disabled cloud-based AI features on lawmakers’ corporate devices due to data security and privacy concerns. This temporary ban, effective February 17, 2026, highlights broader European unease about relying on U.S. tech companies for sensitive legislative data, especially given the inability to guarantee data security when AI assistants use cloud services. The move signals a pragmatic approach to AI adoption, prioritizing security and control over convenience, and suggests a potential shift towards on-device AI processing as a solution. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/NW6nIRqB9" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI demand impacts gaming hardware</strong>: Ongoing memory and storage component shortages, driven by AI datacenter demand, are 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, Steam Frame VR, and Steam controller. Sony may delay the PlayStation 6 until 2028-2029, and Nintendo is considering increasing the price of its Switch 2, all due to these AI-induced supply chain pressures. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/ttFo5ZiRW" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI security threats escalate</strong>: AI assistants like Grok and Microsoft Copilot can be exploited as covert Command-and-Control (C2) proxies, enabling attackers to tunnel malware communications without API keys, as demonstrated by Check Point Research. This, coupled with novel black-box backdoor attacks for CNNs and the struggle of CIOs to govern employee-built AI tools, indicates a rapidly escalating AI security landscape. The pressure to show ROI from AI investments by mid-2026 is pushing rapid deployment, potentially without adequate safeguards, leading to a predicted 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" 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 designed for enterprise agent workflows, claiming benchmark improvements over GPT-5.2, Claude 4.5 Opus, and Gemini 3 Pro, with expanded language support and context windows up to 1 million tokens. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/UOocLbfK4" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Temporal secures $300M for AI workflows</strong>: Temporal raised $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/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 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 risk framework, identifying governance failures and access control issues 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>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>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>
<li><strong>Python Security Response Team seeks members</strong>: The Python Security Response Team (PSRT) is actively seeking new members with security expertise to coordinate vulnerability reports and remediations for CPython and pip, following the formal governance established by PEP 811. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/k8sHlR5Xv" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>Activist investor calls toilet maker 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. Apparently, this makes a toilet company an AI powerhouse with a ‘$3.6 billion valuation gap.’ It’s a bold strategy, Cotton, let’s see if it pays off for them. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/08TkDSLKo" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI-powered data management platform promises miracles</strong>: Quest Software just 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’re claiming up to 54% faster delivery, 40% cost savings, and 50% improved reusability. Because, you know, just adding ‘AI’ to everything automatically makes it faster, cheaper, and better. No independent verification needed, just trust the marketing. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/wlE5eAAsI" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI FOMO drives bad tech investments</strong>: Apparently, ‘AI FOMO’ is a real thing, affecting over one in nine adults and driving 60-70% of tech leaders to invest in AI, often leading to ‘poor strategic decisions and unmeasurable returns.’ So, instead of making sound business choices, we’re just throwing money at AI because everyone else is. Sounds like a solid plan for innovation, or perhaps just a great way to accelerate that technical debt. <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>
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