<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>European Parliament bans cloud AI on devices over data security fears</strong>: The European Parliament has disabled cloud-based AI features on lawmakers’ devices due to data security and privacy concerns, highlighting a growing institutional distrust in AI’s handling of sensitive information. This move, reported by sources like Article #1PAt3KUHq, reflects broader European anxieties about reliance on U.S. tech companies and the potential for confidential data to be processed in unknown cloud locations. It’s a pragmatic step prioritizing security over convenience, even as the EU leads in AI regulation. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/NW6nIRqB9" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI accelerates technical debt without strong engineering fundamentals</strong>: AI is accelerating code generation, but it’s also amplifying existing problems in software pipelines if engineering fundamentals like testing, security, and CI/CD are weak. Without proper guardrails, AI becomes a “technical debt accelerator,” as highlighted by The New Stack. Senior engineers are now tasked with mentoring newcomers who enter the field via AI tools, ensuring architectural rigor and preventing a flood of low-quality, AI-generated code. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/S6u98Bbpq" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>GitHub boosts open-source security with $1.38M fund</strong>: GitHub’s Secure Open Source Fund has invested $1.38 million across 138 critical open-source projects, including Python and Node.js, to bolster their security. This initiative, detailed on the GitHub Blog, has already led to 191 new CVEs, 500+ CodeQL alerts fixed, and 600+ leaked secrets resolved, aiming to shift maintainers towards proactive security measures. It’s a crucial effort to secure the foundational components of the software supply chain. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/AKKukHSVk" 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 launches Qwen3.5 multimodal AI model</strong>: Alibaba released Qwen3.5, a new multimodal AI model designed for enterprise agent workflows, claiming benchmark improvements over GPT-5.2 and Claude 4.5 Opus, and 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>Figma integrates Claude Code for bidirectional design-code workflow</strong>: Figma now integrates with Claude Code, allowing live code interfaces to be converted into editable Figma designs, enabling a bidirectional workflow between code-first exploration and 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>React survey highlights TanStack rise and AI’s impact</strong>: The 2025 State of React survey shows TanStack gaining popularity over Next.js, with developers questioning React Server Components and showing enthusiasm for the React Compiler, while AI-assisted coding reinforces React’s dominance as the default UI output. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/6haOMq9X6" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>DJI robot vacuum vulnerability exposes user data</strong>: A hobbyist using Claude AI accidentally exposed a vulnerability in DJI’s MQTT broker, granting access to 7,000 robot vacuum devices across 24 countries, including live camera feeds 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>Temporal raises $300M for AI and workflow orchestration</strong>: Temporal secured $300M in Series D funding at a $5B valuation, driven by demand for Durable Execution in AI and long-running workflows, with revenue growing 380% YoY and processing over 150,000 actions per second. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/HqHJFpyjl" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>OWASP highlights governance failures in smart contract security</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>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>Google I/O 2026 promises AI breakthroughs, again</strong>: Google I/O 2026 is scheduled as an online event, promising “AI breakthroughs” and “Gemini model updates.” Because Google has a history of over-promising and under-delivering on AI, we’ll believe it when we see it. Let’s hope for actual breakthroughs, not just more marketing fluff. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/S1mq2rdE3" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Quest Software’s AI-powered data management platform: Trust us, it’s magic</strong>: Quest Software launched its “Trusted Data Management Platform,” which supposedly uses generative AI to create data products from natural language prompts and offers up to 54% faster delivery. Because, you know, data management was just too hard without AI making up data products for you. I’m sure the “trust scoring system” is totally objective and not at all a marketing gimmick. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/wlE5eAAsI" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Toilet maker Toto rebranded as an AI play by activist investor</strong>: Activist investor Palliser Capital is trying to rebrand Japanese toilet manufacturer Toto as an “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 company. This is peak financial engineering, turning porcelain into AI gold. What’s next, my toaster is a blockchain startup? <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/08TkDSLKo" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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