<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>EU parliament bans cloud AI on devices over data security</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 confidential information won’t be processed in unknown cloud locations, especially given that many AI servers are US-based. This temporary ban highlights a pragmatic approach to AI adoption, prioritizing security and control over convenience, even as the EU regulates AI with its comprehensive AI Act. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/NW6nIRqB9" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Gentoo Linux ditches GitHub over AI concerns</strong>: Gentoo Linux is migrating its repository mirrors from GitHub to Codeberg, citing concerns over GitHub Copilot and AI-generated contributions. Gentoo maintains a strict policy against AI-assisted code due to copyright, quality, and ethical issues, and views GitHub’s alleged ‘persistent attempts to force Copilot usage’ as problematic. This move to a privacy-focused, non-profit hosted platform reflects a broader push for control and integrity in open-source development. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/Ed9ofBB82" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI security threats escalate amidst ROI pressure</strong>: AI assistants like Grok and Microsoft Copilot can be exploited as covert Command-and-Control proxies, enabling attackers to tunnel malware communications without API keys, as demonstrated by Check Point Research. This comes as CIOs face immense pressure to show measurable ROI from AI investments by mid-2026, with many regretting vendor choices and struggling to govern employee-built AI tools. The confluence of escalating AI-driven threats and unfulfilled promises is creating a precarious situation for enterprise security and budgets. <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>OWASP releases smart contract top 10 2026</strong>: The OWASP Smart Contract Top 10 2026 highlights governance failures, privilege misconfiguration, 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/feed-by-ids?id=U7Z7c8wKd&amp;id=WFh6lNRMq" 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) for significantly faster 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>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>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>Gaming hardware impacted by AI datacenter demand</strong>: Ongoing memory and storage component shortages, driven by AI datacenter demand, are causing intermittent stock issues for devices like the Steam Deck OLED and may delay next-gen consoles like the PlayStation 6. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/ttFo5ZiRW" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>JDK 27 to get 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>Debian’s universal OS philosophy continues with RISC-V</strong>: Debian’s commitment to being a ‘Universal Operating System’ is reinforced by its continued support for diverse architectures, including new platforms like riscv64, providing a stable and portable foundation for countless derivatives. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=EFXB5kzMc&amp;id=xpFUQM5D2" 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 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 actual business cases, we’re just throwing money at AI because everyone else is. Sounds like a solid strategy for innovation. <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 launches AI-powered data management platform</strong>: Quest Software just launched a ‘Trusted Data Management Platform’ that uses generative AI to create data products from natural language prompts, claiming ‘up to 54% faster time to data product delivery’ and ‘40% cost savings.’ Because nothing says ‘trusted’ like marketing claims that are definitely not independently verified and sound suspiciously like every other AI product announcement this week. <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. The lengths people will go to find an ‘AI angle’ are truly astounding. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/08TkDSLKo" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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