<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 US-based. This temporary ban highlights a pragmatic approach to AI adoption, prioritizing security and control over convenience, despite the EU’s own AI Act. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/NW6nIRqB9" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI agents disrupt SaaS and drive protocol standardization</strong>: AI advancements are threatening the traditional SaaS per-seat pricing model, with major software companies reportedly losing $1 trillion in market cap. This shift is driven by AI agents replacing human seats and automating workflows. OpenAI and others are pushing for protocol standardization like the Agent Client Protocol (ACP) to unify agent experiences and enable platform-native AI integration, fundamentally changing how software interacts with AI. <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>AI security threats escalate amid ROI pressure</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. This comes as CIOs face immense pressure to demonstrate measurable ROI from AI investments, with many regretting vendor choices and struggling to govern employee-built AI tools. The industry is seeing a shift towards agentic AI for SecOps automation, but also a rise in novel black-box backdoor attacks like LADDER for CNNs. <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 for enterprise agent workflows, claiming benchmark improvements over GPT-5.2, Claude 4.5 Opus, and Gemini 3 Pro, with expanded language support and 1 million token context windows. <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 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>Temporal secures $300M for AI and workflow orchestration</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>OWASP releases Smart Contract Top 10 2026</strong>: The OWASP Smart Contract Top 10 2026 highlights 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) 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>GlassFish 8.0 released with Jakarta EE 11 compatibility</strong>: GlassFish 8.0 is out, offering full Jakarta EE 11 compatibility, requiring JDK 21+, and featuring virtual thread support, Jakarta Data 1.0 integration, and enhanced security. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/c8IbRHUTq" 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 via 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>AI FOMO drives bad tech investments</strong>: Apparently, over one in nine adults suffer from ‘AI FOMO,’ causing 60-70% of tech leaders to invest in AI out of fear, leading to ‘poor strategic decisions and unmeasurable returns.’ So, if you’re feeling anxious about AI, you’re not alone—you’re just part of the problem, fueling the hype cycle with your irrational fear of missing out on something that might not even deliver. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/ErBrh9iYd" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Gentoo Linux ditches GitHub over ‘Copilot-infested’ AI concerns</strong>: Gentoo Linux is migrating its repository mirrors from GitHub to Codeberg, citing concerns over GitHub Copilot and ‘AI-generated contributions.’ One article even calls GitHub ‘Copilot-Infested.’ Because, clearly, the biggest threat to open source isn’t security vulnerabilities or maintainer burnout, but the existential horror of slightly less-than-perfect AI-generated code. Better move to a non-profit platform hosted in Germany, just in case. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/Ed9ofBB82" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Toilet maker Toto is an ‘AI play’</strong>: Activist investor Palliser Capital claims 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. Because in 2026, everything is an AI play if you squint hard enough and have a financial incentive to say so. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/08TkDSLKo" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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