<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>MySQL community demands independent governance from Oracle</strong>: A coalition of over 248 database professionals, including engineers from Percona, MariaDB, and PlanetScale, has signed an open letter urging Oracle to transfer MySQL governance to an independent non-profit foundation. They cite declining commit activity, a shrinking contributor pool, lack of AI-era features, and an opaque roadmap as reasons for the move. This push highlights growing community frustration with Oracle’s stewardship and points to PostgreSQL’s community-led success as a contrasting model. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/GY7vcPtOu" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>OpenAI expands aggressively into India with major partnerships</strong>: OpenAI is making significant moves in India, partnering with Tata Group for 100MW of AI-ready data center capacity and integrating AI APIs with fintech company Pine Labs for B2B workflows. They’re also working with Reliance to embed AI-powered conversational search into JioHotstar. These initiatives, part of their ‘OpenAI for India’ strategy, aim to reduce latency, meet data residency requirements, and tap into India’s massive user base, with plans for new offices in Mumbai and Bengaluru. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=JlixRkBbI&amp;id=JodTqUZtB&amp;id=6fxZc9j6p&amp;id=KUvvYNNG9" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Google launches Gemini 3.1 Pro with massive context window</strong>: Google has released Gemini 3.1 Pro in public preview, touting it as their most powerful agentic and coding model yet. It boasts a 1 million token context window, multimodal inputs, and a new configurable thinking level. The model scored 77.1% on the ARC-AGI-2 benchmark, significantly outperforming its predecessor and competitors like Anthropic’s Opus 4.6 and OpenAI’s GPT-5.2 on this specific metric, while also offering more competitive pricing. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/PjE6Xo1XG" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>Abstract Security unveils AI-powered SIEM platform</strong>: Abstract Security launched an AI-Gen Composable SIEM platform using AI agents for real-time threat analysis, investigation, and response, designed to avoid vendor lock-in and reduce storage costs. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/ny3fqnOzY" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Link11 launches AI management dashboard for crawler traffic</strong>: Link11 introduced an AI Management Dashboard providing dedicated visibility and control over AI crawler traffic, allowing companies to enforce access policies and ensure compliance. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/zxo3wKZNk" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Redwood Materials scales energy storage for AI data centers</strong>: Redwood Materials, founded by former Tesla CTO JB Straubel, is rapidly expanding its energy storage business, repurposing EV batteries to meet the surging power demands of AI data centers, with Google and Nvidia backing its recent $425 million funding round. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/1mD3jO5pQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Cisco and NVIDIA partner on secure AI factory</strong>: Cisco and NVIDIA announced the Cisco Secure AI Factory, a modular architecture integrating AI compute, networking, storage, and security, aiming to capture a projected $267 billion partner-delivered AI services market by 2030. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=IYsqAR4Cy&amp;id=VBQEBjah6" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Anthropic restricts Claude Code OAuth for third-party tools</strong>: Anthropic updated its Claude Code documentation, restricting OAuth token usage from Pro/Max subscription accounts in third-party tools, causing community backlash and raising concerns about the future of affordable flat-rate AI subscriptions for commercial development. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=3lsZ5Vula&amp;id=FQxtQgg9R&amp;id=GYB8zPRsi" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Hugging Face launches community evals for AI benchmarking</strong>: Hugging Face launched “Community Evals,” a new beta feature for transparent, community-driven AI model benchmarking that aims to standardize evaluation and address inconsistencies in reported scores. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/9WqEmBh9G" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Medplum enhances security with Docker hardened images</strong>: Medplum, an open-source HIPAA-compliant EHR platform, migrated to Docker Hardened Images, reducing CVEs, simplifying Dockerfiles, and strengthening compliance with minimal code changes. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/tc1V1vMG" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>Wix engineering finds AI productivity is mostly a feeling</strong>: Wix Engineering ran a 5-week experiment on AI coding tools, finding that while developers <em>felt</em> more productive with Cursor, actual output gains were negligible. Claude Code, however, showed significant gains once developers stopped micromanaging it. So, some AI tools are basically placebo, making you feel good without doing much, while others require you to trust the machine to actually get work done. Who knew? <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/qQhctEUPB" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>OpenAI’s identity partner persona runs secret surveillance</strong>: Apparently, OpenAI’s identity verification partner, Persona, has been running a secret watchlist screening infrastructure since late 2023, filing SARs to FinCEN and STRs to FINTRAC with intelligence program codenames like ‘Project ANTON’ and ‘SHADOW.’ They’re also collecting biometric face databases and monitoring crypto addresses. So, when you sign up for OpenAI, you’re not just getting an AI chatbot; you’re getting a full-blown, government-linked surveillance machine. Transparency, anyone? <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/JdSs9FMH3" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI coding tools create ‘AI slop’ and ‘subtle production bugs’</strong>: A new report claims AI coding tools are accelerating JavaScript shipping so fast that developers can’t review it, leading to ‘subtle production bugs’ and ‘AI slop’ flooding open-source repos. The proposed solution? More ‘production visibility’ tools, specifically TrackJS. Because the answer to AI-generated garbage is always more tools, not, you know, better engineering practices or actually understanding the code. It’s like saying the solution to a leaky faucet is a bigger bucket, not a wrench. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=2Xamq3Lpe&amp;id=IR0A3b0XK&amp;id=dz3RmQVnk&amp;id=j5Q6D03Mc&amp;id=opnnf1fiE&amp;id=uNeZBI42S" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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