<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>Google rolls out Gemini 3.1 Pro preview</strong>: Google just dropped Gemini 3.1 Pro into public preview, touting it as their latest agentic coding and state-of-the-art reasoning model. It scored 77.1% on ARC-AGI-2, a significant jump from its predecessor, and leads most coding benchmarks. This model supports multimodal inputs and offers a 1 million token context window, positioning it squarely against new releases from Anthropic and OpenAI in the escalating AI model race. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/PjE6Xo1XG" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>FBI warns of surge in ATM jackpotting attacks</strong>: The FBI issued a warning about a significant surge in ATM jackpotting attacks, with over 700 incidents reported in 2025, resulting in more than $20 million stolen. Attackers are gaining physical access to ATMs, often running Windows OS, to install malware like Ploutus, which exploits the XFS API to force cash dispensing. Financial institutions are urged to monitor for specific digital and physical indicators of compromise. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/LFNwj8vdP" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>MySQL governance under scrutiny</strong>: Over 248 database professionals, including engineers from Percona and MariaDB, have signed an open letter urging Oracle to transfer MySQL governance to an independent non-profit foundation. Concerns include declining commit activity, a shrinking contributor pool, lack of AI-era features, and an opaque roadmap. The community hopes to revitalize MySQL development and ensure its future relevance, though analysts are skeptical about Oracle’s willingness to cede control. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/GY7vcPtOu" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>AI coding tools shift developer roles</strong>: AI coding tools are transforming developer roles, with 93% of developers now using AI assistants, shifting focus from writing code to reviewing and orchestrating AI agents, though productivity gains have plateaued at around 10%. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=037a5YIjx&amp;id=0Q86tGAco&amp;id=0tYkAozTe&amp;id=1v9gMZMqJ&amp;id=2LocixQWJ&amp;id=2WWQ65Wm6&amp;id=2Xamq3Lpe&amp;id=3Kdb5qCcA&amp;id=4CjaWv3pP&amp;id=6KUpHm9AN" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>OpenAI funding round and Nvidia’s India expansion</strong>: OpenAI is reportedly finalizing a funding round exceeding $100 billion at an $850 billion valuation, while Nvidia expands its early-stage AI startup presence in India through new partnerships. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=0DcTaIDm9&amp;id=0YFuEvNrV&amp;id=15sPZIIxM&amp;id=1wUOcdiyY&amp;id=4d5iI7wra&amp;id=7XcS7wPp5&amp;id=BhFMZ3Oac&amp;id=CKaLROkeW&amp;id=EhV0yccOQ&amp;id=GxaTOejEP" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Vitest 3.x outperforms Jest 30 in benchmarks</strong>: Vitest 3.x significantly outperforms Jest 30, showing 5.6x faster cold starts and 28x faster watch mode re-runs in a 50,000-test monorepo, along with 57% less peak memory usage. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=60rKeST9w&amp;id=9RmovJfdu&amp;id=GsL0A9M1P&amp;id=T3G4VUzdk&amp;id=yRN3HZsMy" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Sony shuts down Bluepoint Games</strong>: Sony is shutting down Bluepoint Games, the studio known for remakes like Demon’s Souls, citing rising development costs and slowed industry growth, leading to approximately 70 job losses. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/NivzB6VtH" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Epic Games discontinues Quixel Mixer</strong>: Epic Games has officially ended development of Quixel Mixer, making the final version available as a free, unsupported offline application, with server availability for downloads not guaranteed long-term. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/YFmiwWeKv" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Rivian launches Apple Watch app and Toyota deploys humanoid robots</strong>: Rivian is launching an Apple Watch companion app for vehicle controls, while Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada has deployed seven Agility Robotics Digit humanoid robots at its RAV4 plant. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=VXVQM04su&amp;id=WnnenuOfb" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Moxy: a lightweight superset of C</strong>: Moxy, a new lightweight superset of C, transpiles to clean C11 and adds modern features like string/bool types, dynamic arrays, hash maps, and Result types, aiming to simplify C development. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=cE5aEK8bA&amp;id=kHMlO6WNW&amp;id=le91077M0&amp;id=mjkSTeKZ8&amp;id=n57Qq3JFZ&amp;id=vtM3aYGsz" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>Claude Pro integrates with Microsoft PowerPoint</strong>: Oh, joy! Claude Pro now integrates with Microsoft PowerPoint, allowing users to pull ‘context’ from their daily tools directly into presentations. Because what we really needed was another AI to help us make more slides, probably filled with more AI-generated fluff. One source even claims Claude Pro is ‘getting bigger every week’—just like our collective tolerance for corporate jargon, I suppose. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/oLQ4V0bPw" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Trajectory Explorer: the ‘first sane way’ to inspect AI agents</strong>: Behold, Trajectory Explorer, a new tool announced by @benhylak, promising the ‘first sane way’ to inspect AI agent decisions. Because apparently, before this, we were all just wildly flailing in the dark, hoping our AI agents weren’t secretly plotting world domination. The promotional language is, of course, entirely objective and not at all self-serving. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/AzPQg0qJn" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI will solve the climate crisis, says energy analyst</strong>: Energy analyst Ketan Joshi challenges claims that AI will solve the climate crisis, finding most claims conflate traditional AI with generative AI, which drives massive energy demand. He calls it ‘greenwashing,’ noting a distinct lack of peer-reviewed citations. So, while we’re busy generating cat pictures with our energy-hungry LLMs, some folks are still trying to convince us it’s all for the planet. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=0j71k63Zt&amp;id=3vnyKPx4I&amp;id=4YRSUVlsV&amp;id=8NUiIgn7m&amp;id=DqRWRtC6t&amp;id=EYFxMvhsd&amp;id=EwwCVZLpO&amp;id=HjxE0TjWy&amp;id=J8WeyapTq&amp;id=Nz3KEZcnf" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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