<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>Google releases Gemini 3.1 pro preview</strong>: Google just dropped Gemini 3.1 Pro in 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 huge 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 in the intensifying AI model race, as reported by various sources. <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 security alert after over 700 ATM jackpotting incidents in 2025, resulting in over $20 million stolen. Attackers are using generic keys to gain physical access, installing malware like Ploutus to force cash dispensing. This highlights a critical vulnerability in financial infrastructure, especially for ATMs running on Windows OS, and underscores the need for enhanced physical and digital security measures. <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. They cite declining commit activity, a shrinking contributor pool, and a lack of AI-era features as major concerns. This move aims to revitalize MySQL development and address growing fragmentation, drawing parallels to PostgreSQL’s community-led success. <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 agents are changing software development</strong>: AI coding tools are shifting developer roles from writing code to reviewing and orchestrating AI agents, with 93% of developers now using AI assistants, 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>Kafka 4.2.0 released with share groups and streams improvements</strong>: Apache Kafka 4.2.0 is out, bringing production-ready Share Groups (Kafka Queues) and GA status for Kafka Streams’ server-side rebalance protocol, alongside improved observability and security features. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/0DcTaIDm9" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Google Cloud Spanner now supports native CQL API</strong>: Google Cloud Spanner now offers general availability for native Cassandra Query Language (CQL) API support, allowing Cassandra applications to migrate with minimal code changes while leveraging Spanner’s global ACID transactions and 99.999% availability. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/CKaLROkeW" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>MotherDuck launches dives for AI-driven data visualization</strong>: MotherDuck launched ‘Dives’ in public preview, enabling AI agents like Claude and Gemini to build live, shareable data visualizations with real-time SQL queries against MotherDuck, aiming to shift focus from query performance to answering business questions. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=5vuQOT9lb&amp;id=EN0GXQWa8&amp;id=WCFAOPbfm&amp;id=jZqleGa7a" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Rivian launches apple watch app and software updates</strong>: Rivian is rolling out an Apple Watch companion app for vehicle controls and a broader software update introducing ‘kneel mode’ and a cold weather battery indicator, enhancing user experience and vehicle functionality. <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>Vitest 3.x significantly outperforms Jest 30</strong>: Vitest 3.x shows dramatically faster cold starts and watch mode re-runs, along with lower memory usage compared to Jest 30, making it a strong contender for JavaScript testing frameworks, especially for projects already using Vite. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=60rKeST9w&amp;id=9RmovJfdu&amp;id=GsL0A9M1P&amp;id=T3G4VUzdk&amp;id=yRN3HZsMy&amp;id=T3G4VUzdk" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Ruby Kafka producer WaterDrop gets 50% faster</strong>: WaterDrop, the Ruby Kafka producer library, now offers a new file descriptor-based polling mode that boosts throughput by 39–54% by using a single Poller thread to multiplex OS pipe file descriptors across all producers, reducing GVL contention. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/yb3qA2Aar" 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. Because what we all needed was another AI to help us make even more slides. Apparently, it uses ‘connectors’ to pull context from ‘daily tools’ directly into presentations. I’m sure this will revolutionize the art of corporate deck-building, or at least make it easier to generate more bullet points about how ‘AI is getting bigger every week.’ <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/oLQ4V0bPw" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Trajectory explorer tool announcement</strong>: Someone announced ‘Trajectory Explorer,’ a new tool for ‘navigating AI agent traces’ and providing a ‘sane way’ to inspect AI agent decisions. Because before this, we were all just wildly guessing what our AI agents were doing. The promotional language, like ‘the first sane way,’ really instills confidence that this isn’t just another dashboard for something that probably should have been observable from the start. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/AzPQg0qJn" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Link11 launches AI management dashboard for crawler traffic control</strong>: Link11, an IT security provider, has launched an ‘AI Management Dashboard’ to give companies ‘dedicated visibility and control over AI crawler traffic.’ Because apparently, AI crawlers are a special breed of bot that needs its own analytics category. I’m sure this isn’t just another way to sell you a dashboard for something your existing WAAP should probably already be handling, but hey, ‘AI traffic’ sounds important. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/zxo3wKZNk" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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