<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 the ARC-AGI-2 benchmark, a significant jump from its predecessor, and leads most coding benchmarks. This model supports multimodal inputs, including audio and video, and offers a 1 million token context window, positioning it as a strong contender in the escalating AI model race, as reported by multiple sources. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/PjE6Xo1XG" 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, lack of AI-era features, and an opaque roadmap as reasons for concern. 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>
<li><strong>FBI warns of surge in ATM jackpotting attacks</strong>: The FBI issued a security alert after ATM jackpotting attacks surged in 2025, with over 700 incidents leading to more than $20 million stolen. Attackers use generic keys to gain physical access, install malware like Ploutus, and force cash dispensing by exploiting the XFS API. Financial institutions are urged to monitor for digital and physical indicators of compromise, as these attacks are fast, hard to detect, and highly lucrative. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/LFNwj8vdP" 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 agent adoption and impact in software development</strong>: AI coding tools are shifting developer roles towards reviewing and orchestrating AI agents, with 93% of developers using AI assistants, though productivity gains have plateaued and AI-generated code can introduce subtle production bugs. <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>AI innovation across data analytics, on-device inference, and voice synthesis</strong>: MotherDuck launched ‘Dives’ for AI agents to build live data visualizations, Mirai raised $10M for an on-device inference engine in Rust, Google Cloud built an AI-powered biomechanics tool, and Voicebox released an open-source, local-first voice cloning studio. <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>Node.js memory usage halved with node-caged</strong>: Cloudflare, Igalia, and the Node project collaborated on <code>node-caged</code>, a Docker image with V8 pointer compression that can halve Node.js memory usage in production, alongside npm v11.10.0 and BrowserPod 1.0 releases. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/Mm7b9KCfF" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Vitest 3.x significantly outperforms jest 30</strong>: Vitest 3.x shows 5.6x faster cold starts and 28x faster watch mode re-runs compared to Jest 30 in large monorepos, attributed to its Vite-based transform pipeline and shared module caching. <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>Rust developer migrates web app back to node.js</strong>: A solo founder migrated a production web application from Rust back to Node.js, citing Rust’s pain points for web development like immature i18n/l10n, verbose error handling, and slow CI/CD compilation times, concluding Node.js with TypeScript is more practical for rapid iteration. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=4wdP32pyI&amp;id=8nSwUzP5o&amp;id=FdD6cw6Ce&amp;id=G104VcMFP&amp;id=KM5ollL6g&amp;id=QWUrTRzEZ&amp;id=a1jt95O2X" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>KFC architecture blueprint for real-time data processing</strong>: The KFC Architecture Blueprint combines Kafka, Flink, and ClickHouse for end-to-end real-time data processing, suitable for fraud detection and IoT telemetry, though many workloads can bypass Flink by directly using ClickHouse’s Kafka Table Engine. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/pAQO9MXVw" 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, releasing the final version as a free, unsupported offline application, with users advised to download it along with optional asset packs before server availability is no longer guaranteed. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/YFmiwWeKv" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>AI agent governance, bias, and economic impact concerns</strong>: MIT CSAIL found most AI agents are closed-source with little safety disclosure, while Microsoft used an AI-mangled, plagiarized diagram, and MIT researchers found LLMs give less accurate responses to users with lower education. Apparently, AI is great at being opaque, biased, and condescending, just like some humans, but with less accountability. <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>
<li><strong>AI’s text-trap: moving towards a more interactive future</strong>: Some folks are worried that text-only AI assistants will commoditize SaaS products by stripping away all that ‘carefully crafted user experience.’ Their solution? More frameworks, more design modes, and ‘co-creation’ to avoid the ‘generic mediocrity of generative UI.’ Because nothing says innovation like adding more layers of abstraction to a text box. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/Nz3KEZcnf" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>I bet your AI can’t spawn this architect</strong>: A satirical rant pokes fun at the endless parade of software architecture buzzwords—microkernel, CRDT, event-driven microservices—and the absurdity of enterprise Java stacks. The author suggests skipping code entirely and just drawing UML diagrams or reading O’Reilly books. Because, let’s be honest, sometimes the hype cycle is more about the buzzwords than the actual code. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/SwJH4RR0B" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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