<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 in 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 massive jump from its predecessor, and leads most coding benchmarks. This model supports multimodal inputs and offers a 1 million token context window, putting pressure on competitors like Anthropic and OpenAI, according to multiple reports. <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. They’re concerned about declining commit activity, a shrinking contributor pool, lack of AI-era features, and an opaque roadmap, leading to growing fragmentation across its forks. This move aims to revitalize MySQL development and ensure its future relevance, as detailed in the open letter. <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 a surge in ATM jackpotting attacks 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, according to the FBI’s bulletin. <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 agents shift developer roles and introduce new risks</strong>: AI coding tools are transforming developer roles from writing code to reviewing and orchestrating AI agents, with 93% of developers now using AI assistants, but AI-generated code is also introducing subtle production bugs and security concerns like prompt injection. <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>Google Cloud expands Spanner and BigQuery AI capabilities</strong>: Google Cloud now offers native CQL API support on Spanner for easier Cassandra migrations and autonomous embedding generation in BigQuery, simplifying semantic search with a new <code>AI.SEARCH</code> function. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=BhFMZ3Oac&amp;id=CKaLROkeW" 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, plus lower memory usage compared to Jest 30, making it a strong contender for JavaScript testing, especially for Vite users. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/T3G4VUzdk" 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. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/Mm7b9KCfF" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Mirai raises $10M for on-device AI inference engine</strong>: Mirai, a new startup, secured $10M to develop a Rust-based inference engine for Apple Silicon, claiming up to 37% faster on-device model generation without modifying model weights. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/5vuQOT9lb" 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 software update introducing ‘kneel mode’ and a cold weather battery indicator for its R1 vehicles. <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 introduces modern features to C language</strong>: Moxy, a lightweight superset of C, transpiles to clean C11, adding modern features like string/bool types, dynamic arrays, hash maps, and Result types, aiming to simplify C development. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/le91077M0" 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 even more slides, probably filled with the same old corporate jargon, just faster. The promotional material even claims Claude Pro is ‘getting bigger every week,’ which sounds less like progress and more like an unchecked growth spurt. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/oLQ4V0bPw" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Trajectory explorer tool announcement</strong>: @benhylak announced Trajectory Explorer, a new tool for ‘navigating AI agent traces’ and providing a ‘sane way’ to inspect AI agent decisions. The claim of it being the ‘first sane way’ is, of course, entirely subjective and promotional. Because apparently, before this, we were all just blindly flailing in the dark, hoping our AI agents weren’t secretly plotting world domination without us knowing why. <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, launched an AI Management Dashboard to give companies ‘dedicated visibility and control’ over AI crawler traffic. So now, instead of just blocking bots, we need a special dashboard to manage the ‘AI’ bots. Because clearly, the old ways of dealing with automated traffic just won’t cut it for our new, superior AI overlords. It’s almost like they’re creating a problem just to sell us the solution. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/zxo3wKZNk" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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