<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>Cloud hardware costs skyrocket, Hetzner raises prices</strong>: Hetzner, a major European cloud provider, is hiking prices by up to 50% starting April 1, 2026, across all regions. This is due to a dramatic increase in hardware costs, particularly for DRAM, NAND flash, and server CPUs, driven by the AI industry’s insatiable demand. Unlike hyperscalers with long-term vendor contracts, smaller providers like Hetzner are directly passing these costs to users, with RAM prices reportedly up 80-400%. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/van1jyyDC" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Meta inks massive AI chip deal with AMD</strong>: Meta has signed a multiyear deal with AMD, reportedly worth up to $100 billion, to expand its data center infrastructure with MI540 GPUs and CPUs. This aims to add 6GW of compute capacity for AI model development, diversifying Meta’s AI compute stack beyond Nvidia. The agreement includes a performance-based warrant for AMD to issue Meta up to 160 million shares if AMD’s stock hits $600. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/vYZNsZv8f" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Apple unveils on-device UI AI model</strong>: Apple researchers introduced Ferret-UI Lite, a lightweight, 3B-parameter multimodal AI model designed for on-device UI understanding and interaction. This model aims for efficient inference without cloud processing, prioritizing low latency, privacy, and offline capability across mobile, web, and desktop platforms. It achieved 91.6% on the ScreenSpot-V2 GUI grounding benchmark, competing with much larger models, and could reduce Siri’s reliance on Google Cloud. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/qj9GoBvQx" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>Node.js 25.7.0 current release</strong>: Node.js 25.7.0 (Current) introduces ESM support for Single Executable Applications, an <code>http1Options</code> parameter for HTTP/2, and an upgraded npm to 11.10.1. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/K4geCuziz" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>New npm supply chain attack targets developer tools</strong>: A new npm supply chain attack, SANDWORM_MODE, uses 19 typosquatted packages to harvest npm/GitHub tokens and cloud credentials, deploying malicious MCP servers for prompt-injection attacks. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/q6c2RLQKH" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>OTelBench released for OpenTelemetry and AI performance</strong>: Quesma released OTelBench, an open-source benchmarking suite for OpenTelemetry pipeline performance and AI agent effectiveness in SRE tasks, revealing LLMs often achieve success rates below 30% in production-grade instrumentation. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/OB1MlP8PG" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Cilium 1.19 brings networking enhancements</strong>: Cilium 1.19 enhances Kubernetes networking with BPF Host Routing for IPsec, Gateway API v1.4 support, stable Multi-Pool IPAM, and initial Ztunnel integration for ambient mesh-style encryption. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/zYLvcHpYh" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Elasticsearch v9 boosts vector search performance</strong>: Elasticsearch v9.2.1 shows a 4x performance boost for vector search over v8.18.3, delivering higher throughput and significantly lower latency under high concurrency. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/Iw8wLbMFe" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Elixir/Erlang library for Redis/Valkey data projection</strong>: Veidrodelis is an Elixir/Erlang library that creates an in-process, read-only projection of Redis/Valkey data, enabling low-latency reads by replicating data locally. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/zImfn7djU" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>DMARCbis update discussion released</strong>: DMARCbis, an upcoming update to the DMARC email authentication standard, introduces clearer reporting expectations and standardized DNS tree walks for receiver-side policy discovery. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/yEFoBF8zN" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>Google enhances ‘vibe-coding’ app with agentic AI</strong>: Google upgraded its ‘vibe-coding app’ Opal with new agentic AI workflows, powered by Gemini 3 Flash, allowing non-technical users to create automated workflows with text prompts. Because apparently, we all need more ‘vibe-coding’ in our lives, and who needs actual coding skills when an agent can just ‘determine approaches’ for you? <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/ZbbWKhN8A" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Pentagon demands Anthropic remove AI guardrails</strong>: The Pentagon issued a deadline to Anthropic to remove AI guardrails on Claude for unrestricted military use, threatening to label them a ‘supply chain risk’ if they refuse. Because nothing says ‘responsible AI development’ like forcing a company to remove ethical safeguards for mass surveillance and autonomous weapons. Good luck with that ‘single vendor’ strategy, DOD. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/vbdfUwGoN" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI agent browser sandbox project announced</strong>: A new project called ‘browser sandbox’ was announced, aiming to create a ‘secure browser environment for AI agents to interact with the web’ with ‘zero config’ setup. This sounds suspiciously like a solution looking for a problem, especially when the announcement is from the project’s own representative and the details are conveniently ‘truncated.’ <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/AY0JUdVv6" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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