<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>AI demand drives significant price hikes for cloud infrastructure</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 DRAM, NAND flash, and server CPUs, driven by the insatiable demand from the AI industry. Unlike hyperscalers with long-term vendor contracts, smaller providers like Hetzner are forced to pass these costs directly to users, highlighting the ripple effect of AI’s infrastructure demands on the broader tech ecosystem. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/van1jyyDC" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Pentagon demands Anthropic remove AI guardrails for military use</strong>: The Pentagon has issued a deadline to Anthropic, demanding the removal of AI guardrails on Claude for unrestricted military use, including mass surveillance and autonomous weapons. Anthropic’s refusal has led to threats of being labeled a ‘supply chain risk’ or invoking the Defense Production Act, a severe measure usually reserved for foreign adversaries. This standoff highlights the critical tension between ethical AI development and national security demands, especially given the DOD’s single-vendor reliance on Anthropic for classified frontier AI access. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/vbdfUwGoN" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>New npm supply chain attack targets developer tools and AI</strong>: Socket researchers uncovered a widespread npm supply chain attack, dubbed SANDWORM_MODE, involving 19 typosquatted packages impersonating popular dev tools and AI coding assistants like Claude Code. The malware harvests npm/GitHub tokens and cloud credentials, then injects malicious code into CI pipelines via weaponized GitHub Actions. It also deploys a malicious MCP server into AI coding assistant configurations to enable prompt-injection attacks for exfiltrating SSH keys and cloud credentials, demonstrating a sophisticated multi-pronged attack targeting developer infrastructure. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/q6c2RLQKH" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>Rust-based TUI for network analysis</strong>: A new open-source TUI called Babyshark, built in Rust, offers a flows-first approach to analyzing PCAP network captures with curated anomaly detectors and plain-English explanations. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/v12mxt3cf" 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 across mobile, web, and desktop platforms, prioritizing low latency and privacy. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/qj9GoBvQx" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>OpenTelemetry and AI performance benchmarking tool released</strong>: Quesma released OTelBench, an open-source benchmarking suite to evaluate OpenTelemetry pipeline performance and AI agent effectiveness in SRE tasks, revealing LLMs often achieve success rates below 30% in production-grade observability scenarios. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/OB1MlP8PG" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Go concurrent map benchmarks highlight xsync.Map performance</strong>: Benchmarks for Go concurrent hash map implementations show <code>xsync.Map</code> leading in most scenarios with low allocations, while the standard library’s <code>sync.Map</code> offers solid all-round performance. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/mPzPzNKE4" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>GitLab extends GPG key validity</strong>: GitLab extended its GPG key for repository metadata until February 2028 to ensure integrity and minimize user disruption, requiring manual updates for users who configured repositories before February 17, 2026. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/JTFdrzyr9" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>DMARC email authentication standard gets an update</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, aiming to reduce ambiguity. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/yEFoBF8zN" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Quarkus project leyden reveals java startup bottlenecks</strong>: Project Leyden’s class caching approach helped the Quarkus team identify and address hidden startup bottlenecks in Java, such as runtime reflection and expensive static initializers, by nearly eliminating class-loading noise from profiles. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/q0c622lXB" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>Meta’s $100 billion AI chip deal with AMD</strong>: Meta just signed a multiyear deal with AMD for up to $100 billion in chips, including MI540 GPUs, to add 6GW of compute capacity for AI. Their stated goal is ‘personal superintelligence’ for billions, which sounds suspiciously like a marketing buzzword for ‘more targeted ads.’ And of course, there’s a performance-based warrant for AMD to issue Meta up to 160 million shares if AMD’s stock hits $600. Because nothing says innovation like tying your chip supply to speculative stock performance. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/vYZNsZv8f" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Google enhances opal with agentic AI workflows</strong>: Google upgraded its ‘vibe-coding app’ Opal with new agentic AI workflows, allowing users to create automated workflows using text prompts powered by Gemini 3 Flash. It’s described as enabling non-technical users to build complex mini-apps. Because what the world really needs is more ‘vibe-coding’ and ‘mini-apps’ built by people who don’t understand what they’re building, all while Google tries to compete with every natural-language app builder under the sun. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/ZbbWKhN8A" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Microsoft and salesforce confirm AI suspicions (details withheld)</strong>: Microsoft Research and Salesforce AI apparently analyzed over 200,000 AI conversations and ‘confirmed industry suspicions.’ What suspicions? What findings? Who knows! The source is a retweet from @rryssf_, making it about as reliable as a fortune cookie. It’s vague, provides zero details, and seems designed purely to generate curiosity without delivering any actual information. Classic clickbait, folks. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/FAzFsVs8B" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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