<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>Stripe considers acquiring PayPal, valuation soars</strong>: Stripe is reportedly eyeing PayPal for an acquisition, a move that sent PayPal’s shares up nearly 7%. This comes as Stripe’s own valuation jumped 74% to $159 billion, fueled by a surge in AI-native startups hitting $10M ARR in record time, according to Bloomberg and Stripe’s annual report. While Stripe’s CEO Patrick Collison downplays IPO plans, the potential merger could reshape the digital payments landscape. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=gB7UDBJXo&amp;id=2WYO6dKLA&amp;id=HqWjbO0Bb" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Cybersecurity landscape worsens, AI-enabled attacks surge</strong>: CrowdStrike’s latest report paints a grim picture: average cyberattack breakout time dropped to 29 minutes, and AI-enabled attacks surged 89% year-over-year. Adversaries are integrating Generative AI across the attack kill chain, with 82% of detections now malware-free, indicating a shift towards stealthier tactics. This escalating threat highlights the urgent need for robust, proactive cybersecurity measures, as reported by CrowdStrike. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/WsqeDq8OW" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>npm supply chain attack targets AI coding tools</strong>: Socket researchers uncovered the ‘SANDWORM_MODE’ npm supply chain attack, involving 19 typosquatted packages impersonating developer utilities and AI coding tools like Claude Code. This malware harvests credentials, injects malicious code into CI pipelines via GitHub Actions, and deploys a malicious MCP server for prompt-injection attacks, silently exfiltrating SSH keys and cloud credentials. npm has responded by tightening registry controls, as reported by InfoWorld. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=q6c2RLQKH&amp;id=3fX3MdYNS" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>Cursor launches autonomous cloud AI agents for dev</strong>: Cursor released cloud agents that autonomously develop software in isolated VMs, producing merge-ready Pull Requests with video demos, and claiming over 30% of their own merged PRs are now AI-generated. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/BbESdM4Ct" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Red Hat launches AI enterprise platform</strong>: Red Hat AI Enterprise is now available, offering a standardized environment for AI inference, model customization, and agent deployment, supporting any model or hardware with integrated tools like vLLM and Llama Stack. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/e1iAecIls" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>New LLM inference technique triples speed</strong>: Researchers developed a multi-token prediction technique that triples LLM inference speed without auxiliary draft models, achieving 3x+ speedup with under 3% accuracy loss on reasoning-heavy tasks by fine-tuning models with a confidence-adaptive decoding strategy. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/hxaAjvILy" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Elasticsearch v9.2.1 boosts vector search performance</strong>: Trendyol’s load tests show Elasticsearch v9.2.1 delivers 2x throughput, 50% less CPU, and 10x better p99 latency for vector search compared to v8.18.3, scaling to over 40,000 requests per minute where v8 crashed. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=Iw8wLbMFe&amp;id=Iw8wLbMFe" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI agents accelerate feature development on personal site</strong>: Kent C. Dodds used AI agents, specifically Cursor, to rapidly implement features like semantic search and keyboard shortcuts on his personal site, clearing a backlog dating back to 2019. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/HVH19Oob1" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI-augmented infrastructure audits save time</strong>: AI agents, like Claude Code with custom CDK skills, reduced audit preparation time by 80% for an AWS CDK infrastructure stack, even auto-generating a full CloudWatch monitoring layer, though 30% of recommendations were contextually incorrect. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/SgcSx3o2T" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>DMARCbis update and mailbox provider requirements</strong>: The DMARCbis update (draft-ietf-dmarc-dmarcbis-41) is evolving the DMARC email authentication standard with clearer reporting and standardized DNS discovery, as major mailbox providers like Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo tighten sender requirements. <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>AI agents impact on ‘10x developer’ concept</strong>: Justin Searls, a named individual, claims AI agents have rendered the ‘10x developer’ debate moot, effectively equalizing or amplifying developer output across the board. Conveniently, he offers no specific details or evidence on <em>how</em> AI agents achieve this, just a self-serving reflection that his 2023 prediction was ‘nailed.’ Sounds like someone’s trying to stay relevant. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/dMpIU74OH" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AWS blames engineer for AI tool outage</strong>: AWS published a blog post blaming an engineer using their Kiro AI coding tool for accidentally triggering a CloudFormation teardown in production, calling Kiro’s involvement a ‘coincidence.’ They then mandated human peer review for AI-generated changes, all while laying off thousands of human workers. So, AI is great until it breaks something, then it’s the human’s fault, and we need more humans to fix the AI’s mistakes. Got it. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/qZoHoApRh" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Meta secures major AMD chip deal for AI expansion</strong>: Meta signed a multiyear deal for up to $100 billion in AMD chips to build ‘personal superintelligence,’ a term CEO Mark Zuckerberg uses that sounds suspiciously like marketing fluff. The deal includes a performance-based warrant for AMD shares if the stock hits $600. So, Meta’s investing billions in AI, but also hedging its bets with stock options. Smart, or just another tech giant throwing money at the wall to see what sticks? <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/vYZNsZv8f" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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