<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>Cloud costs soaring due to AI hardware demand</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 dramatic increases in hardware costs, particularly DRAM, NAND flash, and server CPUs, driven by the AI industry’s insatiable demand. Smaller providers like Hetzner and OVHcloud are directly passing these costs to users, unlike hyperscalers who are insulated by long-term vendor contracts. <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 acquire MI540 GPUs and CPUs for its data centers. This massive investment aims to add 6GW of compute capacity to accelerate AI model development, diversifying Meta’s AI compute stack beyond Nvidia. The deal 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>Npm supply chain attack targets dev 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. <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>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>Google enhances Opal with agentic AI workflows</strong>: Google upgraded its Opal Workflow builder with new agentic capabilities, allowing users to create automated workflows using text prompts and enabling an “Agent step” that analyzes goals and calls tools automatically, powered by Gemini 3 Flash. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/ZbbWKhN8A" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Quesma releases OTelBench for OpenTelemetry and AI evaluation</strong>: Quesma released OTelBench, an open-source benchmarking suite to evaluate OpenTelemetry pipeline performance and assess 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>Node.js 25.7.0 released</strong>: Node.js 25.7.0 (Current) was released, featuring HTTP/2 <code>http1Options</code> for fallback, ESM entry point support for Single Executable Applications, 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>DMARCbis update discussion released</strong>: DMARCbis, an upcoming update to the DMARC email authentication standard, introduces clearer reporting expectations and a standardized DNS tree walk for receiver-side policy discovery, as discussed in a fireside chat with co-editor Todd Herr. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/yEFoBF8zN" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Elasticsearch v9 delivers 4x vector search performance</strong>: Trendyol achieved a 4x performance boost by upgrading to Elasticsearch v9.2.1 for vector search, demonstrating significantly higher throughput and lower latency compared to v8.18.3 on hybrid search queries. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/Iw8wLbMFe" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>GitLab extends GPG key</strong>: GitLab extended its GPG key for repository metadata from February 27, 2026, to February 6, 2028, to ensure integrity and minimize disruption for users, though those who configured repositories before February 17, 2026, must manually update. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/JTFdrzyr9" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>Pentagon-Anthropic AI standoff over military use</strong>: The Pentagon issued a Friday deadline to Anthropic to remove AI guardrails on Claude for unrestricted military use, threatening to designate them a ‘supply chain risk’ or invoke the Defense Production Act. Apparently, the DOD is so dependent on Anthropic for classified frontier AI access that they forgot about that whole ‘avoid single-vendor reliance’ directive. Good to know our national security hinges on a startup’s ethical stance. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/vbdfUwGoN" 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 supposedly analyzed over 200,000 AI conversations and confirmed ‘industry suspicions.’ What suspicions? What findings? Who knows! The tweet from @rryssf_ on 2026-02-24 is so vague it’s practically a masterclass in generating curiosity without delivering any actual information. Perhaps the suspicion confirmed is that AI can generate a lot of words without saying anything meaningful. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/FAzFsVs8B" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI agent browser sandbox project announced (future tense)</strong>: A new project named ‘browser sandbox’ was announced by <code>@nickscamara_</code> on 2026-02-24, promising a ‘secure browser environment for AI agents to interact with the web’ with ‘zero config.’ The announcement is from the project’s representative, so naturally, it’s all sunshine and rainbows. The fact that the announcement date is in the future and the information is ‘truncated’ just adds to the mystique. Sounds like another groundbreaking solution to a problem we didn’t know we had, delivered with maximum hype and minimal details. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/AY0JUdVv6" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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