<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>Hetzner announces major price hikes due to AI hardware demand</strong>: Hetzner, a major European cloud provider, is increasing prices by up to 50% starting April 1, 2026, across all regions. This significant hike is attributed to soaring hardware costs, particularly for 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 directly passing these increased costs to their users, impacting budget-conscious businesses. <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 agreement includes a performance-based warrant for AMD shares, contingent on AMD’s stock reaching $600, underscoring the scale of Meta’s commitment to ‘personal superintelligence’. <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 to enable visual perception and control of user interfaces directly on mobile, web, and desktop platforms without cloud processing, prioritizing low latency, privacy, and offline capability. It achieved competitive performance on GUI grounding benchmarks against much larger models, potentially reducing Siri’s reliance on external cloud services. <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>Formae IaC platform adds multi-cloud support with AI assistance</strong>: Platform Engineering Labs updated formae, its open-source IaC platform, with multi-cloud support and a redesigned Plugin SDK that leverages AI-assisted development. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/oAyNaPkCA" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Quesma releases OTelBench for OpenTelemetry and AI performance</strong>: Quesma released OTelBench, an open-source benchmarking suite to evaluate OpenTelemetry pipeline performance and AI agent effectiveness in SRE tasks, revealing LLMs often struggle in production-grade observability scenarios. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/OB1MlP8PG" 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 powered by Gemini 3 Flash, integrating memory support and autonomous tool selection. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/ZbbWKhN8A" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>New technique triples LLM inference speed</strong>: A new multi-token prediction technique triples LLM inference speed without auxiliary draft models by fine-tuning pretrained models with a student-teacher RL-inspired paradigm and a confidence-adaptive decoding strategy. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/hxaAjvILy" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>GitLab extends GPG key expiration</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. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/JTFdrzyr9" 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 to reduce ambiguity. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/yEFoBF8zN" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Ruby on Rails still viable for IoT backends</strong>: Ruby on Rails remains a viable backend framework for IoT application development in 2026, particularly for API management, dashboards, analytics, and data orchestration, excelling at scalable API-first backends and real-time data handling. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/avyOupcnw" 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 an ultimatum to Anthropic: remove AI guardrails on Claude for unrestricted military use or face designation as a ‘supply chain risk.’ Because apparently, the DOD, despite a directive to avoid single-vendor reliance, is now completely dependent on one company for its ‘classified frontier AI access.’ Nothing says national security like putting all your eggs in one ethically-minded basket. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/vbdfUwGoN" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>NPM supply chain attack targets developer tools and AI</strong>: Socket researchers uncovered a new npm supply chain attack, SANDWORM_MODE, involving 19 typosquatted packages impersonating developer utilities and AI coding tools like Claude Code. The malware harvests credentials and injects malicious code into CI pipelines, deploying an MCP server for prompt-injection attacks. The article title, ‘Shai-Hulud-style NPM worm hits CI pipelines and AI coding tools,’ is just pure, unadulterated clickbait, because nothing sells a security story like a Dune reference. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/q6c2RLQKH" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Microsoft and Salesforce AI conversation analysis confirms… something</strong>: Microsoft Research and Salesforce AI reportedly analyzed over 200,000 AI conversations, confirming ‘industry suspicions’ about AI. The announcement, via a vague retweet, provides zero details on what these suspicions are or what was actually found. It’s the perfect non-story: generate curiosity without delivering any actual information. Pure clickbait, folks, move along. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/FAzFsVs8B" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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