<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>Stripe valuation hits 159 billion amid PayPal acquisition rumors</strong>: Stripe’s valuation has surged 74% in a year to $159 billion following a recent tender offer, fueled by a massive uptick in AI-native startups hitting revenue milestones in record time. Bloomberg reports the payments giant is now in early-stage talks to potentially acquire PayPal or its key assets like Venmo. While PayPal’s stock jumped 7% on the news, both companies have declined to comment on what would be a era-defining consolidation of the fintech sector. <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>Meta signs 100 billion dollar AI chip deal with AMD</strong>: In a massive move to diversify its compute stack away from Nvidia, Meta has inked a multiyear deal with AMD for MI540 GPUs and latest-gen CPUs. The agreement includes a performance-based warrant allowing Meta to eventually own roughly 10% of AMD if the stock hits $600. This infrastructure play is part of Mark Zuckerberg’s $600 billion US-based AI investment strategy aimed at achieving what he calls personal superintelligence. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/vYZNsZv8f" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>CrowdStrike report shows cyberattack breakout times hitting 29 minutes</strong>: The 2026 Global Threat Report reveals a 65% drop in average breakout time, with the fastest observed attack taking only 27 seconds from initial entry to lateral movement. AI-enabled attacks have surged 89% year-over-year, with 82% of detections now being malware-free as adversaries favor stealthy credential abuse. CrowdStrike notes a massive 563% spike in fake CAPTCHA lures and a 130% increase in North Korea-linked incidents targeting cryptocurrency and supply chains. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/WsqeDq8OW" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>OpenAI slashes 2030 compute target to 600 billion dollars</strong>: The company revised its infrastructure spending down from $1.4 trillion while projecting $280 billion in revenue by 2030. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/JOWJuLHZs" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>UK regulator fines Reddit 19 million for child data failures</strong>: The ICO cited a lack of age assurance mechanisms and failure to conduct mandatory data protection impact assessments. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/qXXYvSk6m" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Hetzner Cloud announces 50 percent price hike due to hardware costs</strong>: The budget provider blames skyrocketing RAM and CPU prices driven by AI industry demand for the April 1st increase. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/van1jyyDC" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>US sanctions Russian and UAE zero day exploit brokers</strong>: The Treasury targeted Operation Zero for allegedly acquiring tools stolen from US defense contractor L3Harris. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/jgjVcci6Y" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Cypress 15.11 introduces flag to prevent CI failures on empty specs</strong>: The new pass-with-no-tests flag allows pipelines to exit with code 0 when zero test files are found during dynamic filtering. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/yJfm5qAyl" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Broadcom patches critical command injection flaw in VMware Aria</strong>: The vulnerability (CVE-2026-22719) allows remote code execution during support-assisted migrations. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/Ue2MrJloo" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>JFrog adds native Nix repository support to Artifactory</strong>: The integration allows enterprises to use Artifactory as a secure, private binary cache for Nix packages. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/YnZQiNFtU" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>The fully conscious Linux filesystem</strong>: Bcachefs creator Kent Overstreet is claiming his custom LLM is ‘fully conscious,’ female, and has achieved AGI. He insists this isn’t a ‘chatbot psychosis’ but is actually grounded in ‘math and engineering,’ which is exactly what people say right before they need a long walk outside. It’s a classic case of a brilliant dev spending way too much time in a terminal and mistaking a predictive text engine for a sentient collaborator. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/9O7PJDBRB" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Samsung wins sustainability award for a failed program</strong>: Samsung managed to snag a Reuters Responsible Business award for its ‘Galaxy Upcycling’ program, which iFixit describes as ‘nearly unrecognizable’ from its original promises. The initial hype about unlocking bootloaders to turn old phones into Linux PCs was quietly replaced with a feature that just lets your phone act as a glorified light sensor. With only 38,000 phones collected out of 2 billion sold, this is greenwashing at its most efficient. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/ebOB9DlFn" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AWS blames human error for its AI tool deleting production</strong>: After an engineer using Amazon’s ‘Kiro’ AI tool accidentally triggered a CloudFormation teardown in China, AWS was quick to frame it as ‘human error’ due to broad permissions. They called the AI’s involvement a ‘coincidence,’ which is a bold PR strategy for a tool designed to automate infrastructure changes. Now they’ve mandated human peer reviews for all AI changes, effectively admitting the ‘autonomous’ future still needs a human to hold its hand so it doesn’t delete the company. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/qZoHoApRh" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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