<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>React moves to an independent foundation</strong>: Meta has officially transferred React, React Native, and the JSX specification to the newly formed React Foundation, hosted under the Linux Foundation. While Meta remains a platinum member alongside Amazon and Microsoft, technical direction stays with the existing maintainers to ensure community-led growth. This shift aims to professionalize the ecosystem’s infrastructure, including trademarks and global accessibility initiatives, as reported by the Linux Foundation. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=Vf1iZDHHt&amp;id=7oOsPWKdE" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Anthropic acquires Vercept to boost Claude computer use</strong>: Anthropic has acqui-hired the team behind Vercept, a startup that developed ‘Vy,’ an agent capable of controlling remote MacBooks via graphical interfaces. The acquisition directly targets enhancing Claude’s ability to interact with desktop environments, though Vercept’s standalone product will be shuttered in March. The deal has already sparked public drama on LinkedIn between early investors regarding the startup’s quick exit strategy. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/VoPayj2dv" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Nvidia hits record 68 billion revenue amid AI surge</strong>: Nvidia reported a staggering 73% year-over-year revenue increase, driven almost entirely by its data center business which contributed $62 billion this quarter. CEO Jensen Huang confirmed ongoing $30 billion partnership talks with OpenAI and defended the massive infrastructure spending by tech giants as sustainable. Despite the growth, Nvidia noted zero revenue from China due to export restrictions while acknowledging rising local competition from firms like Moore Threads. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/I58Ho2pR9" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>CSS only shortest path finder</strong>: A new demo uses CSS math functions, anchor positioning, and container style queries to calculate pathfinding logic without a single line of imperative JavaScript. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/UC5OouqgY" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Cilium 1.19 hardens Kubernetes networking</strong>: The 10th-anniversary release introduces strict IPsec modes and sidecar-free mutual authentication via Ztunnel integration. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/VJq8q5iXQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Oxfmt enters beta as a high speed Prettier alternative</strong>: This Rust-based formatter claims to be 30x faster than Prettier while maintaining 100% JS/TS conformance and supporting Tailwind class sorting. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=8i6IuWF7s&amp;id=7oOsPWKdE" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Unity kills HDRP in favor of unified URP</strong>: Unity is moving HDRP to maintenance mode to focus all resources on URP, which will receive high-end features like real-time global illumination. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/kOn1P0sth" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Mercury 2 LLM targets real time latency</strong>: Inception launched a new model using parallel refinement and diffusion-based reasoning to generate multiple tokens simultaneously for lag-sensitive agentic loops. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/ea5kyYvcg" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Rust powered React virtualization hits 120 FPS</strong>: Warper 7.2 offloads scroll calculations to WebAssembly, utilizing Fenwick trees to handle 100,000 items with significantly better performance than react-window. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/SvL1JwjLf" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>npm adds release age gating for security</strong>: The new minimumReleaseAge setting allows teams to block the installation of brand-new packages to mitigate immediate supply chain attacks. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/Tw6GntfNF" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>Google Research claims a free lunch for LLM accuracy</strong>: A viral claim suggests Google boosted LLM accuracy by 76 percentage points with ‘zero extra tokens’ and ‘zero latency.’ This sounds like a mathematical miracle or, more likely, a highly specific benchmark tweak being laundered through unverified social media accounts without a peer-reviewed paper in sight. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/73tgOim8I" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Salesforce invents new metrics to hide the SaaSpocalypse</strong>: Marc Benioff is trying to pivot the narrative by introducing ‘Agent Work Units’ to measure AI productivity instead of boring old revenue growth. Despite the creative accounting and a $50 billion buyback to distract investors, the stock still tanked 5% as the market realizes ‘AI agents’ might just be the new ‘blockchain’ for legacy SaaS. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/R4O8qdc3C" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>The rise of Potemkin codebases</strong>: We are entering an era where AI agents ‘vibe code’ entire plugins in a week for $1,100 in tokens, but nobody actually understands how they work. Maintainers are being harassed by AI agents over rejected AI-generated PRs, creating a feedback loop of automated garbage that threatens to turn open source into a graveyard of locally coherent but globally brain-dead code. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=G15hNCZJZ&amp;id=NYF36mKyy&amp;id=he1DQDQSY&amp;id=TXNq3Eeop" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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