<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 funding, without corporate gatekeeping. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/Vf1iZDHHt" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Anthropic acqui-hires Vercept to boost Claude computer use</strong>: Anthropic has acquired Seattle-based startup Vercept, the team behind the ‘Vy’ agent capable of operating remote MacBooks. The acquisition is a clear move to harden Claude’s ability to interact with desktop GUIs, though it comes with drama as lead investors publicly sparred over the early exit. Vercept’s existing product will be shuttered in March as the founders integrate into Anthropic’s core research team. <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 insatiable AI demand</strong>: Nvidia reported a staggering 73% year-over-year revenue increase, driven almost entirely by its data center business which now accounts for $62 billion quarterly. CEO Jensen Huang noted that even six-year-old GPUs are being fully utilized as compute tokens become the new global currency. Despite the growth, Nvidia disclosed zero revenue from China due to export restrictions, acknowledging that local competitors like Moore Threads are gaining ground. <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>Google launches Gemini-powered screen control for Android</strong>: The new AppFunctions API allows Gemini to autonomously operate apps like Uber and DoorDash on Pixel 10 and Galaxy S26 devices. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/hXcElb2hp" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Cilium 1.19 arrives with sidecar-free mutual auth</strong>: The 10th-anniversary release focuses on security hardening, introducing strict IPsec modes and beta Ztunnel integration for easier mTLS. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/VJq8q5iXQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Software engineering is becoming position-less</strong>: Industry trends show a shift toward ‘product engineers’ who own the full lifecycle, devaluing rigid frontend/backend titles in favor of versatile generalists. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/EYh130iCd" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Mercury 2 LLM targets latency with parallel refinement</strong>: Inception’s new model generates multiple tokens simultaneously using diffusion-based reasoning to bypass traditional sequential decoding bottlenecks. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/ea5kyYvcg" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Unity kills HDRP features to focus on URP</strong>: Unity is consolidating its render pipeline strategy, moving HDRP to maintenance mode while upgrading URP with high-end features like real-time GI. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/kOn1P0sth" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>New York sues Valve over loot boxes</strong>: The lawsuit alleges that Valve’s loot boxes in Counter-Strike 2 and Dota 2 constitute illegal gambling under state law, specifically targeting harm to minors. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/lD39bPNsE" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>PHP 100-million-row challenge begins</strong>: Inspired by the Java 1BRC, this performance competition tasks developers with parsing massive CSV datasets using limited hardware without FFI. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/uM4mdRjaF" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>The 76 percent accuracy boost miracle</strong>: A viral retweet claims Google Research boosted LLM accuracy by 76 percentage points with ‘zero extra tokens and zero latency.’ This sounds like a perpetual motion machine for math; without a peer-reviewed paper or methodology, it’s just another day of AI influencers hallucinating breakthroughs for engagement. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/73tgOim8I" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Salesforce claims AI agents will end the SaaSpocalypse</strong>: Marc Benioff is desperately trying to convince investors that ‘Agent Work Units’ are a real metric and that AI agents will save SaaS from commoditization. Despite the hype about Agentforce ‘wins,’ the market responded with a 5.6% stock drop, likely because renaming a chatbot doesn’t fix modest organic growth. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/R4O8qdc3C" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Vibe coding and the death of the mental model</strong>: The industry is currently romanticizing ‘vibe coding’—delegating everything to AI and just checking if the UI looks okay. This is a fast track to ‘Potemkin codebases’ that look healthy but are globally incoherent, leaving maintainers to drown in AI-generated PR slop they can’t actually reason about. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=7AmdNla3S&amp;id=TXNq3Eeop&amp;id=Tgkl3d068" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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