<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>OpenAI valuation hits $730 billion with massive circular investments</strong>: OpenAI secured $110 billion in new funding from Amazon, Nvidia, and SoftBank, though much of it is tied to compute commitments rather than pure cash. Amazon’s $50 billion deal includes renting two gigawatts of Trainium accelerators, while Nvidia’s $30 billion is linked to deploying five gigawatts of Vera Rubin systems. Critics point out these circular deals guarantee returns for the investors while artificially inflating OpenAI’s valuation despite a lack of projected profitability until 2029. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=8imM4YubL&amp;id=ShShzSJ3B" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AirSnitch vulnerabilities bypass WiFi client isolation</strong>: Researchers at UC Riverside have identified “AirSnitch,” a set of flaws in the IEEE 802.11 standard that allow attackers to bypass client isolation on WPA2 and WPA3 networks. The vulnerability stems from shared group encryption keys and enforcement gaps between Layer 2 and Layer 3, enabling machine-in-the-middle attacks. All 11 tested devices from major vendors like Cisco, Ubiquiti, and Netgear were found to be vulnerable to traffic interception or manipulation. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/tSnGJTDSb" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Vercel open sources React optimization rules for AI agents</strong>: Vercel has released ‘react-best-practices’, a repository of over 40 performance rules specifically formatted for consumption by AI coding tools like Cursor and Claude Code. Unlike standard ESLint rules, these focus on high-level architectural decisions such as eliminating async waterfalls and re-render optimization. While the project has seen rapid adoption, some developers have raised concerns regarding the supply chain security of piping third-party codified rules directly into agentic workflows. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/J6VGCUvIf" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>Kubetorch simplifies remote PyTorch execution on Kubernetes</strong>: A new ecosystem project allows ML code to run remotely via a simple .to() API with sub-2-second hot reloading and programmatic fault tolerance. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/3II62MbL8" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>StegaBin malware uses character-level steganography in npm packages</strong>: Lazarus Group is targeting Web3 developers with 26 malicious npm packages that hide C2 infrastructure inside Pastebin essays using invisible characters. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/FlnRaRBz6" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>India blocks Supabase access under IT Act</strong>: The Indian government issued a sudden blocking order affecting major ISPs, disrupting access for 9% of Supabase’s global traffic without public justification. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/x9ggXCarx" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>NextSilicon reconfigurable supercomputer enters testing at Sandia</strong>: The Spectra system uses 128 Maverick-2 chips that reconfigure hardware data flow post-profiling, claiming 2x speed on HPCG benchmarks over traditional GPUs. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/t9r2wgx3C" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>RoguePilot vulnerability enables GitHub repository takeovers</strong>: Orca Security researchers found that passive prompt injection via hidden HTML comments in GitHub Issues could trick Copilot into exfiltrating GITHUB_TOKEN secrets. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/LAZy65aYK" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Go 1.26 introduces speculative stack allocation for slices</strong>: The compiler now provides small stack-allocated backing stores for append-allocated slices, significantly reducing heap pressure and GC overhead. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/XIpmjFf08" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Perplexity Computer launches as $200 monthly agentic tool</strong>: The new service orchestrates 19 different AI models to execute complex cloud workflows, signaling a pivot toward enterprise users and ‘GDP-moving’ decisions. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/JYBUJ8DSb" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>The $110 billion circular firing squad</strong>: OpenAI’s latest ‘investment’ is a masterclass in creative accounting where Amazon and Nvidia essentially hand OpenAI coupons for their own hardware to pump the valuation to $730 billion. It’s a closed-loop economy where everyone ‘wins’ on paper while the actual path to profitability remains a 2029 pipe dream. If you think this valuation is based on discounted cash flow rather than FOMO and GPU-laundering, I have a bridge in the metaverse to sell you. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=8imM4YubL&amp;id=ShShzSJ3B" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Self-healing Kubernetes and the 3 AM fairy</strong>: The industry is now pitching ‘Agentic Ops’ as the end of the 3 AM pager call, claiming AI will autonomously remediate 90% of incidents using eBPF and LLMs. In reality, we’re just replacing a simple disk-full alert with a complex black box that might decide the best way to ‘heal’ a cluster is to delete the namespace. It’s a great way to turn a routine incident into a ‘how did the AI even think of that?’ forensic nightmare. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/rIKV5hbrF" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>The six hour AI coding miracle</strong>: A new Docker dashboard claims it was ‘built in 6 hours’ using AI tools, as if speed-running a CRUD app is the ultimate metric for software quality. This ‘look what my agent did’ theater ignores the technical debt and lack of architectural vision that usually follows when you let a stochastic parrot drive your IDE. We’re celebrating the death of craftsmanship in favor of seeing how fast we can generate TypeScript we don’t fully understand. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/GVRafeRV4" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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