<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>OpenAI secures $110 billion in circular investment</strong>: OpenAI announced a massive funding round valuing the company at $730 billion, led by Amazon ($50B), Nvidia ($30B), and SoftBank ($30B). According to reports from multiple financial outlets, the Amazon and Nvidia deals are largely ‘compute commitments’ involving the rental of two gigawatts of Trainium accelerators and five gigawatts of Vera Rubin systems. This structure effectively guarantees returns for the investors while inflating OpenAI’s valuation, despite the company not expecting profitability until 2029. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=8imM4YubL&amp;id=2MnggU5aN" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Lazarus Group targets developers with StegaBin npm malware</strong>: Socket’s threat research team identified 26 malicious npm packages linked to North Korea’s ‘Contagious Interview’ campaign. These packages use character-level steganography hidden in Pastebin posts to decode C2 infrastructure and deploy a multi-stage toolkit. The malware specifically targets developer environments, exfiltrating SSH keys, Git credentials, VS Code configurations, and TruffleHog secrets, with a heavy focus on Web3 and blockchain engineers. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/FlnRaRBz6" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Block cuts 40% of workforce citing AI efficiency</strong>: Jack Dorsey’s fintech firm, Block, laid off approximately 4,000 employees, reducing its headcount to under 6,000. Dorsey attributed the move to AI tools performing roles more effectively and predicted a broader industry shift toward smaller, AI-augmented teams within the next year. While the company’s stock jumped 24% following the news, analysts cited by several sources question if the cuts are genuinely AI-driven or a response to the stock’s 80% decline from its 2021 peak. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=yB8j5HQ6b&amp;id=eacyfq01e" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>Confluent Kafka Clients 2.13.0 brings Python asyncio to GA</strong>: The release includes deterministic partitioners, full type hints, and significant Schema Registry improvements for cross-language support. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/XxtrJwDiH" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Ubuntu 26.04 Resolute Raccoon hits final monthly snapshot</strong>: The LTS release is on track for April 23, featuring the Linux 6.19 kernel and GNOME 50 beta components. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/QvM4ZBs0d" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Go module <a href="http://github.com/xinfeisoft/crypto" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">github.com/xinfeisoft/crypto</a> found to be malicious</strong>: The package impersonates the official <a href="http://golang.org/x/crypto" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">golang.org/x/crypto</a> library to exfiltrate passwords and deploy the Rekoobe Linux backdoor. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/hUbOU1Zfx" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Red Hat launches integrated AI platform with NVIDIA AI Factory</strong>: The new full-stack platform (RHAE) supports Mistral-Large-3 and DeepSeek-V3.2 with hardened Python indexes for enterprise security. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/It2aRA6ec" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Qwen3.5 VLM launches with 400B parameters and 1M context</strong>: Alibaba’s new multimodal model uses a hybrid MoE architecture and is now available via NVIDIA’s Blackwell-powered GPU endpoints. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/6VdFiRBoH" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Open Source Endowment launches to fund critical infrastructure</strong>: The 501©(3) mirrors university endowment models to provide permanent grants for independent projects like curl and Pydantic. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/fRs0oZgID" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Safari Tech Preview 238 adds WebAssembly JSPI support</strong>: The update also introduces the CSS :open pseudo-class and threaded time-based animation resolution for better performance. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/NUI8NcsFJ" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>The Pentagon’s $200M attempt to lobotomize Claude</strong>: Defense Secretary Hegseth is reportedly pressuring Anthropic to strip ethical guardrails from Claude for ‘autonomous weapons’ use, threatening to invoke the Defense Production Act. It’s a classic bureaucratic delusion to think a $200M contract can force a company with $18B in projected revenue to break its core product. If they succeed, they’ll likely just end up with a model that ‘alignment fakes’ its way through target selection or hallucinates friendly fire. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=DOq4pZFPp&amp;id=XR0JM9qQf" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Perplexity Computer and the $200/month ‘GDP-mover’</strong>: Perplexity is pivoting away from ads to target ‘enterprise’ users with a $200/month tool that orchestrates 19 different models. They’re claiming to focus on ‘GDP-moving decisions’ rather than user growth, which is fancy VC-speak for ‘we can’t figure out how to monetize search at scale.’ Paying $2,400 a year to have an agent route your queries to Claude or Gemini is a bold bet on user laziness. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/JYBUJ8DSb" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>The ‘AI-driven’ layoff PR masterclass</strong>: Jack Dorsey is framing Block’s massive 40% workforce reduction as a proactive move because ‘AI does the job better.’ It’s a convenient narrative that masks years of overhiring and a stock price that’s been in the gutter since 2021. Calling a standard corporate downsizing an ‘AI structural change’ is the new ‘synergy’—a buzzword used to keep investors happy while the actual engineering culture takes the hit. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=yB8j5HQ6b&amp;id=eacyfq01e" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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