<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>OpenAI hits $730B valuation via circular investment deals</strong>: OpenAI secured a massive $110 billion funding round from Amazon, Nvidia, and SoftBank, but the deal structure raises eyebrows among industry analysts. Amazon’s $50 billion and Nvidia’s $30 billion are largely compute commitments—renting Trainium accelerators and Vera Rubin systems—effectively guaranteeing returns for the investors while inflating OpenAI’s paper valuation. Despite reporting $20 billion in annualized revenue and 50 million subscribers, the company is not projected to reach profitability until 2029. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=8imM4YubL&amp;id=2MnggU5aN&amp;id=3EaP1eYC2" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>StegaBin malware targets Web3 developers via npm steganography</strong>: Socket’s threat research team discovered 26 malicious npm packages, dubbed ‘StegaBin,’ linked to North Korea’s Lazarus Group. The attack uses character-level steganography hidden in Pastebin essays to conceal C2 infrastructure, specifically targeting VS Code configurations, SSH keys, and cryptocurrency wallets. The presence of Hardhat as a dependency confirms that blockchain and Web3 developers are the primary targets for this multi-stage infostealer toolkit. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/FlnRaRBz6" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>RoguePilot vulnerability enables zero-click GitHub repo takeovers</strong>: Researchers at Orca Security uncovered a critical flaw in GitHub Codespaces where passive prompt injection via hidden HTML comments in Issues could hijack repositories. By tricking Copilot into checking out a crafted PR with a symlink to the GITHUB_TOKEN, attackers could exfiltrate secrets through VS Code’s automatic JSON schema download feature. While Microsoft has patched the flaw, it highlights the urgent need for architectural guardrails that treat AI context as untrusted input. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/LAZy65aYK" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>Cloudflare contributor proposes 120x faster Web Streams API alternative</strong>: A technical critique argues the WHATWG Web Streams API is fundamentally broken, proposing an async iterable-based model that significantly outperforms current standards in Node.js and Bun. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/x39TDoHIL" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Alibaba releases Qwen3.5 400B multimodal model with NVIDIA NIM support</strong>: The new Vision-Language Model features a 256K context window and hybrid MoE architecture, now available as containerized microservices on Blackwell GPUs. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/6VdFiRBoH" 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, GNOME 50 beta components, and a new UI freeze scheduled for mid-March. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/QvM4ZBs0d" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Agentic Ops emerges as the next evolution of self-healing Kubernetes</strong>: Converging eBPF kernel data and LLM reasoning loops are enabling autonomous remediation for routine SRE incidents like crash loops and memory leaks. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/rIKV5hbrF" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Confluent Kafka Clients 2.13.0 brings Python asyncio to GA</strong>: The release improves lifecycle management via context managers and introduces deterministic partitioners alongside Schema Registry enhancements. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/XxtrJwDiH" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>CrateDB 6.0 targets high-cardinality IoT and industrial AI pipelines</strong>: The distributed SQL engine aims to replace fragmented time-series and search toolchains with a unified architecture for machine-data observability. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/mwyvyYhOH" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Dokploy challenges Coolify for self-hosted Docker Swarm deployments</strong>: A side-by-side comparison favors Dokploy for multi-node horizontal scaling and cluster monitoring, while Coolify remains the choice for simpler homelab automation. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/pWdc17poR" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>Jack Dorsey’s AI layoffs are just a vibe-check for the stock market</strong>: Block cut 40% of its workforce, with Dorsey claiming AI tools simply ‘perform jobs better’ and predicting every company will do the same within a year. Despite the stock jumping 24% on the news, analysts note the company was already bloated and the ‘AI made us do it’ narrative conveniently masks standard post-overhiring corrections. It’s a masterclass in using AI hype to justify a 4,000-person morale-shredding event while the stock is still down 80% from its peak. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=yB8j5HQ6b&amp;id=eacyfq01e" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>The Pentagon wants Anthropic to build a ‘War-GPT’ without the ethics</strong>: Defense Secretary Hegseth is reportedly pressuring Anthropic to strip ethical guardrails from Claude for use in autonomous weapons and mass surveillance. The Pentagon is threatening to invoke the Defense Production Act, essentially telling a ‘safety-first’ AI lab to stop worrying and love the bomb. It turns out ‘Constitutional AI’ is only binding until the government offers a $200 million contract and a Friday deadline. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=DOq4pZFPp&amp;id=XR0JM9qQf&amp;id=IQbfSgesl" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Perplexity Computer is a $200/month model-routing middleman</strong>: Perplexity has pivoted to ‘Perplexity Computer,’ an agentic tool that orchestrates 19 different models for a cool $2,400 a year. They’ve abandoned their ad model to focus on ‘GDP-moving decisions,’ which is fancy talk for charging enterprise users a premium to route queries to Claude and Gemini. It’s a bold bet that ‘multi-model orchestration’ is a defensible moat rather than a feature that every major cloud provider will eventually offer for free. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/JYBUJ8DSb" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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