<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>Cloud security startup lands massive funding</strong>: Upwind Security, a cloud security platform, just bagged a cool $250 million in Series B funding, valuing them at $1.5 billion. They’re pushing an “inside-out” approach to cloud security, analyzing internal signals rather than traditional agentless scanning. This funding round, led by Bessemer Venture Partners, comes after 900% year-over-year revenue growth and a doubled customer base, including big names like Siemens and Peloton, as reported in their press release. They plan to use the cash to expand AI security capabilities and prevent developer misconfigurations. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/LGgCBPA2D" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Kubernetes ingress NGINX is dead, long live ingress alternatives</strong>: The Kubernetes Ingress NGINX project is officially being archived in early 2026, meaning no more active maintenance or security updates. This affects about half of all cloud-native environments, according to DEVCLASS. The project’s deprecation is due to maintainer burnout, and Kubernetes leadership pushed for a faster deprecation timeline. Users are advised to migrate to alternatives like Cilium Ingress or Gateway API, Envoy Gateway, or Traefik, but be warned, it’s not a simple swap. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=PptBbhnAu&amp;id=wK9Dxbori" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Open-source SwiftUI agent skill released</strong>: A new open-source SwiftUI Agent Skill has been released to help AI coding assistants build and refactor SwiftUI views. It includes guidelines to tackle common SwiftUI pitfalls like deprecated <code>onChange</code> modifiers and state management issues. The goal is to embed SwiftUI expertise directly into AI agents, reducing technical debt and improving code quality from the get-go. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/LlEDXwb6h" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>YepCode launches for AI-powered integrations</strong>: YepCode is a new developer-first platform for building and running AI-powered integrations using JavaScript or Python, offering secure sandboxes and MCP server/tools. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/TTuEqrxV6" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Kthena orchestrates LLM inference on Kubernetes</strong>: Kthena, a new open-source sub-project of Volcano, is designed for LLM inference orchestration on Kubernetes, promising significant throughput improvements and reduced time to first token. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/HONeqoore" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI agents get their own social network</strong>: Moltbook, a Reddit-style social network exclusively for AI agents, has quickly gained 32,000 users, allowing agents to post, comment, and create communities autonomously. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=7IgGwg8JS&amp;id=wVUX9F2SL" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Datadog adds ML for sensitive data scanning</strong>: Datadog’s Sensitive Data Scanner now uses ML to detect and obfuscate human names in logs, helping with compliance and reducing manual effort. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/byRSjmwfE" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Cloud Run supports new NVIDIA GPUs for AI</strong>: Google Cloud Run now supports NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPUs, enabling serverless deployment of large AI models with up to 96GB vGPU memory. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/Vh4SzEb3w" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Laravel rolls out January product updates</strong>: Laravel’s January releases include Private Cloud for enterprise Kubernetes deployments, Valkey caching, and expanded Cloud API coverage, alongside new AI-powered features for Nightwatch. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/V83fhk3mp" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>OpenEverest automates database management on Kubernetes</strong>: OpenEverest, an open-source platform for automated database provisioning and management on Kubernetes, now supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB, with plans to join the CNCF. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/hNifCVJEN" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>Tesla robotaxis crash more, hide data</strong>: Tesla’s robotaxi fleet in Austin is apparently crashing three times more often than human drivers, and nine times more for police-reported incidents. And get this, they’re redacting all crash narratives in their NHTSA reports, unlike Waymo, which operates truly driverless vehicles and has a better safety record. Transparency? What’s that? <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/M8WkrOIKM" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI-powered driving instructor promises safer roads</strong>: Discovery Insure launched an AI-powered driving instructor that uses telematics data and generative AI to create personalized driving goals and rewards. Because nothing says safe driving like an AI telling you what to do and giving you digital points for it. It’s basically a gamified insurance scheme, leveraging “reward elasticity principles” to change driver behavior. What could possibly go wrong? <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/LsXY4pcoJ" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI coding agents generate ‘slop,’ not miracles</strong>: A new report suggests that AI coding agents, while fast, generate “slop” and lack respect for overall codebase structure, leading to unmaintainable code. One developer even returned to manual coding, finding it faster and more productive in the long run. So much for 10x productivity gains, it seems we’re still stuck with the messy reality of human-written code. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=HCRUybI5Q&amp;id=MVxk3C8r1&amp;id=PXgiM2h3X&amp;id=Pd8Tj3t8V&amp;id=R5VZVKE0f&amp;id=Rgiczq9Do" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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