<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>Cloud security startup raises big bucks for “inside-out” approach</strong>: Upwind Security, founded by the team behind <a href="http://Spot.io" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Spot.io</a>, just bagged a cool $250 million at a $1.5 billion valuation for its “runtime” cloud security platform. They’re pushing an “inside-out” approach, analyzing internal signals like network requests, which is apparently a big deal compared to traditional scanning. Despite initial hesitation from security teams about deploying internal agents, they’ve managed 900% year-over-year revenue growth and doubled their customer base, according to TechCrunch. The new cash is earmarked for AI security and misconfiguration prevention. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/LGgCBPA2D" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Ingress-nginx is dead, long live ingress-nginx</strong>: The ingress-nginx project is officially getting archived in early 2026, meaning no more active maintenance or security updates. This affects about half of all cloud-native environments, so if you’re using it, it’s time to migrate. Kubernetes leadership apparently pushed for this faster deprecation, despite offers of help, highlighting the ongoing challenges of open-source sustainability. You can switch to Cilium Ingress for a quick fix or adopt Cilium’s Gateway API for more advanced features, as reported by CNCF and DEVCLASS. <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>Google spanner and snowflake embrace AI and postgres</strong>: Google Cloud Spanner has apparently transformed into an “intelligent context hub for AI applications,” now supporting multi-model data (vectors, graphs, relational) and AI-powered operations with natural language queries. They’re claiming 6 billion queries per second and 17 exabytes of data with five nines availability. This is all part of a broader trend where cloud data platforms are integrating OLTP capabilities to support real-time and agentic AI workflows, as seen with Snowflake’s new PostgreSQL offering, according to Google Cloud and The Register. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=TRihFu0x6&amp;id=ppuh0CVeq" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>Laravel rolls out enterprise and AI features</strong>: Laravel’s January releases include Private Cloud for enterprise, Valkey caching, expanded Cloud API, and AI-powered exception descriptions in Nightwatch, plus a new VS Code extension with Livewire 4 support. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/V83fhk3mp" 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 aims to prevent common coding pitfalls and reduce technical debt by embedding SwiftUI expertise directly into AI coding assistants. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/LlEDXwb6h" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Claude AI now manages grav cms content</strong>: A developer created an open-source MCP plugin for Grav CMS, allowing Claude AI to manage blog content directly via a JSON-RPC API, enabling AI-assisted content creation and editing from the terminal. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/fBtDP8BjG" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Yepcode offers developer-first ai integrations</strong>: YepCode is a developer-first platform for building and running AI-powered integrations using JavaScript or Python, providing secure sandboxes and tools for AI agents to safely access internal APIs and databases. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/TTuEqrxV6" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Bunny database launches sqlite-compatible edge db</strong>: Bunny Database is a new SQLite-compatible managed database service offering global deployment, low-latency reads via multi-region replication, and HTTP-based access with pay-as-you-go pricing. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/bbnTGzjvp" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Dokploy beats coolify for self-hosted paas</strong>: Dokploy is highlighted as a superior self-hosted PaaS alternative to Coolify for production environments, offering better Docker integration, broader backup capabilities, and more flexible scheduled tasks. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/u27Unbj2l" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Webassembly turns 10, powers edge ai</strong>: WebAssembly is celebrating its 10th anniversary, quietly becoming a foundational technology for edge platforms, serverless runtimes, and embedded systems, especially for AI workloads moving to the edge. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=XjOBMuNCm&amp;id=2VsBKezZr" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>AI-powered driving instructor will make you a better driver, for rewards</strong>: Discovery Insure launched an AI-powered Advanced Driving Instructor (ADI) that uses telematics and generative AI to create personalized driving goals and rewards. Because nothing says “safe driver” like an AI telling you to drive better for some digital points. It’s almost like they’re trying to gamify not crashing, which is a novel concept for insurance companies. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/LsXY4pcoJ" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI writes code review tool, reviews its own code</strong>: GitHuman, a new local-first tool for reviewing AI-generated code, was apparently “entirely written by Claude Code” and then “human-reviewed using GitHuman itself.” So, an AI wrote a tool to review AI code, and then used its own tool to review its own code. This sounds less like innovation and more like a self-congratulatory feedback loop, conveniently sidestepping the actual human effort required to make any of this useful. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/M78k9F0lW" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI ui builder promises production-ready code from prompts</strong>: Syncfusion’s AI UI Builder claims to convert natural language prompts or screenshots into “production-ready UI code” across 14 platforms, eliminating manual component hunting and setup. Because, clearly, the biggest problem in UI development was the tedious task of selecting components, not, you know, actual design, user experience, or maintaining a consistent visual language. Just type what you want, and <em>poof</em>, production-ready UI. What could possibly go wrong? <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/ky3SmLIMi" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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