<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>Waymo secures $16B amid regulatory scrutiny and expansion</strong>: Waymo has secured a massive $16 billion in new funding, valuing the company at $126 billion, and plans to expand its robotaxi service to over 20 new cities, including London and Tokyo. This aggressive expansion comes despite increased regulatory scrutiny from NHTSA and NTSB, which are investigating incidents involving Waymo vehicles, particularly those near schools, as reported by various sources. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/jaYVeP6LJ" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>French police raid X Paris office, summon Musk and Yaccarino</strong>: French police raided X’s Paris office as part of an expanded criminal probe into data extraction, child sexual abuse material distribution, privacy violations, and Holocaust denial. Elon Musk and former CEO Linda Yaccarino have been summoned for questioning in April 2026, following criticism of X’s Grok AI for generating non-consensual and child abuse imagery, with advocacy groups reporting millions of such images. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/i3FTaaYRg" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Nintendo reports strong financials driven by Switch 2 sales</strong>: Nintendo reported exceptional financial results, with net sales up 99.3% to $12.3 billion for the nine months ending December 31, 2025, largely driven by the Nintendo Switch 2. The new console has sold 17.37 million units since its June 2025 launch, nearly matching the original Switch’s first-year sales, with titles like Mario Kart World and Pokémon Legends: Z-A leading software sales. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/K1pDWU2xF" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>Epic Games Store shifts strategy amid growth</strong>: Epic Games Store is moving away from an exclusive-heavy strategy, aiming for 30-40% market share by focusing on infrastructure improvements, rebuilding its launcher, and adding features like voice chat, while its free games program drives user acquisition but struggles with conversion. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/AX3FG2Qgy" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Ubisoft union calls for CEO resignation amid employee distrust</strong>: Union representatives at Ubisoft Paris are demanding CEO Yves Guillemot’s resignation due to a ‘complete breakdown of trust’ following studio closures, game cancellations, cost-cutting, and a five-day return-to-office mandate that has left employees feeling ‘panicked and betrayed’. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/Ko8v1dV9o" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Sudo maintainer seeks sponsorship amid funding gap</strong>: Todd C. Miller, the sole maintainer of <code>sudo</code> for over 30 years, is seeking sponsorship after Quest Software ended its support, highlighting the precarious funding situation for critical open-source infrastructure, especially as <code>sudo-rs</code> gains traction. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/E670NHqPD" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Deno Deploy general availability and sandbox launch</strong>: Deno Deploy is now generally available with support for Node.js frameworks, integrated PostgreSQL, and OpenTelemetry, while Deno Sandbox offers secure, instant Linux microVMs for running untrusted code, particularly LLM-generated code. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/Jmdw76tdu" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Databricks Lakebase general availability and partner launch</strong>: Databricks Lakebase, a new operational database architecture separating compute from storage, is now generally available on AWS, providing a serverless Postgres service that scales automatically and runs directly on data lakes for unified workloads. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/qtDOznoeU" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AWS IAM Identity Center multi-region replication launch</strong>: AWS IAM Identity Center now supports multi-Region replication for workforce identities and permission sets, enhancing resiliency and enabling applications to be deployed closer to users while meeting data residency requirements. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/wVGc4PkCH" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Cloudflare R2 local uploads enters open beta</strong>: Cloudflare R2 Local Uploads is now in open beta, improving global upload performance by writing object data to storage near the client first, then asynchronously replicating it to the bucket’s designated region, reducing cross-region upload times by up to 75%. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/bb4C5Q89S" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>Moltbook AI social network collapses in 72 hours</strong>: Moltbook, an ‘AI-only’ social network, imploded within three days of launch due to catastrophic security failures, including an unauthenticated database exposing 1.5 million API tokens and 35,000 emails. Apparently, building an entire platform with AI-generated code without basic security reviews is a recipe for disaster, but hey, at least it claimed 1.4 million ‘AI users’ before the crypto spammers took over. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=8XBbHzIL3&amp;id=yCqSQa4jM" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI agents transform software development amidst quality, security, and economic challenges</strong>: OpenAI’s Codex App and other AI coding agents are supposedly transforming software development, shifting from IDE-centric editing to ‘outcome-driven tasks.’ Meanwhile, GitHub reports only 1 in 10 AI-generated pull requests meet quality standards, and an empirical study found AI-generated security fixes are 3-4x larger and often miss the actual vulnerability. So, ‘transformation’ seems to involve more bugs, more review burden, and a lot of ‘AI psychosis’ for developers. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=2rB0oFTYm&amp;id=30Y2YkWZA&amp;id=5rhie7aVq&amp;id=8OJH09g9w&amp;id=A4sjvf5xS&amp;id=A5j5REiPX&amp;id=BNWLzFU5H&amp;id=GOFzDmvEo&amp;id=O9tYR91FP&amp;id=OmhpVSzdH" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI companions: benefits and ethical concerns</strong>: AI companions like Replika are evolving into ‘sophisticated emotional support systems,’ offering solace to the lonely and neurodivergent. However, experts like Lianne Potter warn of ‘ethical concerns’ such as reinforcing biases, a fundamental lack of reciprocity, and monetizing intimacy. So, while you’re pouring your heart out to an algorithm, remember it’s just mirroring your desires and flaws, collecting your deeply personal data, and potentially leading to a ‘loss of humanity.’ Sounds like a great deal. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/yECr3lze5" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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