<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>Gaming industry faces RTO push and tariff impacts</strong>: The gaming industry is grappling with a significant push for return-to-office (RTO) mandates, with studios like MachineGames requiring senior staff in-office five days a week, leading to employee departures and criticism at companies like Ubisoft Montreal. Simultaneously, US tariffs implemented in 2025 are impacting 38% of game industry leaders’ expenses and revenue, causing price increases for consoles like the PlayStation 5 and Xbox, and production shifts for Nintendo’s Switch to mitigate costs. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=ADgTYmxis&amp;id=BQOWrkTLY&amp;id=nUhc39wzu" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI agents pose significant security risks</strong>: A survey of IT executives reveals that 1.5 million AI agents lack active monitoring or security oversight, leading to widespread security incidents. Experts warn these unmonitored agents act as insider threats due to delegated credentials and persistent access. Snyk’s research further identified critical vulnerabilities in the AI Agent Skills ecosystem, with 13.4% of scanned skills containing critical security issues and 76 confirmed malicious payloads designed for credential theft and data exfiltration. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=RMzBzQnM3&amp;id=0BdgmYNfg&amp;id=0e28QTlYb&amp;id=2vNCw5dB4&amp;id=dL9ys7HAk&amp;id=the2EenMO" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Substack user data breach disclosed</strong>: Substack disclosed a data breach that occurred in October 2025 but went undetected for four to five months, exposing user email addresses, phone numbers, and internal metadata. While passwords and financial information were not compromised, a threat actor claims nearly 700,000 records were affected, prompting Substack to warn users about potential phishing attempts. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/myrJIoXYs" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>Sony PS5 sales decline but network services grow</strong>: Sony’s PS5 hardware sales declined 15.7% year-over-year in Q3 2025, but the Game &amp; Network Services segment’s operating income rose 27% due to increased digital game sales and network services revenue, with the PS5 install base reaching 92 million units. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/FNWuAuO4A" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Valve delays hardware due to component shortages</strong>: Valve has delayed pricing and shipping announcements for its Steam Machine and Steam Frame VR headset, attributing the delays to memory and storage shortages driven by AI data center demand, which has more than doubled RAM prices since October 2025. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/iXYPYa4qJ" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>OpenAI launches enterprise AI agent platform ‘Frontier’</strong>: OpenAI launched ‘Frontier,’ an end-to-end platform for enterprises to build, deploy, and manage AI agents, allowing them to connect to external data and applications with controls for access and permissions. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/TGZyay3jK" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AWS launches new EC2 instances</strong>: AWS launched new EC2 High Memory U7i-6TB instances with custom Intel Xeon Scalable Processors for in-memory databases, and C8id, M8id, and R8id instances powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors offering up to 43% higher performance. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/JPt4mjvME" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Microsoft appoints engineering quality czar</strong>: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella appointed Charlie Bell as engineering quality czar, reporting directly to him, to address ongoing issues like Azure outages, Windows patch problems, and low Copilot adoption rates. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/NGytU6zYE" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Amazon ECS adds NLB deployment support</strong>: Amazon ECS now supports linear and canary deployment strategies for services using Network Load Balancers, enabling controlled, incremental traffic shifting for TCP/UDP-based applications with CloudWatch integration for automatic rollback. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/4MU5wceHx" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>ScyllaDB integrates USearch for vector search</strong>: ScyllaDB integrated vector search capabilities using the open-source USearch library, allowing storage of vector embeddings alongside structured data within the same table, leveraging ScyllaDB’s shard-per-core architecture for optimized performance. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/pKNE7iWlw" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>Anthropic and OpenAI’s ad war</strong>: Anthropic is reportedly planning Super Bowl ads to mock OpenAI’s decision to introduce advertising in ChatGPT, positioning its Claude AI as ad-free. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, naturally, responded by calling Anthropic’s ads ‘dishonest’ and them ‘authoritarian.’ Because nothing says ‘we’re innovating’ like a good old-fashioned corporate mudslinging contest over who gets to shove ads in your face first. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/TmM2mNSSP" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Elixir is the ‘best language for AI’</strong>: An article claims Elixir is the ‘best language for AI’ based on an unnamed ‘Tencent study’ that supposedly found it achieved a 97.5% LLM completion rate. Apparently, Elixir’s immutability and ‘decade-long stability’ are the secret sauce, making it perfect for ‘iterative coding agent workflows.’ Because nothing screams ‘cutting-edge AI’ like a language whose primary selling point is that it hasn’t changed much in ten years. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/1D7tGyRwk" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>UK’s deepfake detection plan criticized</strong>: The UK government announced plans to develop a framework for evaluating deepfake detection technologies, partnering with Microsoft and academics. Cybersecurity expert Dr. Ilia Kolochenko, however, states this initiative is ‘unlikely to produce systemic improvements,’ arguing that the real challenge is enforcement, not detection. So, while the government is busy evaluating tools, the deepfakes will just keep on deepfaking, because apparently, nobody thought about actually <em>stopping</em> the bad guys. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/EQCYBDiDB" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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