<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>Valve hardware delayed by AI demand</strong>: Valve has delayed the pricing and shipping announcements for its Steam Machine and Steam Frame VR headset, citing memory and storage shortages driven by AI data center demand. RAM prices have more than doubled since October 2025, forcing a review of their schedules. Despite this, Valve still plans to ship these products, along with a new Steam Controller, in the first half of 2026. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/iXYPYa4qJ" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Global cyberespionage campaign targets critical infrastructure</strong>: A sophisticated nation-state threat group, TGR-STA-1030, has been conducting a global cyberespionage campaign since January 2024, compromising government and critical infrastructure in 37 countries. They use phishing, N-day exploits, and a new Linux kernel rootkit called ShadowGuard, which uses eBPF to hide activities. The group maintained access for months, exfiltrating sensitive data like financial negotiations and military operational updates. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/KNu0fQxJH" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Substack data breach exposes user information</strong>: Substack disclosed a data breach from October 2025 that exposed user email addresses, phone numbers, and internal metadata, remaining undetected for four to five months. While passwords and financial information were not compromised, a threat actor claims nearly 700,000 records were affected. Substack is investigating and warns 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>Amazon ECS adds NLB deployment support</strong>: Amazon ECS now supports linear and canary deployment strategies for services using Network Load Balancers (NLB), enabling controlled traffic shifting for TCP/UDP applications and integrating with CloudWatch for automatic rollbacks. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/4MU5wceHx" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Redpanda Terraform supports connect pipelines and private networks</strong>: Redpanda’s Terraform provider now supports managing Redpanda Connect pipelines and BYOVPC deployments, allowing infrastructure-as-code management for the entire streaming lifecycle with standardized cluster provisioning and hundreds of pre-built connectors. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/lEn9sLeF1" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Amazon EKS simplifies IAM for add-ons in GovCloud</strong>: Amazon EKS now integrates EKS add-ons with EKS Pod Identity in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, simplifying IAM permission management for cluster operational software and eliminating manual configuration steps. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/cOS39KuJm" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Microsoft appoints engineering quality czar</strong>: Microsoft appointed Charlie Bell as engineering quality czar, reporting directly to Satya Nadella, 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>AWS launches new EC2 instances with Intel Xeon 6</strong>: AWS launched new EC2 C8id, M8id, and R8id instances powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, offering up to 43% higher performance and 3.3x more memory bandwidth than previous generations. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/JPt4mjvME" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>DigitalOcean launches OpenClaw on App Platform</strong>: DigitalOcean launched OpenClaw on App Platform, a managed solution for running production AI agents with elastic scaling, predictable costs, and options for private networking and isolated environments. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/qOHKpjoI0" 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 and 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 to run Super Bowl ads mocking OpenAI</strong>: Anthropic is apparently so confident in their ad-free Claude AI that they’re planning Super Bowl commercials to mock OpenAI’s decision to put ads in ChatGPT. OpenAI’s CEO, Sam Altman, responded by calling Anthropic “authoritarian” and claiming they only serve wealthy users. Because nothing says “we’re better” like spending millions on a Super Bowl ad to tell everyone you’re not selling ads. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/TmM2mNSSP" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Unmonitored AI agents are the new Titanic</strong>: A survey of 750 IT executives claims 1.5 million AI agents are running around without any monitoring or security oversight, leading to 88% of them experiencing or suspecting security incidents. Security experts are, of course, comparing this to the Titanic disaster. Because apparently, deploying AI agents without proper controls is exactly like hitting an iceberg, only with more buzzwords and less actual ice. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/RMzBzQnM3" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Elixir is the best language for AI, says unnamed study</strong>: An article boldly claims Elixir is the “best language for AI” based on an unnamed “Tencent study” that supposedly found Elixir had a 97.5% LLM completion rate. It touts Elixir’s immutability and stability as key benefits, completely ignoring any other language or potential drawbacks. Because if an unnamed study from a major tech company says it, it must be true, right? No need for pesky details or external corroboration. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/1D7tGyRwk" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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