<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>AWS doubles down on data centers for AI</strong>: AWS announced plans to invest $200 billion in 2026 to double its data center capacity by the end of 2027, primarily for AI infrastructure. This comes after a strong Q4 2025 with 24% year-over-year revenue growth, their best in three years. CEO Andy Jassy stated AWS is monetizing AI capacity as fast as it’s deployed, indicating a massive push to capture the AI compute market. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/1BAlXIloL" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Microsoft open-sources Rust-based sandboxing project LiteBox</strong>: Microsoft released LiteBox, an experimental library OS written in Rust, designed for application sandboxing with a minimal attack surface. Positioned between containers and VMs, it offers stronger isolation without heavy overhead, supporting unmodified Linux applications and confidential computing with AMD SEV-SNP. This move highlights a growing industry trend towards Rust for security-critical infrastructure. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=jIlb9nmzq&amp;id=0PdnWmIzP" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI agents disrupt SaaS business models and spark market selloffs</strong>: AI agents are fundamentally changing the SaaS landscape, shifting from selling software tools to delivering outcomes directly. Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6, with its 1 million token context window and multi-agent capabilities, triggered a $285 billion software stock selloff as investors fear AI disruption of traditional enterprise software. This ‘SaaSpocalypse’ suggests a move from seat-based pricing to outcome-based models, where enterprises pay for results rather than tool access. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=zMRAHcD2R&amp;id=WuscJA6Ia&amp;id=zcMGhz5N7" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>FBI fails to crack iPhone with lockdown mode enabled</strong>: The FBI’s Computer Analysis Response Team was unable to extract data from a Washington Post reporter’s iPhone that had Apple’s Lockdown Mode enabled, providing rare evidence of its effectiveness against law enforcement forensic tools. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/PXLqFkE9O" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Snowflake integrates pg_lake for open data standards</strong>: Snowflake integrated <code>pg_lake</code>, an open-source PostgreSQL extension, into its Snowflake Postgres service, allowing users to work with data lakehouses and Apache Iceberg tables directly via SQL, emphasizing interoperability and open standards. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/kBWxo6cQz" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>New Linux kernel scheduling enhancements proposed</strong>: Cambridge researchers developed Latency-Aware Group Scheduling (LAGS) to increase Kubernetes cluster capacity by 10-20%, while a new Linux kernel patch series, Dynamic Housekeeping and Enhanced Isolation (DHEI), aims for dynamic CPU resource partitioning without reboots. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=cc5mbXUoZ&amp;id=sIpmbSkbv" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Go language ecosystem updates released</strong>: Microsoft released new builds of Go versions 1.25.7-1 and 1.24.13-1 with security fixes, while a Medium article detailed building a scalable email ingestion pipeline using Go and DuckDB, and <code>tview</code> was highlighted as a Go package for building rich terminal-based user interfaces. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=27vA6E5rB&amp;id=RjCoRN7S0&amp;id=WFUKfQ0NK" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>DDoS attacks surge globally, UK heavily targeted</strong>: DDoS attacks doubled in 2025, with Cloudflare blocking 47.1 million incidents, and the UK jumping 36 places to become the sixth most-targeted country, facing shorter, more intense traffic bursts that necessitate autonomous defense systems. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/QNTbxOGul" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Mozilla invests $1 billion in AI infrastructure</strong>: Mozilla announced a $1 billion investment strategy to build AI infrastructure, focusing on foundational rails for trustworthy, smaller-scale AI systems and forming a coalition of startups and nonprofits to challenge model-centric approaches. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/HZNmJadhL" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>New Ruby E2E testing framework ‘E2E’ released</strong>: A new Ruby end-to-end testing framework, ‘E2E’, was released, wrapping Playwright to provide fast browser testing with a clean DSL similar to Capybara, zero-configuration for Rails apps, and transactional test support. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/BT9QhKBRx" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>AI makes junior developers ‘extinct,’ apparently</strong>: An opinion piece dramatically claims AI tools like Copilot are making junior developers ‘extinct’ by automating entry-level tasks, creating a ‘dangerous gap’ in the career pipeline. Because apparently, the only way to learn is by doing ‘grunt work,’ and AI can’t possibly create new learning opportunities or shift roles. The author’s alarmist tone suggests we’re all doomed unless we go back to manually writing unit tests. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/MGWWK0MWO" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Tailwind CSS lays off 75% of engineers due to AI</strong>: Tailwind CSS, a popular open-source project, laid off 75% of its engineering team, blaming AI code generation tools for reducing traffic to their documentation site, which is crucial for promoting commercial products. So, AI is so good it’s making developers bypass documentation, thus starving open-source projects. Who knew AI’s true power was economic disruption, not just code generation? <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/uR7Q2jMhV" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Pinterest fires devs for checking layoff list</strong>: Pinterest laid off 15% of its workforce, citing ‘AI restructuring,’ but refused to disclose who was terminated. When two engineers wrote a script to identify laid-off colleagues, they were promptly fired for accessing ‘confidential information.’ The CEO then urged remaining employees to align or leave. Because nothing says ‘transparency’ and ‘employee loyalty’ like using AI as a layoff excuse and then punishing those who try to understand the impact. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/Om0rqgwIK" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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