<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>Meta goes nuclear for AI data centers</strong>: Meta is partnering with Vistra, TerraPower, and Oklo to secure up to 6.6 GW of nuclear power by 2035 for its AI infrastructure and data centers. This massive investment includes extending the life of existing plants and developing advanced reactors, primarily in Ohio and Pennsylvania. This move, announced by Meta, aims to provide clean, reliable baseload power, highlighting the extreme energy demands of scaling AI. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/elp6Y0W2r" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>RAM and storage prices skyrocket due to AI demand</strong>: Memory and storage prices have surged 2-3x in early 2026, with NAND flash doubling in six months. The primary culprit is the insatiable demand from AI data centers, especially for high-bandwidth memory (HBM), which requires three times more wafer capacity than DDR5. Kingston reports a 246% increase in wafer prices, and forecasts suggest another 50% hike for DDR5 and SSDs in the first half of 2026, impacting both consumer and enterprise markets. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/RV04f4xGD" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>EU pushes open source to counter big tech dominance</strong>: The European Commission is consulting on a new open-source strategy to reduce its reliance on U.S. tech giants. Recognizing that 70-90% of modern software uses open-source components, the EU plans to shift funding from experimental projects to scaling viable solutions in cloud, AI, cybersecurity, and industrial software. This initiative, directly from the European Commission, aims to foster competitive European alternatives and ensure technological sovereignty. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/nSTd14JQu" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>Python 3.14 promises speed and true parallelism</strong>: Python 3.14, slated for 2026, will introduce lazy imports for faster module loading and official free-threading support, potentially delivering up to 10x speedups for parallel workloads. This, alongside the rise of Rust-based type checkers and packaging tools like uv, aims to close Python’s performance gap with compiled languages. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/quf6PiAcD" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Linus Torvalds uses AI for guitar pedal project</strong>: Linus Torvalds released AudioNoise, an open-source digital guitar pedal emulator, using AI-assisted coding with Google Antigravity for its Python visualization component. This hobby project, published on GitHub, showcases Torvalds’ increasing interest in adopting AI tools for software development, though the core audio processing remains human-coded. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/fe8LDMARY" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AWS launches VPC encryption controls</strong>: AWS introduced VPC Encryption Controls, a new feature to monitor and enforce in-transit encryption within and between Virtual Private Clouds. It offers monitor and enforce modes, with the latter blocking unencrypted traffic on Nitro-based infrastructure, supporting compliance for standards like HIPAA and PCI DSS. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/aJM4z3V52" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Docker releases free hardened images for security</strong>: Docker has made over 1,000 hardened, open-source images available for free under the Apache 2.0 license, aiming to reduce software supply chain vulnerabilities by removing unnecessary packages and outdated dependencies. These images, along with hardened Helm charts, are designed to improve container security with minimal changes to existing Dockerfiles. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/E2h3E1Ajx" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>New method for encrypted quantum information backup</strong>: Researchers at the University of Waterloo developed a method to duplicate encrypted quantum information without violating the no-cloning theorem, using expiring one-time encryption keys to create multiple secure copies of qubits, potentially enabling redundant quantum cloud storage. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/A8qpCsnhq" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Dell GB10 brings Nvidia Blackwell to the edge</strong>: Dell’s new GB10 device, featuring Nvidia’s Blackwell GB10 superchip, is an edge AI platform optimized for running large language models up to 120 billion parameters locally. With 128GB unified memory and dual 100Gb networking, it aims to provide low-latency, privacy-focused AI without cloud reliance. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/ow6tBWhoH" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Julia GPU ODE solvers outperform JAX and PyTorch</strong>: Julia’s GPU-accelerated ODE solvers, particularly its DiffEqGPU library, are demonstrating 20x-100x faster performance than JAX and PyTorch alternatives in scientific computing workloads, attributed to Julia’s fundamental architectural approach to GPU utilization and multi-GPU parallelism. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/QmMiG41QZ" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>AI coding assistants: faster typing, slower delivery</strong>: Turns out, those AI coding assistants making developers ‘feel’ 20% faster actually make them take 19% longer to finish tasks, according to new research. Not only that, but AI-generated code leads to 1.7x more issues and introduces security vulnerabilities through ‘hallucinated dependencies.’ So, while you’re busy ‘vibe coding,’ remember that perceived productivity doesn’t always translate to actual results, as multiple studies now suggest. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=fLWmEtnzQ&amp;id=T7lz8DVGQ&amp;id=JhfRDbs9r" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Amazon’s ‘Buy For Me’ feature: because consent is optional for AI</strong>: Amazon’s new AI-driven ‘Buy For Me’ feature decided to scrape independent merchants’ websites and list their products on Amazon without asking. Small businesses were surprised by orders for products they didn’t even know were on Amazon, sometimes with incorrect images or exposing wholesale pricing. Apparently, Amazon’s AI can crawl the web and list your stuff, but don’t you dare try to crawl <a href="http://Amazon.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Amazon.com</a>. Classic. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/HH05G9maY" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Google’s AI Overviews: trust us, we’re Google (unless it’s medical advice)</strong>: Google removed AI Overviews from certain medical search queries after The Guardian pointed out its AI was giving misleading health information. Google’s internal clinicians apparently thought the summaries were ‘often accurate,’ but health advocates are still pressing for broader changes. So, while Google’s AI might be great for finding cat videos, maybe don’t ask it about your liver function. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/5rDA4vp3y" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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