<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li>Meta goes nuclear for AI data centers: 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 existing plant lifespans and developing advanced reactors, primarily in Ohio and Pennsylvania. The move aims to provide clean, reliable baseload power, supporting Meta’s AI expansion and creating thousands of jobs, according to Meta’s announcement. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/elp6Y0W2r" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li>RAM and storage prices skyrocket due to AI demand: Memory and storage prices have surged 2-3x in early 2026, with NAND flash doubling in six months, driven primarily by AI data center demand for high-bandwidth memory (HBM). HBM production requires three times more wafer capacity than DDR5, straining overall supply. Kingston reports a 246% increase in wafer prices, and forecasts suggest DDR5 and SSD prices could rise another 50% 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>EU pushes open source to counter big tech reliance: The European Commission has launched a public consultation on an open source strategy to reduce its dependence on U.S. technology giants. Recognizing that 70-90% of modern software uses open source, the EU plans to treat it as critical infrastructure and shift funding from experimental projects to scaling viable solutions in areas like cloud, AI, and cybersecurity. The goal is to foster competitive European alternatives to proprietary platforms, as reported by the European Commission. <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>Python 3.14 promises speed and threading improvements: Python 3.14, slated for 2026, will introduce lazy imports for faster module loading and official free-threading support, potentially offering up to 10x speedups for parallel workloads, alongside a growing trend of Rust-based type checkers and packaging tools. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/quf6PiAcD" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li>Google, Shopify, and others launch AI agent commerce protocol: Google, in collaboration with Shopify, Walmart, Target, and Etsy, launched the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP), an open-source standard enabling AI agents to manage the entire purchasing funnel from discovery to checkout, with Google integrating it directly into AI search and Gemini apps. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=7CfzB00S6&amp;id=MhDEwyYbE" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li>AWS introduces VPC encryption controls: AWS has launched VPC Encryption Controls, a new feature to monitor and enforce in-transit encryption within and between VPCs, offering both monitoring and enforcement modes, with the latter requiring Nitro-based infrastructure and supporting compliance efforts for HIPAA, PCI DSS, and FedRAMP. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/aJM4z3V52" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li>Docker releases free hardened images for supply chain security: Docker has made over 1,000 hardened, open-source images available for free under the Apache 2.0 license, designed to reduce attack surfaces by removing unnecessary packages and outdated dependencies, alongside hardened Helm charts for secure Kubernetes deployments. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/E2h3E1Ajx" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li>Percona Everest offers open-source cloud-native database management: Percona Everest is a new open-source, cloud-native platform for deploying and managing PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and MySQL clusters on Kubernetes, providing a UI, automated backups, monitoring, and scaling, installable via Helm charts or CLI. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/OC41GdlTr" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li>Linux gets RISC-V Spectre V1 protection: The Linux kernel has merged new security patches for RISC-V processors to protect against Spectre V1 attacks, using <code>array_index_nospec()</code> in syscalls to prevent branch predictor poisoning, bringing RISC-V protections in line with x86_64 and ARM64. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/ijNx4P4vv" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li>Mac emulation speeds up on ESP32-P4 microcontroller: The Basilisk II emulator has been ported to the ESP32-P4 microcontroller, achieving Mac OS 8.1 emulation at 15 frames per second on the M5Stack Tab5, a significant performance leap for running 32-bit operating systems on embedded platforms. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/4kynNlJRv" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li>AI coding tools: perceived productivity, actual quality drop: Turns out, those AI coding assistants making developers feel 20% faster actually make them take 19% longer and introduce 1.7x more issues, including security vulnerabilities from ‘hallucinated dependencies.’ So, while you’re busy feeling productive, your code is quietly getting worse, and your security team is probably having a conniption. But hey, at least you’re typing less, right? <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/fLWmEtnzQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li>Google’s AI Overviews: great for medical advice, until it’s not: Google, in its infinite wisdom, decided AI Overviews were perfectly fine for medical queries, until The Guardian pointed out they were giving misleading health info. Now, Google has removed them from select medical queries, assuring us their internal clinicians found them ‘often accurate.’ Because ‘often accurate’ is exactly what you want when dealing with health advice. Don’t worry, just rephrase your query, and the AI will be happy to hallucinate a diagnosis for you. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/5rDA4vp3y" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li>AI agents: the new security blanket for machine identities: Apparently, ‘Agentic AI’ is the hot new thing for managing Non-Human Identities (NHIs) – those digital machine identities that are totally different from human ones, promise. It’s supposed to give ‘context-rich insights’ beyond mere ‘secret scanning,’ reducing breach risks and improving compliance. Because what could be more secure than an AI agent managing other AI agents’ secrets? What could possibly go wrong with that trust circle? <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=R1pVL2eyW&amp;id=aQiBkkPBe&amp;id=xYmkL7CHJ" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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