<h2>Must know</h2>
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<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. This spike is primarily driven by insatiable AI data center demand for high-bandwidth memory (HBM), which requires three times more wafer capacity than DDR5. Micron’s exit from the consumer market further tightens supply, leading Kingston to report a 246% increase in wafer prices. Forecasts suggest another 50% rise 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>Meta bets big on nuclear power for AI data centers</strong>: Meta has partnered with Vistra, TerraPower, and Oklo to secure up to 6.6 GW of nuclear power by 2035 for its AI infrastructure. This includes extending the life of existing plants and developing advanced Natrium and Aurora Powerhouse reactors. The move aims to provide clean, reliable baseload power for Meta’s massive AI expansion, with projects primarily located in Ohio and Pennsylvania, creating thousands of jobs, as announced by Meta. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/elp6Y0W2r" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Google, Shopify, Walmart, and Etsy launch Universal Commerce Protocol for AI agents</strong>: Google, in collaboration with major retailers like Shopify, Walmart, Target, and Etsy, has launched the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP). This open-source standard enables AI agents to handle the entire purchasing journey, from discovery to checkout. UCP creates a unified abstraction layer, allowing merchants to expose their capabilities via standardized JSON manifests, which Google will integrate directly into AI search results and Gemini apps for end-to-end agent-driven transactions. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=7CfzB00S6&amp;id=MhDEwyYbE" 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 targets major speed and threading improvements</strong>: 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 growing adoption of Rust-based type checkers like Pyrefly. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/quf6PiAcD" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Linus Torvalds uses AI for new open-source audio 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, showcasing his increasing interest in AI tooling for hobby projects. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/fe8LDMARY" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Dell GB10 brings Nvidia Blackwell AI to the edge</strong>: Dell’s new GB10 device, featuring Nvidia’s Blackwell GB10 superchip, integrates a Grace ARM CPU and Blackwell GPU with 128GB unified memory, optimized for running large language models and reinforcement learning at the edge without cloud reliance. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/ow6tBWhoH" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AWS launches VPC encryption controls for in-transit data</strong>: AWS introduced VPC Encryption Controls, a new feature to monitor and enforce encryption for traffic within and between VPCs, offering both monitoring and enforcement modes to bolster 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>Kilo AI coding agent platform offers broad IDE integration</strong>: Kilo, an open-source AI coding agent platform, integrates with major IDEs like VS Code and JetBrains, offering access to over 500 AI models, automated code reviews, and a pay-as-you-go model for development teams. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/t9TmWNeD6" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Percona Everest simplifies cloud-native database management</strong>: Percona Everest is a new open-source, cloud-native platform for deploying and managing PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and MySQL clusters on Kubernetes, offering a UI, automated backups, monitoring, and scaling via Helm charts. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/OC41GdlTr" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Arch Linux package management gets Rust overhaul</strong>: The ALPM project completed a 15-month overhaul of Arch Linux package management, delivering a Rust-based framework with formal specifications, Python bindings, a linting framework, and a new stateless OpenPGP signature verification system. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/JM0KRr2qN" 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 19% slower and introduce 1.7x more bugs, according to multiple studies. It’s almost like reducing typing isn’t the same as delivering quality software, and those ‘hallucinated dependencies’ are just security vulnerabilities waiting to happen. Maybe we should focus on actual engineering instead of chasing the illusion of productivity. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/fLWmEtnzQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Google’s AI Overviews: because medical advice from a chatbot is always a good idea</strong>: Google, in its infinite wisdom, had to pull AI Overviews from some medical queries after The Guardian pointed out its AI was giving misleading health info. Google claims its internal clinicians found the summaries ‘often accurate,’ which is reassuring, I guess, if ‘often’ means ‘sometimes.’ Health advocates are, predictably, not thrilled, suggesting that maybe, just maybe, AI isn’t quite ready to be your primary care physician. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/5rDA4vp3y" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI industry insiders launch ‘Poison Fountain’ to save us from themselves</strong>: A group of ‘concerned’ tech insiders, conveniently anonymous, have launched ‘Poison Fountain,’ a project to inject poisoned data into AI training sets. Their noble goal? To prevent AI from becoming an ‘existential threat’ by making it subtly incorrect. Because nothing says ‘responsible AI development’ like intentionally sabotaging the very models you claim to be worried about. It’s a bold strategy, Cotton, let’s see if it pays off. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/ULQiNTTAZ" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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