<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li>Linus Torvalds uses AI for Python tooling: Even Linus Torvalds, the Linux kernel creator, is dabbling in AI. He used Google’s Antigravity AI-assist IDE (likely Gemini) for the Python visualization tool in his new AudioNoise project, an open-source guitar pedal simulator. Torvalds calls this “vibe coding,” where AI streamlines the process between searching for code examples and manual coding, as reported across multiple tech blogs. He still wrote the core DSP in C himself, so don’t expect AI to take over low-level kernel development just yet. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/fe8LDMARY" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li>India proposes invasive smartphone security standards: India is pushing for 83 new smartphone security standards, including demands for source code access, pre-update notifications, and 12-month device log storage. Major players like Apple, Samsung, and Google are pushing back, calling these requirements unprecedented and a risk to proprietary tech. Reuters reports government documents contradict public denials about seeking source code, raising concerns about regulatory overreach and potential security vulnerabilities. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/C0BEamxdR" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li>Meta secures nuclear power for AI expansion: Meta is going all-in on nuclear power, partnering with Vistra, TerraPower, and Oklo to secure up to 6.6 GW of capacity by 2035. This massive investment aims to provide reliable baseload power for its AI infrastructure and data centers, particularly the Prometheus supercluster in Ohio. The move highlights the immense energy demands of AI and Meta’s strategy to ensure a stable, clean power supply, according to their official announcement. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/elp6Y0W2r" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li>D-Wave acquires Quantum Circuits for gate-model expansion: D-Wave is acquiring Quantum Circuits Inc. for $550 million to integrate gate-model quantum computing with its annealing technology, aiming for a commercially available gate-model system by 2026. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/rdMlkyvEb" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li>US reauthorizes National Quantum Initiative: The U.S. is reintroducing the National Quantum Initiative Reauthorization Act to extend federal coordination of quantum research through 2034, establishing new NIST and NSF centers, and including NASA quantum programs for the first time. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/fWH0q50O1" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li>PostgreSQL as a Redis alternative for specific use cases: A technical article suggests PostgreSQL can replace Redis for caching, pub/sub, job queues, and session storage in small-to-medium apps by leveraging features like UNLOGGED tables and LISTEN/NOTIFY, potentially saving infrastructure costs. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/X7d3O8Vu2" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li>Linux 6.19-rc5 fixes Rust Binder deadlock: Linux 6.19-rc5 includes a fix for a recursive locking deadlock in the Rust Binder driver, which caused system crashes, and adds support for Intel Nova Lake Point S. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=MbuLWzK6Y&amp;id=njv07kgwC" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li>Gentoo Linux 2025 review highlights technical progress: Gentoo Linux’s 2025 year-in-review shows 112,927 commits, four new developers, finalized EAPI 9, migration planning to Codeberg, and official support for RISC-V bootable images and WSL. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/19Mn2n5YA" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li>European Commission consults on open source strategy: The European Commission is consulting on an open source strategy to reduce reliance on US tech firms, aiming to classify open source as critical infrastructure and foster EU developer communities. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/nSTd14JQu" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li>Monarch Quantum unveils integrated photonics for quantum hardware: Monarch Quantum launched with Quantum Light Engines, integrated photonics systems that consolidate optical components for quantum computing, sensing, and communications, using robotic assembly and machine learning. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/VcJjUEDTv" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li>Redundant quantum information backup achieved: University of Waterloo researchers developed a method to back up quantum information redundantly by encrypting qubits into multiple entangled systems without violating the no-cloning theorem, enabling secure cloud storage. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/cd0RSPfq1" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><a href="http://Laraplugins.io" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Laraplugins.io</a> launches automated Laravel package health checks: <a href="http://Laraplugins.io" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Laraplugins.io</a> provides automated health checks for Laravel packages, assessing dependency quality based on update recency, compatibility, and code quality, built on Laravel Octane and FrankenPHP for performance. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=39iNKw5Gf&amp;id=NDu5PHZv1" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li>Telegraf v1.38.0 enforces strict environment variable handling: Telegraf v1.38.0 now defaults to strict environment variable handling to prevent malicious plugin injection and other configuration-based attacks, requiring users to review configurations for compatibility. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/VTcea1vlc" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li>Kotlin ecosystem weekly update: Kotlin Weekly #493 covers Media3 1.9.0, Kotlin language nuances, Block’s migration to Ktfmt and Detekt, dependency injection guides, Ktor Client internals, Exposed framework, and new libraries like Carbon Compose and ComposeNativeWebView (Rust-based). <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/hrjaxjJXZ" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li>Wing expands Walmart drone delivery network: Alphabet’s Wing is expanding its drone delivery partnership with Walmart, adding 150 stores by 2027 to cover 10% of the U.S. population, following successful pilots and increased use of larger drones. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/3ejbcGBv5" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li>KAIST and POSTECH 3D print nanolasers on chips: Researchers at KAIST and POSTECH have developed a direct electrohydrodynamic 3D printing method for vertical nanolasers on semiconductor chips, eliminating lithography and enabling higher efficiency for optical computing and quantum communication. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/a8cgcR8ai" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li>Motional reboots robotaxi with AI-first approach: Motional is relaunching its robotaxi service with a new foundation model-based AI architecture, consolidating individual ML models into a single end-to-end system, targeting public ride-hailing by mid-2026. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/JFLFFu1SK" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li>Instagram password reset incident and data leak allegations: Millions of Instagram users received unexpected password reset emails, while Malwarebytes alleged a 17.5 million account data leak. Meta denies a breach, attributing the emails to an external party exploiting a technical issue, but the source of the alleged leak remains unverified. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/MEOecqk3z" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li>Shandong University uncovers iris recognition vulnerability: Researchers at Shandong University discovered EMIRIS, a method to eavesdrop on iris data via electromagnetic side channels, achieving a 53.47% success rate in spoofing commercial iris recognition systems. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/crEIZ8f1u" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li>Upcoming changes in Python 3.14 and ecosystem tools: Python 3.14, due in 2026, will feature performance gains through lazy imports and official free-threading support, alongside new Rust-based type checkers and packaging tools like uv and Hatch. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/quf6PiAcD" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li>Universal Commerce Protocol and AI-driven shopping create tension: Google, Shopify, and others launched Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) to standardize e-commerce, while Amazon’s ‘Buy For Me’ AI feature is reportedly scraping merchant sites without consent, causing merchant backlash. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=7CfzB00S6&amp;id=HH05G9maY&amp;id=MhDEwyYbE" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li>Window tiling goes mainstream across OSes: Window tiling, once a niche feature for power users, is becoming standard, with Windows 11’s Snap Layouts, macOS Sequoia’s native edge tiling, and Ubuntu’s Tiling Assistant making it widely available. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/h6dG3PDas" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li>AI-assisted PHP to Rust code conversion: A developer successfully used GitHub Copilot to translate a PHP Laravel Artisan command into Rust, highlighting AI’s utility in cross-language learning and code translation, despite initial dependency hiccups. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/9hW5Reevq" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li>Developers building AI tools for workflow integration: Hacker News developers are creating AI chat tools for session management, a Rust-based full-text search for Claude/Codex sessions, and a Tmux-based CLI for AI agents to interact with terminal scripts. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/sxLN2tj0R" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li>Infleqtion and Churchill Capital Corp X advance quantum tech SPAC merger: Infleqtion and Churchill Capital Corp X filed an S-4 for a SPAC merger, aiming to make Infleqtion the first publicly listed neutral-atom quantum technology company with over $540 million in proceeds. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/RMchWZxRf" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li>Bloch Quantum Coalition advances in EDA Tech Hub competition: The Bloch Quantum, led by the Chicago Quantum Exchange, is a finalist in the EDA Tech Hub competition, aiming to bolster the U.S. quantum technology supply chain and accelerate commercialization. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/JZBeWpdNu" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li>Reverse-engineering Intel 8087 microcode conditional testing: Ken Shirriff reverse-engineered the Intel 8087 FPU, revealing how its microcode implements conditional tests at the hardware level using multiplexers and pass transistors to minimize wiring length. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/ASdoPKnlO" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li>Comparative review of Java execution time measurement approaches: An article reviews various Java execution time measurement methods, from System.currentTimeMillis() to annotation-based solutions, highlighting trade-offs between simplicity and flexibility for developers. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/XSk9p3zgF" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li>Variable vacuum capacitors show improved performance: New variable vacuum capacitors, using a vacuum dielectric and concentric metal rings, demonstrate extremely low dissipation factors and high DC impedance, offering higher quality factors and capacitance than air-based designs. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/OJbX39FeB" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li>GYESME project explores design-led downstream for GNOME: GYESME is a new project in early research, aiming for visual minimalism and alternative workflows for the GNOME desktop environment, focusing on modular extensibility and broad Linux portability. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/ptgiNxtFw" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li>Software problem-solving best practices debate: Ben Visness discusses the importance of formulating the correct technical question in programming, advocating for a deep understanding of the core issue before jumping to implementation specifics, a philosophy echoed by the handmade community. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/p7Lovjm9K" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li>2025 cybersecurity blog trends and key topics: Top cybersecurity blog topics in 2025 included security predictions, human microchip implant legislation, humanoid robots, AI identity verification, nation-state threats like Salt Typhoon, airport cyber incidents, and cloud adoption in government. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/l4GH0kwnW" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li>Innovative approaches and challenges in agentic AI security: Agentic AI security focuses on managing Non-Human Identities (NHIs) with AI-powered predictive security, dynamic policy enforcement, and real-time threat intelligence, while facing challenges in scaling management solutions. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/vT8Ag3rk4" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li>System outage recovery: uptime vs. true restoration: An article emphasizes that simply restarting servers after an outage doesn’t guarantee full recovery; true restoration requires deliberate state reconciliation and data rebuilding to prevent silent failures and data inconsistencies. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/CzM4QtWAN" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li>AI code generation: 70-90% of production code, zero accountability: Apparently, AI code generation tools now churn out 70-90% of production code, according to some unnamed report. The article then proceeds to tell developers to ‘adapt’ and ‘challenge AI capabilities’ without bothering to mention who’s actually verifying this code, or what happens when these AI agents inevitably hallucinate a security vulnerability. It’s all about ‘orchestration patterns’ and ‘full access to developer tooling,’ because what could possibly go wrong when you give an unverified black box the keys to your codebase? <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/LeN1TdPNx" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li>GenAI projects failing at 80%? Must be the infrastructure, not the hype: A practitioner claims 80% of GenAI projects fail, not because the models are overhyped, but due to ‘lack of production-ready infrastructure.’ So, it’s not the shiny new toy that’s the problem, it’s just that nobody bothered to build the basic engineering practices like config management, error handling, and prompt versioning. Who knew that throwing a large language model at a problem without a proper engineering foundation would lead to failure? Shocking. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=ExsMXw27a&amp;id=yocwu10Ql" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li>AI game-coding models: still can’t make a decent game in 30 minutes: A comparison of ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude trying to recreate a Roblox game in 30 minutes shows all three failed spectacularly, producing buggy or unplayable messes. Claude was the ‘best’ with a 5/10, which is still a failing grade. So, while the hype machine keeps churning, these ‘advanced’ AI models still can’t manage basic game logic without significant human intervention. Maybe stick to generating marketing copy for now, AI. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/JOD62sQP9" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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