<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>India’s smartphone security demands spark industry backlash</strong>: India is pushing for stringent smartphone security standards, including source code access and 12-month device log storage, which major tech companies like Apple and Samsung are calling unprecedented and invasive. While the Indian IT ministry publicly denies seeking source code, Reuters reports contradict this with leaked government documents. This regulatory overreach could significantly impact the smartphone ecosystem, raising concerns about trade secrets and device vulnerability. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/C0BEamxdR" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Meta goes nuclear for AI power</strong>: Meta is securing up to 6.6 GW of nuclear energy capacity by 2035 through partnerships with Vistra, TerraPower, and Oklo. This massive investment aims to power Meta’s expanding 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 reliable, clean power supply, as reported by Meta’s official announcement. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/elp6Y0W2r" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Linus Torvalds embraces AI coding tools for hobby project</strong>: Even Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, is using AI coding tools. He recently released AudioNoise, an open-source guitar pedal simulator, and openly stated he used Google’s Antigravity AI-assist IDE (likely Gemini) for the Python visualization tool. While he coded the core DSP in C himself, his adoption of AI for ‘vibe coding’ signals a significant shift in how even seasoned developers approach certain tasks, as noted across multiple tech blogs. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/fe8LDMARY" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>AI agents are getting ridiculously good at self-hosting</strong>: CLI agents like Claude Code are making self-hosting dramatically easier, allowing users to set up multiple services on affordable mini PCs with natural language prompts instead of manual configuration, according to Hacker News. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/OcN7tvK3U" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Developers are building AI tools for workflow integration</strong>: Hacker News’s ‘Ask HN’ thread reveals developers are actively creating AI chat tools for session management, full-text search for AI conversations using Rust, and Tmux-based CLIs 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><strong>Universal Commerce Protocol aims to standardize e-commerce</strong>: Google, Shopify, Walmart, Target, and Etsy have launched UCP, an open-source standard to unify product discovery and order management, aiming to streamline AI-driven commerce and reduce integration complexities. <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><strong>D-Wave acquires Quantum Circuits for gate-model expansion</strong>: D-Wave Quantum is acquiring Quantum Circuits Inc. for $550 million to integrate annealing quantum computing with error-corrected gate-model technology, targeting a commercial gate-model system by 2026. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/rdMlkyvEb" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>US reintroduces National Quantum Initiative Act</strong>: Bipartisan U.S. lawmakers have introduced legislation to reauthorize the National Quantum Initiative through 2034, expanding federal research, establishing new NIST 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><strong>Gentoo Linux 2025 review highlights technical progress</strong>: Gentoo Linux’s 2025 year-in-review showcases 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><strong>Kotlin ecosystem gets weekly updates</strong>: Kotlin Weekly #493 covers Media3 1.9.0, articles on null concatenation, Block’s migration to Ktfmt and Detekt, a dependency injection guide, Ktor Client internals, Exposed framework for database migrations, and new libraries like Carbon Compose and Jindong. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=hrjaxjJXZ&amp;id=hrjaxjJXZ" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>AI code generation: 70-90% of production code? Really?</strong>: A report claims AI code generation tools now create 70-90% of production code, but conveniently omits any actual data source. This sounds less like a fact and more like a motivational poster trying to scare developers into adopting AI, pushing a narrative that if you’re not using AI for everything, you’re ‘falling behind.’ Maybe we should ask for some actual numbers, not just vague percentages and FOMO-inducing rhetoric. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/LeN1TdPNx" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>GenAI project failure rate: 80% due to ‘infrastructure gaps’</strong>: Apparently, 80% of GenAI projects fail, not because the models are bad, but because developers can’t build proper infrastructure. The anonymous author, who rejected 847 GenAI pull requests, lists seven ‘essential production folders’ as the solution. It’s almost as if building robust software is still hard, even with fancy AI, and blaming ‘infrastructure gaps’ is a convenient way to sidestep the hype. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=ExsMXw27a&amp;id=yocwu10Ql" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI insiders want to poison the well</strong>: Some ‘AI industry insiders’ are launching ‘Poison Fountain,’ encouraging websites to feed bad data to AI crawlers. Their goal? To undermine AI systems by distributing incorrect code with subtle bugs. Because when you’re worried about AI becoming an existential threat, the most logical solution is to actively make it worse for everyone. What could possibly go wrong? <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/ULQiNTTAZ" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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