<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>Apple partners with Google for AI features</strong>: Apple has reportedly struck a multi-year, non-exclusive deal with Google to integrate Gemini AI models into Siri and other AI features, with a revamped Siri expected later in 2026. This partnership, estimated to cost Apple around $1 billion annually, follows Apple’s evaluation of models from OpenAI and Anthropic. Despite the collaboration, Apple emphasizes its commitment to privacy, leveraging Google’s models as a foundation for its own AI while maintaining the option for other AI partnerships, as reported by multiple tech outlets. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/joVK7B34Z" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>India proposes strict smartphone security rules</strong>: India has proposed 83 new security standards for smartphone manufacturers like Apple, Samsung, and Google, including requirements for source code access, prior notification of software updates, and 12-month device log retention. While the IT ministry publicly denies seeking source code, industry documents reportedly contradict this. Manufacturers are resisting, citing concerns over proprietary technology and compliance burdens, with industry groups warning about technical feasibility and battery drain, according to Reuters. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/C0BEamxdR" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Hyperscale AI data centers demand next-gen nuclear power</strong>: The rapid expansion of hyperscale AI data centers, housing hundreds of thousands of GPUs from Nvidia, is creating an unprecedented demand for electricity, with each facility requiring over a gigawatt. This surge is driving significant investment in advanced nuclear options like small modular reactors (SMRs) that promise safer, faster, and cheaper energy. These data centers also bring community concerns, including increased energy prices, water shortages for cooling, noise pollution, and air quality issues, as reported by industry analysts. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=bf0xB32y7&amp;id=qk040xtMi" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>Laravel 2025 survey and new AI documentation</strong>: A 2025 Laravel developer survey shows mixed adoption of new starter kits and Laravel Cloud, while official AI Assisted Development documentation has been released, positioning Laravel Boost as a tool for AI understanding of applications. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=12lyQYsSm&amp;id=Y3JXeC4bN" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Filament v4.5 brings quality-of-life improvements</strong>: Filament v4.5 introduces features like @mentions in the rich text editor, user-resizable images, aspect ratio enforcement for file uploads, JavaScript actions, and simplified 2FA setup, alongside comprehensive documentation for modular architecture. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/xCXSWzTZX" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Postman acquires Fern for API documentation and SDK automation</strong>: Postman has acquired Fern, a startup specializing in automating API documentation and SDK generation in nine languages, aiming to reduce developer friction and support costs by providing a seamless, end-to-end API lifecycle platform. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/9UqlZV9z7" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Anthropic launches Cowork for agentic AI file management</strong>: Anthropic has released Cowork, a research preview feature for Claude Max subscribers on macOS, allowing Claude to autonomously read, edit, and create files in specified folders via a chat interface, targeting non-technical users for routine digital organization. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/TLkxIySjV" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Kubernetes v1.35 released with workload-aware scheduling</strong>: Kubernetes v1.35 introduces workload-aware scheduling, including gang scheduling to prevent partial resource usage, and opportunistic batching for faster scheduling of identical pods, alongside improvements in service account token handling. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=R6fTuHjeX&amp;id=zTULpLxtX" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Deno 2.6 enhances developer experience and security</strong>: Deno 2.6 brings a new <code>dx</code> subcommand, granular permission controls, a 2x faster experimental TypeScript type checker, sourcephase imports for WebAssembly, and an <code>audit</code> subcommand for dependency scanning against GitHub CVEs. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/Z4UbFEwzL" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AWS CloudWatch revamped for unified observability</strong>: AWS has transformed CloudWatch into a unified observability platform, consolidating operational, security, and compliance logs across accounts, offering Apache Iceberg-compatible access via S3 Tables, and supporting OCSF and OpenTelemetry standards. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/Z4eMJMdxN" 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 tools: the emperor has no clothes, or code</strong>: Turns out, those shiny new AI coding tools like Claude Code, while making code generation ‘fast and accessible,’ are still pretty useless for anything beyond one-off scripts. Salesforce learned this the hard way, laying off 4,000 experienced staff to replace them with AI, only to reverse course three months later because the automated systems couldn’t match human expertise. So, while the cost of generating code might be ‘cheap,’ the cost of reliable, maintainable, and scalable software still requires actual engineers, not just fancy LLMs. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=BCKlippws&amp;id=aKgPqgLac" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Stack Overflow’s demise: blame the AI, not the toxicity</strong>: Stack Overflow is seeing a dramatic 78% drop in questions, and the narrative is that developers are flocking to AI tools for answers. Conveniently, this overlooks the platform’s long-standing reputation for hostile user interactions. So, while AI might be a convenient scapegoat, perhaps the real reason developers are leaving is that they’d rather deal with a ‘hallucinating’ chatbot than a condescending human. Irony alert: many of those AI tools were trained on Stack Overflow’s data. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/9NZ5cJyz4" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI agent security: more buzzwords, same old problems</strong>: Apparently, AI agents are creating ‘new safety and security challenges’ that traditional controls can’t handle, leading to ‘semantic/intent-based attacks’ like GeminiJack and CometJacking. The solution? ‘Deterministic security boxing’ and ‘real-time semantic inspection.’ Meanwhile, 86% of organizations are already experiencing AI-related incidents, and only 4% have a ‘mature’ AI security posture. So, while the industry invents new jargon, it seems the basics of securing systems, regardless of whether they have ‘agentic’ capabilities, are still largely ignored. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=CuSSpmwf6&amp;id=EDYtMcTfL&amp;id=JuPUyAfNx" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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