<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>Apple partners with Google for AI features</strong>: Apple is integrating Google’s Gemini AI models and cloud infrastructure into Siri and other AI features, with a revamped Siri expected later in 2026. This multi-year, non-exclusive partnership, reported by Mac-centric and business tech outlets, follows Apple’s evaluation of other models and is estimated to cost around $1 billion annually. Despite the collaboration, Apple emphasizes its commitment to privacy, leveraging Google’s models as a foundation for its own AI while maintaining its Private Cloud Compute infrastructure. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/joVK7B34Z" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Kubernetes 1.35 brings workload-aware scheduling</strong>: Kubernetes v1.35 has been released, introducing significant improvements like workload-aware scheduling and a new Workload API. This update includes gang scheduling, ensuring all pods in a workload start simultaneously to prevent resource deadlocks, and opportunistic batching for faster scheduling of identical pods. These enhancements, detailed in Kubernetes release notes, aim to optimize resource utilization and streamline operations for complex deployments. <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>Microsoft retires MDT, pushes cloud-dependent deployment</strong>: Microsoft has abruptly retired the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT), ending support for the 20-year-old tool that offered independent Windows deployment automation. This move, without a transition period, forces users towards more complex, cloud-integrated solutions like Windows Autopilot or Configuration Manager OSD. The decision, reported by various tech outlets, leaves organizations using MDT exposed to potential security risks due to the lack of future updates, highlighting Microsoft’s push towards cloud-centric management. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=0sSu27x90&amp;id=8WMJpirC0" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>Cloudflare scales IaC with shift-left security</strong>: Cloudflare has significantly scaled its infrastructure deployment using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and shift-left security practices, leveraging Terraform, a custom CI/CD pipeline, and Open Policy Agent to automate policy validation and enforce security pre-deployment. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/zvwEY7IEt" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Linux 6.19-rc5 released with driver and security fixes</strong>: Linux 6.19-rc5 has been released, featuring fixes for NVIDIA GPUs in the Nouveau driver, a RISC-V security vulnerability, and a Rust Binder bug, alongside support for the Logitech MX Anywhere 3S mouse. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/MbuLWzK6Y" 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 multiple accounts, supporting OCSF and OpenTelemetry standards, and offering natural language queries. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/Z4eMJMdxN" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Anthropic launches agentic AI file management for non-coders</strong>: Anthropic introduced Cowork, a research preview feature in the Claude Desktop app for macOS, enabling Claude Max subscribers to use agentic AI for autonomous file management, organization, and data analysis via a chat interface. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/TLkxIySjV" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>GoBruteforcer botnet targets crypto projects</strong>: The GoBruteforcer malware, written in Golang, is actively targeting Linux servers and cryptocurrency infrastructure, exploiting weak credentials and LLM-generated defaults to co-opt hosts into a botnet, with a focus on the TRON blockchain. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/nO4oxH8nA" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Auto-CPUFreq 3.0 for Linux adds enhanced battery controls</strong>: Auto-CPUFreq 3.0 for Linux laptops introduces user-controlled CPU turbo mode override, improved battery handling for multi-battery setups, and ASUS laptop battery charge threshold support, accessible via CLI and GUI. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/umWMqgJxW" 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 programming languages, aiming to enhance developer experience and streamline the API lifecycle within Postman’s platform. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/9UqlZV9z7" 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: cheap code, expensive reliability</strong>: Turns out, while LLM tools like Claude Code make generating code faster than ever, building reliable, maintainable, and scalable software is still a job for actual engineers. Salesforce learned this the hard way, laying off 4,000 experienced staff to replace them with AI, only to reverse course three months later when the automated systems couldn’t deliver. Apparently, domain expertise and human judgment are still required, even if the code itself is ‘cheap.’ <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>Anthropic’s OAuth restrictions: locking down the ‘open’ AI ecosystem</strong>: Anthropic, in a bold move to control its ‘value chain,’ has restricted OAuth access for third-party agents like OpenCode, forcing users to higher-cost API access for Claude Pro/Max features. This, of course, alienated some users who apparently thought ‘open’ meant ‘open.’ OpenAI, ever the opportunist, immediately announced official support for ChatGPT subscriptions in OpenCode, effectively inviting disgruntled Anthropic users to jump ship. Who knew ‘competition’ meant making your product harder to use? <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=8dtXe7P09&amp;id=eRi1VQ5SP" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>India’s smartphone security rules: demanding source code, denying it publicly</strong>: India has proposed 83 stringent security standards for smartphone manufacturers, including demands for source code access and 12-month device log retention. While government documents reportedly show explicit requirements for source code, the IT ministry publicly denies it, calling Reuters’ reporting ‘inaccurate.’ So, they want to peek under the hood of Apple, Samsung, and Google’s proprietary tech, but don’t want anyone to know they’re asking. Classic ‘do as I say, not as I do’ regulatory theater. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/C0BEamxdR" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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