<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>Apple and Google team up for AI-powered Siri</strong>: Apple is partnering with Google to integrate Gemini models and cloud infrastructure into Siri, with an estimated annual payment of $1 billion. This move, reported by multiple sources, aims to overhaul Siri with more personalized AI features, expected to launch publicly in spring 2026. The deal expands the existing Apple-Google relationship and sidelines OpenAI’s ChatGPT for complex queries, despite consumer surveys showing limited enthusiasm for current mobile AI features. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/joVK7B34Z" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI data centers are sucking up power and water</strong>: Hyperscale AI data centers, housing hundreds of thousands of GPUs, are consuming over 1 gigawatt of electricity each, with more than 50% sourced from fossil fuels. These facilities, backed by OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Meta, are causing rising energy costs, water shortages, noise pollution, and air quality issues in local communities. Meanwhile, next-generation nuclear reactors, including small modular reactors (SMRs), are being developed as a potential solution to meet this escalating energy demand, as highlighted by MIT Technology Review. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=bf0xB32y7&amp;id=qk040xtMi&amp;id=dJDy4tUxK" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>BreachForums data leak exposes 324,000 users</strong>: BreachForums, a notorious cybercrime marketplace, suffered a data breach in August 2025, with details publicly disclosed in January 2026. The leak exposed nearly 324,000 user records, including usernames, emails, IP addresses, and hashed passwords, as confirmed by Resecurity. The breach, attributed to mishandling during a site restoration, could allow law enforcement to identify users, undermining trust in the platform and potentially pushing cybercriminals to more private forums. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/iWBcNtvCe" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>Google and major retailers launch universal commerce protocol</strong>: Google, alongside Shopify, Etsy, Target, Walmart, and Wayfair, introduced the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP), an open standard designed to enable AI agents to discover products, add items to carts, and facilitate purchases across various online retail platforms. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=xOjrayt7r&amp;id=2S31ZjKRT&amp;id=PLHkMQb0u&amp;id=Ywq5VNAy0" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI coding tools are changing software engineering roles</strong>: GenAI-based development tools are reshaping software engineering, amplifying strengths in ‘fast flow’ organizations but accelerating defects in ‘slow flow’ ones, with industry leaders predicting a shift from coding to supervising AI-driven systems. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=MU6fGtVLh&amp;id=hHTJdKyX8" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Firefox 147 brings CSS anchor positioning and Linux fixes</strong>: Firefox 147 introduces support for CSS Module Scripts and CSS anchor positioning for web developers, alongside a 20-year-old Linux bug fix for XDG Base Directory Specification support and improved performance for AMD GPUs. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/lvJEba0su" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Laravel Simplifier plugin released for Claude Code</strong>: Taylor Otwell released a Laravel Simplifier plugin for Claude Code users, adapted from Anthropic’s original, to review code commits and recommend improvements aligning with Laravel standards and PSR-12. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/Z70ay5WSd" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Postman acquires Fern for API documentation and SDK automation</strong>: Postman acquired Fern, a startup specializing in automatically generating and updating API documentation and client SDKs in nine programming languages, aiming to reduce developer friction and expand Postman’s API lifecycle offerings. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/9UqlZV9z7" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Stack Overflow opens chat to all registered users</strong>: Stack Overflow has removed the 20 reputation point minimum for chat room access, allowing all registered users to participate immediately, following tests that showed increased engagement and new moderation tools to manage potential spam. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/xt84z0ElM" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Bun v1.3.6 boosts performance and adds new APIs</strong>: Bun v1.3.6 introduces new APIs for tarball creation/extraction and JSONC parsing, along with significant performance improvements, including 3.5x faster Response.json() and 15% faster async/await, plus 45 bug fixes. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/Wx4br4Zyw" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>Anthropic’s Cowork: AI for non-coders, or just more ways to mess up your files?</strong>: Anthropic launched Cowork, an ‘agentic AI tool’ for Claude Desktop, promising to let non-coders organize receipts and analyze data by autonomously reading and editing files. It’s in ‘research preview’ and exclusive to macOS Claude Max subscribers, so basically, it’s an experimental feature for a niche audience. Anthropic assures us user control is maintained, but also warns about prompt injection and ‘unintended file deletion.’ Sounds like a fantastic way to empower non-technical users to accidentally nuke their documents. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/TLkxIySjV" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Google’s AI health summaries: dangerous misinformation, selective fixes</strong>: Google’s AI Overviews provided ‘dangerous and inaccurate medical information’ regarding liver test results, as exposed by The Guardian. Medical experts warned this could mislead patients into skipping critical care. Google’s response? Disabling ‘only some problematic searches,’ while many other risky ones remain. Apparently, their ‘clinician review’ process is more of a suggestion than an actual safeguard, and their fix is as comprehensive as a band-aid on a gaping wound. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/fofUhg4zp" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Anthropic blocks third-party tools: because who needs open ecosystems?</strong>: Anthropic decided to implement OAuth restrictions, effectively blocking third-party CLI tools like OpenCode from accessing Claude Pro/Max subscriptions. This forces developers to use Anthropic’s costly pay-per-use API instead of their subscriptions, which is a brilliant move if your goal is to alienate your developer community and push them towards competitors. OpenAI, ever the opportunist, immediately supported ChatGPT subscriptions within OpenCode, proving that some companies actually understand how to foster an ecosystem, unlike others who prefer to build walled gardens and then wonder why no one wants to play inside. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=8dtXe7P09&amp;id=eRi1VQ5SP" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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