<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>Meta and Google double down on AI infrastructure and models</strong>: Meta is launching ‘Meta Compute,’ a massive AI infrastructure scale-up aiming for tens of gigawatts of power capacity, directly competing with Microsoft and Google for generative AI cloud dominance. Meanwhile, Google released Gemini 3, a multimodal AI platform with a 1M+ token context window, and Veo 3.1, which now produces native vertical videos. These moves, reported by Meta and Google themselves, signal an escalating arms race in AI capabilities and the underlying compute power required. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=2S31ZjKRT&amp;id=NEGZugNBg&amp;id=kwRMqebwB&amp;id=qjYQj2ENJ" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Anthropic restricts Claude Code tokens, developers push back</strong>: Anthropic has started strictly enforcing its terms, preventing the use of Claude Code subscription tokens with third-party tools like Cursor and Open Code, forcing users to pay higher API prices or use Claude Code exclusively. This move, which has sparked controversy among developers, is seen as an attempt to lock users into Anthropic’s ecosystem. Technical reports suggest that traditional code search methods used by AI agents are inefficient, consuming more tokens, which might be a factor in Anthropic’s decision, as noted in technical reporting. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=DEqFrm707&amp;id=jcpFkjQkx" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Node.js and Bun get security and performance updates</strong>: Node.js released security updates 20.20.0 (LTS) and 25.3.0 (Current), addressing multiple CVEs and enhancing permission handling for filesystem and network operations. Concurrently, Bun v1.3.6 launched with new features like Bun.Archive for tarball handling, a JSONC parser, and significant performance boosts, including 3.5x faster Response.json() and 15% faster async/await operations. Both updates, direct from their respective maintainers, focus on improving stability, security, and speed for JavaScript runtimes. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=DwsoMgMKH&amp;id=Wx4br4Zyw&amp;id=Wy4br4Zyw&amp;id=Yy5NFIIOM&amp;id=Zr0Dv9dwZ" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>Go-based LLM gateway Bifrost claims 40x speedup</strong>: Bifrost, an open-source LLM gateway written in Go, offers unified access to 15+ AI providers via an OpenAI-compatible API, claiming 40x lower gateway overhead and 68% lower memory usage than LiteLLM. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/P8RYoHcNL" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Astro 6 beta adds Cloudflare Workers support</strong>: Astro 6 Beta introduces a redesigned development server, native support for Cloudflare Workers, stable live content collections, and enhanced Content Security Policy (CSP) support. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/a23rECuU6" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Laravel Simplifier plugin for Claude Code released</strong>: Taylor Otwell released the Laravel Simplifier plugin for Claude Code, an open-source tool adapted from Anthropic’s Code Simplifier, designed to review code commits for Laravel standards and PSR-12 guidelines. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/Z70ay5WSd" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>WordPress 7.0 to drop PHP 7.2 and 7.3 support</strong>: The WordPress core development team plans to discontinue support for PHP 7.2 and 7.3 in version 7.0, with a meeting scheduled to finalize details and call for volunteers. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/xho5u0zys" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Compose Multiplatform 1.10 launches with stable hot reload</strong>: JetBrains released Compose Multiplatform 1.10.0, featuring a stable Compose Hot Reload 1.0.0 that allows developers to dynamically update running apps without losing state, improving UI development across platforms. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=qzPVbng9O&amp;id=y1ZFPOP5i" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>New Linux malware VoidLink targets cloud and containers</strong>: Check Point Research identified VoidLink, a new Linux malware framework written in Zig, designed to infiltrate cloud and container environments (AWS, Azure, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes) using advanced rootkit techniques and a modular plugin system. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/uJaIfhgHH" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>GCC 16 and JDK 27 bring architecture and security updates</strong>: GCC 16, expected in March-April 2026, will support AMD Zen 6 and Armv9.6-A CPUs, making C++20 the default, while JDK 27 (September 2026) will introduce post-quantum hybrid key exchange support for TLS 1.3. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=MZNI2dhHP&amp;id=fybiaWluM" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>AI agents: the next big thing, or just more complexity?</strong>: Atoms and LangSmith are pushing multi-agent AI platforms, promising to build full-stack apps and automate complex tasks with ‘no-code’ natural language. Apparently, we’re supposed to believe these AI agents will handle everything from product management to engineering, all while running on serverless Postgres. Gartner, however, predicts 40% of agentic AI projects will fail by 2027 due to inadequate guardrails. So, while the marketing promises a ‘new era’ of effortless development, the reality might just be a new era of debugging AI-generated spaghetti code. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=VkDnavm3j&amp;id=sDf9ENrg4&amp;id=9X1ifJmCu&amp;id=QnCK3ryB4" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Cloudflare fined for not playing piracy police</strong>: Italy’s AGCOM fined Cloudflare €14.2 million for refusing to block pirate sites on its 1.1.1.1 DNS resolver, citing their ‘Piracy Shield’ law. Cloudflare, naturally, claims it’s ‘technically infeasible’ and would ‘increase latency for all users.’ CEO Matthew Prince is now running to the U.S. government and even the IOC, warning about cybersecurity risks for the 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy. Because nothing says ‘internet freedom’ like a company threatening to pull its servers if it can’t ignore local laws, all while framing itself as a victim of regulatory overreach. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/Q0IbcQd4P" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI is killing open source, but don’t worry, it’s also saving it</strong>: Tailwind CSS saw an 80% revenue drop because AI models are caching their documentation, directly impacting their monetization. Now, open-source maintainers are shifting to AGPL-3.0 licenses to stop AI from training on their code without compensation. But wait, AI is also boosting demand for hosted cloud services like Databricks and Vercel, which are hitting ‘record valuations.’ So, AI is simultaneously destroying open-source business models and making others rich. It’s almost like the tech industry is just a giant, self-serving ouroboros, constantly eating its tail and calling it ‘innovation.’ <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=2a8HRxzCb&amp;id=Ml47Y2Hd6&amp;id=g50WJmopi" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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