<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>Meta doubles down on AI infrastructure, Google pushes multimodal AI</strong>: Meta is making a massive bet on AI infrastructure with ‘Meta Compute,’ aiming for tens of gigawatts of power capacity to support future AI workloads, as reported by their own executive announcements. This puts them in direct competition with Microsoft and Google for generative AI cloud dominance. Meanwhile, Google is pushing its multimodal AI platform, Gemini 3, which processes text, images, video, audio, and PDFs with a 1M+ token context window, and has released Conductor, a new CLI extension for Gemini to maintain project context via persistent Markdown files, streamlining AI-assisted development. <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>AI agents get serious about enterprise and security</strong>: Multi-agent AI platforms like Atoms and LangSmith Agent Builder are emerging, promising to simplify full-stack application development and complex task automation for enterprises, even for non-coders. Atoms leverages Neon serverless Postgres for scalability, while LangSmith’s Agent Builder allows natural language instructions for creating agents. However, security is a growing concern, with a recent webinar highlighting CVE-2025-6514, which exploited compromised Machine Control Protocols (MCPs) for large-scale remote code execution, underscoring risks like shadow API key sprawl and permission creep in these autonomous systems. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=VkDnavm3j&amp;id=sDf9ENrg4&amp;id=AqojY4mSV&amp;id=hOkZZEdlQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Microsoft’s AI data center expansion faces community and energy backlash</strong>: Microsoft’s ‘Community-First AI Infrastructure’ initiative, promising to cover power costs and minimize water usage for its U.S. data centers, is a direct response to widespread public backlash. Activist groups in 24 states are protesting the environmental and social impacts of these energy-hungry facilities, leading Microsoft to abandon projects in Wisconsin and face resistance in Michigan and Ohio. The IEA projects global data center electricity demand to more than double by 2030, intensifying scrutiny on how these AI powerhouses will impact residential energy rates and local resources. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/jqtBl3Jnb" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>Open-weight AI models challenge frontier models on cost and capability</strong>: New open-weight AI models like GLM 4.7 and MiniMax M2.1 are demonstrating autonomous coding capabilities comparable to frontier models, completing complex tasks with self-testing and debugging, often at significantly lower costs, as detailed in a direct benchmark comparison. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/p3khbP8jU" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Rust infrastructure team makes major strides</strong>: The Rust Infrastructure Team has made significant progress, migrating to a new CI bot, moving critical services to Fastly CDN, and expanding Infrastructure as Code coverage for GitHub environments, with plans for further modernization and security enhancements in Q1 2026, according to the Inside Rust Blog. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/m2OVQmP6S" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Node.js releases critical security updates</strong>: Node.js 20.20.0 (LTS) and 25.3.0 (Current) have been released, addressing multiple CVEs and enhancing security controls by disabling futimes with the permission model, tightening symlink API permissions, and improving error handling for TLSSocket and async_hooks. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=DwsoMgMKH&amp;id=Wy4br4Zyw&amp;id=Zr0Dv9dwZ" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>New Linux malware targets cloud and containers</strong>: Check Point Research has 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 for credential harvesting and lateral movement. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/uJaIfhgHH" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Python Software Foundation gets $1.5M for security</strong>: Anthropic has pledged $1.5 million over two years to the Python Software Foundation (PSF) to enhance Python ecosystem security, focusing on automated malware detection for PyPI packages and supporting core CPython development and community grants. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/yCHi0TB7q" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>GCC 16 and JDK 27 bring major compiler and security updates</strong>: GCC 16, expected in March-April 2026, will introduce an Algol 68 frontend, support for AMD Zen 6 and Armv9.6-A CPUs, and make C++20 the default, while JDK 27, due in September 2026, will feature post-quantum hybrid key exchange support for TLS 1.3 to future-proof applications against quantum attacks. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=MZNI2dhHP&amp;id=fybiaWluM" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Bun 1.3.6 improves performance and adds archive support</strong>: Bun v1.3.6 has been released, introducing Bun.Archive for tarball creation/extraction, a JSONC parser, and significant performance improvements, including 3.5x faster Response.json() and 15% faster async/await operations, alongside 45 bug fixes. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=Wx4br4Zyw&amp;id=Yy5NFIIOM" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>AI chatbot security: just don’t look at the history!</strong>: Apparently, Eurostar’s AI chatbot had a brilliant security feature: it only validated the <em>most recent</em> message. So, if you wanted to inject malicious payloads, you just hid them in previous messages while sending innocuous current ones. This isn’t just a Eurostar problem; it’s a ‘common implementation flaw’ in LLM-based chatbots that somehow forget everything that happened before the last sentence. Because who needs context when you have AI? <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/ED9VY360q" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>WordPress 7.0 drops old PHP, because progress!</strong>: The WordPress core team is planning to drop support for PHP 7.2 and 7.3 in version 7.0. This is, of course, ‘part of the platform’s ongoing updates.’ Never mind the millions of sites still running older PHP versions; they can just magically upgrade their entire hosting stack. It’s not like WordPress is known for its ease of use or anything. Just keep moving forward, even if it means leaving a few million users in the dust. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/xho5u0zys" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Cloudflare fined for not being a piracy cop, cries ‘no way!’</strong>: Italy’s regulator AGCOM fined Cloudflare €14.2 million for not blocking pirate sites on its 1.1.1.1 DNS resolver. Cloudflare’s CEO, Matthew Prince, is now reaching out to the U.S. government and even the International Olympic Committee, claiming filtering would ‘increase latency for all users’ and that there’s ‘Non C’è Modo’ (No Way) to comply. It’s almost as if a company that prides itself on internet freedom is suddenly shocked when a government expects them to follow local laws. The drama is palpable. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/Q0IbcQd4P" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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