<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, aiming for tens of gigawatts of power capacity this decade to support future AI workloads, as reported by Meta’s own communications. Meanwhile, Google is advancing its multimodal AI with Gemini 3, a platform that processes text, images, video, audio, and PDFs in a unified model with a 1M+ token context window. Google also released Veo 3.1 for native vertical video creation and Conductor, a new extension for Gemini CLI to maintain project context in coding workflows. These moves highlight the escalating AI arms race and the foundational infrastructure required to support it. <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>Microsoft’s AI data center expansion faces 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 centers, leading Microsoft to abandon projects in Wisconsin and face resistance in Michigan and Ohio. The company’s decision not to seek local tax breaks aims to prevent residential electricity bill increases, as global data center electricity demand is projected to more than double by 2030, according to the IEA. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/jqtBl3Jnb" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Cloudflare fined by Italy over DNS refusal</strong>: Cloudflare has been hit with a €14.2 million fine by Italy’s AGCOM for refusing to block pirate sites on its 1.1.1.1 DNS resolver, as mandated by Italy’s Piracy Shield law. Cloudflare argues that filtering would increase latency globally and is technically infeasible, threatening to withdraw its servers from Italy. CEO Matthew Prince is seeking U.S. government support and has notified the International Olympic Committee about potential cybersecurity risks for the 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy, framing the dispute as regulatory overreach. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/Q0IbcQd4P" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>Rust infrastructure team recap and plans</strong>: The Rust Infrastructure Team successfully migrated to a new CI bot, moved <a href="http://crates.io" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">crates.io</a> and <a href="http://docs.rs" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">docs.rs</a> to Fastly CDN, and expanded Infrastructure as Code coverage for GitHub environments, with Q1 2026 plans including <a href="http://docs.rs" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">docs.rs</a> modernization and external hardware CI policy. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/m2OVQmP6S" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>New Linux malware 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 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>Node.js releases address security vulnerabilities</strong>: Node.js 20.20.0 (LTS) and 25.3.0 (Current) were released, providing security updates that disable futimes with the permission model, add default TLSSocket error handlers, and enforce full read/write permissions for symlink APIs, among other fixes. <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>Bun 1.3.6 introduces archiving and performance boosts</strong>: Bun v1.3.6 launched with Bun.Archive for tarball handling, 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>
<li><strong>Haiku OS updates with FreeBSD 15 drivers</strong>: Haiku OS updated its FreeBSD compatibility layer to version 15.0, enhancing Ethernet and WiFi driver support, improving touchpad and mouse drivers, and making progress on BFS file system resizing and kernel updates. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/xTuptkMAr" 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 matching production environments, native support for Cloudflare Workers, stable live content collections, and enhanced Content Security Policy support, requiring Node 22+. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/a23rECuU6" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>WordPress 7.0 to drop PHP 7.2/7.3 support</strong>: The WordPress core team is preparing for the 7.0 release, which will discontinue support for PHP 7.2 and 7.3, and is calling for volunteers to participate in the development and testing phases. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/xho5u0zys" 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 agents: the new frontier of ‘ghost jobs’?</strong>: Apparently, AI coding agents are so good that companies like Ramp are claiming 30% of merged pull requests are now AI-generated. This sounds suspiciously like the ‘ghost jobs’ phenomenon, where companies post fake openings for investor optics. Are we really to believe these AI agents are churning out production-ready code without human oversight, or is this just another way to devalue actual engineering work, much like the $3/hour DevOps job offer that recently surfaced? The New Stack seems to think so. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=Mn0fWeNUD&amp;id=lBRJTp5vY&amp;id=1lxfdifYi" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Anthropic’s token crackdown: ‘open’ AI, closed wallet</strong>: Anthropic, in a move that surprised absolutely no one paying attention, has started strictly enforcing token restrictions for Claude Code with third-party tools like Cursor and Open Code. They claim it’s about ‘technical debugging challenges’ and ‘unsustainable cost subsidization,’ but developers are calling it what it is: a cash grab to lock users into their ecosystem. The developer community, as reported by various sources, is not amused, especially since they’ve been happily using these integrations for months. Guess ‘open’ AI only applies until it hits the bottom line. <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>AI in ecology: trading field boots for data streams</strong>: Ecologists are apparently ditching their muddy boots for AI, machine learning, and automated sensors, according to a science-focused publication. While this allows for ‘broader and more frequent data collection,’ some scientists are worried about ‘diminishing hands-on ecosystem understanding.’ So, we’re trading actual boots-on-the-ground knowledge for algorithms that might have ‘potential biases’ and ‘algorithmic errors.’ What could possibly go wrong when we let the machines decide what’s important about nature? <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=YsLIINgTC&amp;id=dHxdm7wPU" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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