<h2>Must know</h2>
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<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 community protests. Despite these pledges, opposition continues, leading Microsoft to abandon projects in Wisconsin, as reported by multiple sources. This push for AI infrastructure comes as the IEA projects global data center electricity demand to more than double by 2030, raising concerns about rising residential energy rates and strained local resources. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/jqtBl3Jnb" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Meta pivots from metaverse to AI, closes VR studios</strong>: Meta is aggressively reorienting its strategy, closing three VR studios (Twisted Pixel, Sanzaru, Armature) and laying off 10% of its Reality Labs workforce, approximately 1,500 employees. This pivot, widely reported, comes after Reality Labs lost over $70 billion since 2021, with Meta now shifting investment towards AI-powered glasses and wearable technology. The move signals a significant departure from the company’s 2021 rebranding centered on the Metaverse, acknowledging sustained financial losses and lukewarm consumer interest in VR. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/7ystcAQPc" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Cloudflare fined by Italy over DNS refusal</strong>: Cloudflare has been fined €14.2 million 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 compliance would increase latency for all users and potentially block legitimate sites, stating it’s technically infeasible. CEO Matthew Prince is seeking U.S. government support and has notified the International Olympic Committee of potential cybersecurity risks for the 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy, threatening to withdraw servers from the country if forced to comply. <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>Anthropic commits $1.5 million to Python Software Foundation</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 CPython core development. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/yCHi0TB7q" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Slackbot relaunches as AI agent for enterprise users</strong>: Salesforce has redesigned Slackbot into an AI agent for Business+ and Enterprise+ customers, leveraging context from Slack and third-party tools to answer questions, organize work, create content, and schedule meetings. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/VpXLIsjSp" 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) have been released with security updates addressing multiple CVEs, focusing on permission handling, error handling, and updating internal dependencies like c-ares and undici. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=DwsoMgMKH&amp;id=Zr0Dv9dwZ&amp;id=Wy4br4Zyw" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Apple unveils Creator Studio subscription bundles</strong>: Apple is launching Creator Studio, a subscription bundle for creative apps including Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro, and Pixelmator Pro, priced at $12.99/month, with AI-driven features in Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/gpfpGVE8Y" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Advanced VoidLink Linux malware targets cloud infrastructure</strong>: Check Point Research identified VoidLink, a new Linux malware framework written in Zig, designed to infiltrate cloud and container environments with 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>WordPress 7.0 to drop PHP 7.2/7.3 support</strong>: The WordPress core development team plans to discontinue support for PHP 7.2 and 7.3 in the upcoming WordPress 7.0 release, 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>Bun v1.3.6 introduces tarball handling and performance boosts</strong>: Bun v1.3.6 has been released, adding Bun.Archive for tarball creation/extraction, a JSONC parser, and significant performance improvements for Response.json(), async/await, and Promise.race operations. <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 verification bottleneck: more toil, less trust</strong>: Apparently, AI code generation is supposed to save developers time. But according to The New Stack, 96% of developers don’t trust AI-generated code, leading to a ‘verification bottleneck’ where they spend more time reviewing and correcting AI’s output than they save. So, instead of writing code, we’re now just babysitting AI, managing its technical debt, and fixing its mistakes. Progress, right? <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=SVMT3qR0j&amp;id=1lxfdifYi" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Agentic AI: the next big thing, or just another chatbot incident waiting to happen?</strong>: Agentic AI is being touted as the savior for cybersecurity and operational efficiency, automating everything from non-human identity management to threat detection. Yet, Gartner, bless their cynical hearts, predicts 40% of these projects will fail by 2027 due to inadequate guardrails. Remember that Chevrolet chatbot incident? Yeah, turns out unchecked automation can be ‘costly.’ Who knew that giving AI free rein without proper oversight might lead to, you know, problems? <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=9X1ifJmCu&amp;id=QnCK3ryB4" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Tailwind CSS revenue drop: the unintended consequences of AI documentation</strong>: Tailwind CSS, an open-source project, saw an 80% revenue drop because AI models are apparently so good at documentation caching and search that users no longer visit their website. Now, they’re rejecting pull requests to improve LLM parsing, desperately trying to protect direct traffic. It’s almost like building a great open-source project with excellent documentation can backfire when AI decides to eat your lunch. Who could have predicted that AI would be so good at, well, consuming information? <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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