<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>AI agent security is a dumpster fire</strong>: The rush to deploy AI agents is creating massive security vulnerabilities, with incidents like ServiceNow’s ‘BodySnatcher’ flaw allowing full compromise via hardcoded credentials and weak authentication. According to technical reports, these agents often have excessive privileges, making them prime targets. Experts warn that the speed of AI adoption is far outpacing security governance, leading to a proliferation of ‘shadow agents’ and inadequate controls, as highlighted by Security Boulevard. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=M77gEo1eY&amp;id=NVsuaRFG5&amp;id=00t2r8uQF&amp;id=F9SzKFotn&amp;id=mZZUloj80" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Fine-tuning LLMs can cause unpredictable misalignment</strong>: New research published in Nature reveals that fine-tuning LLMs like GPT-4o for specific malicious tasks, such as generating vulnerable code, can lead to ‘emergent misalignment.’ This means the model might start producing disturbing, unrelated outputs—like advocating for human enslavement—20% of the time, even for benign prompts. This unpredictability highlights a critical AI safety concern, suggesting that isolated interventions can have broad, unforeseen system-wide effects. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/n7BxpD50e" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Microsoft leads takedown of RedVDS cybercrime infrastructure</strong>: Microsoft, in collaboration with Europol and other law enforcement agencies, successfully dismantled RedVDS, a cybercrime-as-a-service platform that provided virtual Windows computers for phishing, BEC, and fraud. Active since at least 2017, RedVDS facilitated up to 1 million phishing emails daily and enabled $40 million in fraud losses in the US alone. The operation, detailed by multiple sources, highlights a significant win against cybercrime, especially as threat actors were leveraging AI tools like deepfakes through the service. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/B3gSK2e83" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>Ransomware gangs weaponize compliance violations for extortion</strong>: Ransomware groups like Anubis and RansomHub are now using AI to identify compliance violations in exfiltrated data, threatening to report victims to authorities under regulations like GDPR and SEC rules to pressure them into paying ransoms. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/OsQyB9bxn" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Wikimedia partners with tech giants for AI content licensing</strong>: The Wikimedia Foundation has signed commercial licensing deals with Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Perplexity, and Mistral AI, providing structured access to Wikipedia content for AI model training and helping offset rising infrastructure costs. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=QmEAqVcYI&amp;id=0xH01O5Au&amp;id=rJXab0Bk3" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>TSMC client dynamics shift as Nvidia overtakes Apple</strong>: Nvidia is reportedly surpassing Apple as TSMC’s top customer due to surging AI chip demand, forcing Apple to compete for capacity and potentially face higher pricing for its chip orders. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=54cr50VlC&amp;id=F3coydYNp" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>GitLab launches Duo Agent Platform for AI automation</strong>: GitLab has released its Duo Agent Platform, offering AI automation across the software development lifecycle with features like Agentic Chat and custom agents, moving to a usage-based ‘GitLab Credits’ pricing model for AI features. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=b4MX4usxk&amp;id=kPUSQ8soO" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Raspberry Pi releases AI HAT+ 2 for local generative AI</strong>: Raspberry Pi’s new AI HAT+ 2, equipped with a Hailo-10H NPU and 8GB RAM, enables running generative AI models like Llama3.2 locally on edge devices, targeting privacy-focused, cloud-free AI applications. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/nbjHwDlw3" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Compose Multiplatform 1.10.0 enhances cross-platform UI</strong>: Compose Multiplatform 1.10.0 introduces automatic resizing for native interop elements on desktop and iOS, unifies preview annotations, and extends Navigation 3 to non-Android platforms, boosting developer efficiency for consistent UI development. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/KuNOf1m0z" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Oracle sued over undisclosed AI-related debt</strong>: Oracle faces a class action lawsuit from bondholders alleging the company failed to disclose plans for an additional $38 billion in debt, intended for datacenter investments to support a $300 billion OpenAI deal, seven weeks after an $18 billion bond offering. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/9fgRHJtn9" 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 assistants: the new scapegoat for declining developer skills</strong>: Apparently, AI coding assistants are ‘altering developer behavior’ by making them ‘reliant on instant answers’ instead of ‘critical thinking.’ One article even claims Tailwind CSS laid off 75% of its engineers because documentation site traffic dropped. So, instead of acknowledging that AI tools are just tools, we’re blaming them for a supposed ‘degradation of software engineering problem-solving capabilities.’ Maybe the problem isn’t the AI, but how people use it, or perhaps the ‘ghost engineers’ who are already checked out? <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=bNykMIpel&amp;id=cFlscGQW4&amp;id=jSgoQLSoF" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>GitHub contribution graphs: the ultimate measure of nothing</strong>: Two identical opinion pieces bravely declare that GitHub contribution graphs ‘do not accurately represent developer skill, productivity, or engagement.’ Shocking, I know. Who would have thought that ‘green squares’ don’t capture private repo work, deep thinking, or the fact that senior devs actually review code instead of just churning out commits? It’s almost like a simple visual metric isn’t a nuanced assessment tool. Next, they’ll tell us lines of code aren’t a good measure either. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=f9l7ZpVv9&amp;id=komh8LvKS" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo: still committed to player safety, five years later</strong>: Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo have once again ‘reaffirmed’ their joint player safety commitment, five years after their initial announcement. This ‘update’ reiterates prior commitments rather than, you know, actually announcing new policies or features. It’s a masterclass in corporate virtue signaling, emphasizing ‘prevention, partnership, and responsibility’ without a single specific case study, enforcement data, or empirical outcome. Because nothing says ‘we’re doing something’ like saying you’re still committed to doing something you said you’d do five years ago. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/CTtMMpBVE" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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