<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>AI coding agents are energy hogs</strong>: Turns out your AI coding assistant, like Claude Code, uses a lot more juice than a regular chatbot query. A median session sucks up about 41 watt-hours, which is 138 times more than a typical chatbot interaction, according to Tech Lead Digest. Daily usage can hit 1,300 Wh, comparable to running a dishwasher or a fridge. So, while it might speed up your React development, it’s also quietly jacking up your electricity bill. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=ex1Cm3GIg&amp;id=ex1Cm3GIg" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Google’s Android sideloading gets a ‘friction’ upgrade</strong>: Google is rolling out a ‘high-friction’ sideloading process for Android, adding more steps to install apps from unverified developers. They’re calling it an ‘Accountability Layer’ to make users more aware of risks, not to block installations. While advanced users can still ‘Install without verifying,’ this move might just make sideloading unnecessarily difficult and chip away at Android’s reputation for openness. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/ICjHMVGeX" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>OnePlus kills custom ROMs with irreversible firmware update</strong>: OnePlus just dropped a firmware update for its 13, 15, and Ace 5 series that blows Qfprom electronic fuses in Qualcomm processors. This means no more rolling back to older firmware or installing custom ROMs; trying to do so will hard brick your device. OnePlus hasn’t said a word, but they’ve quietly removed downgrade packages from their forums, effectively ending their support for the modding community. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=gVLCy88Eu&amp;id=gVLCy88Eu" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>New Linux kernel support for Snapdragon and Adreno</strong>: Linux 7.0 is getting updated MSM DRM kernel drivers, bringing display support for Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 and enabling the older Adreno 225 GPU, thanks to Rob Clark’s submission. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/LVxtNaVxq" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>PHPStan 2.1.34 boosts performance</strong>: PHPStan 2.1.34 is out, delivering 25-40% faster analysis times in real-world projects and up to 50% runtime improvement, though it does require more memory. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/hEVb27hAV" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Laravel stays competitive in the AI era</strong>: Laravel is holding its own in the AI-driven development landscape, with Taylor Otwell guiding its ‘batteries-included’ philosophy and new features like Laravel Boost and an official AI SDK. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/7szTxYq31" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Debug-TUI: a new PHP terminal debugger</strong>: Debug-TUI is a new terminal-based step-debugger for PHP, offering interactive debugging with vim-like keybindings, forward/backward execution, and stack jumping. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/Z7tlafLs8" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>RContainer: secure containers for ARM</strong>: RContainer, presented at NDSS 2025, is a secure container architecture extending ARM Confidential Computing Architecture (CCA) to protect containers from untrusted operating systems with minimal performance overhead. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=tqe0vEOmo&amp;id=tqe0vEOmo" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Turbopuffer ANN v3 achieves low-latency vector search</strong>: Turbopuffer’s ANN v3 now boasts 200ms p99 query latency with 1k QPS over 100 billion vectors, using hierarchical clustering and binary quantization for efficient, scalable vector search. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/EHAeemnne" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Decentralized web alternatives gain traction</strong>: The IndieWeb and Small Web movements, along with a revival of BBS systems, are gaining attention as users seek more control and autonomy away from centralized web platforms. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=EWw76Iimy&amp;id=pYFIL8byT" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>AI-generated content banned by creative organizations</strong>: The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) and San Diego Comic-Con are now banning AI-generated content, because apparently, human creativity is still a thing. It’s almost as if they believe art should come from actual artists, not algorithms. Who knew? <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/32kw1Fo3F" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Agentic AI: the new compliance savior</strong>: Agentic AI is supposedly transforming enterprise compliance and ESG reporting from a ‘cost center’ into a ‘strategic business advantage.’ Because nothing says ‘strategic’ like an AI that automates away all the pesky human oversight, ensuring everything is ‘controlled, auditable, and transparent’ without any pesky details on actual deployment or downsides. What could possibly go wrong? <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=Skhkgwj1Z&amp;id=qF5kIahRI&amp;id=uTj3yEY4b" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>ChatGPT and Claude caught citing ‘Grokipedia’</strong>: ChatGPT’s GPT-5.2 and Anthropic’s Claude are citing Elon Musk’s ‘conservative-leaning’ AI-generated encyclopedia, Grokipedia, in their responses. Apparently, these advanced models are so smart they can’t tell the difference between a reliable source and a potentially biased, inaccurate AI-generated one. Good to know our AI overlords are getting their facts from the internet’s equivalent of a conspiracy theory forum. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=SDpas3mop&amp;id=SDpas3mop" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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