<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>AI coding agents are eating electricity and raising security flags</strong>: AI coding agents, like Anthropic’s Claude Code, are consuming significantly more electricity than typical chatbot queries, with a single session potentially using as much energy as running a dishwasher. This surge in AI-generated code, now accounting for 41% of all code, is also introducing serious security risks. According to Tech Lead Digest and Security Boulevard, prompt injection attacks, credential exposure, and bypassing standard review processes are becoming common, demanding new governance frameworks and zero-trust architectures to manage the chaos. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=ex1Cm3GIg&amp;id=3wv1aKzIr&amp;id=9XKw67enr" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Europe pushes back on US cloud dominance and tightens tech regulation</strong>: Europe is making moves to reduce its heavy reliance on US cloud providers, which currently control about 70% of the region’s market. This includes initiatives like Germany’s Schleswig-Holstein replacing Microsoft licenses with open-source alternatives and several EU nations developing sovereign digital platforms. The European Commission also introduced ‘EU Inc’ to streamline startup operations and plans to mandate phasing out ‘high-risk’ tech suppliers from critical infrastructure, as reported by multiple sources, signaling a significant shift towards digital sovereignty. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=BxeJ5ByjW&amp;id=sCcT14y3N" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Gmail spam filters went rogue, causing chaos</strong>: Gmail experienced widespread spam filtering issues, misclassifying legitimate emails as spam and flooding primary inboxes with junk. Google acknowledged the problem, which caused significant disruption and confusion for users. While Google claims the issue is resolved, the incident highlights the fragility of critical communication infrastructure and the impact of backend changes on user experience. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=I3okAWLUY&amp;id=O7yWprwoz&amp;id=cmKovtCRR" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>Google releases Go package for structured LLM interactions</strong>: Google has launched <code>jsonschema-go</code>, a new Go package for JSON Schema creation, validation, and inference, primarily aimed at defining structured interactions with large language models. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/QUtLwKAlO" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>PostgreSQL adopted as dead letter queue at Wayfair</strong>: Wayfair is using PostgreSQL as a Dead Letter Queue (DLQ) for its event-driven systems, redirecting failed Kafka events to a PostgreSQL table for improved visibility and operational simplicity. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/eKm9n1imv" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Linux 7.0 gets Qualcomm Snapdragon and Adreno GPU support</strong>: The upcoming Linux 7.0 kernel will include support for Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 display hardware and Adreno 225 GPUs, thanks to updates from Rob Clark. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/LVxtNaVxq" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>PHPStan 2.1.34 delivers major performance upgrades</strong>: PHPStan 2.1.34, a static analysis tool for PHP, has been released with 25-40% faster analysis times on real-world projects and up to 50% reduction in runtime, though it uses more memory. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/hEVb27hAV" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AMD submits graphics driver fixes for Linux 7.0</strong>: AMD has submitted a set of graphics driver fixes for the AMDGPU and AMDKFD drivers, targeting the Linux 7.0 kernel merge window and covering multiple hardware generations including RDNA4. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/cxhDtp9rh" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Turbopuffer ANN v3 achieves 200ms p99 latency over 100 billion vectors</strong>: Turbopuffer announced its ANN v3 system, delivering 200ms p99 query latency for 100 billion vectors at 1,000 queries per second, utilizing hierarchical clustering and binary quantization for efficiency. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/EHAeemnne" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>SVT-AV1 4.0 delivers significant encoding performance gains</strong>: SVT-AV1 4.0 has been released, bringing 5-8x speedup for still image encoding, 5-15% speedup for RTC modes, and 10-25% speedup for Random Access mode, along with new visual quality enhancements. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/HOUGYgKhJ" 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 developer laziness, or just bad ideas?</strong>: An opinion piece suggests that the real limitation of AI coding agents isn’t their technical capability, but rather programmers’ lack of creativity in using them. Apparently, we’re all just too uninspired to come up with truly innovative uses for these tools, leading to a ‘disconnect between available coding capacity and its practical application.’ So, it’s not the AI’s fault it’s not writing the next big thing, it’s <em>your</em> fault for not thinking outside the box. Right. (Source: an unnamed opinion piece) <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=3vC5OgaHL&amp;id=gov03HPhm" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Google’s ‘high-friction’ sideloading: because user choice is so last decade</strong>: Google is rolling out a ‘high-friction’ sideloading process for Android, adding extra steps for users installing apps from unverified developers. They’re calling it an ‘Accountability Layer’ to ‘increase user awareness of risks.’ Because clearly, Android users are too dumb to understand what they’re doing, and Google needs to hold their hand. Power users are, predictably, thrilled about this new layer of paternalism. (Source: Google’s announcement) <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/ICjHMVGeX" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Encrypted quantum cloning: because the no-cloning theorem was just a suggestion</strong>: A new quantum protocol claims to enable ‘encrypted cloning’ of quantum states, supposedly circumventing the no-cloning theorem—a foundational principle of quantum mechanics. The article touts ‘potential impact areas’ like quantum data storage and secure communications, but conveniently omits any details on how this ‘breakthrough’ actually works or if it’s been independently verified. Sounds like someone found a loophole in physics, or more likely, a loophole in scientific rigor. (Source: an unnamed article) <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/z7OYuDS7t" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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