<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>Musk’s companies eye massive merger for space AI and military tech</strong>: Elon Musk’s SpaceX, xAI, and potentially Tesla are in early talks to merge, aiming to create a trillion-dollar entity. The consolidation could combine rockets, satellites, AI, and electric vehicles, with a key goal of building space-based AI data centers to cut training costs and strengthen Pentagon contracts. This move, indicated by recent Nevada corporate filings, suggests a significant push into military AI integration, though building data centers in space is noted as a risky proposition given AI’s rapid evolution. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/wMYF638eZ" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Kubernetes RCE flaw found in common permissions</strong>: Edera Advisory has uncovered a critical design flaw in Kubernetes that allows remote code execution (RCE) in any container on a node. This vulnerability exploits <code>nodes/proxy GET</code> permissions, which are widely used by monitoring tools and network overlays. While Kubernetes 1.36, expected in April 2025, will remove this problematic permission, many production clusters will remain vulnerable for months or even years. Organizations are advised to scan for RCE attempts and implement fine-grained authorization controls to mitigate the risk. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/phMyeDnVg" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Microsoft’s gaming division takes a hit</strong>: Microsoft’s Q2 FY26 results show a 17% overall revenue increase, largely driven by cloud services. However, the Xbox gaming division is the sole underperformer, with console sales down 32% and gaming revenue dropping 9% year-over-year. This marks the sixth consecutive year of declining Xbox console sales, following price increases and multiple layoffs in 2025. Despite record PC players, Microsoft anticipates continued declines, with Xbox Game Pass growth expected to only partially offset future losses. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/uKbAAElcM" 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 ecosystem continues to grow</strong>: This Week in Rust #636 highlights compiler improvements, library enhancements like SIMD intrinsics, new Cargo lints, and community content including WhatsApp’s use of Rust for security and a deep dive into Turso (SQLite in Rust). <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/4drrcHn85" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Meta doubles down on AI infrastructure investment</strong>: Meta plans to invest $115-135 billion in AI infrastructure in 2026, nearly doubling its 2025 investment, to support Superintelligence Labs and integrate large language models across its platforms. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/JHGPGk0MW" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Microsoft deploys in-house AI chip, still buys from Nvidia and AMD</strong>: Microsoft has deployed its Maia 200 AI inference chip in data centers for frontier AI models and OpenAI, but CEO Satya Nadella confirmed the company will continue purchasing chips from Nvidia and AMD, indicating a diversified supply chain strategy. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/kN85HgrLU" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Apple acquires audio AI startup <a href="http://Q.ai" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Q.ai</a></strong>: Apple acquired Israeli audio AI startup <a href="http://Q.ai" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Q.ai</a> for an estimated $1.6 to $2 billion, strengthening its AI hardware capabilities with technology for whispered speech recognition and audio enhancement, likely benefiting AirPods and Vision Pro. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/PknWg8Xks" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Google Cloud launches conversational analytics in BigQuery</strong>: Google Cloud introduced Conversational Analytics in BigQuery, an AI-powered agent that enables natural language data analysis, eliminating the need for SQL knowledge by generating, executing, and visualizing queries using Gemini models. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/2YKMeABdR" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Rspack 1.7 is the final 1.x release</strong>: Rspack 1.7, the last 1.x release before version 2.0, brings enhanced SWC plugin compatibility, native asset import support, and lazy compilation by default, with users reporting significant build time reductions compared to webpack. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/pFPLemc3H" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>NVIDIA GeForce NOW launches native Linux support</strong>: NVIDIA’s GeForce NOW cloud gaming service now offers native Linux PC support in beta, officially on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, providing RTX performance streaming up to 5K at 120fps via a Flatpak distribution. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/RB8XUehQ7" 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: more code, more problems</strong>: Apiiro just launched ‘Guardian Agent’ to prevent AI coding agents from generating vulnerable code, claiming enterprises generate 4x more code and expand attack surfaces 6x after adopting these ‘helpful’ tools. So, AI makes more code, which makes more vulnerabilities, which requires more AI to fix. Sounds like a perfectly sustainable business model, doesn’t it? Developers, apparently, are too busy to notice the vulnerabilities in the code their AI wrote for them. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/5AaMXyHJd" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Meta’s Reality Labs: still losing billions, but now with more ‘wearables’</strong>: Meta’s Reality Labs reported another $19.2 billion in losses for FY25, bringing its total to a cool $83.6 billion since 2020. But don’t worry, Mark Zuckerberg says FY25 will be ‘peak losses’ as they pivot to ‘glasses and wearables’ and integrate AI. Because clearly, the problem wasn’t the metaverse itself, but the form factor. And adding AI to a money pit always makes it better, right? <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/ALCffHVkc" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>GDC attendance concerns? Organizers say ‘all good!’</strong>: Despite reports of international developers skipping GDC due to US immigration concerns and confirmed non-attendance from UK/European publishers, GDC organizers are optimistically claiming attendance is ‘tracking in line with expectations.’ They ‘haven’t seen cancellations reflected in ticket sales yet,’ which is a fascinating way to ignore reality. Perhaps they’re using a different definition of ‘cancellation’ than the rest of us, or maybe they just really like positive spin. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/dX5Rur1jC" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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