<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>NVIDIA GTC 2026 shifts focus to massive inference and agentic hardware</strong>: NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang projected $1 trillion in orders for Blackwell and the new Vera Rubin chips, signaling a pivot from training dominance to large-scale inference. The new Vera CPU features 88 custom cores and 1.2 TB/s bandwidth, specifically designed to run over 22,500 concurrent agentic sandboxes per rack. Additionally, the Groq 3 LPX integration aims to accelerate latency-sensitive MoE execution, claiming 35x higher throughput per megawatt than previous generations. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=A6SkRNnSZ&amp;id=B4qhMcdbs&amp;id=CuNn0C5bn&amp;id=5RfcDxaY5&amp;id=6kPvREurx" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>DLSS 5 introduces neural rendering and artistic intent controversy</strong>: NVIDIA announced DLSS 5, which uses AI neural inference to generate lighting and materials rather than just upscaling pixels. While it achieves impressive photorealism in titles like Resident Evil Requiem, early demos have faced criticism for an over-processed look that alters character faces. NVIDIA released an FAQ stating developers have granular controls to mask objects and anchor output to original color data to preserve artistic intent. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/te2HRAtVx" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Court orders Unknown Worlds CEO reinstatement after ChatGPT bonus scheme</strong>: A Delaware court ordered Krafton to reinstate Ted Gill as CEO of Unknown Worlds and restored his control over the Subnautica 2 launch. The judge found Krafton used firings as a pretext to avoid a $250 million earnout bonus, with evidence revealing Krafton’s CEO used ChatGPT to find ways to dodge paying developers. The court dismissed Krafton’s claims of data theft and extended the bonus target deadline to September 2026. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/wVjQNYbQm" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>Mistral releases Leanstral for formal verification</strong>: A 6B parameter sparse MoE model that outperforms Claude Sonnet in Lean 4 formal verification benchmarks at a fraction of the cost. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/6Y2p1fiW2" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>ARM64 CRC64 optimization yields 6x performance boost</strong>: A new Linux kernel patch uses NEON PMULL instructions to increase CRC64-NVMe throughput from 268 MB/s to 1556 MB/s. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/dpx9UrpjB" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Oxyde ORM brings Rust performance to Python</strong>: A new Pydantic-centric asynchronous ORM with a Rust core that reportedly outperforms SQLAlchemy and Tortoise in operations per second. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/GbDlMT2wK" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Recursive Language Model architecture handles 10M tokens</strong>: RLM treats the context window as an external environment, using a root model to orchestrate sub-calls and avoid performance degradation from context rot. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/nP44MMKRG" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Tailscale acquires Border0 for PAM expansion</strong>: The acquisition integrates application-layer access controls for SSH, Kubernetes, and databases directly into the Tailscale network foundation. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/f5maGQKF3" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Linux 7.1 gains Lenovo Legion Go handheld drivers</strong>: New HID drivers merged for the April merge window expose haptics, RGB, and touchpad controls for Lenovo’s gaming handhelds. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/BtK9i5ZUn" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Certificate Authorities mandated to validate DNSSEC</strong>: Effective March 17, CAs must validate DNSSEC for CAA record lookups and ACME challenges for all domains where it is enabled. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/eznwDfEb9" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>The Azure AI Foundry billing trap</strong>: Startup founders are reporting ‘billing traps’ where Azure AI Foundry displays third-party models like Claude without any visual distinction or pricing warnings. Users are getting hit with $1,600 charges only to be bounced between Microsoft and Anthropic support, neither of whom wants to own the UI failure. It turns out ‘unified interface’ is just corporate-speak for ‘we’ll hide the bill until it’s too late.’ <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/pjpXjy86Q" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Meta’s $2 billion privacy-washing campaign</strong>: A researcher uncovered Meta’s massive lobbying effort to mandate OS-level identity verification under the guise of ‘child safety.’ The proposed laws conveniently exempt Meta’s own platforms while forcing Apple and Google to build persistent device-level fingerprinting APIs. It’s a masterclass in using shell organizations to lobby for a competitive advantage while ignoring actual privacy-preserving tech like zero-knowledge proofs. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/fR7Petd3D" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Vibe-coding your way to a 2,000x performance regression</strong>: Enterprise AI adoption is hitting a wall of reality, exemplified by an AI-written SQLite Rust rewrite that was 3.7x larger and 2,000x slower than the original. While it passed unit tests, it failed miserably in production, proving that ‘vibe-coding’ is just a fancy term for generating technical debt at machine speed. If your engineering metrics don’t account for code quality, you’re just automating your own reckoning. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/VhO7qnQpo" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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