<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>AWS data centers hit by drone strikes in Middle East</strong>: Amazon Web Services facilities in the UAE and Bahrain suffered structural damage and power disruptions following Iranian drone and missile attacks on March 3, 2026. This marks the first time a major US cloud provider’s physical infrastructure has been directly disrupted by military action, forcing AWS to advise customers to migrate workloads to unaffected regions. The incident highlights the growing geopolitical risk of expanding compute infrastructure into volatile regions, as reported by multiple news outlets. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/rar5XOK6I" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Anthropic outages follow Pentagon supply chain dispute</strong>: Claude experienced significant multi-hour outages on March 2 and 3, affecting its API and the new Claude Code service during a period of record user surges. The instability coincides with a high-profile conflict where the Department of Defense designated Anthropic a supply chain risk after the company refused to remove safeguards against autonomous weapons use. While Anthropic attributes the downtime to a massive influx of new users, some developers have raised concerns about the reliability of AI-dependent workflows during such geopolitical friction. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=JoQ9tJBSS&amp;id=HTPBjiENt" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Motorola breaks Pixel monopoly on GrapheneOS</strong>: Motorola has announced a long-term partnership to officially support GrapheneOS, the hardened, privacy-focused Android distribution previously exclusive to Google Pixel hardware. Starting in 2027, flagship devices like the Razr and ThinkPhone lines will meet GrapheneOS’s strict hardware memory tagging and update requirements. This move positions Motorola as the first major OEM to target the high-security enterprise and government sectors with a truly de-Googled, hardened mobile stack. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/InYjzvxra" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>TanStack Start benchmarks show 83 percent faster dev startup than Next.js 16</strong>: A production SaaS migration report highlights significant performance gains and reduced vendor lock-in when moving from Next.js to the TanStack ecosystem. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=ed7TZMhpP&amp;id=x40hVM7sP" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Postman V12 shifts to native Git and YAML for API collections</strong>: The new release stores API specs and environments as local files in a .postman folder, enabling cleaner Git diffs and better compatibility with AI agents. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/gXQALLZsj" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Apple launches iPhone 17e and M4 iPad Air with Wi-Fi 7</strong>: The new hardware features the A19 and M4 chips respectively, focusing on 3x faster neural engine performance for on-device AI tasks. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=00JNF9PZg&amp;id=JiFSBsNyC" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Firefox 149 beta finally enables native Split View by default</strong>: Users can now view two tabs side-by-side with a draggable separator, a feature that has been hidden behind config flags since version 146. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/2g8I0gNiq" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Matrix Rust SDK achieves 98 percent performance boost via Data Oriented Design</strong>: By replacing heavy struct cloning with a compact 64-byte cache, developers reduced room list execution time from 53ms to 676µs. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/3QNJOkege" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>OpenClaw vulnerability allows malicious sites to hijack local AI agents</strong>: The ‘ClawJacked’ flaw exploits unauthenticated WebSocket connections to localhost; developers should update to version 2026.2.25 immediately. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/ZeEZoGc5m" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Gram 1.0 is a Zed fork that strips all AI and telemetry</strong>: This new editor prioritizes ‘offline-first’ stability by removing all subscriptions, auto-updates, and AI features found in the original Zed codebase. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/11rshYKaC" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>The great AI coding solved lie</strong>: Anthropic’s head of Claude Code recently declared that ‘coding is solved,’ which is a fascinating take considering the company is currently offering $50k signing bonuses to hire actual human engineers. If the problem were solved, they’d be hiring prompt engineers at minimum wage, not paying top-tier salaries to people who can fix the hallucinations their ‘solved’ models produce. It’s a classic case of marketing the future while the present still requires a senior dev to clean up the mess. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/8MzkC9L2x" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Ars Technica reporter fired for AI hallucinations</strong>: A senior AI reporter at Ars Technica was fired after using Claude and ChatGPT to ‘extract source material’ while sick, resulting in completely fabricated quotes attributed to a real engineer. This is the ultimate irony: a tech journalist covering AI agents got taken down by the very ‘slop’ they were supposed to be critiquing. It turns out that using a stochastic parrot to do journalism is a great way to find yourself in the unemployment line. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/O3BSPfqbD" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>The 4.8x open source ROI fantasy</strong>: The Linux Foundation just released a report claiming that simply using open-source software yields a 4.8x return on investment. While OSS is great, these ‘ROI’ numbers are essentially made up by an organization whose entire existence depends on people believing OSS is a magic money tree. They conveniently ignore the ‘hidden’ costs of maintenance, security audits, and the inevitable fire drill when a solo maintainer in Nebraska decides to delete their repository. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/LC8OtXZD6" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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