<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>AWS data centers hit by drone attacks in Middle East</strong>: Amazon Web Services facilities in the UAE and Bahrain suffered structural damage and power disruptions following Iranian drone and missile strikes on March 3. This marks the first time a major US cloud provider’s infrastructure has been directly disrupted by military action, forcing customers to migrate workloads to other regions. AWS has warned that recovery will be prolonged due to fire suppression water damage and hardware impact. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/rar5XOK6I" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Anthropic and Pentagon clash over AI red lines</strong>: The Department of Defense has designated Anthropic as a supply chain risk after the company refused to remove safeguards preventing its AI from being used for mass surveillance or autonomous weapons. In response, the Trump administration has directed federal agencies to halt the use of Claude, while hundreds of tech workers from OpenAI and Google have signed an open letter protesting the government’s overreach. OpenAI has reportedly stepped in to take over the disputed military contracts, according to reports from the AWS Weekly Roundup. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=JoQ9tJBSS&amp;id=HTPBjiENt&amp;id=NKaJqoze1" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Apple launches iPhone 17e and M4 iPad Air</strong>: Apple announced the iPhone 17e starting at $599, featuring the A19 chip and a new in-house C1X cellular modem that claims 30% better energy efficiency. Simultaneously, a new iPad Air debuted with the M4 chip, offering a 16-core Neural Engine optimized for on-device AI tasks. Both devices double the base storage to 256GB and will be available for pre-order starting March 4. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=00JNF9PZg&amp;id=JiFSBsNyC" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>Junior engineers warned of shallow competence trap</strong>: Over-reliance on AI coding tools is creating a generation of developers who can ship code but cannot explain the underlying mechanisms or debug complex failures. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=Rk6iK3F2l&amp;id=abHUJXdrP" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Motorola partners with GrapheneOS for hardened Android</strong>: Motorola will officially support the privacy-focused GrapheneOS on its flagship and ThinkPhone devices starting in 2027, breaking the OS’s Pixel-only dependency. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/InYjzvxra" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Firefox 149 beta enables native split view</strong>: The browser now supports displaying two tabs side-by-side with a draggable separator, though it currently lacks drag-and-drop support between panes. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/2g8I0gNiq" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Postman V12 shifts to Git-native API development</strong>: The new version stores collections and environments as YAML files directly in your project repository for better version control and AI agent compatibility. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/gXQALLZsj" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Linux 7.1 to automate power-off on fatal ACPI errors</strong>: The upcoming kernel will change default behavior to shut down systems immediately upon detecting fatal hardware errors to prevent data corruption. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/TLZKRpI81" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Mercury 2 launches as first production diffusion LLM</strong>: Inception Labs claims its new architecture generates 1,000 tokens per second, significantly outperforming traditional autoregressive models in raw speed. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/X9MtYJ6uL" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Malicious VS Code extension spawns unattended AI agents</strong>: Versions of the Aqua Trivy extension were found exfiltrating system data by silently triggering local AI assistants in fully permissive modes. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/1Sk4jyYwp" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>The death of localhost is greatly exaggerated</strong>: Articles claiming ‘Localhost is Dying’ are just fancy pitches for cloud IDEs like Codespaces. While they cite ‘onboarding friction,’ they conveniently ignore that you still can’t do serious low-level, GPU, or embedded work without a box sitting under your desk. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/oKcWFgrur" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI personality is an engineering necessity</strong>: Opinion pieces are now arguing that giving LLMs a ‘personality’ is a technical requirement rather than a marketing gimmick to make them feel less like a math equation. It’s a convenient way to rebrand ‘unpredictable stochastic parrots’ as ‘intentional design choices.’ <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/iEL6aULaL" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Microslop is now a banned word on Discord</strong>: Microsoft has started filtering the term ‘Microslop’ on its official Copilot Discord server to curb user backlash. Nothing says ‘we are confident in our AI product’ like banning the playground insults of frustrated Windows 11 users. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/y2PeLdlau" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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