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<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>EU parliament bans cloud AI on devices over data security</strong>: The European Parliament has disabled cloud-based AI features on lawmakers’ corporate devices due to significant data security and privacy concerns. This temporary ban, effective February 17, 2026, highlights institutional unease about AI handling sensitive legislative data, especially given that many AI company servers are U.S.-based, raising concerns about potential U.S. government data demands. The move prioritizes security and control over convenience, signaling a pragmatic approach to AI adoption within the EU, despite its own comprehensive AI Act. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/NW6nIRqB9" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI demand causes gaming hardware component shortages</strong>: The insatiable demand from AI datacenters is now directly impacting the gaming hardware industry, causing significant memory (RAM) and storage component shortages. Valve has warned of intermittent stock issues for Steam Deck OLED units and has delayed upcoming hardware launches, including the Steam Machine, due to these shortages. This trend is affecting the broader hardware industry, with Sony potentially delaying the PlayStation 6 and Nintendo considering price increases for the Switch 2, all thanks to AI’s voracious appetite for chips. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/ttFo5ZiRW" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI agents disrupt SaaS and drive protocol standardization</strong>: AI advancements are threatening the traditional SaaS per-seat pricing model, with major software companies reportedly losing $1 trillion in market cap as AI intelligence becomes abundant and cheap. This shift is driving the need for platform-native AI integration and protocol standardization, exemplified by OpenAI’s Codex App Server and the Agent Client Protocol (ACP) aiming to unify agent-editor communication. Snowflake Cortex Code is also addressing the context bottleneck in dbt workflows by running AI natively inside the data warehouse, enabling context-aware SQL generation. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=BEYbuELEG&amp;id=LytVQeSZ8&amp;id=V16f6xKqK&amp;id=v0Pl5Xxg1&amp;id=wj4NMewlB" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>Alibaba releases Qwen3.5 multimodal AI model</strong>: Alibaba launched Qwen3.5, a new multimodal AI model designed for enterprise agent workflows, claiming benchmark improvements over GPT-5.2, Claude 4.5 Opus, and Gemini 3 Pro, with expanded language support and context windows up to 1 million tokens. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/UOocLbfK4" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Temporal secures $300M for AI and long-running workflows</strong>: Temporal raised $300M at a $5B valuation, driven by demand for Durable Execution in AI and long-running workflows, with companies like OpenAI and ADP using it for AI agent orchestration and mission-critical processes. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/HqHJFpyjl" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Figma integrates Claude Code for bidirectional design-code workflow</strong>: Figma now supports converting live code interfaces from Claude Code into editable Figma designs, enabling a bidirectional workflow from code-first exploration to collaborative canvas-based design iteration. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=iBUqWA8OS&amp;id=jwuzwzVmy" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>OWASP releases Smart Contract Top 10 2026</strong>: OWASP released its Smart Contract Top 10 2026, highlighting governance failures, privilege misconfiguration, and upgrade authority concentration as dominant security risks in blockchain systems, based on hundreds of millions in losses from 2025 exploits. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/U7Z7c8wKd" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Linux 7.0 optimizes close_range system call</strong>: Linux 7.0 introduces a performance optimization for the <code>close_range</code> system call, reducing its complexity from O(range size) to O(active file descriptors) for significantly faster operations on sparse file descriptor tables. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/2IrhD5aAX" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Cloudflare reduces cold start delays with worker sharding</strong>: Cloudflare reduced cold start delays in its Workers platform by 10x using worker sharding, decreasing the cold start rate from 0.1% to 0.01% by routing requests to keep Workers warm in memory. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/cy0axOtZo" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>MongoDB Java driver sees 20-90% throughput improvements</strong>: MongoDB’s Java team achieved 20-90% throughput improvements in their Java driver through profiling and optimization of hot paths, including caching BSON array indexes and leveraging JVM intrinsics. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=0JRJsAJbi&amp;id=6dgAlz6XB&amp;id=C9og01r53&amp;id=Ii1csxjgn" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>Gentoo Linux ditches github over ‘copilot-infested’ AI concerns</strong>: Gentoo Linux is migrating its repository mirrors from GitHub to Codeberg, citing concerns over GitHub Copilot and AI-generated contributions. Apparently, GitHub has been ‘forcing Copilot usage’ and is now ‘Copilot-Infested,’ which sounds less like a technical decision and more like a dramatic exit from a bad relationship. Because, you know, AI-generated code is the <em>only</em> reason for low-quality pull requests. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/Ed9ofBB82" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Quest software launches AI-powered data management platform</strong>: Quest Software just launched its ‘Trusted Data Management Platform’ with an ‘Automated Data Product Factory’ that uses generative AI to create data products from natural language prompts. They’re claiming up to 54% faster delivery and 40% cost savings. Because nothing screams ‘trust’ like a black-box AI generating your data products, and those efficiency numbers sound suspiciously round for something so revolutionary. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/wlE5eAAsI" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Palliser capital claims toto undervalued as AI play</strong>: Activist investor Palliser Capital is trying to convince everyone that Japanese toilet manufacturer Toto is an ‘AI play’ because its advanced ceramics division makes electrostatic chucks for 3D NAND memory chips. So, a toilet company is secretly an AI powerhouse? This is peak financial engineering, trying to slap an ‘AI’ label on anything to pump up the stock. Next, they’ll tell us our smart toaster is a distributed computing node. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/08TkDSLKo" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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