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<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>European Parliament bans cloud AI on devices</strong>: The European Parliament has banned cloud-based AI features on lawmakers’ corporate devices due to data security and privacy concerns. Their IT department can’t guarantee data security when AI assistants use cloud services, fearing confidential information could be processed in unknown locations, especially U.S.-based servers. This move highlights a pragmatic approach to AI adoption, prioritizing security over convenience, despite the EU’s own AI Act. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/NW6nIRqB9" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI accelerates technical debt without strong fundamentals</strong>: AI is accelerating code generation but also amplifying existing software pipeline problems if engineering fundamentals like testing, security, and CI/CD are weak. This can turn AI into a “technical debt accelerator.” Senior engineers are now tasked with mentoring newcomers who enter through AI tools, ensuring guardrails and architectural rigor are maintained, as AI-assisted programming shifts focus from writing code to specifying outcomes and verifying results. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=S6u98Bbpq&amp;id=ZrBLHCGzU" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Critical RCE vulnerabilities patched in Chrome and WordPress</strong>: A critical Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability (CVE-2026-2441) in Chrome’s CSS engine has been patched by Google, actively exploited via crafted HTML pages. Separately, a critical RCE was found in the WPvivid Backup &amp; Migration WordPress plugin, allowing unauthenticated attackers to upload and execute arbitrary PHP files. These incidents underscore the ongoing threat landscape and the need for constant vigilance in web security. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=RomlDzZE9&amp;id=duMdZgpLR" 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 launches Qwen3.5 multimodal AI</strong>: Alibaba released Qwen3.5, a new multimodal AI model 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>Moonshot AI unveils Kimi K2.5 multimodal LLM</strong>: Moonshot AI launched Kimi K2.5, an open-weight multimodal LLM with vision capabilities and an Agent Swarm mode that can orchestrate up to 100 sub-agents, claiming coding performance comparable to GPT-5 and Gemini. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/tfdJsRaBj" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Figma integrates Claude Code for bidirectional design</strong>: Figma now integrates Claude Code, allowing conversion of live code interfaces 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>Meta deploys Nvidia Grace CPUs for AI workloads</strong>: Meta is deploying Nvidia’s Grace CPUs as standalone processors at scale for general-purpose and agentic AI workloads, marking a shift from the typical Grace-Hopper Superchip configuration and delivering 2x performance per watt. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/tohNH8UoB" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Python security team seeks new members</strong>: The Python Security Response Team (PSRT) is actively seeking new members with security expertise to coordinate vulnerability reports and remediations for CPython and pip, having published 16 advisories in the past year. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/k8sHlR5Xv" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>OWASP identifies governance as top smart contract risk</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>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>Toilet maker Toto is an AI play, apparently</strong>: Activist investor Palliser Capital claims Japanese toilet manufacturer Toto is an “AI play” due to its advanced ceramics division, which produces electrostatic chucks for 3D NAND memory chips. Apparently, a toilet maker is now a tech darling because it makes a component for AI infrastructure. Who knew the future of AI was flushed with such opportunities? <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/08TkDSLKo" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Quest Software’s AI-powered data management platform</strong>: Quest Software launched its “Trusted Data Management Platform,” which supposedly uses generative AI to create data products from natural language prompts, claiming up to 54% faster delivery and 40% cost savings. Because nothing says “trusted” like marketing claims that are completely unverified and sound like they were generated by the very AI they’re selling. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/wlE5eAAsI" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI helps hobbyist expose DJI robot vacuum vulnerability</strong>: A hobbyist, using Claude AI, reverse-engineered a DJI robot vacuum and “accidentally” exposed a vulnerability in DJI’s MQTT broker, granting access to 7,000 devices including live camera feeds and floor plans. The articles highlight AI coding assistants lowering the barrier for discovering IoT security flaws. So, AI is making it easier for anyone to find critical security holes that manufacturers apparently can’t be bothered to fix. Progress! <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/sfYExhzMO" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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