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<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>India proposes strict smartphone security, industry pushes back</strong>: India is proposing 83 new smartphone security standards, including demands for source code access, pre-update notifications, and 12-month device log storage. Major players like Apple, Samsung, and Google are opposing these requirements, calling them unprecedented and invasive, according to Reuters. The Indian IT ministry publicly denies seeking source code, but leaked documents suggest otherwise, creating significant tension and regulatory uncertainty in a key market. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/C0BEamxdR" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Meta secures nuclear power for AI infrastructure expansion</strong>: Meta announced partnerships with Vistra, TerraPower, and Oklo to secure up to 6.6 GW of nuclear energy by 2035. This massive investment aims to power Meta’s AI infrastructure and data centers, particularly the Prometheus supercluster in Ohio. The move, reported by Meta, involves extending the life of existing plants and developing new advanced reactors, positioning nuclear power as a clean and reliable solution for the escalating demands of AI. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/elp6Y0W2r" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Universal Commerce Protocol and Amazon’s AI shopping stir e-commerce</strong>: Google, Shopify, Walmart, Target, and Etsy have launched the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP), an open-source standard to unify e-commerce from discovery to order management. Google is integrating UCP into its AI search and Gemini apps for direct checkout. Meanwhile, Amazon’s “Buy For Me” feature is drawing fire from merchants who allege their products are being listed on Amazon without consent, often with incorrect details, highlighting growing tensions over AI’s role in online retail. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=7CfzB00S6&amp;id=HH05G9maY&amp;id=MhDEwyYbE" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>Linus Torvalds uses AI for open-source project</strong>: Linus Torvalds released AudioNoise, an open-source digital guitar pedal emulator, using AI-assisted ‘vibe coding’ with Google Antigravity for its Python visualization component, showcasing his increasing interest in AI tooling for software development. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/fe8LDMARY" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>D-Wave to acquire Quantum Circuits for gate-model expansion</strong>: D-Wave Quantum is acquiring Quantum Circuits Inc. for $550 million to integrate annealing quantum computing with error-corrected gate-model technology, aiming for a commercially available gate-model system by 2026. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/rdMlkyvEb" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>US and China race for quantum and AI leadership</strong>: The US is urged to increase quantum research investment to counter China and the EU, while China’s AI sector accelerates with successful IPOs and algorithmic innovations despite chip limitations, as reported by ERVA and Chinese industry experts. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=2Pu5NXJ2N&amp;id=H3IqbB7DB&amp;id=I59qgstPX" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Motional relaunches robotaxi with AI-first approach</strong>: Motional is rebooting its robotaxi service, shifting from rules-based systems to a foundation model-based AI architecture, with employee testing in Las Vegas and a target for public ride-hailing by mid-2026. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/JFLFFu1SK" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>PostgreSQL as a Redis alternative for specific use cases</strong>: A technical article suggests PostgreSQL can replace Redis for caching, pub/sub, job queues, and session storage in small-to-medium apps by leveraging features like UNLOGGED tables and LISTEN/NOTIFY, potentially saving infrastructure costs. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/X7d3O8Vu2" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Telegraf 1.38.0 enhances security with strict environment variable handling</strong>: Telegraf version 1.38.0 now defaults to strict environment variable handling to prevent malicious plugin injection and configuration-based attacks, requiring users to review configurations that use environment variables in non-string contexts. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/VTcea1vlc" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Developers building AI tools for workflow integration</strong>: The Hacker News community is actively developing AI chat tools for managing user sessions and context, including a Rust-based full-text search for Claude/Codex data and a Tmux-based CLI for AI agents to execute terminal scripts. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/sxLN2tj0R" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>AI code generation: 70-90% of production code, 100% of the hype</strong>: Apparently, AI code generation tools now create 70-90% of production code, according to some unnamed report. Developers are told to adapt or fall behind, treating AI as core infrastructure, not an experiment. This sounds less like a measured assessment and more like a thinly veiled threat to get on the AI bandwagon, regardless of whether it actually improves code quality or just generates more ‘slop’ faster. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/LeN1TdPNx" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>GenAI project failure: blame the infrastructure, not the magic</strong>: A practitioner claims 80% of GenAI projects fail due to a lack of production-ready infrastructure, not the models themselves. They list seven ‘essential’ folders like prompt versioning and error handlers, implying that if you just had the right folder structure, your GenAI dreams would come true. It’s almost as if the magic of AI still needs boring, old-fashioned engineering to actually work, which kind of deflates the whole ‘AI will solve everything’ narrative. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=ExsMXw27a&amp;id=yocwu10Ql" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI coding tools: the focus fragmentation feature you didn’t ask for</strong>: Turns out those AI coding tools, while generating code, also generate 5-30 second ‘dead zones’ that fragment developer focus and encourage context switching to Slack or email. The proposed solution? An ‘AI Detox’ protocol, which sounds suspiciously like ‘don’t use the AI tool if you want to focus.’ So, we’re paying for tools that actively destroy deep work, and the fix is to… not use them as intended? Brilliant. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=eC9HsHF69&amp;id=infazu71Y&amp;id=uTQFFroPQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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