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<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>Meta pivots from metaverse to AI, lays off Reality Labs staff</strong>: Meta is closing three VR studios and laying off approximately 10% of its Reality Labs workforce, totaling about 1,500 employees. This strategic shift comes after the division lost over $70 billion since 2021, with Meta now redirecting investment towards AI-powered glasses and wearable technology. The move signals a significant deprioritization of the metaverse vision that once defined the company, as reported by multiple sources. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/7ystcAQPc" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Microsoft’s AI data center expansion faces backlash</strong>: Microsoft is facing significant community opposition in 24 U.S. states over its AI data center expansion, leading to abandoned projects and ongoing resistance. In response, Microsoft launched a “Community-First AI Infrastructure” initiative, promising to cover all power costs, minimize water usage, and avoid local tax breaks. This aims to mitigate concerns that AI infrastructure will drive up residential energy bills and strain local resources, a sentiment echoed by activist groups and the IEA’s projections of doubling data center electricity demand by 2030. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/jqtBl3Jnb" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Cloudflare fined by Italy for not blocking pirate sites</strong>: Italy’s communications regulator, AGCOM, has fined Cloudflare €14.2 million for refusing to block pirate sites on its 1.1.1.1 DNS resolver, citing the Piracy Shield law. Cloudflare argues compliance is technically infeasible without increasing latency and blocking legitimate sites, threatening to withdraw its servers from Italy. CEO Matthew Prince is seeking U.S. government support and has notified the International Olympic Committee about potential cybersecurity risks for the 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy, framing the dispute as regulatory overreach. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/Q0IbcQd4P" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>Anthropic commits $1.5 million to Python Software Foundation</strong>: Anthropic has pledged $1.5 million over two years to the Python Software Foundation (PSF) to enhance Python ecosystem security, focusing on automated malware detection for PyPI packages and supporting CPython core development. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/yCHi0TB7q" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>New Linux malware targets cloud and containers</strong>: Check Point Research identified VoidLink, a new Linux malware framework written in Zig, designed to infiltrate cloud and container environments like AWS, Azure, GCP, Docker, and Kubernetes, using advanced rootkit techniques and a modular plugin system for credential harvesting and lateral movement. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/uJaIfhgHH" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Apple launches Creator Studio subscription for creative apps</strong>: Apple is launching Creator Studio, a subscription bundle for creative professionals priced at $12.99/month ($2.99 for students/educators), including Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro, Pixelmator Pro (now on iPad), and premium iWork features, with AI-driven enhancements in video and audio editing. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/gpfpGVE8Y" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>WordPress 7.0 to drop PHP 7.2 and 7.3 support</strong>: The WordPress core development team plans to discontinue support for PHP 7.2 and 7.3 in the upcoming WordPress 7.0 release, aligning with ongoing platform updates and potentially impacting developers and hosting providers. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/xho5u0zys" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Node.js releases security updates</strong>: Node.js 20.20.0 (LTS) and 25.3.0 (Current) have been released with security updates addressing multiple CVEs, enhancing permission handling for filesystem and network operations, and updating external dependencies like c-ares and undici. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=DwsoMgMKH&amp;id=Zr0Dv9dwZ&amp;id=Wy4br4Zyw" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Compose Multiplatform 1.10 launches with stable hot reload</strong>: JetBrains released Compose Multiplatform 1.10.0, featuring the stable Compose Hot Reload 1.0.0, which allows developers to dynamically update running applications without losing state, significantly improving UI development productivity across platforms. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=qzPVbng9O&amp;id=y1ZFPOP5i" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Laravel Simplifier plugin released for Claude Code</strong>: Taylor Otwell released the Laravel Simplifier plugin for Claude Code, an open-source tool adapted from Anthropic’s Code Simplifier, designed to review code commits for adherence to Laravel standards and PSR-12 guidelines, detecting missing return types and potential silent failures. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/Z70ay5WSd" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>AI will solve all our problems, just not for ecologists</strong>: Apparently, AI, machine learning, and automated sensors are revolutionizing ecology by replacing traditional fieldwork. Because nothing says ‘deep understanding of an ecosystem’ like staring at a dashboard instead of, you know, actually being in the field. Scientists are ‘concerned’ about diminishing hands-on experience, but hey, at least we’ll have more data, even if it’s biased and full of algorithmic errors. Who needs messy reality when you have a perfectly sanitized dataset? <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=YsLIINgTC&amp;id=dHxdm7wPU" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Agentic AI: the next big thing, or just another chatbot incident waiting to happen?</strong>: Agentic AI is being touted as the savior for managing non-human identities and boosting cybersecurity, promising to automate everything and make us all proactive. Yet, Gartner, bless their cynical hearts, predicts 40% of these projects will fail by 2027 due to inadequate guardrails. So, while we’re busy dreaming of AI-driven efficiency, let’s not forget the Chevrolet chatbot incident, which proved that unchecked automation can lead to costly, embarrassing blunders. But sure, let’s give AI more control over our critical infrastructure. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=9X1ifJmCu&amp;id=QnCK3ryB4" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Open source maintainers: now fighting AI-generated spam, because why not?</strong>: Just when you thought open source maintainers had it tough, now they’re being ‘overwhelmed’ by low-quality, AI-generated contributions. Because apparently, AI’s idea of helping is to flood projects with garbage, forcing maintainers to tighten rules and shift licensing to AGPL-3.0 to deter corporate AI training. It’s almost as if AI is actively trying to destroy the very ecosystem it claims to benefit from. Good job, everyone. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=2a8HRxzCb&amp;id=Ml47Y2Hd6&amp;id=g50WJmopi" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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