<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>RAM and storage prices skyrocket due to AI demand</strong>: Memory and storage prices have surged 2-3x in early 2026, with NAND flash doubling in six months. This spike is primarily driven by insatiable AI data center demand for high-bandwidth memory (HBM), which requires three times more wafer capacity than DDR5. Micron’s exit from the consumer market further constrains supply, impacting both consumer and enterprise sectors, as reported by industry analysts. Forecasts suggest another 50% increase for DDR5 and SSDs in the first half of 2026. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/RV04f4xGD" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Linux kernel gets RISC-V Spectre V1 protection</strong>: The Linux kernel has integrated new security patches for RISC-V processors to mitigate Spectre V1 microarchitectural attacks. These patches, merged as of January 11, 2026, use <code>array_index_nospec()</code> to safeguard syscall indices after bounds checking, preventing branch predictor poisoning. This brings RISC-V security on par with x86_64 and ARM64, demonstrating a proactive approach to speculative execution vulnerabilities, according to Phoronix. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/ijNx4P4vv" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Meta secures nuclear energy for AI data centers</strong>: Meta has partnered with Vistra, TerraPower, and Oklo to secure up to 6.6 GW of nuclear power by 2035 for its AI infrastructure and data centers. This initiative includes extending the life of existing plants and developing advanced Natrium and Aurora Powerhouse reactors. The move aims to provide clean, reliable baseload power, supporting Meta’s AI expansion and creating thousands of jobs, as announced by Meta on January 11, 2026. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/elp6Y0W2r" 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 new open-source project</strong>: Linus Torvalds released AudioNoise, an open-source digital guitar pedal emulator, using AI-assisted coding with Google Antigravity for its Python visualization component, showcasing practical AI integration in hobbyist projects. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/fe8LDMARY" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Python 3.14 targets major speed and threading improvements</strong>: Python 3.14, slated for 2026, will introduce lazy imports for faster module loading and official free-threading support, potentially offering up to 10x speedups for parallel workloads and closing the performance gap with compiled languages. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/quf6PiAcD" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Dell GB10 edge AI platform with Nvidia Blackwell</strong>: Dell’s new GB10 device, featuring Nvidia’s Blackwell GB10 superchip, is optimized for edge AI, running large language models up to 120 billion parameters without cloud reliance, emphasizing low latency and data privacy. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/ow6tBWhoH" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Docker releases free hardened images for supply chain security</strong>: Docker has made over 1,000 hardened, open-source images available under Apache 2.0, designed to reduce attack surfaces by removing unnecessary packages and outdated dependencies, enhancing container security. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/E2h3E1Ajx" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Arch Linux package management overhauled with Rust</strong>: The ALPM project completed a 15-month overhaul of Arch Linux package management, delivering a Rust-based framework, formal specifications, Python bindings, and a new stateless OpenPGP verification system. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/JM0KRr2qN" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Julia GPU ODE solvers outperform JAX and PyTorch</strong>: Julia’s GPU-accelerated ODE solvers, particularly its DiffEqGPU library, demonstrate 20x-100x faster performance than JAX and PyTorch alternatives for scientific computing workloads, attributed to Julia’s fundamental GPU architecture. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/QmMiG41QZ" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Mac emulation speeds up on ESP32-P4 microcontroller</strong>: The Basilisk II emulator now runs on the ESP32-P4 microcontroller, achieving 15 frames per second for Mac OS 8.1 on a 68040-based Macintosh, a significant leap for microcontroller-based emulation. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/4kynNlJRv" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>AI coding assistants: faster typing, slower delivery</strong>: Turns out, those AI coding assistants making developers ‘feel’ 20% faster actually make them take 19% longer to finish tasks, and their code has 1.7x more issues, according to multiple studies. It seems reducing typing isn’t the same as increasing productivity, and AI’s penchant for ‘hallucinated dependencies’ is just adding security vulnerabilities. Who knew that blindly trusting a machine to write your code might not be a shortcut to quality? <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=fLWmEtnzQ&amp;id=T7lz8DVGQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Google’s AI Overviews: great for liver tests, not so much for accuracy</strong>: Google, in its infinite wisdom, had to pull AI Overviews from medical search queries after The Guardian pointed out its AI was giving generic liver blood test ranges without considering age, sex, or ethnicity. Google claims its internal clinicians found the summaries ‘often accurate,’ which is reassuring, unless you’re one of the people who might get dangerously wrong medical advice. But hey, at least they fixed the specific queries The Guardian highlighted, so all other medical advice from AI is probably fine, right? <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/5rDA4vp3y" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Amazon’s ‘Buy For Me’ feature: because consent is optional for small businesses</strong>: Amazon, ever the champion of small businesses, rolled out an AI-driven ‘Buy For Me’ feature that scrapes independent merchant websites and lists their products on Amazon without consent. Merchants are finding surprise orders and incorrect product images, while their wholesale pricing is exposed. Apparently, Amazon’s AI can crawl the web freely, but don’t you dare try to scrape <a href="http://Amazon.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Amazon.com</a>. It’s almost like they believe in different rules for themselves. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/HH05G9maY" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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