<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>TSMC sees endless AI chip demand, plans massive investment</strong>: TSMC reported record Q4 earnings for 2025, with revenue up 25.5% year-over-year, and forecasts 30% growth for 2026, driven by what its CEO calls ‘endless’ AI-related chip demand. The company plans $52-56 billion in capital expenditures for 2026, with most of it going to advanced 7nm and smaller process nodes, including a rapid ramp-up of 2nm manufacturing. This indicates a strong, sustained demand for cutting-edge AI infrastructure, as reported by TSMC’s official financial statements. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/aTc9ls9yL" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Critical WordPress plugin vulnerability grants admin access</strong>: A critical privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2026-23550) in the Modular DS WordPress plugin, affecting versions 2.5.1 and below, allows unauthenticated attackers to gain instant admin access. The flaw, with a CVSS score of 10.0, is due to faulty API routing logic. Active exploitation has been detected, and over 40,000 WordPress sites are estimated to be vulnerable. Site administrators are urged to update to version 2.5.2 immediately and audit for unauthorized accounts. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/D6wKV3WK1" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Palo Alto Networks patches critical DoS flaw in PAN-OS</strong>: Palo Alto Networks has released patches for CVE-2026-0227, a high-severity denial-of-service vulnerability in PAN-OS firewalls with GlobalProtect enabled. Unauthenticated attackers can exploit this flaw to force firewalls into maintenance mode, potentially causing network outages. Public proof-of-concept code exists, increasing the urgency for patching. Prisma Access cloud customers are mostly automatically patched, but NGFW users need to apply updates manually, according to Palo Alto Networks. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/MtreEtTLc" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>OpenAI to test targeted ads in ChatGPT free and Go tiers</strong>: OpenAI will begin testing targeted ads in ChatGPT for free and Go tier users in the U.S., with ads appearing at the bottom of conversations and tailored to the topic discussed, while Pro, Business, Enterprise, and Plus tiers remain ad-free. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/DQh9IAXNl" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>ClickHouse acquires Langfuse, expands AI observability</strong>: ClickHouse acquired Langfuse, an open-source LLM observability platform, to enhance its Agentic Data Stack with AI quality monitoring, while Langfuse will remain open-source and operate as a standalone cloud service. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=7DDF3YQda&amp;id=kU2RvmlCw&amp;id=BqVJ6XPkS&amp;id=Ycyvr9ct2" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Google previews BigQuery AI for natural language to SQL</strong>: Google is testing a ‘Comments to SQL’ feature in BigQuery, powered by Gemini, which translates natural-language instructions within SQL comment blocks into executable SQL queries to accelerate data analysis. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/5AcBUpc2i" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>GitHub Copilot introduces agentic memory in public preview</strong>: GitHub Copilot has launched a new agentic memory feature in public preview for all paid plans, allowing Copilot to learn and retain repository-specific insights to improve the relevance and quality of its assistance. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/nCmOnsQS3" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Cloudflare launches resilience plan, acquires Astro</strong>: Cloudflare introduced ‘Code Orange: Fail Small,’ a resilience plan to prevent global disruptions through phased configuration rollouts and automatic rollbacks, and also acquired Astro Technology Company, an open-source framework for content-centric websites. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=OdNHxfcwg&amp;id=Q4Q57JyYL&amp;id=yRAOJZmiR" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Go 1.26 RC2 released with security fixes</strong>: Go 1.26 Release Candidate 2 has been released with security fixes for modules archive/zip and Request.ParseForm, with identical updates also provided for Go 1.25.6 and Go 1.24.12. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/DFYbtJ1rQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>New open-source database backup tool Portabase released</strong>: Portabase is a new self-hosted database backup and restore tool for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB, featuring a central server, Rust-refactored agents, S3-compatible storage, and Slack/Discord notifications. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=5HNbhZxB9&amp;id=7mmyYg2vc" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>AI-powered coding tools: still not a magic bullet</strong>: Apparently, some developers are still surprised that AI-powered coding tools, while great for quick scripts, can’t quite handle ‘nuanced software requirements’ or robust error handling. One developer saved a day’s work but still had to manually implement file caching because Claude AI couldn’t figure it out. It seems the ‘productivity gains’ come with a side of ‘still needs a human to do the hard stuff,’ which, let’s be honest, is exactly what we expected. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=SqdiiasJQ&amp;id=YfWBhNQB7" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Enterprise AI: still mostly a money pit, apparently</strong>: A survey of 600 IT decision-makers found over half of AI projects are delayed or canceled due to ‘infrastructure issues,’ and MIT research claims 95% of organizations see ‘zero measurable returns’ from generative AI. Turns out, throwing AI at a mountain of technical debt and underutilized GPUs doesn’t magically make money. Who knew that ‘operational complexity’ and ‘legacy infrastructure’ were bigger problems than the AI itself? Shocking. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=k12AAd1Ej&amp;id=tr8ZpGHVk" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>OpenAI’s Sam Altman co-founds brain-computer interface startup, because why not?</strong>: Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, has co-founded Merge Labs, a brain-computer interface (BCI) venture that just raised $252 million in seed funding, with OpenAI itself participating. This is despite OpenAI reportedly projecting $74 billion in losses by 2028 and having $1.4 trillion in infrastructure commitments. So, while OpenAI is busy burning cash on AI, Altman is off dabbling in non-invasive BCIs that might take ‘decades’ to commercialize. Diversification, or just another shiny object? <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/rYkFwNLz3" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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