<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 up to 80% dedicated to advanced process nodes like 7nm and 2nm, signaling a strategic focus on cutting-edge manufacturing for AI. This includes ramping up 2nm production faster than previous nodes, with 30% of it slated for the USA, as per TSMC’s official financial reporting. <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, stems from faulty API routing logic. With over 40,000 WordPress sites estimated to be vulnerable and active exploitation detected, 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. This flaw allows unauthenticated attackers to force firewalls into maintenance mode, potentially causing network outages. Given the existence of public proof-of-concept code and past zero-day exploits in similar PAN-OS vulnerabilities, immediate patching is crucial for NGFW users, while Prisma Access cloud customers are largely automatically patched, 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>Databricks and Snowflake face market saturation, pivot to AI</strong>: Databricks and Snowflake are reportedly facing growth saturation in their core data platform markets, prompting both companies to aggressively pivot into AI and applications to sustain high valuations, with Snowflake actively promoting AI capabilities and developer engagement. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=Kv2NZR8R1&amp;id=LnOTpvngc" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>ClickHouse acquires Langfuse, launches native Postgres service</strong>: ClickHouse, after raising $400M, acquired Langfuse—an open-source LLM observability platform—to enhance AI application monitoring, and launched a native Postgres service in partnership with Ubicloud for unified transactional and analytical workloads. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=BqVJ6XPkS&amp;id=7DDF3YQda&amp;id=kU2RvmlCw" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>OpenAI to test targeted ads in ChatGPT for free users</strong>: OpenAI will begin testing targeted ads in ChatGPT for free and Go tier users in the U.S., displaying them at the bottom of conversations and allowing users to dismiss or disable personalization, while assuring ads won’t influence responses or sell user data. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/DQh9IAXNl" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>GitHub Copilot introduces agentic memory in public preview</strong>: GitHub Copilot now features agentic memory in public preview for paid plans, allowing it to learn and retain repository-specific insights to improve assistance, with memories expiring after 28 days and configurable by users and administrators. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/nCmOnsQS3" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Linux kernel enables Intel TSX by default on secure CPUs</strong>: The Linux kernel 7.0 will enable Intel TSX by default on newer CPUs not affected by TAA and related vulnerabilities, such as Cooper Lake and Ice Lake, aiming to improve performance where deemed safe. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=kVF0lIVI4&amp;id=l4qet2HfG" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Flutter refactors for modularity, detaching Material and Cupertino</strong>: Flutter is refactoring its core SDK to decouple Material and Cupertino design systems, moving them into independent packages to enable independent versioning, leaner applications, and a more flexible rendering layer. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/T07WzSMOC" 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 is out with security fixes for <code>archive/zip</code> and <code>Request.ParseForm</code>, with identical updates also released 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>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>AI-powered coding tools: still more hype than help for real work</strong>: Apparently, AI tools like Claude can slash development time from a day to an hour for Python CLIs, but then you still have to manually implement basic features like resume functionality because the AI can’t handle ‘nuanced software requirements.’ So, it’s great for disposable scripts, but for anything that needs to actually work reliably, you’re still the one doing the heavy lifting. It’s almost like AI is a fancy autocomplete that occasionally writes a whole paragraph for you, but you still need to be the editor, as one developer’s experience shows. <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>OpenAI’s Sam Altman co-founds BCI startup: because losing billions isn’t enough</strong>: Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, co-founded Merge Labs, a brain-computer interface startup that just raised $252 million, with OpenAI itself participating in the funding. This is happening while OpenAI is projected to lose $74 billion by 2028 and has $1.4 trillion in infrastructure commitments. Clearly, the best use of resources for a company bleeding money is to invest in non-invasive BCI systems that might commercialize in ‘decades.’ Because nothing says ‘responsible financial management’ like throwing money at a sci-fi dream when your core business is still a money pit. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/rYkFwNLz3" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Google’s AI search: ‘unavoidable’ errors, but totally your problem</strong>: Google’s AI search is now generating false accusations of criminal behavior against Norwegian politicians, and Google’s response? Errors are ‘unavoidable’ given the scale of the internet and AI. So, Google gets to roll out revolutionary tech, but when it slanders people, it’s just an ‘unavoidable’ side effect, and the victims get to deal with the ‘severe reputational damage.’ It’s a bold strategy to claim innovation while simultaneously disclaiming responsibility, as reported by Norwegian media. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=507BvKbPR&amp;id=QiN4er8h3" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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