<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, driven by what CEO C.C. Wei calls an “endless” demand for AI chips. The company forecasts 30% revenue growth for 2026 and plans $52-56 billion in capital expenditures, primarily for advanced 7nm and smaller process nodes. TSMC expects its 2nm manufacturing process to ramp up quickly, with about 30% of that production slated for the USA, according to their official financial reporting and earnings call. <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. 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 denial-of-service flaw</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 largely automatically patched, but NGFW users must apply updates manually, as per Palo Alto Networks’ direct communication. <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 to aggressively expand into AI and applications to sustain high valuations, with Snowflake actively promoting AI capabilities through developer tutorials and events. <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>Cloudflare boosts resilience, acquires Astro Technology</strong>: Cloudflare launched ‘Code Orange: Fail Small’ to prevent global outages through phased configuration rollouts and acquired Astro Technology Company, an open-source framework for content-centric websites, which will remain MIT-licensed. <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>ClickHouse acquires Langfuse, expands AI observability</strong>: ClickHouse acquired Langfuse, an open-source LLM observability platform, to enhance its Agentic Data Stack for AI application monitoring and also launched a native Postgres service for unified transactional and analytical workloads. <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>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 code assistance, with memories expiring after 28 days and configurable by users and organizations. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/nCmOnsQS3" 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>AI infrastructure advances with BriX and CNCF Dragonfly</strong>: BriX, an enterprise AI platform, streamlines the conversion of AI prototypes to production, while CNCF Dragonfly, a peer-to-peer file distribution system, graduated to accelerate sharing of container images and AI models at scale. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=WyRfCzQm3&amp;id=z5gMS2kCc" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Enterprise AI projects stalled by complexity and tech debt</strong>: A survey reveals over half of US enterprises face AI project delays or cancellations due to infrastructure complexity, underutilized GPUs, and technical debt, with MIT research showing 95% of AI pilots yield no measurable ROI. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=k12AAd1Ej&amp;id=tr8ZpGHVk" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>OpenAI to test targeted ads in ChatGPT, promises privacy</strong>: OpenAI is rolling out targeted ads for free and Go ChatGPT users in the U.S., claiming ads will be ‘relevant’ and won’t influence chatbot responses or sell user data. Because, you know, a company that just got sued by its co-founder for abandoning its non-profit mission is totally trustworthy when it comes to ‘conversation privacy’ and ‘user choice.’ What could possibly go wrong when your AI chatbot starts whispering product placements based on your deepest queries? <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/DQh9IAXNl" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI-powered coding tools: The ‘vibe coding’ revolution</strong>: Linus Torvalds apparently used ‘vibe coding’ with AI for a hobby project, and now everyone’s doing it for ‘quick, disposable projects.’ Never mind that research suggests developers are 19% slower with AI tools, or that open-source maintainers are drowning in low-quality, AI-generated pull requests. But hey, if it feels good, code it, right? Who needs maintainability or security when you’ve got vibes? <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=H6Mp947gD&amp;id=h6ZJabZ0D&amp;id=laMxMdAYV" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Wikimedia partners with AI firms, ignores bias concerns</strong>: Wikimedia Foundation is celebrating its 25th anniversary by adding six new AI companies, including Microsoft and Mistral AI, to its enterprise API program, giving them preferential access to Wikipedia content for training. Sure, they’ll generate recurring revenue, but let’s just gloss over the ‘persistent concerns’ about biased editing on Wikipedia potentially infecting downstream AI systems. Because who cares if AI chatbots start spouting misinformation, as long as Wikimedia gets paid? <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=8kvN42B9c&amp;id=breqLrLKL" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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