<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 and forecasts 30% revenue growth for 2026, driven by what its CEO calls an “endless” demand for AI chips. The company plans to invest $52-56 billion in 2026, primarily in advanced 7nm and 2nm process nodes, with 30% of 2nm production slated for the USA. This indicates a sustained, aggressive push into high-performance computing, 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>OpenAI to introduce targeted ads in ChatGPT</strong>: OpenAI is rolling out targeted ads for free and Go tier ChatGPT users in the U.S., starting January 16, 2026. These ads will appear at the bottom of conversations, contextually relevant to the discussion, but OpenAI assures they won’t influence chatbot responses or sell user data. This move aims to support free access and generate revenue, according to OpenAI’s official statements. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/DQh9IAXNl" 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 (versions 2.5.1 and below) allows unauthenticated attackers to gain instant admin access. The flaw, with a CVSS score of 10.0, is actively being exploited on an estimated 40,000+ sites. Administrators are urged to update to version 2.5.2 immediately and audit for unauthorized accounts, as detailed in vulnerability reports. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/D6wKV3WK1" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>GitHub Copilot gets agentic memory</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>Cloudflare boosts resilience, acquires Astro</strong>: Cloudflare launched ‘Code Orange: Fail Small’ to prevent 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>Google BigQuery AI translates comments to SQL</strong>: Google is previewing a new BigQuery feature, ‘Comments to SQL,’ powered by Gemini, which translates natural-language instructions within SQL comment blocks into executable queries to accelerate data analysis. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/5AcBUpc2i" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>ClickHouse acquires Langfuse, launches Postgres service</strong>: ClickHouse acquired Langfuse, an open-source LLM observability platform, to enhance its 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=7DDF3YQda&amp;id=kU2RvmlCw&amp;id=BqVJ6XPkS&amp;id=Ycyvr9ct2" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI-powered coding tools drive ‘vibe coding’ and micro apps</strong>: Linus Torvalds’ use of ‘vibe coding’ for hobby projects, where AI generates mostly unedited code, is spreading among individual developers for quick, disposable projects, while non-developers are creating ‘micro apps’ for personal use. <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>Databricks and Snowflake face market maturation</strong>: Databricks and Snowflake are confronting growth saturation in their core data platform markets, prompting both companies to expand into AI and applications to sustain high valuations amidst increasing competition and customer demand for open data formats like Iceberg. <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>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 vulnerabilities, such as Cooper Lake and Ice Lake, to improve performance, while keeping it disabled on vulnerable processors. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=kVF0lIVI4&amp;id=l4qet2HfG" 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 tools: the ultimate productivity hack or just more code to fix?</strong>: Apparently, AI coding tools can slash development time from a day to an hour, as one developer found with Claude AI. Yet, this same developer still had to manually implement a ‘robust resume function’ because the AI couldn’t quite nail it. So, it’s a productivity boost, but only if you’re willing to clean up the AI’s messes and handle the ‘nuanced software requirements’ it conveniently skips. Sounds like a senior engineer’s dream: more code to review, less time to do it. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=SqdiiasJQ&amp;id=T07WzSMOC&amp;id=YfWBhNQB7" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Enterprise AI: still mostly a PowerPoint presentation</strong>: A DDN survey claims over half of enterprise AI projects are delayed or canceled due to ‘infrastructure issues,’ and MIT research suggests 95% of organizations see ‘zero measurable returns’ from generative AI. Apparently, the problem isn’t the AI itself, but the ‘excessively complex’ environments and ‘underutilized GPUs.’ So, after all the hype, it turns out AI still needs a competent IT department and a codebase that isn’t held together with duct tape. Who knew? <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</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 happening while OpenAI is projected to lose $74 billion by 2028 and has $1.4 trillion in infrastructure commitments. Because when you’re bleeding money on AI, the obvious next step is to invest in non-invasive BCIs that might commercialize in ‘decades.’ Clearly, a sound financial strategy. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/rYkFwNLz3" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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