<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>OpenAI goes all-in on ads with ChatGPT Go</strong>: OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Go, an $8/month subscription tier with ads, globally, following its India debut. This move is a direct response to Google Gemini’s growing market share, aiming to generate $1 billion in ad revenue in 2026. While OpenAI assures user conversations remain private from advertisers, the strategy raises significant privacy and ethical concerns, as highlighted by sources like “The A in AGI stands for Ads.” <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=ArnlILqap&amp;id=ep7p1hnQy" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>China’s massive satellite internet ambitions challenge Starlink</strong>: China has filed plans with the ITU to launch two mega-constellations, CTC-1 and CTC-2, totaling nearly 200,000 satellites—four times Starlink’s planned size. This aggressive move, if realized, could significantly alter global internet access and control, prompting the U.S. FCC to accelerate approvals for its own satellite networks due to national security concerns. Meanwhile, Iran successfully jammed Starlink during a national blackout, raising questions about its reliability in conflict zones, according to reports. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=9Dqo8zul1&amp;id=VVK9EFJ8w" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI accelerates software development but raises authenticity and accountability concerns</strong>: AI is speeding up software development, but the bottleneck has shifted from writing code to reviewing it, demanding human judgment and accountability. Concerns are growing about the authenticity of online content, with the ‘Dead Internet Theory’ suggesting much of it is AI-generated. A grassroots project, OpenSlopware, aimed at documenting AI-contaminated open-source projects, was deleted after harassment, but forks continue, highlighting persistent community concerns about code quality, copyright, and environmental costs, as discussed on HackerNews and The Register. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=JjrjV7tSv&amp;id=ZeB3UcRxG&amp;id=alpyX7cTa&amp;id=m1Q81Q3xQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>Wine 11.0 stable release brings major architectural improvements</strong>: Wine 11.0 is out with 6,300 code changes, a completed WoW64 architecture overhaul, EGL as the default OpenGL backend, and updated Vulkan API support, significantly improving Windows application compatibility on Linux. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/5LDn1X8et" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Wine enables direct installation of recent Adobe Photoshop versions on Linux</strong>: New Wine patches now allow direct installation of Adobe Photoshop 2021 and 2025 on Linux by fixing XML parsing issues, making it possible to run Creative Cloud apps without transferring Windows files. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=WW9lhhDTb&amp;id=jcudSc8Dd" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Jakarta EE 12 development progresses with community events</strong>: The Jakarta EE Platform project is moving towards Milestone 2 for Jakarta EE 12, with a target date of January 27, 2026, and several community conferences scheduled to boost engagement. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/YrhkKGKoN" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>ReactOS achieves massive networking performance boost</strong>: ReactOS has merged a decade-in-the-making asynchronous TCP support patch, bringing substantial networking performance improvements to applications like browsers and FTP clients. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/wwS8HD8X1" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Scalability isn’t just about traffic, it’s about cost too</strong>: True scalability involves performance, cost, and operations; developers often overlook the financial sustainability of scaling, especially with third-party services and AI coding assistants that don’t optimize for cost-efficiency. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/yaSSI8AJO" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Curl removes OpenSSL-QUIC backend due to performance issues</strong>: The curl project is dropping support for the OpenSSL-QUIC backend in version 8.19.0 due to its inadequate API, extremely poor performance (3x slower), and excessive memory usage (20x more) compared to alternatives. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/As2f3e0AW" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Google’s Antigravity expands to compete with Anthropic’s Co-work</strong>: Google’s Antigravity is now adding productivity features beyond coding, using Gemini 3 Flash to create presentations and organize files directly from the IDE, aiming to be an all-in-one solution for developers. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/HVlI4ECqg" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>AI code generation still making the same old mistakes</strong>: Apparently, AI code generation tools consistently reproduce a memory management bug involving buffer allocation, returning allocated buffer size instead of actual data. This isn’t a new bug; it’s just LLMs statistically mirroring flawed codebases. So, while we’re busy hyping AI, it’s busy copying our old mistakes. Progress! <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=mY0RAoEVz&amp;id=x9XQt7sEo" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>GitHub contribution graphs: the ultimate vanity metric</strong>: Someone’s finally saying it: your GitHub contribution graph, LinkedIn profile, and LeetCode scores are pretty much useless for assessing developer worth. The author argues these metrics fail to capture real value, especially when job markets and individual circumstances vary wildly. So, next time you’re judging a developer by their green squares, maybe take a deep breath and remember context exists. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/WQGtqJsDu" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI agents are making Figma designs now, because why not?</strong>: There’s a new command-line tool, ‘figma-use,’ that gives AI agents full read/write access to Figma, letting them create designs programmatically using JSX. Because what we really needed was AI generating our UI/UX, right? Soon, we’ll have AI designing the interfaces for AI-generated code, and the circle of life will be complete. Just don’t ask who’s responsible when it all goes sideways. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/DfAoRLrdU" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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