<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>OpenAI’s new monetization strategy: Ads and subscriptions</strong>: OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Go, an $8/month subscription tier that includes ads, rolling out globally after an initial launch in India. This move is a direct response to increased competition from Google Gemini, aiming to boost revenue, with projections of $1 billion in ad revenue in 2026. Critics, as noted by ‘The A in AGI stands for Ads,’ are raising concerns about user privacy and the ethics of funding AGI development through pervasive advertising, especially given OpenAI’s access to user conversation data for ad targeting. <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 and Starlink’s vulnerabilities</strong>: China has filed plans with the ITU to launch two mega-constellations, CTC-1 and CTC-2, totaling nearly 200,000 satellites, significantly dwarfing Starlink’s planned network. This aggressive move is seen by the U.S. FCC as a national security concern, accelerating U.S. satellite network approvals. Meanwhile, Iran successfully disrupted Starlink internet during a national blackout using military-grade GPS jamming, degrading performance by up to 80% and raising questions about Starlink’s reliability in conflict zones. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=9Dqo8zul1&amp;id=VVK9EFJ8w" 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 improvements</strong>: Wine 11.0 is out with 6,300 code changes, a complete WoW64 architecture overhaul, and EGL as the default backend for OpenGL, 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 Photoshop installation on Linux</strong>: New Wine patches now allow direct installation of Adobe Photoshop 2021 and 2025 on Linux systems, fixing XML parsing issues related to legacy Internet Explorer dependencies. <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 continues with community events</strong>: The Jakarta EE Platform project is progressing towards Milestone 2 for Jakarta EE 12, with a target date of January 27, 2026, and several community conferences scheduled. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/YrhkKGKoN" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>ReactOS gets massive networking performance boost</strong>: ReactOS has merged a decade-old asynchronous TCP support patch, leading to substantial networking performance improvements for 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>The Python extension is VS Code’s most downloaded ever</strong>: The Python extension for VS Code has hit 200 million downloads, making it the most downloaded extension by a significant margin, offering comprehensive development features. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/Kt6jX78eK" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Curl drops OpenSSL-QUIC backend</strong>: The curl project is removing support for the OpenSSL-QUIC backend in version 8.19.0 due to its inadequate API, poor performance, and excessive memory usage, consolidating HTTP/3 support. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/As2f3e0AW" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Symfony’s weekly development update</strong>: Symfony’s latest weekly update includes 58 merged pull requests, focusing on HTTP Cache attribute improvements and controller event attribute changes, alongside the introduction of Symfony 8 certification. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/0TjXJQbqS" 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: Fast, flawed, and financially foolish</strong>: Apparently, AI can whip up code in minutes, but it’s still stuck on a memory management bug that’s been around forever, proving that LLMs just love to copy-paste common errors from their training data. And while it’s fast, nobody seems to be checking if this AI-generated garbage is actually cost-efficient or just racking up a huge bill on your cloud provider, as one article points out. So, you get speed, but at what cost to quality and your budget? <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=mY0RAoEVz&amp;id=x9XQt7sEo&amp;id=yaSSI8AJO" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>The internet is dead, long live the bots</strong>: Some folks are now claiming that since 2016, most of the internet is just bots talking to bots, and AI-generated content is everywhere, even in open-source projects. This ‘Dead Internet Theory’ is making everyone paranoid about online authenticity, with some even suggesting that AI coding assistants might actually slow down developers. So, next time you’re scrolling, just assume it’s all a sophisticated AI hallucination, because apparently, that’s the new reality. <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>
<li><strong>AI-generated code: The gift that keeps on breaking</strong>: AI-generated code, particularly in SwiftUI, is apparently a masterclass in how to make things untestable by embedding business logic directly into views. It’s like getting a beautifully wrapped present that explodes when you try to open it. And don’t even get me started on AI-generated navigation using boolean flags—it’s a ‘magic’ solution that creates invisible coupling and breaks everything months later, according to some poor souls who had to clean up the mess. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=5NyDqJTPW&amp;id=jCgZBlLZU" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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