<h2>Must know</h2>
<ul>
<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 after an India pilot. This move, a direct response to Google Gemini’s market share gains, aims to generate $1 billion in ad revenue in 2026. Critics, including ‘The A in AGI stands for Ads,’ highlight privacy concerns as OpenAI plans to leverage user conversation data for ad targeting, mirroring Google’s historical strategy of low initial pricing followed by gradual increases. <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>AI accelerates software but raises authenticity and accountability concerns</strong>: AI is speeding up software development, but human review remains crucial for correctness and security, according to multiple sources. The ‘Dead Internet Theory’ suggests much online content, including open-source code, is AI-generated, leading to authenticity doubts. A grassroots project, OpenSlopware, aimed to track LLM-generated code but faced harassment, indicating persistent community concern over code quality, copyright, and the environmental cost of AI-assisted development. <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>China’s massive satellite internet ambitions challenge Starlink</strong>: China has filed plans with the ITU for two mega-constellations, CTC-1 and CTC-2, totaling nearly 200,000 satellites, dwarfing Starlink’s projected 49,000. This aggressive move, potentially linked to defense, aims to dominate orbital radio spectrum and has prompted the U.S. FCC to accelerate approvals for domestic satellite networks due to national security concerns. Meanwhile, Iran successfully jammed Starlink during a national blackout, degrading performance by 80% and raising questions about the system’s resilience against state-level electronic warfare. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=9Dqo8zul1&amp;id=VVK9EFJ8w" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
</ul>
<h2>Good to know</h2>
<ul>
<li><strong>Figma gets command-line control for AI agents</strong>: The ‘figma-use’ tool provides full read/write access to Figma from the command line, allowing AI agents to create designs programmatically using JSX syntax, optimized for token efficiency. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/DfAoRLrdU" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Wine 11.0 stable release brings major architectural improvements</strong>: Wine 11.0, released after a year of development, includes 6,300 code changes, a new NTSYNC kernel module, a completed WoW64 architecture overhaul, and EGL as the default backend for OpenGL. <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 allow direct installation of Adobe Photoshop 2021 and 2025 on Linux by fixing XML parsing issues related to legacy Internet Explorer dependencies, though these patches are not yet in mainline Wine. <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, alongside a ramp-up of community conferences and publicly available JakartaOne Livestream 2025 videos. <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 long-awaited asynchronous TCP support patch after 10 years, significantly improving networking performance 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>Curl drops OpenSSL-QUIC backend due to performance issues</strong>: The curl project is removing support for the OpenSSL-QUIC backend in version 8.19.0 due to its inadequate API, extremely poor performance (up to 3x slower), and excessive memory usage (up to 20x more) compared to alternatives. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/As2f3e0AW" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>RISC-V mini-ITX motherboard available for $329</strong>: The Milk-V Titan is a new $329 mini-ITX motherboard featuring an octa-core 2 GHz RISC-V processor, supporting up to 64GB DDR4 RAM and a PCIe Gen4 x16 slot, with Ubuntu, Debian, and Fedora support. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/tFLKDHNo7" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
</ul>
<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
<ul>
<li><strong>AI code generation still can’t get memory management right</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 all busy hyping AI, it’s still out there leaking sensitive data because it can’t tell the difference between allocated space and actual content. Brilliant. <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>Scalability isn’t just about traffic, it’s about your wallet too</strong>: Developers are finally realizing that scalability isn’t just about handling more users; it’s also about not going broke. Turns out, those ‘free’ third-party services and AI coding assistants don’t magically optimize for cost-efficiency. Who knew that using expensive APIs without thinking about the bill could lead to financial ruin? It’s almost like ‘true scalability’ requires considering the actual cost, not just the cool tech. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/yaSSI8AJO" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>The joy of coding replaced by the joy of… not coding?</strong>: After 20 years of mastering Vim/Neovim, a developer is now questioning if learning fundamental tools like awk and sed still makes sense because AI coding agents are ‘good enough.’ The piece laments the loss of joy from the craft itself, implying that the ultimate goal of automation is to remove the very thing that made us love coding. Soon, we’ll all be sitting around, joylessly watching AI write our code, wondering what we’re even here for. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/vFzyyNK3z" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
</ul>
