<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>OpenAI goes all-in on ads with ChatGPT Go</strong>: OpenAI just launched ChatGPT Go, an $8/month subscription tier with ads, globally after an India pilot. This aggressive monetization strategy, detailed by sources like ‘The A in AGI stands for Ads,’ is a direct response to Google Gemini’s market share gains. OpenAI aims for $1 billion in ad revenue in 2026, leveraging its massive free user base, but critics are already raising privacy and ethical concerns about user data being used 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 for two mega-constellations totaling nearly 200,000 satellites, dwarfing Starlink’s plans and signaling an intent to dominate orbital spectrum. This move, reported by sources covering global satellite internet, has the U.S. FCC accelerating approvals for domestic 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 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>
<li><strong>AI accelerates software but raises authenticity and accountability concerns</strong>: AI is speeding up software development, but it’s also creating a bottleneck in code review and raising serious questions about online authenticity. The ‘Dead Internet Theory’ suggests much of the web is bot-generated, and AI-generated code on open-source projects is causing quality and copyright worries, as discussed on HackerNews. A grassroots project, OpenSlopware, emerged to track AI-contaminated FOSS but faced harassment, highlighting the contentious nature of this issue. <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 1.4.335 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 Photoshop installation on Linux</strong>: New Wine patches now allow direct installation of Adobe Photoshop 2021 and 2025 on Linux by fixing XML parsing issues related to legacy Internet Explorer dependencies, a functionality not seen since 2018. <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>ReactOS gets 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>Jakarta EE 12 development and community events update</strong>: The Jakarta EE Platform project is progressing towards Milestone 2 for Jakarta EE 12, targeting January 27, 2026, with numerous community conferences scheduled to discuss enterprise Java topics. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/YrhkKGKoN" 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, consolidating HTTP/3 support to just two backends due to OpenSSL-QUIC’s inadequate API, poor performance, and excessive memory usage. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/As2f3e0AW" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>RubyLLM::Agents for building AI agents in Rails</strong>: RubyLLM::Agents is a new production-ready Rails engine offering a declarative DSL for building and managing LLM-powered AI agents with features like cost monitoring, workflow orchestration, and multi-provider support. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/L9pBnPDgR" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Pharmaverse blog speeds up CI/CD with Docker containers</strong>: The pharmaverse blog reduced its CI/CD publishing time from 17 to 5 minutes by switching to a pre-built Docker container image for R packages, optimizing GitHub Actions workflows. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/ZDzd1Eyhy" 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 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, proving that if enough bad code exists, AI will happily learn to replicate it. So much for AI fixing all our problems, it seems it’s just making new ones faster. <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>Google’s Antigravity: now with more productivity, less actual gravity</strong>: Google’s Antigravity is trying to compete with Anthropic’s Co-work by adding productivity features like creating Google Slides and organizing files directly from the IDE. Because what developers really need is more distractions in their coding environment, right? It’s almost like they’re trying to turn our IDEs into a full-blown operating system, ensuring we never have to leave the warm embrace of Google’s ecosystem. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/HVlI4ECqg" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>The joy of coding, now automated away by AI</strong>: A developer, after 20 years of Vim/Neovim, is now questioning if learning fundamental tools like awk and sed still makes sense because AI tools are ‘good enough.’ It seems the ‘joy’ of crafting code is being replaced by the ‘efficiency’ of automation. Soon, we’ll all be staring blankly at our screens, wondering what to do with our hands now that the machines are doing all the fun stuff. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/vFzyyNK3z" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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