<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>AI solves a previously unsolved math problem</strong>: GPT-5.2 Pro has reportedly solved Erdos problem #281, a mathematical challenge that human mathematicians had not cracked. Terence Tao, a highly respected mathematician, called this “perhaps the most unambiguous instance” of AI solving an open problem, marking a significant milestone for AI in mathematical research. This achievement, reported on January 18, 2026, highlights the growing capabilities of AI in complex problem-solving. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/pRkd3CPEF" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Snap Store publisher accounts hijacked for malware distribution</strong>: Scammers are exploiting the Canonical Snap Store by registering expired domains previously used by legitimate publishers, then taking control of their accounts. This allows them to publish malicious updates to trusted snap applications, specifically targeting cryptocurrency wallet users to steal recovery phrases. This escalation undermines trust in Snap’s publisher reputation signals and highlights a critical security flaw in their authentication methods, as reported by cybersecurity news. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/8RJLmL5a0" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>China plans massive satellite constellation, dwarfing Starlink</strong>: China has filed requests with the ITU for two satellite constellations, CTC-1 and CTC-2, totaling an astounding 193,428 satellites—four times more than SpaceX’s Starlink plans. Filed in January 2026 by a newly established entity, these filings raise national security concerns for the US FCC, which has accelerated approvals for domestic satellite networks in response. While China’s current deployment is limited, the sheer scale of this proposal suggests a significant strategic move, potentially with defense applications. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/9Dqo8zul1" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>Physical AI and AV industry shifts at CES 2026</strong>: CES 2026 saw Physical AI take center stage, with Mobileye acquiring Mentee Robotics for $900 million, Motional shifting to an “AI-first” AV development, and Tesla moving to a subscription-only model for Full Self-Driving, while Chinese automakers gained visibility amidst US regulatory tensions. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/MtQzzuuIN" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>New CLI tool integrates AI and developers with Figma</strong>: The <code>dannote/figma-use</code> command-line tool offers full read/write access to Figma, enabling AI agents and developers to programmatically create and modify designs using JSX syntax, with an experimental ‘render’ command promising up to 100x faster operations. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/DfAoRLrdU" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Hugging Face releases trillion-token multilingual dataset</strong>: Hugging Face has unveiled FineTranslations, a massive dataset with over 1 trillion tokens of parallel text across English and 500+ languages, created using Gemma3 27B to improve machine translation for lower-resource languages. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/ILBHxXjto" 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 offering productivity features beyond coding, such as creating Google Slides and organizing files directly from the IDE, leveraging Gemini 3 Flash to compete with Anthropic’s Co-work for an all-in-one developer solution. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/HVlI4ECqg" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Open source models: cathedral, megachurch, and bazaar</strong>: Open source projects are categorized into three models: exclusive ‘cathedrals,’ large ‘megachurches’ like the Linux Foundation, and the vast majority of ‘bazaar’ projects, which are often single-maintainer and critical but struggle with sustainable funding. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/rr8Vo8FaG" 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, citing 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>Erlang socket layer gets throughput boost</strong>: An Erlang developer implemented <code>sendmmsg</code> and <code>recvmmsg</code> support for OTP’s socket module, achieving a 50% performance improvement over <code>gen_udp</code> for batch processing of network packets by reducing context switches. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/k54Xnpxbv" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>Iran disrupts Starlink with military-grade GPS jamming</strong>: Apparently, Iran managed to cut Starlink performance by up to 80% using military-grade GPS jammers during a nationwide internet shutdown. This, we’re told, proves Starlink isn’t the censorship-resistant savior everyone thought it was, unlike those ‘less effective’ Russian attempts. So much for Starlink being a reliable fallback; seems like a good old-fashioned jammer is still king, despite all the hype. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/VVK9EFJ8w" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI-generated navigation: the invisible coupling strikes again</strong>: Someone thought using boolean flags for AI-generated navigation was ‘elegant’ until it created invisible coupling that broke back button behavior months later. Who knew that abstracting away explicit routes with ‘fragile magic’ would lead to maintenance nightmares? It’s almost like relying on AI to paper over fundamental architectural decisions isn’t a silver bullet, but hey, at least it seemed elegant at the time. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/5NyDqJTPW" 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, apparently, are so focused on handling traffic that they completely forget about the ‘hidden cost dimension’ of scalability. Who knew that those shiny third-party services like OpenAI could become ‘prohibitively expensive’ at scale? And AI coding assistants? They don’t optimize for cost-efficiency by default! Shocking, I tell you. It’s almost like you have to actually think about the financial implications of your architecture, not just the technical ones. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/yaSSI8AJO" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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