<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 after an India-first rollout. This aggressive monetization strategy, detailed by sources like ‘The A in AGI stands for Ads,’ is a direct response to Google Gemini’s growing market share. OpenAI aims for $1 billion in ad revenue in 2026, leveraging user conversation data for targeting, raising significant privacy and ethical concerns despite company assurances. <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, dwarfing Starlink’s planned 49,000. This move, reported by sources covering global satellite internet, signals China’s intent to dominate orbital radio spectrum and raises national security concerns for the U.S. Meanwhile, Iran successfully jammed Starlink during a national blackout, degrading performance by 80% and highlighting vulnerabilities in commercial satellite internet’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>
<li><strong>AI accelerates software but raises authenticity and accountability concerns</strong>: AI is speeding up software development, but human review remains critical for correctness and security, as highlighted in discussions on HackerNews. The ‘Dead Internet Theory’ suggests much online content is AI-generated, eroding authenticity. A grassroots project, OpenSlopware, tracks open-source projects with LLM-generated code, citing concerns about quality, copyright, and environmental costs, and noting that AI coding assistants may actually slow developers down. <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, enhancing 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 patches enable direct Adobe Photoshop installation on Linux</strong>: New Wine patches fix XML parsing issues, allowing direct installation of Adobe Photoshop 2021 and 2025 on Linux systems for the first time since 2018, though these patches are not yet in the official mainline. <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, targeting January 27, 2026, with various community conferences scheduled to foster engagement in the enterprise Java ecosystem. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/YrhkKGKoN" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Erlang socket layer gets throughput improvements</strong>: An Erlang developer implemented sendmmsg and recvmmsg support for OTP’s socket module, showing a 50% performance improvement for batch processing network packets by reducing context switches. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/k54Xnpxbv" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Curl drops OpenSSL-QUIC backend for HTTP/3</strong>: The curl project is removing support for the OpenSSL-QUIC backend in version 8.19.0 due to its inadequate API, poor performance (3x slower), and excessive memory usage (20x more), consolidating HTTP/3 support to nghttp2+nghttp3 and quiche. <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 adding productivity features like presentation creation and file organization directly from the IDE, leveraging Gemini 3 Flash to compete with Anthropic’s Co-work by offering an all-in-one solution for developers. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/HVlI4ECqg" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Rust-inspired C habits for modern development</strong>: A developer shares modern C programming conventions, including using C23 features, Rust-inspired type aliases, length-prefixed strings, and result types with tagged unions for improved type safety and error handling. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/XXclSJSSp" 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>Your GitHub contribution graph is still meaningless</strong>: Someone finally said it: GitHub contribution graphs, LinkedIn profiles, and LeetCode challenges are still terrible indicators of a developer’s actual worth. The author argues these metrics fail to capture real value, especially when considering different job markets or neurodivergent working styles. So, if you’ve been stressing over those green squares, relax; it’s just another vanity metric that doesn’t reflect your true impact. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/WQGtqJsDu" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI-powered DevOps course promises YAML generation, because that’s the hard part</strong>: A new 4-month live course promises to teach DevOps fundamentals with AWS, including Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines. But wait, there’s an ‘AI integration for YAML generation and troubleshooting.’ Because clearly, the biggest bottleneck in DevOps is writing YAML, not understanding complex distributed systems or architectural patterns. It’s almost like they’re selling AI as a magic bullet for tasks that require actual engineering thought. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/ZYeWLps6B" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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