<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>China’s massive satellite constellation plans raise eyebrows</strong>: China has filed requests with the ITU for two new satellite constellations, CTC-1 and CTC-2, totaling an astounding 193,428 satellites. This dwarfs SpaceX’s Starlink plans by four times and has the US FCC concerned about national security implications, as reported by TechCrunch. While China’s current deployment is modest, these filings could be a strategic move, though failure to meet ITU deployment benchmarks could cost them orbital rights. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/9Dqo8zul1" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Snap Store domain hijacking for malware distribution</strong>: Scammers are exploiting the Canonical Snap Store by registering expired domains previously used by legitimate publishers, then using these hijacked accounts to distribute malicious updates to trusted snap applications. This tactic, which specifically targets cryptocurrency wallet users, undermines trust in the Snap ecosystem and highlights critical vulnerabilities in publisher authentication, according to a cybersecurity report. Publishers are advised to secure their domains and enable 2FA. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/8RJLmL5a0" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Physical AI and AV industry shifts at CES 2026</strong>: CES 2026 saw Physical AI, which merges AI with real-world control, take center stage, alongside a significant presence from Chinese automotive and AV tech companies. Mobileye acquired Mentee Robotics for $900 million, signaling a push into humanoid robotics. Meanwhile, Motional announced an “AI-first” AV development strategy, and New York lawmakers introduced legislation to permit robotaxi operations outside NYC, as noted by TechCrunch. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/MtQzzuuIN" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to 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, marking a significant milestone for AI in mathematical research. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/pRkd3CPEF" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>New CLI tool for Figma and AI integration</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, optimized for token efficiency. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/DfAoRLrdU" 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 numerous ‘bazaar’ projects, which are often single-maintainer but critical to infrastructure and face significant funding challenges. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/rr8Vo8FaG" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>PostgreSQL incident highlights security misconfiguration</strong>: A PostgreSQL database at Nixopus repeatedly crashed due to ‘trust’ authentication being exposed to the internet, allowing unauthorized connections to exhaust <code>max_connections</code>, demonstrating how security flaws can masquerade as stability bugs. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=m4he1CZCb&amp;id=J8z1YJf46" 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 to nghttp2+nghttp3 and quiche. <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, improving throughput by 50% for batch processing of network packets and reducing context switches. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/k54Xnpxbv" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Claude expands into healthcare and life sciences</strong>: Claude now offers specialized, HIPAA-compliant tools for healthcare and life sciences, including connectors to medical databases and clinical trial platforms, with improved performance on medical and scientific tasks. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/A9juL7D3e" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>Iran jams Starlink, proving nothing is unjammable</strong>: Iran reportedly used military-grade GPS jammers to cut Starlink performance by up to 80% during a nationwide internet shutdown, proving that Starlink isn’t the unassailable, censorship-resistant savior it’s often hyped to be. Apparently, all those claims about it being vital in blackouts and impervious to state-level interference were just, you know, marketing. Who knew a satellite internet service could be disrupted by jamming its GPS signals? Shocking. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/VVK9EFJ8w" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI coding assistants: great for generating code, not so much for your wallet</strong>: Turns out, scalability isn’t just about handling traffic; it’s also about not bankrupting yourself with third-party services like OpenAI. While AI coding assistants are busy churning out code, they’re apparently not optimizing for cost-efficiency, leaving developers to figure out how to avoid a financial meltdown. So, you get your code faster, but you still need a human to ensure it doesn’t cost more than a small country’s GDP to run. Progress! <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/yaSSI8AJO" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI-generated SwiftUI: the gift that keeps on refactoring</strong>: AI-generated SwiftUI code often embeds business logic directly into views, making it a nightmare to test. The solution? Refactor it to separate concerns, just like we’ve been doing for decades. It’s almost as if AI is rediscovering fundamental software architecture principles, one untestable view at a time. So, you get code quickly, but then you get to spend more time fixing its architectural blunders. Efficiency! <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/jCgBlLZU" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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