<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>OpenAI’s new monetization strategy: Ads and subscriptions</strong>: OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Go, an $8/month subscription tier with ads, globally, following a significant drop in market share due to Google Gemini. This move, detailed by sources like ‘The A in AGI stands for Ads,’ aims to generate substantial ad revenue, with projections of $1 billion in 2026. The strategy mirrors Google Workspace’s approach: low initial pricing to attract users, followed by potential price hikes, raising concerns about user privacy and the ethics of funding AGI development through pervasive advertising. <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 development 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 questions about online authenticity. The ‘Dead Internet Theory’ suggests much online content is AI-generated, and projects like OpenSlopware, mentioned by The Register, are tracking AI-contaminated open-source code. This shift demands human review for correctness and security, emphasizing understanding and responsibility over sheer speed, as AI-generated code often reproduces flaws and can lead to security vulnerabilities. <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 and Starlink’s vulnerabilities</strong>: China has filed plans with the ITU to launch two mega-constellations totaling nearly 200,000 satellites, dwarfing Starlink’s plans and signaling an intent to dominate orbital spectrum. This move, if realized, could significantly alter global internet access and security. Concurrently, Iran successfully disrupted Starlink internet during a national blackout using military-grade GPS jamming, degrading performance by up to 80%. This incident, reported by multiple outlets, highlights the vulnerability of commercial satellite internet to state-level electronic warfare and raises concerns about its 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>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>Wine 11.0 stable release brings major improvements</strong>: Wine 11.0 is out with 6,300 code changes, a complete WoW64 architecture overhaul, EGL as the default OpenGL backend, and updated Vulkan API 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 patches enable direct Adobe Photoshop installation on Linux</strong>: New Wine patches now allow direct installation of Adobe Photoshop 2021 and 2025 on Linux systems by fixing XML parsing issues related to legacy Internet Explorer dependencies, 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>Lume: A fast VM runtime for macOS on Apple Silicon</strong>: Lume is an open-source VM runtime for macOS that leverages Apple’s Virtualization Framework to run macOS and Linux VMs at near-native speed on Apple Silicon, offering CLI and HTTP API control for various use cases like testing and CI/CD. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/Uxbu1wV8J" 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, with a target date of January 27, 2026, and several 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>Linux kernel 6.19-rc6 brings sound fixes</strong>: Linux kernel 6.19-rc6 includes sound fixes and workarounds for the ASUS ROG Xbox Ally X gaming handheld and several newer laptop models, addressing audio support issues for these specific hardware devices. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/57EeLYyEN" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Curl removes OpenSSL-QUIC backend for HTTP/3</strong>: The curl project is dropping support for the OpenSSL-QUIC backend in version 8.19.0 due to its inadequate API, extremely 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>Python extension is VS Code’s most downloaded</strong>: The Python extension for VS Code has surpassed 200 million downloads, making it the most downloaded extension ever, offering comprehensive features like IntelliSense, debugging, and linting for Python development. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/Kt6jX78eK" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>AI-powered DevOps: Because we needed more buzzwords</strong>: Telusko is offering a 4-month ‘AI-Powered DevOps with AWS Live Course,’ promising to integrate AI for YAML generation and troubleshooting. Because apparently, DevOps wasn’t complicated enough, now we need AI to generate our config files. I’m sure that’ll lead to fewer headaches, not more, especially when the AI inevitably hallucinates a critical deployment setting. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/ZYeWLps6B" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI code generation: Still making the same old mistakes, forever</strong>: Turns out, AI code generation tools consistently replicate 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 they’re busy ‘revolutionizing’ coding, they’re also ensuring we’ll be debugging the same malloc issues for eternity. Progress! <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’ is now a productivity suite: Because context switching is for mere mortals</strong>: Google’s Antigravity is expanding beyond coding 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 to do <em>more</em> non-coding tasks in their editor, ensuring they never have to leave their sacred coding environment. I’m sure this will totally eliminate context switching, not just move it around. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/HVlI4ECqg" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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