<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>OpenAI goes all-in on ads with ChatGPT Go</strong>: OpenAI launched ChatGPT Go, an $8/month subscription tier with ads, globally, in a direct response to Google Gemini’s market share growth. This move signals a shift in focus to consumer revenue, with ambitious projections of $1 billion in ad revenue in 2026. Critics, as noted by ‘The A in AGI stands for Ads,’ are raising concerns about user privacy and the ethics of funding AGI development through pervasive advertising, especially given OpenAI’s access to user conversation data 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 to launch two mega-constellations totaling nearly 200,000 satellites, dwarfing Starlink’s current plans and signaling an intent to dominate orbital spectrum. This comes as Iran successfully disrupted Starlink internet during a national blackout using military-grade GPS jamming, degrading performance by up to 80%. This event, as reported, highlights the growing 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>
<li><strong>AI accelerates software development but raises authenticity and accountability concerns</strong>: AI is rapidly accelerating software development, but this speed comes with significant concerns about authenticity and accountability. The ‘Dead Internet Theory’ suggests much online content, including code, is AI-generated, leading to doubts about human involvement. A collaborative project, OpenSlopware, aimed to document AI-contaminated open-source projects but faced harassment, as reported by The Register. This highlights a growing tension between AI’s efficiency and the need for human oversight in ensuring code quality, security, and ethical considerations. <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 stable is out with 6,300 code changes, a completed WoW64 architecture overhaul, EGL as the default OpenGL backend, and updated Vulkan API 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>New 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 by fixing XML parsing issues related to legacy Internet Explorer dependencies, though these patches are not yet in mainline Wine. <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>Curl project drops OpenSSL-QUIC backend for HTTP/3</strong>: The curl project is removing OpenSSL-QUIC support in version 8.19.0 due to its poor performance, high memory usage, and inadequate API, consolidating HTTP/3 to nghttp2+nghttp3 and quiche backends. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/As2f3e0AW" 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 various community conferences and events ramping up. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/YrhkKGKoN" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Govctl CLI enforces RFC-driven AI coding</strong>: Govctl is a new Rust-based CLI tool that enforces RFC-driven development for AI-assisted coding, ensuring specifications are met and preventing documentation drift through structured phase gates. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/oBJvqLGNT" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Security in 2026 will look very different</strong>: With 48,000 CVEs in 2025 and AI accelerating exploitation, memory-safe languages like Rust (0.2 vulnerabilities/MLOC) are critical, especially as WordPress remains a top source of CVEs (90% from plugins). <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/Tk2pS5qPG" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Pharmaverse reduces CI/CD time with Docker containers</strong>: The pharmaverse blog cut CI/CD publishing time from 17 to 5 minutes by switching from on-the-fly R package installation to using a pre-built Docker container image with over 40 pre-installed packages. <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. So, while we’re all busy hyping AI, it’s still making the same old mistakes, proving that statistical learning models are great at copying, even when it’s wrong. <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>ChatGPT froze my UI without crashing, because async is hard</strong>: Someone’s SwiftUI app UI froze, but didn’t crash, because updates were running off the main cycle in async code. This ‘invisible failure’ highlights that even with all the fancy async/await, understanding run loops and responsiveness is still crucial. Or, you know, just let ChatGPT write your UI code and hope for the best. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/Lc0WRxjMl" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>GitHub contribution graphs mean nothing, apparently</strong>: According to some, your GitHub contribution graph, LinkedIn profile, and LeetCode challenges are all meaningless. They don’t capture ‘real value’ because, apparently, trust and individual circumstances are more important than any measurable output. So, all that effort you put into showing your work? Pointless. Just network, I guess, or move to Italy where online presence doesn’t matter. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/WQGtqJsDu" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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