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<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 its debut in India. This move is a direct response to Google Gemini’s growing market share, aiming to generate $1 billion in ad revenue in 2026. While OpenAI assures user conversations remain private from advertisers, critics, including ‘The A in AGI stands for Ads,’ highlight privacy concerns and the irony of AGI development funded by advertising. The strategy mirrors Google Workspace’s approach: low initial prices to attract users, followed by gradual price hikes. <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, CTC-1 and CTC-2, totaling 193,428 satellites, dwarfing Starlink’s planned 49,000. This move, if realized, could significantly alter global internet access and security, prompting the U.S. FCC to accelerate approvals for domestic satellite networks due to national security concerns. Meanwhile, Iran successfully disrupted Starlink internet during a national blackout using military-grade GPS jamming, degrading performance by up to 80% and raising questions about Starlink’s reliability in conflict zones, as reported by various sources. <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 human review remains crucial for correctness, security, and architectural compliance. The bottleneck has shifted from writing code to reviewing it, demanding engineers exercise judgment and accountability. Concerns are growing about the authenticity of online content, with the ‘Dead Internet Theory’ suggesting much of it is AI-generated. A grassroots project, OpenSlopware, aimed to document AI-contaminated open-source projects, highlighting issues like code quality, copyright risks, and environmental impact, as discussed on HackerNews and The Register. <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 and feature improvements</strong>: Wine 11.0, released after a year of development, includes 6,300 code changes, a new NTSYNC kernel module for improved synchronization, a completed WoW64 architecture overhaul, and updated Vulkan API support to 1.4.335. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/5LDn1X8et" 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 advancing towards Milestone 2 for Jakarta EE 12, targeting January 27, 2026, with JakartaOne Livestream 2025 videos now public and multiple community conferences scheduled. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/YrhkKGKoN" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Wine enables direct installation of recent Adobe Photoshop versions on Linux</strong>: New Wine patches allow direct installation of Adobe Photoshop 2021 and 2025 on Linux systems by fixing XML parsing issues related to legacy Internet Explorer dependencies, though the 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>Security in 2026: a look ahead</strong>: 2025 saw a record 48,000 CVEs, with attackers exploiting vulnerabilities within 24 hours, highlighting the need for memory-safe languages like Rust and AI-driven monitoring systems. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/Tk2pS5qPG" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Southeast Asia CISOs predict 2026 security priorities</strong>: CISOs in Southeast Asia anticipate 2026 will focus on hardening cloud and AI infrastructure, treating identity as the active perimeter, and operationalizing resilience against AI-driven impersonation and supply chain vulnerabilities. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/wO8kWafAK" 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 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>Google’s Antigravity expands to compete with Anthropic’s Co-work</strong>: Google’s Antigravity is expanding beyond coding to include productivity features like creating Google Slides and organizing files directly from the IDE, leveraging Gemini 3 Flash to compete with Anthropic’s Co-work. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/HVlI4ECqg" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>AI will get malloc wrong forever, apparently</strong>: Turns out, AI code generation tools consistently mess up memory management, specifically with <code>malloc</code>, returning allocated buffer sizes instead of actual data sizes. This isn’t just a minor bug; it’s a ‘fundamental limitation’ because LLMs just parrot what they’ve seen in flawed codebases. So, if you’re relying on AI for your C code, enjoy those security vulnerabilities from uninitialized memory. Who needs originality when you can just statistically reproduce errors? <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>The joy of coding vs. the AI automation machine</strong>: After 20 years of mastering Vim/Neovim, one developer is now questioning if learning fundamental tools like <code>awk</code> and <code>sed</code> even makes sense anymore, because AI tools are ‘good enough.’ It seems the ‘joy’ of writing code is being replaced by the efficiency of automation. So, if your craft brings you satisfaction, prepare for it to be automated away, leaving you to ponder what remains when the ‘art’ becomes just another industrial process. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/vFzyyNK3z" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>RFC-driven AI coding: because AI needs a boss too</strong>: Someone decided that AI-assisted coding needs ‘RFC-driven development workflows’ to prevent ‘undisciplined AI code generation.’ Enter <code>govctl</code>, a CLI tool that enforces specifications and phase gates, because apparently, AI can’t be trusted to just write good code. It’s almost like we’re building a bureaucracy for our AI overlords, ensuring they don’t get too creative and actually follow the rules. Who knew AI needed a middle manager? <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/oBJvqLGNT" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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