Weekly news | 2025-05-14
news
- A flat pricing subscription for Claude Code
- Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings
- Google is finally building its own DeX: First look at Android's Desktop Mode
- OpenTelemetry Protocol with Apache Arrow - Phase 2 Announcement
- Databricks acquired Neon
- OpenEoX: initiative aimed at standardizing the way End-of-Life (EOL) and End-of-Support (EOS) information
- Kubernetes v1.33: User Namespaces enabled by default!
- Terraform v1.12.0 release
- AWS:
- Aurora PostgreSQL Limitless Database v16.8
- Bedrock Data Automation extraction of custom insights from audio
- CloudWatch Network Monitoring multi-account support for flow monitors
- CloudWatch RUM Interaction to Next Paint (INP) Web Vital
- CodePipeline Secrets Manager and more configurations in Commands action
- Connect
- EBS Provisioned Rate for Volume Initialization
- ECS 1-click rollbacks for service deployments
- Marketplace SaaS products from all deployment locations
- MSK certificate renewals on MSK Provisioned clusters
- Payments Account Summary overview of AWS financial account balances
- Q Developer integration in GitHub |
Preview - RDS for Oracle Oracle Application Express (APEX) Version 24.2
- Resource Explorer +41 new resource types
- SageMaker additional visual ETL transforms and S3 tables support
- SageMaker AI Q Developer with custom code suggestions and workspace context
- SageMaker Catalog authorization policy for asset type usage
- SageMaker HyperPod integrates EventBridge to deliver status change events
- SageMaker three new data sources
- SES IPv6 when calling SES outbound endpoints
- SQS FIPS 140-3 enabled interface VPC endpoint
- Systems Manager customization options for onboarding configuration
- Verified Permissions policy store tagging
- VPC Reachability Analyzer resource exclusion
tooling
- Deep-Live-Cam: real time face swap and one-click video deepfake with only a single image
- aztfexport: A tool to bring your existing Azure resources under the management of Terraform
- Log-Analyzer-with-MCP: MCP server that provides AI assistants access to AWS CloudWatch Logs for analysis, searching, and correlation
- DevGenius - AWS Solution Generator
- lumier: Run macOS VMs in a Docker
- git-bug: Distributed, Offline-First Bug Tracker Embedded in Git, with Bridges
- WarpStream: drop-in replacement for Apache Kafka built directly on-top of object storage
- ParaQuery: GPU Accelerated fully-managed Spark + SQL at 2x speed and half the cost
- toyDB: Distributed SQL database in Rust, written as an educational project
- airweave: lets agents search any app
- Scraperr: Self-hosted webscraper
- void: Open-source Cursor alternative
- mycoria: an open and secure overlay network that connects all participants
- Yggdrasil: an experimental compact routing scheme that is fully decentralised
- Qtap: eBPF to see through encryption without a proxy
- sofie: open-source web based system for automating live TV news production
- HyVector: A fast and modern SVG editor
- itter.sh: Micro-Blogging via Terminal
- LegoGPT: Generating Physically Stable and Buildable Lego
- Aberdeen: An elegant approach to reactive UIs
- CryptPad: An Alternative to the Google Suite
- NAO: an AI code editor to work with data: a local editor, directly connected with your data warehouse, and powered by an AI copilot with built-in context of your data schema and data-specific tools | Demo
- Podfox: World's First Container-Aware Browser
- Odin: a pragmatic C alternative with a Go flavour
- audiobookshelf: Self-hosted audiobook and podcast server
- hokusai: A backend agnostic ruby framework for building reactive desktop applications
- Gmail to SQLite: Index your Gmail account to a SQLite DB and play with the data
- PlainVanillaWeb
- Build iOS Apps on Linux and Windows
blogs
- A Critical Look at MCP
- Using MCPs to run Terraform
- The cryptography behind passkeys
- Flattening Rust's Learning Curve
- Multiple security issues in GNU Screen
- Lumoar: Free SOC 2 tool for SaaS startups
- I hacked a dating app (and how not to treat a security researcher)
- Demonstrably Secure Software Supply Chains with Nix
- Monitoring Minecraft with OpenTelemetry
- https://blog.appsignal.com/2025/05/07/an-introduction-to-solid-queue-for-ruby-on-rails.html
- Dotless domains
- State of SSL stacks
- Leaving Google
- One-Click RCE in ASUS’s Preinstalled Driver Software
- A critical look at MCP
- Notes on rolling out Cursor and Claude Code
- How to Harden GitHub Actions: The Unofficial Guide
- What UI density means and how to design for it
- Deploying AI models to production in the cloud
- Linkerd vs Ambient Mesh: 2025 Benchmarks
- Kubernetes + Selenium Grid + Testkube
- Scaling with safety: Cloudflare's approach to global service health metrics and software releases
- Is OpenTelemetry ready for Infra Monitoring?
- Learn KubeVirt: Deep dive for VMware vSphere admins
- Migrating Uber's compute platform to Kubernetes: A technical journey
- What is the software development LifeCycle (SDLC)? A beginner's guide
- 'The proverbial rug pull' ' Chris Aniszczyk (CNCF) on balancing open source and business
- Kubernetes v1.33 brings major updates to Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA)
- Kelsey Hightower, AWS's Eswar Bala on Open Source's Evolution
- KubeCon showcases the power of community-driven inclusion
- Introducing a visual way to explore Kubernetes security: The Kubescape plugin for Headlamp
- Open source (in tech) cat herding
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