Weekly news | 2025-05-21

news

• Coinbase says hackers bribed staff to steal customer data and are demanding $20 million ransom
• Introducing Lua for Elixir
• The first year of free-threaded Python
• Material 3 Expressive: the most researched update to Google’s design system
• Java at 30: The Genius Behind the Code That Changed Tech
• Proton threatens to quit Switzerland over new surveillance law
• The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source
• HaveIBeenPwned 2.0 is now live
• Battle of coding agents: OpenAI's Codex vs. Jules vs. GitHub Copilot coding agent
• KDE is finally getting a native virtual machine manager called "Karton"
• Veo 3 and Imagen 4, and a new tool for filmmaking called Flow
• Google announces Gemma 3n preview: mobile-first AI
• Google announces AI Ultra subscription tier
• xAI’s Grok 3 comes to Microsoft Azure
• OpenAI to Buy AI Device Startup From Apple Veteran Jony Ive in $6.5 Billion Deal
• Watching AI drive Microsoft employees insane
• OpenTofu 1.10.0-beta1: OCI support for modules and providers and more
• Terraform AWS Provider v6.0.0 will have multi-region support

• AWS:
  • Bedrock Guardrails cross-region inference
  • CodeBuild support for remote Docker servers
  • CodePipeline
    • deploying to AWS Lambda with traffic shifting
    • Deploy Spec file in EC2 deploy action
  • Cognito OIDC prompt parameter
  • Control Tower account-level reporting for baseline APIs
  • Deadline Cloud service-managed fleets now support configuration scripts
  • EC2
    • EC2 Fast Launch
    • ENA queue allocation for your network interfaces
    • P6-B200 instances powered by NVIDIA B200 GPUs now generally available
  • ECS EBS Provisioned Rate for Volume Initialization
  • Glue Studio additional file types and single file output
  • HealthOmics output mapping files for CWL workflows
  • Kinesis Data Streams IPv6 support to VPC endpoints
  • Lightsail IPv6 connectivity over AWS PrivateLink
  • OpenSearch Ingestion increases memory for an OCU to 15 GB
  • Parallel Computing Service accounting with Slurm version 24.11
  • RDS Database Preview Environment PostgreSQL 18 Beta 1
  • SageMaker Catalog governance for S3 Tables
  • SageMaker
    • CloudFormation support for domain features
    • move project across domain units
    • Unified Studio now allows you to bring your own image (BYOI)
  • SageMaker Unified Studio Code Editor (VS Code based)
  • SES Mail Manager Debug Logging for traffic policies
  • Transform
    • Mainframe | GA
    • migration assessment capabilities
    • .NET | GA
    • VMware | GA
  • VPC CloudTrail logging for VPC resources created by default
  • WorkSpaces Pools AlwaysOn running mode

tooling

• Sim Studio: Figma-Like Canvas for Agent Workflows
• litestream: makes it possible to run many kinds of full-stack applications on top of SQLite
• Jwno: tiling window manager for Windows 10/11
• goboscript: text-based programming language, compiles to Scratch
• clawPDF: Open Source Virtual (Network) Printer for Windows that allows you to create PDFs, OCR text, and print images, with advanced features usually available only in enterprise solutions
• act: Run your GitHub Actions locally
• BetterAuth: Authentication Framework for TypeScript
• hardtime.nvim: Break bad habits, master Vim motions
• vaev: A browser engine built from scratch
• SQL-tString: SQL-tString allows for f-string like construction of sql queries
• Undetectag: Turn your AirTag into an Undetectag
• Webhook Tester: Self-hostable webhook tester in Go
• tinfoil.sh: Verifiable Privacy for Cloud AI
• tek: A music making program for 24-bit Unicode terminals
• llm-min.txt: Min.js Style Compression of Tech Docs for LLM Context
• autogenlib: Python library that automatically generates code on-the-fly using OpenAI's API. When you try to import a module or function that doesn't exist, AutoGenLib creates it for you based on a high-level description of what you need.
• Pyrefly: A new type checker and IDE experience for Python
• rapidhash: Very fast, high quality, platform-independent hashing algorithm
• MCP.so: directory for Awesome MCP Servers
• AniSora: Open-source anime video generation model
• Biff: batteries-included web framework for Clojure

blogs

• Understanding the Go Scheduler
• Collaborative Text Editing without CRDTs or OT
• Game Theory illustrated by an animated cartoon game
• Ditching Obsidian and building my own
• MCP: an in-depth introduction
• Push Ifs Up And Fors Down
• Getting AI to write good SQL: Text-to-SQL techniques explained
• Forget IPs: using cryptography to verify bot and agent traffic
• An update on Fresh
• My Engineering Craft Regressed
• Migrating to Postgres
• Introducing Calico 3.30: A new era of open source network security and observability for Kubernetes
• Data management for AI in the cloud: Building the foundation for AI success
• Kubernetes 1.33 in action: Hands-on implementation insights
• Kubernetes v1.33: Image Pull Policy the way you always thought it worked!
• 'Working code wins': Winning big with hackathons and internal platforms
• LY Corporation: How LY Corporation is leveraging Kubernetes as the foundation of its large-scale internal PaaS
• Kubernetes has grown up: From testbed to critical infrastructure
• Storing all of your observability signals in one place matters!
• Discover the best branching strategy for CI/CD success
• Kubernetes production checklist
• Announcing OpenReports: Standardized Kubernetes reporting

• Stop building platforms nobody uses: Pick the right Kubernetes abstraction with GitOps

• CNCF On demand webinar:

  • Let's dive into the OSSF Scorecard
  • Trivia, tokens & traffic: Meet Envoy AI Gateway
  • Introduction to Testcontainers
  • Foreign function and memory APIs and Swift/Java interoperability