Weekly news | 2025-07-16

news

• Grok 4 launch
• Thunderbird 140 “Eclipse”
• AWS Announces Kiro an agentic IDE from prototype to production
• Cognition (Devin AI) acquires remaining Windsurf team & IP
• Windsurf’s CEO goes to Google; OpenAI’s acquisition falls apart
• Cloudflare Starts Blocking Pirate Sites For UK Users
• Reddit rolls out age verification in the UK to comply with new rules
• Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 incident on July 14, 2025
• Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share In USA
• Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity
• PHP RFC: PHP License Update
• Anthropic, Google, OpenAI and xAI granted up to $200 million for AI work from Defense Department
• Django 20th birthday
• Mira Murati's AI startup Thinking Machines valued at $12 billion in early-stage funding

• AWS:
  • Amazon Q can now query service data in AWS Console
  • AWS Builder Center builder.aws.com | GA
  • AWS Oracle Database is now generally available
  • AWS Specialization badges now display categories
  • Bedrock API keys for streamlined development
  • CloudWatch Application Signals MCP servers
  • Connect parallel AWS Lambda execution in flows
  • EC2 P6e-GB200 UltraServers
  • IoT Greengrass v2.15 introduces updates to both nucleus and nucleus lite
  • Neptune Analytics Mem0 for graph-native memory in GenAI applications
  • Network Firewall Native AWS Transit Gateway support in all regions
  • QuickSight granular access customization for exports and reports
  • RDS Custom Cumulative Update 19 for Microsoft SQL Server 2022
  • S3 Tables Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server
  • SageMaker AI Fully managed MLflow 3.0
  • SageMaker HyperPod
    • CLI and SDK for AI Workflows
    • new observability capability
    • open-weights model deployment
  • SageMaker Studio remote connections from VS Code
  • Site-to-Site VPN IPv6 addresses on outer tunnel IPs
  • VPC Lattice support for Oracle Database@AWS

tooling

• FluentBird: Thunderbird in Fluent Windows 11 Design
• pgactive: Active-active Replication Extension for PostgreSQL
• FFmpeg in plain English: LLM-assisted FFmpeg in the browser
• Refine: A Local Alternative to Grammarly
• OpenCut: The open-source CapCut alternative
• AWS API MCP Server now available
• Federated Open Key Service
• Graphical Linear Algebra
• Red Hat Technical Writing Style Guide
• BrowserOS: Open source alternative to Perplexity Comet
• pangolin: Open source alternative to Cloudflare Tunnels
• Monorail: Turn any CSS keyframe animation into an interactive graph
• GhidrAssistMCP: An MCP extension for Ghidra
• Incus: next-generation system container, application container, and virtual machine manager
• aiosqlitepool: resilient, high-performance asynchronous connection pool layer for SQLite, designed for efficient and scalable database operations

blogs

• I'm Switching to Python and Actually Liking It
• Artisanal Handcrafted Git Repositories: handmake your git repositories the hard way
• Encrypting Files with Passkeys and age
• Reflections on OpenAI
• Switching to Claude Code + VSCode inside Docker
• eBPF: Connecting with Container Runtimes
• Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY does not scale