Weekly news | 2025-07-23

news

• Introducing ChatGPT agent: bridging research and action
• Anthropic tightens usage limits for Claude Code — without telling users
• Broadcom to discontinue free Bitnami Helm charts
• Meta says it won’t sign Europe AI agreement
• Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to delist certain adult games from Steam
• Bun adds pnpm-style isolated installation mode
• UK backing down on Apple encryption backdoor after pressure from US
• Advanced version of Gemini with Deep Think officially achieves gold-medal standard at the International Mathematical Olympiad
• Qwen3-Coder
• Android Earthquake Alerts: A global system for early warning
• Google Security introduces OSS Rebuild - oss-rebuild GitHub
• Proton introduces Lumo, the AI where every conversation is confidential

• AWS:
  • AppStream 2.0 expands support for GPU based instances
  • AWS AI League new
  • AWS API MCP Server now available
  • AWS Free Tier now offers $200 in credits and 6-month free plan
  • Bedrock
    • AgentCore now available in preview
    • Image-to-video generation support for Luma AI's Ray2
    • on-demand deployment for custom Amazon Nova
    • TwelveLabs models
  • Clean Rooms ML now supports Parquet file format
  • CloudWatch
    • adds generative AI observability | Preview
    • SDK supports optimized JSON, CBOR protocols (in preview)
  • Connect agent workspace now includes real-time agent performance metrics
  • Cost Anomaly Detection improves accuracy with model enhancements
  • DataSync now supports IPv6
  • Deadline Cloud
    • Chaos V-Ray
    • Unreal Engine in Service-Managed Fleets
  • DocumentDB up to 10 secondary Region clusters
  • DynamoDB local major version release version 3.0.0
  • DynamoDB Streams new API feature for faster and more efficient stream shard discovery
  • EBS visibility into EBS volume initialization status
  • EC2 High Memory U7i instances now support higher Amazon EBS-optimized instance performance
  • ECS enables built-in blue/green deployments
  • EKS up to 100,000 worker nodes per cluster
  • EventBridge enhanced logging for improved observability
  • Firewall Manager adds support for AWS Private Link
  • Glue
    • new workers for larger and memory intensive workloads
    • zero-ETL integrations from DynamoDB and eight applications to S3 Tables
  • Knowledge MCP Server now available in Preview
  • Lambda
    • bridges console to VS Code for unified serverless DX
    • debug functions running in the cloud from VS Code
    • low latency processing for Kafka events
  • Marketplace Introducing AI agents and tools
  • MemoryDB FIS action to pause multi-Region cluster replication
  • MSK MCP Server
  • Nova Sonic support for French, Italian, German
  • OpenSearch Service
    • integration with Amazon Aurora MySQL and PostgreSQL
    • integration with Amazon RDS for MySQL and PostgreSQL
  • Outposts booting EC2 instances from external storage arrays
  • Price List API
    • +4 new Query Filters
    • MCP Server
  • Private CA issuing up to 100 million certificates per CA
  • Q in QuickSight Custom Instructions for Topics | GA
  • RDS Custom for SQL Server now supports change data capture
  • Redshift
    • automatic refresh of materialized views on Apache Iceberg tables
    • cascading refresh of nested materialized views
  • S3
    • compaction of Apache Avro and ORC formats for Apache Iceberg tables
    • external access summary for all your buckets
  • S3 Metadata existing objects and reduces price by up to 33%
  • S3 Tables reduce compaction costs by up to 90%
  • S3 Vectors cloud object storage with storing and querying vectors | Preview
  • SageMaker AI Customize Amazon Nova
  • SageMaker Catalog support S3 general purpose buckets
  • SageMaker
    • visual workflows builder
    • data processing jobs
    • Integration with Amazon QuickSight
    • simplifies data management with automated lakehouse onboarding and metadata ingestion
    • streamlines S3 Tables workflow experience
  • SNS
    • enhances cross-Region delivery capabilities
    • expands IPv6 support to VPC endpoints in AWS commercial Regions
  • SQS expands IPv6 support to VPC endpoints in AWS commercial Regions
  • Transform mainframe introduces enhanced code refactoring and business logic capabilities
  • VPC CNI higher bandwidth and network performance per pod

tooling

• metaflow: Build, Manage and Deploy AI/ML Systems
• ccusage: A CLI tool for analyzing Claude Code usage from local JSONL files
• How good is your knowledge of Python f-strings? Quiz
• What the f*ck Python!: Exploring and understanding Python through surprising snippets
• Subreply: An open source text-only social network
• TrackWeight: Use your Mac trackpad as a weighing scale
• connmap: an X11 desktop widget that shows location of your current network peers on a world map in real-time
• jqfmt: like gofmt, but for jq
• Plane: air-gapped Jira alternative for regulated industries
• manticoresearch: Fast, efficient, drop-in replacement for Elasticsearch
• TheProtector: Linux Bash script for the paranoid admin on a budget

blogs

• Fun with Gzip Bombs and Email Clients
• How to Firefox
• Jujutsu For Busy Devs
• TODOs aren’t for doing
• Announcing SecretSpec: Declarative Secrets Management
• Log by Time, not by Count
• Async I/O on Linux and durability
• The Big LLM Architecture Comparison
• Coding with LLMs in the summer of 2025 – an update
• Introducing XMLUI
• Make Your Own Backup System – Part 1: Strategy Before Scripts