Weekly news | 2025-07-30

news

• AMD CEO sees chips from TSMC's US plant costing 5%-20% more
• Phone networks down: EE, BT, Three and Vodafone all not working in mass outage
• Intel CEO Letter to Employees
• Vanilla JavaScript support for Tailwind Plus
• Women Dating Safety App Tea Breached, Users' IDs Posted to 4chan
• Celebrating 20 years of MDN
• Users claim Discord’s age verification test can be tricked with video game characters
• Allianz Life says ‘majority’ of customers’ personal data stolen in cyberattack
• EU age verification app to ban any Android system not licensed by Google
• The Terminal app can now run full graphical Linux apps in the latest Android Canary build
• Visa and Mastercard are getting overwhelmed by gamer fury over censorship
• OpenAI introduces study mode
• Project Zero – Policy and Disclosure: 2025 Edition
• M8.7 earthquake in Western Pacific, tsunami warning issued
• Ollama's new app
• crush: The glamourous AI coding agent for your favourite terminal

• AWS:
  • Amazon MQ Graviton3-based M7g instances for RabbitMQ
  • Application Recovery Controller now supports Region switch
  • Audit Manager evidence collection for better compliance insights
  • Braket new 54-qubit quantum processor from IQM
  • CloudWatch adds IPv6 support
  • Connect
    -CloudFormation for message template attachments
    -CloudFormation for quick responses
    -launches forecast editing UI
    -per-day pricing for external voice connectors
  • Cost Optimization Hub account names in optimization opportunities
  • Deadline Cloud resource endpoints for connecting shared storage to service-managed fleets
  • EC2 skipping the OS shutdown when stopping or terminating instances
  • ECR exceptions to tag immutability
  • ElastiCache
    -Bloom filter
    -Valkey 8.1
  • EMR Serverless Inline Runtime Permissions for job runs
  • Glue Microsoft Dynamics 365 as a data source
  • HealthOmics
    -3-rd Git repository support for workflow creation
    -readme file support
  • IoT SiteWise Query API advanced SQL support and ODBC driver
  • MSK up to 5x more partitions on Express Brokers
  • Organization Tag Policies using new wildcard statement
  • RDS for Db2 group-based authorization with self-managed Active Directory
  • RDS for Oracle zero-ETL integration with Redshift
  • RDS for PostgreSQL zero-ETL integration with Redshift | GA
  • Redshift Serverless 2-AZ Subnet Configurations
  • Service Reference Information actions for last accessed services
  • SQS fair queues for multi-tenant workloads
  • Timestream for InfluxDB 24xlarge memory-optimized instances

tooling

• AWSKeyLockdown: Automatically deactivate leaked AWS access keys for IAM users flagged by the AWSCompromisedKeyQuarantine policy. From Clutch Security
• Hyprnote: An open-source AI meeting notetaker
• claude-code-router: Use Claude Code as the foundation for coding infrastructure, allowing you to decide how to interact with the model while enjoying updates from Anthropic
• sqlx: The Rust SQL Toolkit
• copyparty: Portable file server with accelerated resumable uploads, dedup, WebDAV, FTP, TFTP, zeroconf, media indexer, thumbnails++ all in one file, no deps
• 16colo.rs: ANSI/ASCII art archive
• vet: a command-line tool that acts as a safety net for the risky curl | bash pattern
• BGP tools: Browse the Internet Ecosystem
• Positron: next-generation data science IDE built by Posit PBC
• The POSIX specification of vi
• Nia: MCP server that gives more docs and repos to coding agents
• apple-health-mcp: MCP server for querying Apple Health data with natural language and SQL
• Price Per Token: Up-to-date pricing information for major LLM APIs
• GPU Memory Calculator
• dwl: dwm for Wayland
• tinyio: A tiny (~300 lines) event loop for Python
• DumbPipe: Easy, direct connections that punch through NATs & stay connected as network conditions change
• jj-workshop: A zero-to-hero speedrun
• Use-Their-ID: Use your local UK MP’s ID for the Online Safety Act

blogs

• Stateless Terraform: Terraform without tfstate
• Fixing Ctrl+C in Rust Terminal Apps: Child Process Management
• Writing memory efficient C structs
• URL-Driven State in HTMX
• Making Postgres 42,000x slower because I am unemployed
• Fast and cheap bulk storage: using LVM to cache HDDs on SSDs
• Keep Pydantic out of your Domain Layer
• Getting decent error reports in Bash when you're using 'set -e'
• Animated Cursors
• The Future is NOT Self-Hosted
• It’s time for modern CSS to kill the SPA
• Visa and Mastercard: The Global Payment Duopoly
• PSA: SQLite WAL checksums fail silently and may lose data