Weekly news | 2025-08-06

news

• UniFi OS Server released: How to Self-Host your full Network Stack in Minutes
• Australia widens teen social media ban to YouTube, scraps exemption
• Figma IPO on July 31
• Google rolls out Deep Think in the Gemini app for Google AI Ultra subscribers
• Anthropic Revokes OpenAI's Access to Claude
• Microsoft is taking steps to open-sourcing Windows 11 user interface framework
• Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade website no-crawl directives
• PHP 8.5 Adds Pipe Operator
• Six arrests over attempted theft of trade secrets on iPhone 18 chip process
• AI:
  • Qwen-Image release
  • Genie 3 release
  • Claude Opus 4.1 release
  • Eleven Music is Here
  • Jules is officially out of beta and launching publicly, powered by Gemini 2.5

• AWS:
  • Amazon Connect Cases detailed email content within the case activity feed
  • Aurora Limitless Database Insights
  • Aurora MySQL up to 256 TiB of storage volume
  • Batch scheduling SageMaker Training jobs
  • Bedrock Data Automation DOC/DOCX and H.265 files
  • Chime SDK IPv6 API endpoints
  • Clean Rooms now publishes events to EventBridge
  • CloudFront new origin response timeout controls
  • CloudWatch natural language query generation for OpenSearch PPL and SQL
  • Connect
    -agent workspace enhances 3-rd party apps with new actions and workflows
    -Contact Control Panel refreshed look and feel
    -UI builder launches an improved UX/UI
  • Direct Connect
    -extends MACsec functionality to supported Partner Interconnects
    -Hybrid Edition for Managed Microsoft AD
  • DMS Schema Conversion introduces Virtual Mode
  • DocumentDB Serverless is Generally Available
  • EC2 Auto Scaling Lambda functions as notification targets for lifecycle hooks
  • EC2 force terminate for EC2 instances
  • Entity Resolution advanced matching using Levenshtein, Cosine, and Soundex
  • EventBridge IPv6 support
  • Glue Data Quality S3 Tables and Iceberg Tables
  • IoT Core adds message queuing for MQTT shared subscription
  • Lambda streaming now supports 200 MB response payloads
  • Location Service Migration SDK with Enhanced Places, Routes, and Maps capabilities
  • Managed Service for Prometheus default active series limit to 50M per workspace
  • Management Console discover, manage applications from anywhere in the Console
  • Marketplace enhances offer and subscription management
  • Q Developer
    -CLI announces custom agents
    -expands multi-language support
  • RDS for Oracle Database Insights provides on-demand analysis
  • Redis OSS Extended Support for ElastiCache v4/5
  • S3 Access Points tags for Attribute-Based Access Control
  • SES tenant isolation with automated reputation policies
  • SNS additional message filtering operators
  • SNS standard topics now support Amazon SQS fair queues

tooling

• mcp-use: connect any LLM to any MCP
• sourcebot: self-hosted tool that helps you understand your codebase (like Perplexity)
• traceroot: Open-source agentic debugging for distributed services
• starchive: browser plugin to send youtube videos to local backend
• ethersync: Peer-to-peer, editor-agnostic collaborative editing of local text files
• langextract: A Python library for extracting structured information from unstructured text using LLMs with precise source grounding and interactive visualization
• html-in-canvas: HTML-in-Canvas
• OpenIPC: alternative open firmware for your IP camera
• thingio: Open-source Firmware for Ingenic SoC IP Cameras
• Frigate: Monitor your security cameras with locally processed AI
• carbon: from Show HN: I've been building an ERP for manufacturing for the last 3 years
• claude-code-ide.el: Claude Code IDE integration for Emacs
• stagewise: The frontend coding agent for production codebases

blogs

• AI is a Floor Raiser, not a Ceiling Raiser
• you might not need tmux
• Replacing cron jobs with a centralized task scheduler
• self-signed JWTs
• 6 Weeks of Claude Code
• Modern Node.js patterns
• Creating 3D Line Drawings