Weekly news | 2025-08-13

news

• Flipper Zero DarkWeb Firmware Bypasses Rolling Code Security
• Wikipedia loses challenge against Online Safety Act verification rules
• GitHub just got less independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation
• AOL Will End Its Dial-Up Internet Service (Yes, It’s Still Operating)
• Australian court finds Apple, Google guilty of being anticompetitive
• Japan’s largest newspaper, Yomiuri Shimbun, sues AI startup Perplexity for copyright violations
• NGINX Introduces Native Support for ACME Protocol
• pyx: a Python-native package registry, now in Beta
• PCIe 8.0 Announced by the PCI-SIG Will Double Throughput Again
• If you own an Intel Mac, you have 12 months to upgrade to a new model
• AI:
  • GPT-5 is here
  • Cursor CLI
  • Gemini CLI GitHub Actions
  • Open Music Foundation Models for Full-Song Generation
  • Introducing Open SWE: An Open-Source Asynchronous Coding Agent
  • Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context
  • [BUG] Claude says "You're absolutely right!" about everything

• AWS:
  • Amazon Location Geofencing now supports multipolygon and polygon with exclusion zones
  • Aurora Serverless v2 up to 30% performance improvement
  • Bedrock Claude Opus 4.1
  • Bedrock Guardrails Automated Reasoning checks
  • Bedrock & SageMaker JumpStart OpenAI open weight models
  • Budgets Billing View for cross-account cost monitoring
  • CloudWatch organization-wide VPC flow logs enablement
  • Console Mobile App access to AWS Support
  • Deadline Cloud Autodesk VRED
  • DynamoDB support for Console-to-Code
  • ECR 100,000 images per repository
  • ECS real-time log analytics via CloudWatch Logs Live Tail
  • EKS Hybrid Nodes expanded support for Cilium
  • EKS safety control to prevent accidental cluster deletion
  • Elastic Beanstalk FIPS 140-3 enabled interface VPC endpoints
  • Elastic VMware Service general availability
  • GameLift Streams Proton 9 runtime and increases service limits
  • IoT SiteWise asset model interfaces
  • Lambda GitHub Actions to simplify function deployment
  • OpenSearch Serverless
    -automatic semantic enrichment
    -backup and restore
    -Hybrid Search, AI connectors, and automations
    -UI Fine Grained Access Control by SAML attributes
  • Outposts
    -new Amazon CloudWatch metrics
    -service link static configuration
  • Parallel Computing Service
    -IPv6 support
    -Slurm SPANK plugins
  • Private CA PrivateLink support to FIPS endpoints
  • QuickSight connectivity to Apache Impala
  • RDS io2 Block Express now available in all commercial regions
  • Resource Explorer 120 new resource types
  • S3 Mountpoint CSI driver accelerates performance and supports SELinux
  • SageMaker auto optimization configuration of Apache Iceberg tables
  • SageMaker HyperPod continuous provisioning for enhanced cluster operations
  • SQS increases maximum message payload size to 1 MiB
  • Systems Manager Run Command interpolating parameters into environment variables

tooling

• notte: Browser AI agents
• octofriend: open-source coding helper
• ESP32 Bus Pirate: open-source firmware that turns your device into a multi-protocol hacker's tool
• Sandstorm: open source platform for self-hosting web apps
• Engineering Blog Posts from Top Tech Companies
• Neki: sharded Postgres by the team behind Vitess
• Pricing pages design vault: a collection of pricing pages from various companies
• Omnara: Talk to Your AI Agents from Anywhere

blogs

• The current state of LLM-driven development
• How AI Conquered the US Economy: A Visual FAQ
• How we replaced Elasticsearch and MongoDB with Rust and RocksDB
• Getting Good Results from Claude Code
• Over engineering my homelab so I don't pay cloud providers
• Why You Should Build Durable Workflows With Postgres
• an engineer's perspective on hiring
• How I Code with AI on a budget/free
• Writing Your Own Simple Tab-Completions for Bash and Zsh
• How I use Tailscale
• Learn, Reflect, Apply, Prepare
• journaling system cobbled together with nix, vim, coreutils
• DoubleAgents: Fine-tuning LLMs for Covert Malicious Tool Calls
• Cross-Site Request Forgery