Weekly news | 2025-08-20

news

• Blood oxygen monitoring returning to Apple Watch in the US
• 133-year old Kodak says it might have to cease operations
• Arch shares its wiki strategy with Debian
• Meta accessed women's health data from Flo app without consent, says court
• Open source Visa/Mastercard competitor: Zenobia Pay
• VaultWarden adds SSO using OpenID Connect
• It seems like the AI crawlers learned how to solve the Anubis challenges
• Some users report their Firefox browser is scoffing CPU power
• PuTTY has a new website
• NextDNS Adds "Bypass Age Verification"
• Node.js able to execute TypeScript files without additional configuration
• Obsidian Bases — now available to everyone!
• GenAI FOMO has spurred businesses to light nearly $40 billion on fire
• Notion releases Offline mode
• Copilot broke audit logs, but Microsoft won't tell customers
• Databricks is raising a Series K Investment at >$100 billion valuation
• AWS pricing for Kiro dev tool dubbed 'a wallet-wrecking tragedy'
• AI:
  • Introducing Gemma 3 270M: The compact model for hyper-efficient AI
  • DINOv3
  • Announcing Imagen 4 Fast and the general availability of the Imagen 4 family in the Gemini API
  • Wan2.2: Open-source alternative to VEO 3

• AWS:
  • Athena CREATE TABLE AS SELECT with Amazon S3 Tables
  • Batch now supports Graviton-based Spot compute with Fargate
  • Bedrock Expanded Context Window for Sonnet 4
  • Billing and Cost Management Console new recommended actions
  • Braket support for program sets
  • Business Agentic RAG to enhance accuracy and explainability
  • Certificate Manager supports AWS PrivateLink
  • CloudFormation Hooks Managed Controls and Hook Activity Summary
  • Cloud Map cross-account service discovery
  • Config 10 new resource types
  • Connect
    -an API for real-time position in queue
    -recurring activities in agent schedules
    -Cases automatically update cases upon creation
    -Outbound Campaigns multi-profile campaigns and enhanced phone number retry sequencing
  • Deadline Cloud new cost-saving compute option
  • Direct Connect 100G expansion in Cape Town, South Africa
  • DocumentDB Extended Support for Version 3.6
  • DynamoDB
    -CloudWatch Contributor Insights mode exclusively for throttled keys
    -more frequent throughput mode updates from provisioned to on-demand capacity
    -more granular throttle error exceptions
  • EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations New Sharing/Targeting Capabilities
  • FSx for NetApp ONTAP decreasing your SSD storage capacity
  • FSx for ONTAP allows decreasing SSD capacity
  • FSx for OpenZFS supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)
  • IAM Identity Center user background sessions with SageMaker Studio
  • IoT Core DeleteConnection API to streamline MQTT connections
  • Managed Microsoft AD increases directory sharing limits
  • Managed Service for Prometheus support resource policies
  • Marketplace new incentives for ISVs selling
  • Neptune integrates with Cognee for graph-native memory in GenAI Apps
  • OpenSearch Serverless kNN Byte vector and new data types
  • Q Business Response Events for enhanced chat transparency
  • QuickSight limits on calculated fields
  • RDS for Db2 cross-region automated backups for encrypted databases
  • Resource Explorer Supports Filtering for Multiple Values
  • SageMaker
    -AI P6e-GB200 UltraServers
    -HyperPod
    -fine-grained quota allocation of compute resources
    -new cluster setup experience
    -Topology Aware Scheduling of LLM tasks
    -custom AMIs
    -Studio trusted identity propagation
  • Security Incident Response membership coverage for individual AWS organizational units
  • Systems Manager Automation enhances runbook execution control and updates free tier
  • VPC IPv4 ingress routing for large IP Pools
  • WorkSpaces Bring Your Own License
  • For a full list of AWS announcements, be sure to keep an eye on AWS’s What’s New Feed page.

tooling

• Cyberdesk: Automate Windows legacy desktop apps
• Edka: Production ready Kubernetes clusters on your own Hetzner account
• JMAP MCP Server: A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides tools for interacting with JMAP (JSON Meta Application Protocol) email servers
• Claudia: Your elegant desktop companion for Claude Code
• Dev Compass - Programming Philosophy Quiz
• llama-scan: Transcribe PDFs with local LLMs
• ScrollGuard: an app to block Shorts and Reels
• doxx: Expose .docx files in your terminal — no Microsoft Word required
• AGENTS.md: A simple, open format for guiding coding agents
• ccpm: Project management system for Claude Code using GitHub Issues and Git worktrees for parallel agent execution
• system_prompts_leaks: Collection of extracted System Prompts from popular chatbots like ChatGPT, Claude & Gemini

blogs

• systemd hardening
• Trap to Developers
• Why LLMs can't really build software
• We rewrote the Ghostty GTK application
• Funding Open Source like public infrastructure
• Open Banking and payments competition
• The future of large files in Git is Git
• Progress towards universal Copy/Paste shortcuts on Linux
• Good System Design
• Best Practices for Building Agentic AI Systems: What Actually Works in Production
• Eliminating JavaScript cold starts on AWS Lambda
• Left to Right Programming