Weekly news | 2025-09-03

news

• AI adoption linked to 13% decline in jobs for young U.S. workers, Stanford study reveals
• Claude Sonnet will ship in Xcode
• Is Meta secretly scanning your phone's camera roll? Check this setting to find out
• If you have a Claude personal account, they are going to train on your data moving forward
• Introducing the Agent Client Protocol
• A deeper look at AI crawlers: breaking down traffic by purpose and industry
• A federal judge ruled that Google can keep its Chrome browser but will be barred from exclusive contracts
• Anthropic raises $13B Series F at $183B post-money valuation
• GitHub now supports releases immutability in public preview
• AI:
  • grok-code-fast-1: a speedy and economical reasoning model that excels at agentic coding
  • HunyuanWorld-Voyager: interactive RGBD video generation model conditioned on camera trajectory, and supports real-time 3D reconstruction
  • ChatGPT Projects now have memory (new projects only)

• AWS:
  • AWS Client VPN
    -connectivity to IPv6 resources
    -extends OS support to Windows Arm64 v5.3.0
  • AWS Local Zones EBS launches snapshot copy
  • B2B Data Interchange custom validation rules
  • Bedrock Data Automation +5 languages for Document Workflows
  • Braket local device emulator for verbatim circuits
  • EC2 Mac Dedicated Host Recovery and Reboot-based host maintenance
  • EKS introduces on-demand insights refresh
  • EMR announces S3A as the default connector
  • EMR on EC2 Apache Spark native FGAC and AWS Glue Data Catalog Views Support
  • End User Messaging international sending for US toll-free numbers
  • Fault Injection Service Aurora DSQL now supports resilience testing
  • GameLift Streams enhanced flexibility with default applications
  • HealthOmics task level timeout controls for Nextflow workflows
  • Managed Service for Prometheus direct PagerDuty integration
  • Management Console assigning a color to an AWS account
  • MWAA downgrading to minor Apache Airflow versions
  • Neptune Analytics now introduces stop/start capability
  • Neptune BYOKG RAG with open-source GraphRAG
  • Network Firewall launches ReceivedBytes metric for stateless and stateful engines
  • OpenSearch Service now supports I8g instances
  • Polly more synthetic generative voices
  • Q Developer MCP admin control
  • RDS
    -MariaDB v11.8 with MariaDB Vector support
    -Oracle new certificate authority and cipher suites for SSL and OEM Agent options
    -Oracle Redo Transport Compression
  • SageMaker
    -account-agnostic, reusable project profiles
    -tag-based access control for federated catalogs
  • SageMaker HyperPod customer managed KMS keys for EBS volumes
  • SageMaker Training and Processing Jobs New P5 instance with one NVIDIA H100 GPU
  • Transfer Family Terraform support for deploying SFTP connectors
  • For a full list of AWS announcements, be sure to keep an eye on AWS’s What’s New Feed page.

tooling

• TuneD: system tuning service for Linux
• Expert: official language server implementation for the Elixir programming language
• Claude Checkpoints: Automatic version control for Claude Code projects
• sosumi.ai: Convert Apple Developer docs to AI-readable Markdown
• Hardening Firefox checklist
• nginx-cgi: brings support for CGI to Nginx and angie
• SynthID: A tool to watermark and identify content generated through AI
• Jujutsu for everyone
• LandChad: a site dedicated to turning internet peasants into Internet Landlords by showing them how to setup websites, email servers, chat servers and everything in between
• ProcMon for Linux: A Linux version of the Procmon Sysinternals tool
• The Little Book of Linear Algebra
• datafruit: agentic AI for DevOps
• lit: a library for building fast, lightweight web components
• Official AI Assistant Plugin for Neovim
• nuclear: Desktop music player focused on streaming from free sources

blogs

• How to prepare for the Bitnami Changes coming soon
• Building your own CLI Coding Agent with Pydantic-AI
• Do the simplest thing that could possibly work
• You no longer need JavaScript: Aspects of modern HTML/CSS you may not be familiar with
• It turns out Nokia’s legendary font makes for a great general user interface font
• University of Cambridge Cognitive Ability Test
• The Rise of Hybrid PHP: Blending PHP with Go and Rust
• Running our Docker registry on-prem with Harbor
• What are Traces and Spans in OpenTelemetry: A Practical Guide
• A staff engineer's journey with Claude Code
• %CPU Utilization Is A Lie