Weekly news | 2025-09-10
news
- Stripe launches L1 Blockchain Tempo
- HashiCorp CEO Departs
- The Browser Company, maker of Arc and Dia, is being acquired
- New release coming: here's how YOU can help Kubernetes
- Launch of Polars Cloud and Distributed Polars
- Google deletes net-zero pledge from sustainability website
- Anthropic Agrees to Pay $1.5 Billion to Settle Lawsuit With Book Authors
- European Commission fines Google €2.95B over abusive ad tech practices
- npm debug and chalk packages compromised
- Mistral raises 1.7B€, partners with ASML
- Claude can now create and edit files
- Microsoft is officially sending employees back to the office
- DuckDB NPM packages 1.3.3 and 1.29.2 compromised with malware
- KDE launches its own distribution (again)
- OrioleDB Patent: now freely available to the Postgres community
- AWS:
- AWS Client VPN
- 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
- SageMaker
- 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
- LLM Visualization
- Book: Swimming in Tech Debt
- flint: Lightweight tool for managing linux virtual machines
- picoCSS: Minimal CSS Framework for Semantic HTML
- term.everything
- From Bash to Go:
- JiraTUI: A Textual UI for interacting with Atlassian Jira from your shell
- Bottlefire: Build single-executable microVMs from Docker images
- tailguard: Easy Tailscale to WireGuard bridge in a container
blogs
- The Origin Story of Merge Queues
- I am a High Schooler. AI Is Demolishing My Education.
- A PM's Guide to AI Agent Architecture: Why Capability Doesn't Equal Adoption
- Why I Ditched Spotify, and How I Set Up My Own Music Stack
- Why I Ditched Docker for Podman
- My Own DNS Server At Home - Part 1: IPv4
- The maths you need to start understanding LLMs
- GPT-5 Thinking in ChatGPT (aka Research Goblin) is shockingly good at search
- Strong Eventual Consistency - The Big Idea behind CRDTs