Weekly news | 2025-10-01

news

• Announcing Cloudflare Email Service’s private beta
• Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians
• Auth.js is now part of Better Auth
• Introduction to Terraform Actions
• Terraform search
• AI:
  • Introducing ChatGPT Pulse
  • Ollama web search
  • Introducing Claude Sonnet 4.5
  • Claude Code 2.0
  • Buy it in ChatGPT: Instant Checkout and the Agentic Commerce Protocol
  • DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp
  • Sora 2 is here

• AWS:
  • Amazon Nova Act extension: Build and test AI agents within your IDE
  • AppStream 2.0 multi-session fleets | Local file redirection
  • Bedrock AgentCore, Browser, Code Interpreter supports VPC, PrivateLink, CloudFormation, tagging
  • Billing View cost management data from multiple organizations
  • Clean Rooms incremental ID mapping with AWS Entity Resolution
  • CloudWatch resource tags when monitoring vended metrics
  • Compute Optimizer +99 new Amazon EC2 instance types
  • Connect
    -associate custom attributes with interaction segments
    -flow designer now supports analytics mode
  • Connect Contact Lens sensitive data redaction +7 languages
  • EBS increased max size/performance of GP3 volumes
  • EC2
    -Allowed AMIs setting adds new params
    -instance attestation
  • EC2 Auto Scaling forced cancellation of instance refreshes
  • IAM Identity Center customer-managed KMS keys for encryption at rest
  • License Manager supports shared Managed Active Directory
  • Network Firewall enhances application layer traffic controls
  • RDS cross-Region and cross-account snapshot copy
  • RDS Database Preview Environment PostgreSQL 18.0
  • RDS for Db2 now offers Reserved Instances
  • S3 Tables Preview in the S3 console
  • X-Ray Adaptive Sampling for automatic optimized error detection
  • For a full list of AWS announcements, be sure to keep an eye on AWS’s What’s New Feed page.

tooling

• Helium browser
• Dayflow: Generate a timeline of your day, automatically
• SSH3: faster and rich secure shell using HTTP/3
• handy: the free and open source app for speech to text
• Atuin Desktop: Runbooks that Run — Now Open Source
• devbox: Create and manage isolated development environments using Docker with ease
• OpenTSLM: Language models that understand time series
• ChartDB: Visualize database schemas
• tftargets: A tool that analyzes Terraform configurations and identifies directories that need to be executed based on Git changes
• CodeRabbit CLI: line-by-line code suggestions, and real-time chat
• aws-samples: A collection of AWS CLI scripts and tutorials for common AWS service use cases, designed to help developers quickly get started with AWS services through the command line.

blogs

• ChatControl wants to scan all your private messages
• The Theatre of Pull Requests and Code Review
• Traefik's 10-Year Journey from Zero to Standard
• Redis is fast – I'll cache in Postgres
• The AI coding trap
• Thoughts on Cloudflare
• A SQL Heuristic: ORs Are Expensive
• an opinionated critique of duolingo
• The Magic of Claude Code
• Intelligent Kubernetes Load Balancing at Databricks