Weekly news | 2025-10-08

news

• Signal Protocol and Post-Quantum Ratchets
• OpenAI’s H1 2025: $4.3b in income, $13.5b in loss
• N8n added native persistent storage with DataTables
• v2.0.0 - Stable Release of Immich
• Red Hat confirms security incident after hackers breach GitLab instance
• The UK Is Still Trying to Backdoor Encryption for Apple Users
• NIRS fire destroys government's cloud storage system, no backups available
• NFS at 40 – Remembering the Sun Microsystems Network File System
• Ladybird passes the Apple 90% threshold on web-platform-tests
• AMD signs AI chip-supply deal with OpenAI, shares surge over 34%
• Qualcomm to acquire Arduino
• Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without an online account
• Deloitte to pay money back to Albanese government after using AI in $440,000 report
• Meta launches Hyperscape, technology to turn real-world spaces into VR
• AI:
  • Jules, remote coding agent from Google Labs, announces API
  • Managing context on the Claude Developer Platform
  • Introducing AgentKit
  • Introducing CodeMender: an AI agent for code security
  • Introducing the Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model
  • Now open for building: Introducing Gemini CLI extensions

• AWS:
  • AWS API MCP Server v1.0.0 release
  • AWS Builder ID Sign in with Google
  • B2B Data Interchange new transformation status reporting
  • Bedrock AgentCore Open Source Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server
  • Bedrock Data Automation enhancing transcriptions
  • Bedrock
    • Cohere’s Embed v4
    • Sonnet 4.5
  • Billing and Costs self-service invoice correction feature
  • Clean Rooms
    • ️collaboration with cross-region data sources
    • ️data access budgets
  • CloudWatch Application map | GA
  • Cognito terms of use and privacy policy documents support to Managed Login
  • Connect
    • agent screen recording for ChromeOS
    • agent time-off balance data in analytics data lake
    • customize service level calculations
    • dashboards filtering and comparing metrics by any time range
    • gen-AI-powered email conversation overviews and suggested responses
    • get customer input on outbound calls
  • DataSync VPC endpoint policies
  • Detective PrivateLink for private API access
  • Directory Service
    • API-driven Managed Microsoft AD edition upgrades
    • IPv6 support for Managed Microsoft AD and AD Connector
  • EC2 Auto Scaling
    • now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)
    • PrivateLink support to FIPS endpoints
    • enhanced capabilities for managing image pipelines
  • EC2 Instance Connect Endpoint now supports IPv6 connectivity
  • ECS
    • announces IPv6-only support
    • Managed Instances
    • one-click event capture and event history querying
  • End User Messaging onboarding progress alerts via Slack, Email, EventBridge destination
  • FSx for NetApp ONTAP Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)
  • FSx for Windows File Server Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)
  • GameLift Servers view and connect to instances in the console
  • GameLift Streams IPv6 support for streaming Windows applications
  • Glue adds write operations for 3-rd party connectors
  • Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) IPv6 with dual-stack endpoints
  • Kinesis Video Streams IPv6 for Streams capability
  • Knowledge MCP Server now generally available
  • Managed Workflows Apache Airflow 3.0
  • Neptune Database GraphStorm for scalable graph machine learning
  • Network Firewall Reject and Alert actions for stateful domain list rule groups
  • OpenSearch Ingestion batch AI inference
  • Outposts external block volumes from Dell and HPE storage arrays
  • Parallel Computing Service
    • dynamic cluster updates
    • now supports node reboot via Slurm
    • Slurm customization capabilities
  • SageMaker Unified Studio single sign-on support for interactive Spark sessions
  • Secrets Manager PrivateLink support to FIPS endpoints
  • SNS FIPS 140-3 endpoints
  • Step Functions now supports Service Quotas
  • Storage Gateway VPC endpoint policies
  • Transfer Family
    • additional IAM condition keys
    • VPC endpoint policies and FIPS VPC endpoints
  • Transform Terraform for VMware network automation
  • For a full list of AWS announcements, be sure to keep an eye on AWS’s What’s New Feed page.

tooling

• playball: Watch MLB games from the comfort of your own terminal
• Keyhive: Local-first access control
• niri: A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor
• Modern Font Stacks: System font stack CSS organized by typeface classification for every modern OS
• parrot: type-safe SQL in gleam, supports SQlite, PostgreSQL and MySQL
• ut: Rust based CLI utilities for devs and IT
• mise: dev tools, env vars, task runner
• magic-wormhole: Get things from one computer to another, safely
• chatkit-js: batteries-included framework for building high-quality, AI-powered chat experiences
• FlightControl: A PaaS that deploys to your AWS account
• Timelinize: Privately organize your own data from everywhere, locally
• disk-perf-git-and-pnpm: Stress test for parallel disk i/o using git and pnpm
• usbi: macOS terminal command that tells you if your USB-C cable is bad
• Recall: Give Claude memory with Redis-backed persistent context
• FleetCode: Light-weight control pane to run CLI coding agents(Claude Code, Codex) in parallel
• spacelift-intent: Intent lets you provision and manage cloud infrastructure using natural language

blogs

• The Simple Habit That Saves My Evenings
• Debugging Leadership
• Self hosting 10TB in S3 on a framework laptop + disks
• Indefinite Backpack Travel
• Become Unbannable from Your Email/Gmail
• Vibe engineering
• Terraforming With AI