Weekly news | 2025-10-15

news

• OpenAI, Nvidia Fuel $1 Trillion AI Market With Web of Circular Deals
• React Foundation: The New Home for React & React Native
• DDoS Botnet Aisuru Blankets US ISPs in Record DDoS
• KDE celebrates the 29th birthday and kicks off the yearly fundraiser

• AWS:
  • 20+ Services Moving to Sunset & Maintenance
  • Client VPN is now supporting MacOS Tahoe
  • Connect
    -agent schedule adherence notifications
    -copy and bulk edit of agent scheduling configuration
    -new case APIs to link related cases, add custom related items, and search across them
  • Direct Connect 100G expansion in Kansas City, MO
  • DynamoDB Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)
  • EBS io2 Block Express supports China Regions
  • EC2
    -C8i and C8i-flex instances
    -M8a Instances
  • EKS and EKS Distro Kubernetes version 1.34
  • Location Service Updates for Vietnam's New Administrative Boundaries
  • Marketplace
    -enhanced pricing dimension capabilities for sellers
    -Japan consumption tax support for Channel Partner Private Offers
    -new currencies for usage-based private offers
  • Q Developer understand service prices and estimate workload costs
  • Quick Suite agentic AI-powered workspace
  • RDS for Db2 native database backups
  • SageMaker notebook instance now supports Amazon Linux 2023
  • Service Quotas Automatic quota management | GA
  • VPC Lattice configurable IP addresses for Resource Gateways
  • For a full list of AWS announcements, be sure to keep an eye on AWS’s What’s New Feed page.

tooling

• WinBoat: Windows apps on Linux with seamless integration
• DataStar: Lightweight hypermedia framework for building interactive web apps
• tangled: social-enabled git collaboration platform built on atproto
• amplifier: Metacognitive AI Development
• thalamusdb: semantic query processing on multimodal data
• rift: a tiling window manager for macOS
• EdgeAI for beginners
• SQLite Online
• JSON River: A simple, fast streaming JSON parser built on standards
• smolBSD: build your own minimal BSD UNIX system
• Metorial: The open source integration platform for agentic AI. Connect any AI model to thousands of APIs, data sources, and tools with a single function call
• purefly: Python type checker and language server in Rust
• Jetski: MCP Analytics and Authentication Platform

blogs

• A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size
• Why I switched from HTMX to Datastar
• HTML’s Best Kept Secret: The
  Tag
• Beyond Indexes: How Open Table Formats Optimize Query Performance
• Pipelining in psql (PostgreSQL 18)
• Scaling Request Logging from Millions to Billions with ClickHouse, Kafka, and Vector
• More random home lab things I've recently learned
• How to Turn Liquid Glass into a Solid Interface