Weekly news | 2025-10-29

news

• Google flags Immich sites as dangerous
• Announcing the Swift SDK for Android
• Synadia and TigerBeetle Pledge $512K to the Zig Software Foundation
• Advent of Code 2025: Number of puzzles reduce from 25 to 12 for the first time
• Introducing Tailscale Peer Relays
• AOL to be sold to Bending Spoons for roughly $1.5B
• Nvidia takes $1 billion stake in Nokia
• Keeping the Internet fast and secure: introducing Merkle Tree Certificates
• YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs
• Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows
• Custom images for GitHub-hosted runners are now available in public preview
• AI:
  • Bringing memory to Claude
  • OpenAI acquires Software Applications Incorporated, maker of Sky
  • Run interactive commands in Gemini CLI
  • Claude for Excel
  • Generative AI Image Editing Showdown
  • The next chapter of the Microsoft–OpenAI partnership

• AWS:
  • Aurora DSQL resource-based policies
  • AWS Secret-West Region is now available
  • Bedrock Data Automation additional formats for video and faster processing for images
  • CloudWatch AgentWindows Event Log Filters
  • CloudWatch Database Insights on-demand analysis for RDS for SQL Server
  • CloudWatch
    -interactive incident reporting
    -metrics to monitor EC2 instances exceeding I/O performance
  • CloudWatch Synthetics bundled multi-check canaries
  • Connect
    -automated follow-up evaluations triggered by initial evaluation results
    -granular permissions for conversation recordings and transcripts
    -outbound campaigns supports preview dialing for greater agent control
    -threaded views and includes conversation history in agent replies
  • Corretto October 2025 Quarterly Updates
  • Customer Carbon Footprint Tool Scope 3 emissions data
  • DocumentDB Graviton4-based R8g database instances
  • Lambda increases maximum payload size from 256 KB to 1 MB for asynchronous invocations
  • Parallel Computing Service rotation of cluster secret keys
  • Quick Sight new data preparation experience
  • RDS for SQL Server
    -encrypting native backups using server-side encryption with (SSE-KMS)
    -retaining CDC configurations when restoring database backups
  • RTB Fabric real-time bidding workloads
  • S3 CloudTrail events for S3 Tables maintenance operations
  • SageMaker Unified Studio supports Amazon Athena workgroups
  • SES adds IP observability for Dedicated IP addresses (managed)
  • Transfer Family changing identity provider type on a server
  • For a full list of AWS announcements, be sure to keep an eye on AWS’s What’s New Feed page.

tooling

• twake-drive: The open-source alternative to Google Drive
• D2 Diagram Scripting Language
• mcp-scanner: Scan MCP servers for potential threats & security findings
• Recall for Linux: Bring Microsoft Recall to Linux
• bash-screensavers
• SICK: Streams of Independent Constant Keys

blogs

• Why /dev/null Is an ACID Compliant Database
• Advice for New Principal Tech ICs
• You already have a git server
• The Linux Boot Process: From Power Button to Kernel
• How We Saved $500,000 Per Year by Rolling Our Own “S3”
• Why I’m teaching kids to hack computers
• Avoid 2:00 and 3:00 am cron jobs
• Simplify Your Code: Functional Core, Imperative Shell
• HTTPS by default
• uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade
• Kafka is fast -- I'll use Postgres
• AWS to Bare Metal Two Years Later: Answering Your Toughest Questions About Leaving AWS
• If you don't tinker, you don't have taste
• More Than DNS: The 14 hour AWS us-east-1 outage