Weekly news | 2025-11-05
news
- NPM flooded with malicious packages downloaded more than 86,000 times
- US declines to join more than 70 countries in signing UN cybercrime treaty
- Apple reports fourth quarter results
- Introducing architecture variants: amd64v3 now available in Ubuntu 25.10
- Google Removed 749 Million Anna’s Archive URLs from its Search Results
- New profile management feature in Firefox
- Kubernetes: Headlamp Plugin for Karpenter - Scaling and Visibility
- Outage:
- AWS:
- Amazon Aurora DSQL FIPS 140-3 compliant endpoints
- Amazon GameLift Servers telemetry metrics to all server SDKs and game engine plugins
- Amazon Nova
-Multimodal Embeddings
-Web Grounding: Build accurate AI applications - Amazon OCSF Ready Specialization
- Backup single-action database snapshot copy across AWS Regions and accounts
- Bedrock AgentCore Browser reduces CAPTCHAs with Web Bot Auth (Preview)
- Bedrock
-Stability AI Image Services +4 new image editing tools
-TwelveLabs’ Marengo Embed 3.0 - Clean Rooms advanced configurations to optimize SQL performance
- Cognito resource indicators
- Connect scheduling of individual agents
- DocumentDB upgraded query planner that can run queries up to 10x faster
- DynamoDB Accelerator now supports AWS PrivateLink
- EBS additional performance monitoring metrics for EBS volumes
- EC2 Capacity Reservation Topology API
- ECS built-in Linear and Canary deployments
- ECS Managed available in all commercial AWS Regions
- ECS Service Connect enhances observability with Envoy Access Logs
- EKS Split Cost Allocation Data
- ElastiCache dual-stack (IPv4 and IPv6) service endpoints
- Elastic Beanstalk Corretto 25 and Tomcat 11
- GameLift Streams adds AWS Health notifications for aging resources
- IoT Greengrass AI agent context pack
- Kinesis Data Streams 10x larger record sizes
- Lightsail larger instances
- Location Service new API key restrictions
- Managed Service for Prometheus anomaly detection
- Marketplace pricing model flexibility and simplified deployment for AI agents and tools
- MCP Proxy for AWS is now generally available
- PrivateLink cross-region connectivity for AWS Services
- RDS IPv6 support for publicly accessible databases
- Route 53 Resolver now supports AWS PrivateLink
- S3 conditional write functionality to copy operations
- SageMaker additional search context for search results
- Serverless MCP Server tools for AWS Lambda event source mappings (ESM)
- Step Functions new metrics dashboard
- VPC IPAM automates prefix list updates
- WorkSpaces USB redirection support for DCV WorkSpaces
- For a full list of AWS announcements, be sure to keep an eye on AWS’s What’s New Feed page.
tooling
- 0github: I made a heatmap diff viewer for code reviews
- Beginner-friendly, unofficial documentation for Helix text editor
- SPy: An interpreter and compiler for a fast statically typed variant of Python
- bluetui: TUI for managing bluetooth on Linux
- hypothesis: Property-Based Testing for Python
- terraform-provider-k8sconnect
- rain: A development workflow tool for working with AWS CloudFormation