Weekly news | 2025-11-12
news
- Cloudflare Tells U.S. Govt That Foreign Site Blocking Efforts Are Digital Trade Barriers
- YouTube Goes Bonkers, Removes Windows 11 Bypass Tutorials, Claims 'Risk of Physical Harm'
- VLC's Jean-Baptiste Kempf receives the European SFS Award 2025 at SFSCON
- FFmpeg to Google: Fund Us or Stop Sending Bugs
- yt-dlp: External JavaScript runtime now required for full YouTube support
- Announcing .NET 10
- Bluetooth 6.2 gets more responsive, improves security, USB communication, and testing capabilities
- Helm v4.0.0 Release
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AI:
- Kimi K2 Thinking: a SOTA open-source trillion-parameter reasoning model
- Fighting the New York Times’ invasion of user privacy
- GPT-5.1: A smarter, more conversational ChatGPT
- AWS:
- Amazon FSx integrates with Secrets Manager
- Backup KMS customer managed keys with logically air-gapped vaults
- Bedrock AgentCore Runtime now supports direct code deployment
- Builder Center new Regional planning tool
- CloudFront
-cross-account support for VPC origins
-IPv6 support for Anycast Static IPs - CloudWatch Application Signals AI-powered Synthetics debugging
- CloudWatch Database Insights expands anomaly detection in on-demand analysis
- CloudWatch NVMe Local Volume Performance Statistics
- Cognito
-removes Machine-to-Machine app client price dimension
-user pools now supports private connectivity with AWS PrivateLink - Config
-+42 new managed rules
-+52 new resource types - Connect configuration of email address aliases
- Deadline Cloud support with latest 6th, 7th, and 8th gen instances
- DynamoDB Streams PrivateLink supports FIPS endpoints
- EC2 Auto Scaling warm pools with mixed instances policies
- EC2 new R8a Memory-Optimized Instances
- ECS non-root container support for managed EBS volumes
- End User Messaging SMS launches Carrier Lookup
- Glue Schema Registry adds support for C#
- IoT Greengrass v2.16 system log forwarder and TPM2.0 capabilities
- Kinesis Data Streams On-demand Advantage mode
- KMS Edwards-curve Digital Signature Algorithm (EdDSA)
- Marketplace transactions in Indian Rupees (INR)
- OpenSearch Serverless FIPS compliant endpoints
- RDS for Oracle R7i memory-optimized instances up to 64:1 memory-to-vCPU ratio
- S3
-Mountpoint for Amazon S3 CSI driver add monitoring capability
-now supports tags on S3 Tables - SageMaker custom tags for project resources
- Service Reference Information SDK Operation to Action mapping
- VPC Lattice custom domain names for resource configurations
- For a full list of AWS announcements, be sure to keep an eye on AWS’s What’s New Feed page.
tooling
- openpcc: An open-source framework for verifiably private AI inference, inspired by Apple’s Private Cloud Compute
- Book.sv: Book Recommendations, trained by data from 3B Goodreads reviews
- Rust TUI app showcase
- qqqa: Fast, stateless LLM for your shell: qq answers; qa runs commands
- Myna: monospace typeface designed for symbol-rich programming
- Snapchat's Valdi: cross-platform UI framework that delivers native performance without sacrificing developer velocity
- MarkoJS: A declarative, HTML‑based language
- OpenCloud: An alternative to Nextcloud written in Go
- lazygit: simple terminal UI for git commands
- Perkeep: Personal storage system for life
- JSX Tool: A Browser Dev-Panel IDE for React
- Harmonix on AWS: Backstage project by AWS