Weekly news | 2025-11-19

news

• Android developer verification: Early access starts
• Checkout.com hacked, refuses ransom payment, donates to security labs
• Introducing Blender Lab
• Introducing SlopStop: Community-driven AI slop detection in Kagi Search
• Meta replaces WhatsApp for Windows with web wrapper
• Go’s Sweet 16
• Kubernetes Ingress NGINX Retirement
• Microsoft: Azure hit by 15 Tbps DDoS attack using 500,000 IP addresses
• WeatherNext 2: Our most advanced weather forecasting model
• Windows 11 to add an AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders, warns of security risk
• Thunderbird Adds Native Microsoft Exchange Email Support

• Docker Now Provides Hardened Images (“Contact Sales for Pricing”)

• Outage:

  • Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues - post mortem
  • GitHub: Git operation failures

• AI:

  • SIMA 2: An Agent that Plays, Reasons, and Learns With You in Virtual 3D Worlds
  • Structured outputs on the Claude Developer Platform
  • Google's next-generation AI IDE: Antigravity
  • Gemini 3 Pro Model Card
  • Building more with GPT-5.1-Codex-Max
  • Code Wiki

• AWS:
  • ALB client credential flow with JWT verification
  • Aurora Global Database RDS Blue/Green deployments
  • AWS CUR 2.0 EC2 ODCR and Capacity Blocks for ML monitoring
  • Backup now supports Amazon EKS
  • Braket notebook instances now support CUDA-Q natively
  • Builder Center Spaces
  • CloudFormation Hooks granular invocation details for Hooks invocation summary
  • CloudWatch agent adds Shared Memory Metrics
  • CloudWatch Composite Alarms adds threshold-based alerting
  • CloudWatch Logs Network Load Balancer access logs
  • Connect Cases conditional field visibility and dependent options
  • Connect metrics on completion of agent performance evaluations by managers
  • Control Tower automatic enrollment of accounts
  • DocumentDB version 8.0
  • EC2 Mac instances DCV supports
  • ECS improves Service Availability during Rolling deployments
  • EventBridge
    -enhanced visual rule builder
    -targeting SQS fair queues
  • Fault Injection Service (FIS) new test scenarios for partial failures
  • Health EventBridge gives more flexibility and higher resilience
  • IoT Core location resolution capabilities for Amazon Sidewalk enabled devices
  • IoT Services VPC endpoints and IPv6 connectivity
  • IPv6
  • Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) now supports Logged Batches
  • Kinesis Video Streams WebRTC Multi-Viewer
  • Lambda
    -adds support for Java 25
    -adds support for Rust
    -Provisioned Mode for SQS event source mapping (ESM)
  • Managed Service for Prometheus collector integrates with Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka
  • Marketplace agreement EventBridge notifications
  • MSK Express Intelligent Rebalancing at no additional cost
  • Network Load Balancer QUIC protocol in passthrough mode
  • Parallel Computing Service Slurm CLI Filter plugins
  • Private CA post-quantum digital certificates
  • RDS for PostgreSQL now supports major version 18
  • S3 Express One Zone Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)
  • S3 Mountpoint now included in Amazon Linux 2023
  • S3 Tables CloudWatch metrics
  • SageMaker Catalog read and write access to Amazon S3
  • SageMaker Unified Studio catalog notifications
  • Security Incident Response communication preferences
  • Site-to-Site VPN 5 Gbps bandwidth tunnels
  • Transform Landing Zone Accelerator network configuration
  • For a full list of AWS announcements, be sure to keep an eye on AWS’s What’s New Feed page.

tooling

• Mergiraf: Syntax-Aware Merging for Git
• AI World Clocks
• AWK technical notes
• teams-for-linux: Unofficial Microsoft Teams for Linux client
• SSL Configuration Generator
• Archimedes: Python toolkit for hardware engineering
• librepods: AirPods liberated from Apple's ecosystem
• Vortex: An extensible, state of the art columnar file format

blogs

• Think in Math. Write in Code.
• RegreSQL: Regression Testing for PostgreSQL Queries
• Adguard DNS: Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive.today
• Messing with bots
• I finally understand Cloudflare Zero Trust tunnels
• Unlocking the full power of Copilot code review: Master your instructions files