Weekly news | 2025-12-03
news
- Anthropic acquires Bun
- Gel joins Vercel
- Ghostty is now non-profit
- Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service
- MinIO is now in maintenance-mode
- GitLab discovers widespread npm supply chain attack
- India orders smartphone makers to preload state-owned cyber safety app
- Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out
- Advent of Code 2025
- Advent of Sysadmin 2025
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AI:
- AWS:
- Apache Iceberg V3 deletion vectors and row lineage
- AWS Health event triage
- Bedrock Reserved Service tier
- CloudWatch deletion protection for logs
- Compute Optimizer unused NAT Gateway recommendations
- EMR and Glue
-audit context support with Lake Formation
-write operations with Lake Formation fine-grained access controls - Glue
-5.1
-zero-ETL for self-managed Database Sources - Kinesis Video Streams new cost effective warm storage tier
- Knowledge MCP Server now supports topic-based search
- Lex LLMs as the primary option for natural language understanding
- Marketplace API MCP Server
- Quick Research trusted third-party industry intelligence
- S3 Block Public Access organization-level enforcement
- SageMaker AI Flexible Training Plans capacity for Inference
- SageMaker HyperPod
-custom Kubernetes labels and taints
-Managed tiered KV cache and intelligent routing
-programmatic node reboot and replacement - For a full list of AWS announcements, be sure to keep an eye on AWS’s What’s New Feed page.
tooling
- penpot: The Open-Source Figma
- Linux Kernel Explorer: Linux Kernel Explorer - interactive online visualization of the Linux kernel source code
- runprompt: Tiny script to run .prompt files
- Tyr: True Peer-to-Peer Email on Yggdrasil Network
- PocketBase: open source backend in a single file
- winapps: Run Windows apps as if they were a part of the native Linux OS
- Network Monitor: a GUI to spot anomalous connections on your Linux
- Exposed By Default: Explore what the browser exposes about you
- spritefusion-pixel-snapper: Fixing Google Nano Banana Pixel Art with Rust
- ghostty-web: Ghostty for the web with xterm.js API compatibility
- : a library for reading and writing the Dwarf debugging format
- YesNotice: a website to notify you the moment something you care about changes from no to yes
- Functional Data Structures and Algorithms: A Proof Assistant Approach
- Molly: independent Signal fork for Android