Weekly news | 2025-12-31
news
- MongoBleed Explained Simply
- Ruby 4.0.0
- Google is 'gradually rolling out' option to change your gmail.com address
- Rainbow Six Siege hacked as players get billions of credits and random bans
- OpenAI's cash burn will be one of the big bubble questions of 2026
- Warren Buffett steps down as Berkshire Hathaway CEO after six decades
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AWS:
- Bedrock NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano
- CloudWatch automatic telemetry configuration +6 services
- Connect automated agent performance evaluations +5 languages
- Deadline Cloud direct job submission from the Deadline Cloud Monitor
- ECS Service Connect enhances observability with Envoy Access Logs
- End User Messaging SMS launches a Generative AI Registration Reviewer |
Preview - GameLift Streams Gen6-based stream classes and enhanced autoscaling
- GameLift Streams real-time performance stats and improved API error messaging
- Kinesis Video Streams now supports IPv6 for WebRTC
- Oracle Database@AWS sharing of AWS Marketplace entitlements across accounts
- Redshift four new materialized view (MV) features on data shares
- SageMaker JumpStart MiniMax-M2
- Secrets Manager improved secret sorting capabilities
- Storage Gateway Nutanix AHV hypervisor
- Transform enables network conversion for hybrid data center migrations
- Wickr admin APIs for programmatic network management at scale
- WorkSpaces Secure Browser enables branding customization
- WorkSpaces Secure Browser WebAuthn redirection for local Chromium browsers
- For a full list of AWS announcements, be sure to keep an eye on AWS’s What’s New Feed page.
tooling
- Rex is a safe kernel extension framework that allows Rust in the place of eBPF
- Immer – A library of persistent and immutable data structures written in C++
- Stepping down as Mockito maintainer after ten years
- Asterisk AI Voice Agent
- CUDA Tile Open Sourced
- Mattermost restricted access to old messages after 10000 limit is reached
- Mruby: Ruby for Embedded Systems
- Mysti – Claude, Codex, and Gemini debate your code, then synthesize
- Apple releases open-source model that instantly turns 2D photos into 3D views
- Stop Claude Code from forgetting everything
- Toro: Deploy Applications as Unikernels
- Zpdf: PDF text extraction in Zig
- Postgres extension complements pgvector for performance and scale
- Tixl: Open-source realtime motion graphics
- Ez FFmpeg – Video editing in plain English
blogs
- The Dangers of SSL Certificates
- A production bug that made me care about undefined behavior
- MongoDB Server Security Update, December 2025
- The compiler is your best friend
- On privacy and control
- Gpg.fail
- Software engineers should be a little bit cynical
- Archiving Git branches as tags
- Pre-commit hooks are broken
- Staying ahead of censors in 2025
- I migrated to an almost all-EU stack and saved 500€ per year
- Incremental Backups of Gmail Takeouts
- The rise of industrial software
resources
- Learn computer graphics from scratch and for free
- Replacing JavaScript with Just HTML
- T-Ruby: Ruby with syntax for types
- Non-Zero-Sum Games
- List of domains censored by German ISPs
- One clean, developer-focused page for every Unicode symbol
- Use Claude Code to Query 600 GB Indexes over Hacker News, ArXiv, etc.