Weekly news | 2025-01-22

news

• Google is making AI in Gmail and Docs free — but raising the price of Workspace
• Let's Encrypt announces short-lived certificates (six-day lifetime)
• Docker Desktop broken on Mac OS Update for over a Week
• Anthropic achieves ISO 42001 certification for responsible AI
• Google begins requiring JavaScript for Google Search
• kubernetes-comic
• Microsoft just renamed Office to Microsoft 365 Copilot on Windows 11 for everyone
• Bambu Connect's authentication X.509 certificate and private key extracted
• Linux 6.13 Released With AutoFDO + Propeller, AMD Changes & Broader Apple Support
• Official DeekSeek R1 is on Ollama
• President Donald Trump on Tuesday talked up a joint venture investing up to $500 billion for infrastructure tied to artificial intelligence by a new partnership formed by OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank.
• Unique 0-click deanonymization attack targeting Signal, Discord and hundreds of platform
• First release of OpenVox, the community-maintained open source implementation of Puppet.
• MasterCard DNS Error Went Unnoticed for Years
• Net vs gross salaries in Europe

• GitHub:

  • Linux arm64 hosted runners now available for free in public repositories (Public Preview)
  • Evolving GitHub Issues (public preview): add support for sub-issues.

• AWS:

  • Billing accepts payments in 8 new local currencies
  • CloudFormation User Notifications
  • CodeBuild test splitting and parallelism
  • Connect Contact Lens
    • configurable groupings and filters in dashboards
    • new real-time dashboard
  • Connect
    • outbound campaigns can connect a call with an agent in under 2 seconds
    • Preview: persistent agent connections for faster call handling
  • Customer Carbon Footprint Tool moved to a new dedicated page
  • EC2 Flex new larger instance sizes
  • EC2 Image Builder Windows ISO files to AMIs
  • ElastiCache Service Quotas
  • Elastic Beanstalk adds additional Spot allocation strategies
  • Elemental MediaTailor now supports log filtering
  • Encryption SDK Golang is now generally available
  • Management Console
    • CodePipeline introduces new debugging experience
    • simultaneous sign-in for multiple AWS accounts
  • Marketplace Tax Collection and Multiple Tax Profiles for Switzerland
  • MemoryDB now supports Service Quotas
  • MSK additional Graviton-3 (m7g) instance sizes for Express Brokers
  • MSK Connect updating connector configuration
  • Partner Connections multi-partner opportunities
  • Q Developer CloudZero plugin
  • Redshift two new geospatial H3 Indexing functions
  • Resource Explorer +29 new resource types
  • S3 Tables +5 additional AWS Regions
  • Security Hub Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall
  • Step Functions +36 services including AWS End User Messaging
  • WorkSpaces Personal and Core larger General Purpose bundles
  • For a full list of AWS announcements, be sure to keep an eye on AWS’s What’s New Feed page.

tooling

• adr-tools: Command-line tools for working with Architecture Decision Records (ADR)
• nepenthes: tarpit to catch AI web crawlers
• oauth-hopper: Hop over OAuth2 services
• Kokoro
• dnSpy: revival of the well known .NET debugger and assembly editor
• Simplex: Automate browser workflows using code and natural language
• pyper: Concurrent Python made simple
• Learn Yjs Interactively
• OhShitGit: how to fix your mistakes in Git | another version without swearing
• postgresql-anonymizer: mask or replace personally identifiable information (PII) or commercially sensitive data from a Postgres database
• Interactive game teaching dark patterns in UX design
• NueJS: standards first web framework
• Programming in Lua
• PyViz: helping users decide on the best open-source (OSS) Python data visualization tools
• LinuxNetworkProgramming: A comprehensive guide for Linux Network (Socket) programming
• terraform-provider-hrui: Terraform provider for HRUI (Horaco, Sodola, XikeStor, etc) switches
• 9esim: Using eSIMs with devices that only have a physical SIM slot
• core-explorer: A DWARF parser and core dump analyzer that runs in your browser
• ruff: An extremely fast Python linter and code formatter, written in Rust.
• MikuMikuBeam:
• knonotop: Redis-compatible, distributed and transactional document database backed by FoundationDB
• JReleaser: quick and effortless way to release your project

blogs

• TikTok ban takes hold: data reveals sharp traffic decline and rapid shift to alternatives
• Engineering Impacts of Anonymous Author Code Review: A Field Experiment
• How I use git worktrees
• Why does Cloudflare Pages have such a generous Free tier?
• Modern JavaScript for Django Developers
• Code reviews: A success story: A tale on how a strict code review process helped ship a bug-free feature
• Five years of React native at Shopify
• Editing Mermaid Class Diagrams with the Visual Editor
• Bypassing disk encryption on systems with automatic TPM2 unlock
• Thoughts on having SSH allow password authentication from the Internet
• I'll think twice before using Github Actions again: Rants on limitations of GitHub Actions
• How Kubernetes Requests and Limits Actually Work
• K3s etcd backup to S3 for free
• Understanding ReplicaSet vs. StatefulSet vs. DaemonSet vs. Deployments
• Decoding the pod termination lifecycle in Kubernetes: a comprehensive guide
• The Ultimate Guide to Scaling Elasticsearch
• What is OpenTelemetry and how to add it to your Django application
• Three Trends to Watch in Platform Engineering for 2025
• What is Observability 2.0?