Weekly news | 2025-01-29

news

• Hackers exploit 16 zero-days on first day of Pwn2Own Automotive 2025
• Microsoft loses status as OpenAI’s exclusive cloud provider
• Leaked documents expose deep ties between Israeli army and Microsoft
• Alibaba, Datadog, and Quesma Join Forces on Go Compile-Time Instrumentation
• OpenAI launches Operator, an AI agent that can operate your computer
• A phishing attack involving g.co, Google's URL shortener (gist.github.com)
• The Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a total disaster
• DeepSeek releases Janus Pro, a text-to-image generator
• Nvidia’s $589 Billion DeepSeek Rout Is Largest in Market History
• New speculative attacks on Apple CPUs
• Wiz Research uncovers exposed DeepSeek database leaking sensitive Information, including chat history

• Important changes coming to Bitbucket Cloud’s free plan

• New releases:

  • Tailwind CSS v4.0
  • Bun 1.2
  • Threlte 8

• GitHub:

• AWS:

  • Aurora PostgreSQL Limitless Database v16.6
  • Bedrock Flows preview of multi-turn conversation
  • Bedrock
    • Luma AI's Ray2 visual AI model
    • multimodal support for Cohere Embed 3 Multilingual and Embed 3 English
  • Client VPN concurrent VPN connections
  • CloudWatch
    • allows alarming on data up to 7 days old
    • execution plan capture for Aurora PostgreSQL
  • CloudWatch Observability one step onboarding for EKS workloads
  • Connect
    • audio optimization for Citrix and WorkSpaces virtual desktops
    • daily headcount projections in capacity plan downloads
  • Corretto January 2025 quarterly updates
  • Edge Location in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
  • EKS and Amazon EKS Distro version 1.32
  • ElastiCache 1-click connectivity setup between EC2 and your cache
  • Elastic Beanstalk
    • default support of EC2 Launch Template
    • better scaling and deployment speeds for Windows with EC2 Fast-launch
  • EventBridge direct delivery to cross-account targets
  • IoT SiteWise null and NaN data types
  • Marketplace
    • 8 decimal place precision for usage pricing
    • automated version archiving for AMI and container products
  • Neptune open-source GraphRAG toolkit
  • Q Business insights from images uploaded in chat
  • Redshift
    • History Mode for zero-ETL integrations
    • new SQL features for zero-ETL integrations
  • Resource Groups +172 more resource types
  • SNS FIFO Topics high-throughput mode
  • Transfer Family custom directory locations to store AS2 files
  • For a full list of AWS announcements, be sure to keep an eye on AWS’s What’s New Feed page.

tooling

• AWS Region Comparison Tool
• LibraryIO: Upload, read, and sync your PDFs across all your devices
• Lightpanda: the headless browser designed for AI and automation
• Hiring.Cafe: job listing
• wol: Wake up your devices with a single command or click. A Wake-On-LAN tool that works via CLI and web interface.
• SystemInformer: successor to Process Hacker
• libmodulor: An opinionated TypeScript library to create business oriented applications
• AI Video Starting Kit: A powerful starting kit for building AI-powered video applications
• Master the Art of the Product Manager "No"
• llama.vim: Vim plugin for LLM-assisted code/text completion
• Bunster: Compile bash scripts to self contained executables
• TMSU: Command-line tool for applying tags and viewing virtual tagged filesystem
• trae: AI-powered IDE by ByteDance
• edge-tts: Use Microsoft Edge's online text-to-speech service from Python WITHOUT needing Microsoft Edge or Windows or an API key
• scrapscript: a tiny programming language and messaging notation
• Modern Polars: A side-by-side comparison of the Polars and Pandas libraries
• Squidly: Simplify your GitHub Workflow management
• Programming-Idioms
• CSS library based on Counter Strike 1.6 UI
• CopyCat: Free Alternative to OpenAI's $200 Operator
• SQLook: A free online SQLite database manager with a Windows 2000 interface
• Bagels: expense tracker that lives in your terminal.
• uv: An extremely fast Python package and project manager, written in Rust.
• Malimite: iOS and macOS Decompiler
• Distr: a Software Distribution Platform
• action-tmate: Debug your GitHub Actions via SSH by using tmate to get access to the runner system itself.

blogs

• Replit, the Figma Replacement
• DeepSeek and the Effects of GPU Export Controls
• gRPC vs REST: Understanding gRPC, OpenAPI and REST and when to use them in API design
• A look at compression algorithms
• Using 2 Editors Because Xcode Is Dumb
• Single-file scripts that download their dependencies
• How to inspect React Server Component Activity with Next.js
• To-Do ≠ To-Think
• A WebAssembly compiler that fits in a tweet
• The Hidden Complexity of Scaling WebSockets
• Cloud virtualization: Red Hat, AWS Firecracker, and Ubicloud internals
• The Past, Present, and Future of UI at GitHub
• The Illustrated DeepSeek-R1
• Two Programming-with-AI Approaches
• Slack Overflow: How We Scaled Slack to Support 1000s of Developers
• Composable SQL
• A major Postgres upgrade with zero downtime
• Case Study: Bytedance Uses eBPF to Enhance Networking Performance