Weekly news | 2025-03-05
news
- New releases:
- EA open sources Command and Conquer: Red Alert, along with other games
- Nigerians are building affordable alternatives to AWS and Google Cloud
- OpenAI introduces GPT 4.5
- IBM completes acquisition of HashiCorp
- Microsoft is killing Skype after 14 years of neglect
- Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other Manifest V2-based extensions in Edge as part of the migration to Manifest V3
- Firefox updated privacy notice and terms of use
- Github scam investigation: Thousands of "mods" and "cracks" stealing your data
- Reminder: Firefox is now enforcing Certificate Transparency on desktop platforms
- Xcode constantly phones home
- Zapier data breach
- Fluent Bit 0-day Vulnerabilities Exposes Billions of Production Environments to Cyber Attacks
- OpenSSF announces initial release of the Open Source Project Security baseline
- Apple drags UK government to court over 'backdoor' order
- Amazon buys nuclear-powered data center from Talen
- AWS:
- Batch resource aware scheduling
- Bedrock
- Bedrock Guardrails increase in service quota limits
- Chatbot is now named Amazon Q Developer
- Cloudwatch Application Signals cross-account application monitoring
- CloudWatch Database Insights
- CodeBuild
- CodePipeline new console experience for viewing pipeline releases
- Connect
- Data Lifecycle Manager now supports AWS PrivateLink
- EC2 Fleet Block Device Mapping overrides
- EC2 Time-based Copy for AMIs
- ECS additional IAM condition keys
- EKS Anywhere extended support for Kubernetes versions
- Elastic Beanstalk
- IoT Device Defender certificate lifecycle management
- Location Service now supports AWS PrivateLink
- Network Firewall enhanced policy management and console features
- Q Business M365 for Word and Outlook integrations
- RDS for Db2 now supports M7i and R7i instances types
- RDS for Oracle Spatial Patch Bundle for January 2025
- RDS visibility into IAM DB Authentication metrics and logs
- SageMaker Canvas Q Developer is now GA
- Verified Permissions Cedar JSON entity format
- WAF enhances integration with Service Quotas
- For a full list of AWS announcements, be sure to keep an eye on AWS’s What’s New Feed page.
tooling
- DeepSeeks's 3FS: A high-performance distributed file system designed to address the challenges of AI training and inference workloads.
- Calendar.txt: plain text calendar format
- Telescope: an open-source web-based log viewer for logs in ClickHouse
- ladybird: Truly independent web browser
- Globstar: open-source static analysis toolkit for writing and running code checkers
- macOS tips
- The 20 Games Challenge: learn game development in 20 games or less
- Maestro: Painless E2E Automation for Mobile and Web
- Qapir: Backend testing made easy
- Robyn: new Python Web Framework built with Rust
- recommendarr: AI driven recommendation system based on Radarr and Sonarr library information
- agents-json: OpenAPI Specification for LLMs
- Yoke: Kubernetes Package Management for those who love to code
- tangled: a git collaboration platform, built on atproto
- appstat: Process Monitor for Windows
- The owner of ip4.me/ip6.me, Kevin Loch, passed away
- Mox: modern, secure, all-in-one email server
- Zentool: AMD Zen microcode manipulation utility
blogs
- Troubleshooting: A skill that never goes obsolete
- AzureShit: Reasons to not use Microsoft Azure
- Experiments with WASM and OpenGL
- JavaScript Fatigue Strikes Back: too many JS frameworks
- Why do we have both CSRF protection and CORS?
- Towards a test-suite for TOTP codes
- Apple's software quality crisis
- Provisioning Kubernetes on Bare Metal using AWS EKS-Anywhere
- Integrating Microsoft Entra ID with Keycloak for Kubernetes access
- Kafka, Kafka Connect, SQL Server CDC, and Event Hub streaming on Kubernetes: A 3-part guide
- Securing the Kubernetes Host Operating System
- API Design 101: From Basics to Best Practices
- My kubernetes pods keep crashing with “CrashLoopBackOff” but I can’t find any log
- Calico eBPF Source IP Preservation: The Unexpected Story of High Tail Latency
- Programming and architectural paradigms
- How SSH works?
- Rightsizing Kubernetes workloads - a practical guide
- Kubernetes monitoring best practices
- DevOps evolution: from movement to Platform Engineering in the AI Era
- Avoiding the cloud migration graveyard
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CNCF On demand webinar:
- Insights from the Radar: Exploring trends & ecosystem gaps from the CNCF AI & Multicluster radar report
- Opening pull requests with AI for infrastructure problems