Weekly news | 2025-04-02

news

• Dagger introduces Dagger shell
• DeepSeek-V3 Technical Report
• xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80B
• CVE-2025-24362: CodeQLEAKED – Public Secrets Exposure Leads to Supply Chain Attack on GitHub CodeQL
• demoscene as a UNESCO heritage in Sweden
• The <select> element can now be customized with CSS
• Turso announces Offline Sync Public Beta
• HTTPS (Type 65) RR (like SRV) Support in curl (RFC9460)
  • RFC9460
• Grafana Labs discontinues open-source OnCall product
• OpenAI closes $40 billion funding round, largest private tech deal on record
• Matrix.org will migrate to MAS on Apr 7th 2025
• Mozilla launching "Thundermail" email service to take on Gmail, Microsoft 365

• AWS:
  • Amplify Hosting WAF Protection | GA
  • Amplify
    • samples to Deploy Storage Browser for S3
    • Shared Keychain support for Swift
  • Application Recovery Controller FIS recovery action for zonal autoshift
  • Bedrock Custom Model Import introduces real-time cost transparency
  • Bedrock Guardrails industry-leading image content filters | GA
  • Bedrock Knowledge Bases Opensearch Managed Cluster for vector storage
  • CloudFormation targeted resource scans in the IaC generator
  • CodeBuild custom cache keys for S3 caching
  • Connected Mobility Solution new features
  • Database Insights customization of its metrics dashboard
  • DataZone metadata rules for publishing
  • Dedicated Local Zones gp3 and io1 ebs volumes
  • DMS Schema Conversion IBM Db2 for z/OS to RDS for Db2 conversion
  • DynamoDB percentile statistics for request latency
  • DynamoDB Streams PrivateLink support
  • EC2 more bandwidth and jumbo frames to select destinations
  • EKS enforces upgrade insights checks as part of cluster upgrades
  • Elemental MediaConnect NDI® outputs
  • EventBridge Scheduler PrivateLink support
  • GameLift Servers next-gen EC2 instances
  • IAM dual-stack (IPv4 and IPv6) environments
  • Keyspaces Multi-Region support for User Defined Types (UDTs)
  • Lambda Ruby 3.4
  • Marketplace new seller experiences for ML products
  • Network Firewall pass action rule alerts and JA4 filtering
  • Network Manager support PrivateLink and IPv6
  • Open Source Corretto 24 | GA
  • Parallel Computing Service Terraform support
  • Polly New Korean voice
  • Q Business upgrades for Slack and Teams Integrations
  • Q in QuickSight Scenarios capability | GA
  • RDS for MySQL Innovation Release 9.2 in Preview Environment
  • RDS for SQL Server linked servers to Teradata databases
  • Route 53 Profiles IPv6 Service Endpoints
  • SageMaker HyperPod multi-head node support in Slurm
  • SageMaker metadata rules to enforce standards and improve data governance
  • For a full list of AWS announcements, be sure to keep an eye on AWS’s What’s New Feed page.

tooling

• styrolite: Programmatic low-level container runtime
• xee: A Modern XPath and XSLT Engine in Rust
• Plain: A web framework for building products with Python
• Koto: A lightweight scripting language for Rust applications
• lvgl: Embedded graphics library to create beautiful UIs
• vramfs: VRAM based file system for Linux
• postgres-language-server: A Language Server for Postgres
• blue95: A desktop for your childhood home's computer room
• pg-mcp: Cloud-Ready Postgres MCP Server
• kalua: hardware-independent openWRT-extension for building large mesh-networks
• BreezeWiki: makes wiki pages on Fandom readable
• Go Optimization Guide
• FluentSubs: Duolingo-style exercises but with real-world content like the news
• unattend-generator: Generate autounattend.xml files for Windows 10/11
• pico-pubsub: JavaScript PubSub in 163 Bytes
• TF Module Instance Generator: A tool for creating an instance of a Terraform module from the variables.tf file
• Pico.sh: SSH powered services for developers
• textcase: A feature-rich Python text case conversion library

blogs

• Building a Linux Container Runtime from Scratch: story of styrolite
• Share Python Scripts Like a Pro: uv and PEP 723 for Easy Deployment
• Self-contained Python scripts with uv
• Bringing Record and Replay debugging everywhere on Linux
• How to Debug a Node.js Microservice
• Enforce Kubernetes Policies to Standardize Test Workflows
• IngressNightmare: CVE-2025-1974 - 9.8 Critical Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities in Ingress NGINX
• Metrics at a Glance for Production Clusters
• Hardening Kubernetes Security with DevSecOps Practices
• Compiler Options Hardening Guide for C and C++
• Gemini 2.5 Pro vs. Claude 3.7 Sonnet: Coding Comparison
• nue: Apps lighter than a React button
• Systems Correctness Practices at AWS: Leveraging Formal and Semi-Formal Methods

• Mermaid Chart VS Code Plugin: Create and Edit Mermaid.js Diagrams in Visual Studio Code

• CNCF On demand webinar:

  • Gateway API 101 with Linkerd
  • Serverless WebAssembly functions - polyglot programming made easy with Spin
  • Crypto agility, hybrid certificates and PQC migration strategies
  • External load balancing and multi-cluster routing for Kubernetes
  • The case for open source - how k0rdent empowers enterprise agility
  • Cloud migration without misery