Weekly news | 2025-04-09
news
- NVIDIA Finally Adds Native Python Support to CUDA
- Google announces Sec-Gemini v1, a new experimental cybersecurity model
- Hackers strike Australia's largest pension funds in coordinated attacks
- The Llama 4 herd: The beginning of a new era of natively multimodal AI innovation
- OpenVertebrate Presents a Massive Database of 13,000 3D Scans of Vertebrate Specimens
- Open Source Coalition announces 'Model-Signing' to strengthen ML supply chain
- Git turns 20
- Tailscale has raised $160 million USD
- Meta got caught gaming AI benchmarks
- Wing Cloud shuts down after raising $20 million to reinvent cloud development
- Fast Flux: A National Security Threat (Malware goes p2p)
- GitHub Copilot Adds Agent and MCP Support
- AWS:
- API Gateway support for dual-stack (IPv4 and IPv6) endpoints
- App Studio prebuilt solutions catalog and cross-instance Import and Export
- Backup support for Redshift Serverless
- Billing & Cost Management MFA is required for new card registration in Japan
- CDK
- Clean Rooms Spark SQL aggregation and list analysis rules
- CloudFront VPC Origin modification with CloudFront Functions
- CloudWatch Application Signals Monitor service dependencies with SLOs
- CloudWatch Logs maximum log event size to 1 MB
- Connect
- Connect Contact Lens
- EKS
- Elastic Beanstalk get secrets and configs from Secrets/Systems Manager
- Elemental MediaLive Anywhere SMPTE 2110 inputs
- Elemental MediaTailor new pricing model with lower VOD ad insertion costs
- End User Messaging phone number registration +18 new countries
- IAM Identity Center sessions and TIP management for MS AD
- IoT Device SDK for Swift |
Developer Preview - Marketplace
- Neptune 99.99% availability Service Level Agreement
- OpenSearch Ingestion pipelines enhanced autoscaling
- OpenSearch Service Q Developer |
GA - Outposts Asset level capacity management
- Payment Cryptography exchanging cryptographic keys using ECDH
- Q Business Browser Extension
- QuickSight
- RAM IPv6 support
- RDS for PostgreSQL
- RDS Proxy TLS 1.3 support for PostgreSQL on Aurora and RDS
- Resource Explorer +32 resource types
- SageMaker +9 visual ETL transforms
- Security Lake
- SES attachments in sending APIs
- SES Mail Manager incoming connections from VPCs via PrivateLink
- SNS IPv6 support
- Step Functions SDK integrations with Backup Search , +137 additional APIs
- VPC Route Server |
GA - For a full list of AWS announcements, be sure to keep an eye on AWS’s What’s New Feed page.
tooling
- curl-impersonate: A special build of curl that can impersonate Chrome & Firefox
- AnimeJS: JavaScript animation engine
- headscale: An open source, self-hosted implementation of the Tailscale control server
- MIT 6.5950 Secure Hardware Design: An open-source course on hardware attacks
- GitMCP: Instantly create a Remote MCP server for any GitHub project
- InitWare: a portable systemd fork running on BSDs and Linux
- OpenNutition: A free, public nutrition database
- zxc: Terminal based intercepting proxy written in rust with
tmuxandvimas user interface - hatchet: A task orchestration platform built on Postgres
- uWrap: A 10x faster and more accurate text wrapping util in < 2KB (min)
- coolify: Open-source and self-hostable Heroku / Netlify / Vercel alternative
- Versatile-OCR-Program: Multi-modal OCR pipeline optimized for ML training (text, figure, math, tables, diagrams)
- pytest.nvim
- ferron: A fast, memory-safe web server written in Rust
- Standard Ebooks: liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover
- mem-isolate: a Rust crate for running unsafe code safely
- Glamorous Toolkit | GitHub
- BrowserMCP: Connect AI apps to your browser to automate tests and tasks
- Lux: a luxurious package manager for Lua
- MonkeysPaw: a prompt-driven web framework in Ruby
- weather-mcp-server: enables AI assistants like Claude to retrieve and interpret real-time weather data
- coroot: eBPF-based, open source observability with actionable insights
- badgeify: Add Any App to Your Mac Menu Bar
- CINC - CINC is not Chef: A Free-as-in-Beer distribution of the open source software of Chef Software Inc.
- tfbuddy: Apply-before-Merge workflow for Terraform Cloud
- drawDB: open-source online database diagram editor
- linux-kernel-defence-map: shows the relationships between vulnerability classes, exploitation techniques, bug detection mechanisms, and defence technologies
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dockerfmt: Dockerfile formatter
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Fun:
blogs
- PostgreSQL Full-Text Search: Fast When Done Right (Debunking the Slow Myth)
- The chroot Technique - a Swiss army multitool for Linux systems
- Anthropic Education Report: How University Students Use Claude
- How Netflix Accurately Attributes eBPF Flow Logs
- TIL: Any program can be a GitHub Actions shell
- 20 years of Git
- No elephants: Breakthroughs in image generation: When Language Models Learn to See and Create
- Use the Gemini API with OpenAI fallback in Typescript
- Apple’s Darwin OS and XNU Kernel Deep Dive
- The order of files in /etc/ssh/sshd_config.d/ matters (and may surprise you)
- The “S” in MCP Stands for Security
- rsync replaced with openrsync on macOS Sequoia
- The Slow Collapse of Critical Thinking in OSINT due to AI
- How Airbnb Measures Listing Lifetime Value
- What is Local-first Web Development?
- Senior Developer Skills in the AI Age: Leveraging Experience for Better Results
- Is Python Code Sensitive to CPU Caching?
- Pitfalls of Safe Rust
- Journey to Optimize Cloudflare D1 Database Queries
- IngressNightmare: 9.8 Critical unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerabilities in Ingress NGINX
- How to debug a Node.js microservice
- Enforce Kubernetes policies to standardize test workflows
- Metrics at a glance for production clusters
- Dashboards are dead!
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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