Weekly news | 2026-05-27
news
- Using AI to write better code more slowly
- Taking a walk may lead to more creativity than sitting, study finds (2014)
- Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence
- Netherlands blocks US takeover of vital digital supplier
- DynIP – Dynamic DNS with RFC 2136, IPv6, DNSSEC, and BYOD
- Earthion: A New Mega Drive-Style Shoot-Em-Up
- The user is visibly frustrated
- Motorola phones have started hijacking the Amazon app to insert affiliate codes
- What we lost when we stopped letting kids leave the front yard
- Outsourcing plus local AI will soon become more economical vs. frontier labs
- GitHub Actions was down
- Phantasy Star IV – 1993 Developer Interviews
- Squares in Squares
- Use boring languages with LLMs
- The real cost of owning a home
- Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down
- C64 Basic: Game Map Overhead “Camera View”
- A few interesting modern pixel fonts
- Launch HN: Minicor (YC P26) – Windows desktop automations at scale
- Uber, Lyft drivers in Massachusetts form first US ride-share union
- Does anybody like React?
- CVE-2026-28952: Apple macOS 26.5 Kernel Vuln found by Claude
- The Ballad of TIGIT
- Big tech's anti-labor playbook has come for Wikipedia
- How do you build a semiconductor company on something that's free?
- What color is your function? (2015)
AI:
- AWS:
- Amazon Aurora DSQL change data capture |
Preview - Application Recovery Controller zonal shift with Karpenter
- Application Recovery Controller Lambda event source mapping
- AWS HealthOmics caching of cancelled workflow runs
- AWS RTB Fabric custom domains for real-time bidding workloads
- Bedrock Advanced Prompt Optimization and Migration Tool
- Claude Platform on AWS is now generally available
- CloudFormation and CDK Reference stack outputs across accounts and Regions
- CloudFront OCSP Revocation for Mutual TLS (Viewer)
- CloudFront Passthrough Mode for mutual TLS (Viewer)
- CloudFront Premium flat-rate plan now supports configurable usage allowances
- CloudWatch Logs increased query result limits
- Connect Cases edit related items and delete cases from the agent workspace
- Connect Customer embedding Cases and Customer Profiles in custom agent applications
- Connect Customer permission for agents to view only their own performance evaluations
- EC2 ENA Express now supports traffic between Availability Zones
- EC2 M3 Ultra Mac instances |
GA - EventBridge Scheduler +619 new SDK API actions, including Lambda Managed Instances
- FSx for OpenZFS creating Multi-AZ file systems in shared VPCs
- Interconnect multicloud connectivity with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in preview
- Lambda scheduled scaling for functions on Lambda Managed Instances
- Managed Grafana in-place upgrade to Grafana version 12.4
- Organizations higher quotas for service control policies (SCPs)
- Partner Central agents now accelerates opportunity creation
- Quick cross-account access for Amazon Athena data sources
- Redshift RG instances powered by AWS Graviton
- Route 53 Domains +34 Top Level Domains including .app, .dev, and .health.
- SageMaker AI serverless model customization for Qwen3.6
- SageMaker Data Agent IAM Identity Center domains
- SageMaker Feature Store SageMaker Python SDK V3
- SageMaker JumpStart New models for image generation and text embeddings
- SageMaker JumpStart speech recognition and text-to-speech new models
- SageMaker JumpStart Two new models for coding
- SageMaker Unified Studio getting started tutorials and in-product release notes
- Security Agent full repository code reviews
- Transform agent builder toolkit Kiro power for building customized transformation agents
- Transform agentic AI assistant to the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio
- Transform agents now available in Kiro, Claude, Cursor, and Codex
- Transform containerization capability during migrations
- Transform customer-owned artifact stores
- WAF introduces dynamic label interpolation for custom request and response handling
- For a full list of AWS announcements, be sure to keep an eye on AWS’s What’s New Feed page.
- Amazon Aurora DSQL change data capture |