Weekly news | 2025-12-10

news

• Django 6.0 release
• Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros
• React2Shell: In-the-Wild Exploitation Expected for Critical React Vulnerability
• IBM to Acquire Confluent
• Microsoft Increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 License Prices
• Paramount Skydance launches hostile bid for Warner Bros. Discovery
• 10 Years of Let's Encrypt Certificates
• Terraform CDK sunset

• OpenTofu v1.11.0 release

• AI:

  • Gemini 3 Pro: the frontier of vision AI
  • Mistral releases Devstral2 and Mistral Vibe CLI
  • Block, Anthropic, and OpenAI Launch the Agentic AI Foundation
  • Qwen3-Omni-Flash-2025-12-01：Hear You. See You. Follow Smarter!

• AWS:
  • Apache Iceberg V3 deletion vectors and row lineage
  • AWS Health event triage
  • Bedrock Reserved Service tier
  • CloudWatch deletion protection for logs
  • Compute Optimizer unused NAT Gateway recommendations
  • EMR and Glue
    -audit context support with Lake Formation
    -write operations with Lake Formation fine-grained access controls
  • Glue
    -5.1
    -zero-ETL for self-managed Database Sources
  • Kinesis Video Streams new cost effective warm storage tier
  • Knowledge MCP Server now supports topic-based search
  • Lex LLMs as the primary option for natural language understanding
  • Marketplace API MCP Server
  • Quick Research trusted third-party industry intelligence
  • S3 Block Public Access organization-level enforcement
  • SageMaker AI Flexible Training Plans capacity for Inference
  • SageMaker HyperPod
    -custom Kubernetes labels and taints
    -Managed tiered KV cache and intelligent routing
    -programmatic node reboot and replacement
  • For a full list of AWS announcements, be sure to keep an eye on AWS’s What’s New Feed page.

tooling

• PGlite: Embeddable Postgres
• UnCloud: Tool for deploying containerised apps across servers without k8s
• walrus: High Performance kafka alternative written in rust
• Tiny Core Linux: a 23 MB Linux distro with graphical desktop
• Microsoft Download Center Archive
• Interactive and animated Mermaid diagrams
• Twelve Days of Shell
• AlgoDrills: Interactive drills to stop forgetting LeetCode patterns
• cloudflare-error-page

blogs

• Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025
• Why I Ignore The Spotlight as a Staff Engineer
• Thoughts on Go vs. Rust vs. Zig
• Netflix’s AV1 Journey: From Android to TVs and Beyond
• Patterns for Defensive Programming in Rust
• Most Technical Problems Are Really People Problems
• Why We Built Lightpanda in Zig
• Self-hosting my photos with Immich
• Estimates – a necessary evil?
• How I block all online ads
• NVIDIA frenemy relation with OpenAI and Oracle
• Stacked Diffs with git rebase --onto
• Netflix moves to Amazon Aurora
• Terraform Tips from the IaC Trenches