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31 Jul 2026 edition
AWS

Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports Teradata Vantage

Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports Teradata Vantage as a data source, enabling you to query and analyze your enterprise data warehouse data directly alongside your other data assets. With this new connection,…

Source: AWS What's New aws@amazon.com
Python GitHub

astral-sh/uv: 0.12.1

Release Notes Released on 2026-07-31. Enhancements Add package-specific pre-release policies with --prerelease-package (#20837) Support local HTML files as flat indexes (#20802) Add Xonsh virtual environment activation…

Source: uv Releases astral-automations-bot[bot]
Hardware

This DIY pen plotter has delta kinematics and a tool changer

Pen plotters are kind of neat, if you like the idea of marking paper without resorting to printing. But almost every pen plotter out there is basically the same: Cartesian movement in two axes, with some sort of…

Source: Arduino Blog Arduino Team
AWS GitHub

aws/aws-sdk-js-v3: v3.1101.0

3.1101.0(2026-07-31) New Features client-resiliencehubv2: Adding support for new testing capability in AWS Resilience Hub. (105876ce) client-cloudwatch-logs: Amazon CloudWatch Logs now lets you create and update lookup…

Source: AWS SDK JS v3 Releases aws-sdk-js-automation
AWS GitHub

aws/aws-sdk-java-v2: AWS SDK for Java v2 2.50.2

2.50.2 2026-07-31 AWS Billing Features Adds GetEnterpriseSupportChargeSummary, GetEnterpriseSupportContractDetails, and ListEnterpriseSupportLinkedAccountCharges. These APIs provide first-time programmatic access to…

Source: AWS SDK Java v2 Releases aws-sdk-java-automation
AWS GitHub

aws/aws-cdk: v2.263.0

Features autoscaling: add support for AutoScalingInstanceRefresh UpdatePolicy (#38277) (434157f), closes #38276 docdb: support per-instance maintenance window on DatabaseCluster (#38315) (5390624), closes #30391 ecs:…

Source: AWS CDK Releases aws-cdk-automation
DevOps

Kubernetes v1.37 Sneak Peek

As we get closer to the release date for Kubernetes v1.37, the project develops and matures, features may be deprecated, removed, or replaced with better ones for the project's overall health. This blog outlines some of…

Source: Kubernetes Blog
Open Source

Don’t stop early: Case-folding source code at memory speed

How a branch-free loop and byte-space arithmetic let GitHub case-fold every byte of code search at >45 GiB/s on a single core. The post Don’t stop early: Case-folding source code at memory speed appeared first on The…

Source: GitHub Blog Alexander Neubeck
AI

Advancing responsible AI across Europe

OpenAI shares how its safety, security, transparency, and provenance practices support responsible AI governance in Europe. The work will continue as the EU AI Act advances.

Source: OpenAI Blog
AI

Building abundant intelligence

A full-stack approach to making advanced AI more capable, more affordable, and more widely useful.

Source: OpenAI Blog
AWS

AWS Lambda now supports Java 8, 11, and 17 on Amazon Linux 2023

AWS Lambda now supports Java 8, Java 11, and Java 17 runtimes on Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023), available as both managed runtimes and container base images. These new runtimes enable customers running Lambda functions on…

Source: AWS What's New aws@amazon.com
AWS

Amazon CloudWatch announces managed Prometheus collectors

Amazon CloudWatch now supports collecting Prometheus metrics from your AWS infrastructure using fully managed collectors — enabling you to monitor Amazon EKS, Amazon EC2, Amazon ECS, Amazon MSK, and Amazon OpenSearch…

Source: AWS What's New aws@amazon.com
AWS

AWS CodeDeploy now available in five additional AWS regions

AWS CodeDeploy is now available in five additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (New Zealand), Asia Pacific (Thailand), Asia Pacific (Taipei), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), and Mexico (Central). AWS CodeDeploy is a fully…

Source: AWS What's New aws@amazon.com
AWS

Amazon Web Services now introduces Context Ontology Accelerator

Today, AWS announces Context Ontology Accelerator, an open source accelerator that helps organizations build an ontology of their business — a machine-readable model of their products, customers, policies, and the rules…

Source: AWS What's New aws@amazon.com
AI

Univé builds an AI-ready workforce

See how Univé built an AI-ready workforce with ChatGPT Enterprise by combining leadership, responsible governance, and employee-led innovation to transform work at scale.

Source: OpenAI Blog
AWS GitHub

aws/aws-sdk-java-v2: AWS SDK for Java v2 2.50.1

2.50.1 2026-07-30 AWS Billing and Cost Management Pricing Calculator Features Removing Smithy RPC v2 CBOR support that was added in previous SDK release. AWS Billing and Cost Management Recommended Actions Features…

Source: AWS SDK Java v2 Releases aws-sdk-java-automation
AWS GitHub

aws/aws-sdk-js-v3: v3.1100.0

3.1100.0(2026-07-31) Chores add packages-internal to root tsconfig inclusion (#8240) (a0f3fb58) New Features clients: update client endpoints as of 2026-07-31 (30d44c7e) client-bcm-pricing-calculator: Removing Smithy…

Source: AWS SDK JS v3 Releases aws-sdk-js-automation
AWS

Amazon EC2 C7i instances now available in additional regions

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7i instances powered by custom 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code-named Sapphire Rapids) are available in Europe (Milan) and Canada West (Calgary)…

Source: AWS What's New aws@amazon.com
PostgreSQL

plRuby

PL/Ruby is a procedural-language handler that lets you write database functions in Ruby, stored and executed inside PostgreSQL. You get the expressiveness of Ruby and its standard library with the full power of a native…

Source: PostgreSQL News
AI

Disrupting a Criminal Scam Operation

OpenAI disrupted a Cambodia-based scam operation using ChatGPT to support investment, romance, gambling, and impersonation schemes.

Source: OpenAI Blog
Rust

All Hands 2026 retrospective

In May 2026, 166 Rustaceans gathered in Utrecht for the Rust All Hands. This event is an opportunity for the Rust Project members and invited guests to work on Rust in person for several days — discuss its future,…

Source: Inside Rust Blog Nurzhan Saken
Java

JavaFX Links of July 2026

Here are the JavaFX LinksOfTheMonth of July 2026. You can find the weekly lists on jfx-central.com. Did we miss anything? Is there anything you want to have included in one of the next overviews? Let us know via…

Source: Foojay Today Frank Delporte
Web

Get Ready For the Powerful CSS border-shape Property!

We recently got the shape() function and corner-shape property. What else could we possibly need as far as making shapes in CSS? Let me tell you: the border-shape property! Get Ready For the Powerful CSS border-shape…

Source: CSS-Tricks Temani Afif
DevSec

DROP Platform Lets Californians Reduce Digital Footprint

Hundreds of thousands of California residents have already registered for the Delete Request and Opt-out Platform (DROP), which launches Aug. 1. Other states could follow if the process goes smoothly.

Source: Dark Reading AppSec Arielle Waldman
AI

Tau Crash Course: The Python Port of Pi

Tau is a minimalist coding-agent harness inspired by Pi and implemented in Python. This crash course tours its Textual TUI, provider login and model selection, tree-structured sessions, skills, custom prompts, themes,…

Source: Hugging Face Hugging Face
Java

Presentation: The Free-Lunch Guide to Idea Circularity

Holly Cummins discusses why "nothing is new under the sun" in tech. She maps historical architectural tradeoffs to modern cloud, microservices, and AI hype cycles. She connects financial debt (post-ZIRP) and technical…

Source: InfoQ Java Holly Cummins
Web

Small Joys And Big Adventures (August 2026 Wallpapers Edition)

Whether you’re enjoying some well-earned time off this August or are jumping headfirst into a new project, how about some new desktop wallpapers to accompany you on all those big and small adventures the month might…

Source: Smashing Magazine hello@smashingmagazine.com (Cosima Mielke)
React

TanStack's new look, and life without RSC

#​485 — July 31, 2026 Read on the Web React Status Octane: React's Programming Model, But Compiled — From the creator of Inferno comes a successor: a compiled React-like framework (the differences from React are here)…

Source: React Status
Open Source

How To Win A Hackathon

This next episode of The Developer Show will focus on Hackathons. Everything from what makes a good hackathon, how to pick an idea and how to communicate it during presentations

Source: GitLab GitLab