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04 Aug 2026 edition
AWS

Amazon Bedrock launches Web Search for OpenAI GPT models

Today, we are announcing the general availability of Web Search on Amazon Bedrock, a built-in server side tool that performs web search entirely within AWS, enabling OpenAI models (GPT-5.4, GPT-5.5, and GPT-5.6…

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

Run interactive workloads on Amazon EMR on EC2 with Spark Connect

Amazon EMR on EC2 now supports interactive Apache Spark sessions with Spark Connect. Data engineers and data scientists can develop and debug Apache Spark applications interactively from managed notebooks in Amazon…

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

aws/aws-sdk-js-v3: v3.1103.0

3.1103.0(2026-08-04) Chores deps: bump undici from 7.28.0 to 7.29.0 (#8248) (79818a11) Documentation Changes client-dsql: UpdateCluster now checks the RemovePeerCluster permission on the specific cluster being removed,…

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

Amazon EC2 C8g instances now available in additional regions

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C8g instances are available in AWS Europe (Paris), AWS Africa (Cape Town), AWS Israel (Tel Aviv), and AWS Canada West (Calgary) regions. These instances are…

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

aws/aws-cli: 1.45.64

Tagging 1.45.64 release.

Source: AWS CLI Releases aws-sdk-python-automation
AWS GitHub

aws/aws-cli: 2.36.16

Tagging 2.36.16 release.

Source: AWS CLI Releases aws-cli-automation
Open Source

Turn one giant AI-generated pull request to a reviewable stack

Instead of one huge, un-reviewable pull request, teach coding agents to decompose work into a clean, ordered stack with GitHub stacked pull requests. The post Turn one giant AI-generated pull request to a reviewable…

Source: GitHub Blog Julia Muiruri
Java GitHub

quarkusio/quarkus: 3.27.5.1

Complete changelog #55627 - [3.27] Fix native image regression caused by Netty 4.1.136 SslContext API change #55721 - [3.27] Bump org.postgresql:postgresql from 42.7.11 to 42.7.13 #55793 - [3.27] Quarkus REST - Fix…

Source: Quarkus Releases quarkusbot
Java GitHub

quarkusio/quarkus: 3.33.3.1

Complete changelog #55628 - [3.33] Fix native image regression caused by Netty 4.1.136 SslContext API change #55792 - [3.33] Quarkus REST - Fix unbounded multipart part-header accumulation

Source: Quarkus Releases quarkusbot
Java GitHub

quarkusio/quarkus: 3.38.1

Complete changelog #54725 - Improve Basic authentication how-to #54781 - Vert.x's FileSystemOptions contains constants getting defined at build time #54885 - Tests do not start #55023 - Support management interface…

Source: Quarkus Releases quarkusbot

Cloud NGFW Enterprise

Visit the Cloud NGFW product page: https://goo.gle/4vMS0pk Protect your application traffic from unknown malware with Cloud NGFW Enterprise.

Source: Google Cloud Tech Google Cloud
Java GitHub

ktorio/ktor: 3.5.2

Published 31 July 2026 Improvements KTOR-8032 RateLimit: Allow limit requests based on authentication result KTOR-9719 ApplicationCall.isStaticContent returns false when called from plugin interceptors KTOR-8450…

Source: Ktor Releases Stexxe
Django Python

Django security releases issued: 6.0.8 and 5.2.17

In accordance with our security release policy, the Django team is issuing releases for Django 6.0.8 and Django 5.2.17. These releases address the security issues detailed below. We encourage all users of Django to…

Source: Django Weblog Natalia Bidart
PostgreSQL GitHub

timescale/timescaledb: 2.29.1 (2026-08-04)

This release contains performance improvements and bug fixes since the 2.29.0 release and fixes for security vulnerabilities (#10360, #10379, #10386). You can check the security advisory for more information on the…

Source: TimescaleDB Releases surister
Rust

Enabling the next iteration of the borrow checker on nightly

TL;DR We are enabling the next iteration of the borrow checker (coined Polonius Alpha) on nightly in preparation for stabilization in the next few months. Whaaaaaat? Yes! You heard it right! The next iteration of the…

Source: Rust Blog Jack Huey
PostgreSQL

pgAdmin 4 v9.17 Released

The pgAdmin Development Team is pleased to announce the release of pgAdmin 4 version 9.17. This release of pgAdmin 4 includes 28 bug fixes and new features, including fixes for seven security vulnerabilities…

Source: PostgreSQL News
PostgreSQL

pgBackRest 2.59.0 Released

July 30, 2026: The pgBackRest community is pleased to announce the release of pgBackRest 2.59.0, the latest version of the reliable, easy-to-use backup and restore solution that can seamlessly scale up to the largest…

Source: PostgreSQL News
PostgreSQL

Announcing E-Maj 5.0.0.

We are very glad to announce the E-Maj 5.0.0 version. Among improvements, this major version: Allows non-superuser roles to install and use E-Maj in a database, the usable features depending on the priviledges they own.…

Source: PostgreSQL News
Rust

Funding team progress update — July 2026

Hi all! This is an update from the funding team. Established by the leadership council, the funding team is tasked with administering the Rust Foundation Maintainers Fund. Per RFC #3931, our initial focus has been on…

Source: Inside Rust Blog Niko Matsakis
Java

Idempotent REST Endpoints Without the Boilerplate

Stop Charging Your Users Twice: Idempotent REST Endpoints with One Annotation The problem nobody talks about until production A user taps "Pay." The request times out. Their app retries. Your server charges them twice.…

Source: Foojay Today Youssef Ben Henda
AI

Hugging Face Journal Club: Scaling Laws for Pre-training & RL

The Hugging Face research team discusses the paper "Understanding Reasoning from Pretraining to Post-Training" which discovers a joint scaling law for pre-training and reinforcement learning. Paper link:…

Source: Hugging Face Hugging Face
Python

Sending Emails Using Python

Learn how to send emails with Python using SMTP and smtplib, attach files, format HTML messages, and personalize bulk emails.

Source: Real Python
General

The Agent Development Lifecycle has arrived on Cloudflare

Agents can write code faster than teams can review, deploy, and maintain it. Today we’re introducing the Agent Development Lifecycle and the Cloudflare primitives that underpin it

Source: Cloudflare Blog Brendan Irvine-Broque
Python

Quiz: Sending Emails Using Python

Test what you know about sending email from Python with smtplib, building messages with EmailMessage, and connecting to real servers over SSL.

Source: Real Python
Hardware

BG2B is the lowest-power Bluetooth LE SoC from Silicon Labs so far

Silicon Labs BG2B is an ultra-low-power Arm Cortex-M33 Bluetooth 6 LE SoC with support for Channel Sounding, “Secure Vault High” security, and integrated CAN-FD and peripherals such as LED drivers and ADCs for smaller,…

Source: CNX Software Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft)
DevOps

A guided tour of Terraform state, hosted modules, and HCL in Pulumi

Today’s big release contains a whole new set of features designed for seamless interoperability with the Terraform and OpenTofu ecosystems, and there’s a lot there — so much that it can be tough to get your head around…

Source: Pulumi Blog Christian Nunciato
DevOps

Emulating Terraform on Pulumi's Engine

The core promise of Pulumi’s HCL support is that you can bring your existing Terraform configuration and modules, and pulumi will run them. If it works in OpenTofu and doesn’t work in Pulumi, we would like to fix that.…

Source: Pulumi Blog Ian Wahbe
DevOps

Bring Your Terraform Estate Into the Agentic Era

At Pulumi, we are building the platform for agentic infrastructure. Pulumi Cloud provides the guardrails and enterprise readiness needed to safely move fast in this new era. While we are seeing extraordinary adoption —…

Source: Pulumi Blog Daniel Perlovsky
JavaScript

Reimplementing htmx from scratch

#​797 — August 4, 2026 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly Next.js 16.3 Released — The newly expanded Next.js team (now including Dan Abramov and 𝕏 Pete Hunt!) has dropped the latest version of the popular React…

Source: JavaScript Weekly