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datasette 1.0a40

Release: datasette 1.0a40 Same security fix as 0.65.5, plus some neat new features and bug fixes: Plugins can now launch and manage background tasks using the new datasette.add_background_task() method. Thanks, Alex…

datasette 0.65.5

Release: datasette 0.65.5 Security fix for an issue where a trailing newline in a requested table name could bypass table permissions and expose private rows, reported by dpfkdlemtp in GHSA-h547-rmjf-5m2m. Tags:…

Amazon SageMaker AI now supports serverless model customization for NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning

Amazon SageMaker AI now supports serverless model customization for the NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning model using supervised fine-tuning (SFT), Direct Preference Optimization (DPO), and reinforcement fine-tuning (RFT).…

Amazon ECS deployment observability for Amazon ECS Managed Daemons in AWS Management Console

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) now provides a consolidated deployment view for Amazon ECS Managed Daemons, giving you a single place to see how far a deployment has progressed, what is failing, and what…

Architecting a secure landing zone in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud

The AWS European Sovereign Cloud is a new, independent cloud for Europe, physically and logically separate from existing AWS Regions and operated within the European Union (EU). It provides the same services, features,…

Cannot return value referencing local variable in closure

Hello! I am writing my pet app and spent a lot of time trying to figure out why this error occurs. I am building a future stream of ip's, which should ping each ip in parrallel, so I guess i must use buffer_unordered on…

Fragments: September 16

Reports of agentic hacking continue, in this case it happened back in May and it seems OpenAI did not disclose that they were responsible. Simon Willison sees two options: After the Hugging Face and Wiki attacks OpenAI…

Kubernetes v1.37: Hardening Container Storage with Bind Mount Options and EmptyDir Permissions

Kubernetes v1.37 brings important storage security features: emptyDir permission modes and bind mount options. They help application programmers and security professionals implement rigorous security policies, for…

Java Verbosity Is Cheap, Ambiguity Is Expensive

A clarifying question from the agent costs a full round trip. A type declaration costs a handful of tokens. Verbose Java is the cheaper option. Ambiguity costs a turn, verbosity costs tokens. A wrong guess costs a full…

Node.js 26.9.0 (Current)

Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude

Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude In hopefully good news for anyone who, like me, was increasingly confused at Cowork v.s. Claude v.s. Claude Code: Starting today, Claude Cowork and chat are merging into one…

AWS Client VPN is now supporting MacOS 27 Golden Gate

AWS Client VPN now supports MacOS 27 Golden Gate client with versions 6.0+ You can now run the AWS supplied VPN client on the latest MacOS versions. AWS Client VPN desktop clients are available free of charge, and can…

AWS reimagines the getting started experience

AWS has reimagined the getting started experience with smart and sensible defaults to help developers get started fast so that they can focus on building. New customers can sign up and get started right away with $100…

New AWS experience helps builders get started and ship faster

Builders can now sign up for a new simplified experience that makes it faster to turn ideas into running code on AWS. AWS services provide an array of configuration options so that the largest enterprises can customize…

Amazon WorkSpaces adds support for NVIDIA Blackwell GPU instances

Amazon WorkSpaces Personal and Amazon WorkSpaces Core now support Graphics G7 bundles, built on NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs and Intel Xeon 6 processors. Graphics G7 delivers up to 2.1x better…

Amazon Connect Customer custom metrics now supports tag-based access control

Amazon Connect Customer now supports tag-based access control for custom metrics, so you can govern which users and roles can view, create, or modify each custom metric. As more teams across your organization adopt…

Amazon Connect Customer can now import evaluation form PDFs using AI

Amazon Connect Customer now lets managers import a PDF of an evaluation form from a third-party quality management application, and automatically recreates it in Connect using AI, making it easier to migrate an existing…

Our framework for reporting model misalignment

OpenAI shares a framework for tracking, investigating, and disclosing model misalignment, alongside six reports of unexpected or concerning model behavior.

Why do admonitions for `rustdoc` consist only of a warning block?

In AsciiDoc and GitHub's Markdown, admonitions (a.k.a. callouts or alerts) consist of five types (NOTE, TIP, IMPORTANT, CAUTION, and WARNING). Asciidoctor Docs AsciiDoc - Admonitions A documentation page for AsciiDoc.…

AWS Elemental MediaTailor Monetization Functions adds ad response hooks

AWS Elemental MediaTailor now supports two additional lifecycle hooks for monetization functions: post ad decision server (ADS) response, and pre manifest insertion. MediaTailor is a video service that personalizes and…