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Kali Linux 2025.3: 10 New Tools, Nexmon & NetHunter

🔧 Kali Linux 2025.3 delivers ten new tools and expanded Wi-Fi and NetHunter capabilities. Notable additions include Caido (client and server), Detect It Easy, Gemini CLI, krbrelayx, ligolo-mp, and vwifi-dkms for dummy Wi‑Fi networks. Nexmon support is restored for Broadcom/Cypress chips and Raspberry Pi devices, while NetHunter gains Samsung S10 support and CARsenal updates. Users can upgrade via the Kali rolling repository or download the new ISOs.

GKE Autopilot Features Now Available to Qualified Clusters

🚀 Google Cloud has extended core Autopilot capabilities to qualified Standard GKE clusters, enabling access to the new container-optimized compute platform via built-in compute classes. Available initially to clusters in the Rapid release channel running 1.33.1-gke.1107000 or later, these features include the autopilot and autopilot-spot compute classes and a provisioning mode that supports gradual adoption. Benefits include rapid horizontal and vertical scaling, pay-for-request billing, efficient bin-packing, and support for GPUs and TPUs for AI workloads.

AWS ARC Region Switch Now Available in New Zealand

🔁 Amazon Web Services has made the Application Recovery Controller Region switch feature available in the Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region. Region switch lets teams orchestrate and execute cross-account and cross-Region recovery steps while providing real-time dashboards and consolidated data collection to support regulator and compliance reporting. The feature supports failover/failback for active/passive designs and shift-away/return for active/active architectures, and automatically replicates plans to all Regions where the application runs.

Automatic SSL/TLS: Upgrading 6M Domains for Quantum Safety

🔐 Cloudflare's Automatic SSL/TLS now upgrades origin-facing encryption by default, having strengthened over 6 million domains without operator intervention. The system scans origins, verifies content and certificates, then gradually ramps stronger SSL/TLS modes from 1% to 100% of traffic, aborting safely on failures. This prepares sites for the post-quantum era by favoring hybrid key agreements (X25519 + ML-KEM) and will soon automate post-quantum handshakes and ad-hoc rescans.

Amazon Route 53 Resolver Query Logging Now in NZ Region

🛰️ Amazon Route 53 Resolver Query Logging is now available in Asia Pacific (New Zealand). You can log DNS queries originating in VPCs to capture queried domain names, the AWS resources that issued the queries (including source IP and instance ID), and the responses received. Logs can be delivered to Amazon S3, CloudWatch Logs, or Amazon Data Firehose, and query logging configurations may be shared across accounts via AWS RAM. There is no additional Route 53 charge for enabling query logging, though storage and ingestion on the chosen destination may incur costs.

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling — Forced Immediate Cancel Feature

⚡ Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now allows customers to force-cancel ongoing instance refreshes immediately by setting WaitForTransitioningInstances to false when calling the CancelInstanceRefresh API. The change bypasses waiting for in-progress launches, terminations, or instance lifecycle hooks, enabling rapid aborts of deployments during incidents or to roll forward to corrected releases. The capability is available in all AWS regions, including AWS GovCloud (US).

AWS removes network burst limits for I7i and I8g instances

🚀 Today AWS removed networking bandwidth burst duration limits for Amazon EC2 I7i and I8g instances larger than 4xlarge, doubling the network bandwidth available at all times for those sizes. Where instances previously relied on a network I/O credit mechanism to burst above a baseline, larger I7i and I8g instances can now sustain their maximum network performance indefinitely. The change delivers more predictable, uninterrupted throughput for memory- and network‑intensive workloads such as distributed databases, real‑time analytics and AI preprocessing; smaller sizes retain existing baseline-and-burst behavior.

Amazon DataZone Now Available in Three Additional Regions

🔔 Amazon DataZone is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), and Europe (Zurich) Regions. The fully managed Amazon DataZone service catalogs, discovers, analyzes, shares, and governs organizational data, integrating with AWS Glue Data Catalog and Amazon Redshift. Consumers can search, subscribe, and analyze assets using tools like Amazon Redshift and Amazon Athena from the DataZone portal. The service also underpins governance in the next generation of Amazon SageMaker to simplify discovery and secure access to data and models.

WhatsApp Adds Message Translation to iPhone and Android

🌐 WhatsApp has begun rolling out a new message translation feature for Android and iPhone that translates messages in chats, groups, and channel updates. On iOS, users can translate individual messages via long-press and tapping 'Translate', while Android users can also enable automatic translation to convert all messages in a thread. Initial language support differs by platform and the rollout will be gradual.

Deutsche Bank launches DB Lumina for AI research platform

🤖 DB Lumina is Deutsche Bank Research’s AI-powered assistant, built on Google Cloud and integrating multimodal Gemini models, RAG retrieval, and vector search. It provides a conversational chat interface, reusable prompt templates, and document-grounded answers with inline citations and enterprise guardrails for compliance. Early deployment to roughly 5,000 analysts has yielded measurable time savings, deeper analysis, and improved editorial accuracy.

Azure Cobalt 100 VMs Deliver Performance and Efficiency

⚡ Azure's in-house Arm-based Cobalt 100 VMs are now live in 29 regions and designed to deliver higher performance, energy efficiency, and lower costs for a broad set of cloud workloads. Customers and platform vendors — including Databricks, Snowflake, Siemens, and Temenos — report measurable throughput and price-performance gains, while Microsoft services like Teams and Defender for Endpoint show meaningful internal improvements. The post presents these results as validation of an end-to-end systems strategy that couples custom silicon with infrastructure-level optimization.

Cloudflare Confidence Scorecards for AI and SaaS Risk

🔒 Cloudflare today launched Application Confidence Scorecards, a new capability in the Cloudflare One SASE suite that automates safety and trust assessments for AI and SaaS applications. The feature combines an Application Posture Score and a Gen‑AI Posture Score to surface certifications, data‑management practices, security controls, and vendor maturity. Cloudflare crawls trust centers and public policies, uses LLMs for structured extraction and source validation, and pairs automated scoring with analyst review to reduce errors. Scores appear in the Application Library and can inform policy enforcement, warnings, or blocks so teams can reduce Shadow AI risk without manual audits.

AWS License Manager Adds Shared Managed Active Directory

🔁 AWS License Manager now supports shared AWS Managed Active Directory across multiple AWS accounts, enabling centralized management of Microsoft product subscriptions. Customers can subscribe once in a single admin account and extend those subscriptions to directory consumer accounts across their AWS Organization. This reduces duplicate directories and IT overhead and is available in all commercial regions where License Manager user subscription is supported.

Open-source VibeSDK for Self-hosted AI Coding Platforms

🚀 VibeSDK is an open-source platform that enables organizations to deploy a complete AI-powered "vibe coding" experience with one click, integrating LLMs, secure sandboxes, and scalable hosting. It provisions isolated development environments to safely execute AI-generated code, offers templates and live previews, and automates build, test, and deploy workflows. The SDK also provides multi-model routing, observability, and caching, plus one-click export to users' Cloudflare accounts or GitHub so teams retain control of code and costs.

Cloudflare Sponsors Astro and TanStack for Open Web

🔧 Cloudflare announced financial sponsorships for two key open-source frontend projects, Astro and TanStack. The company is partnering with Webflow to support Astro and with Netlify to support TanStack, creating a coalition of contributors to bolster project sustainability. Cloudflare runs its developer documentation on Astro, citing its “zero JS by default” model and framework-agnostic approach as essential for fast, SEO-friendly docs. The announcement also highlights TanStack’s libraries and the release candidate for TanStack Start as strategic investments for building ambitious, type-safe web applications.

Amazon EC2 R8gb: EBS-optimized Graviton4 instances

🚀 Amazon EC2 R8gb instances are now generally available as EBS-optimized compute powered by AWS Graviton4. AWS reports up to 30% better compute performance versus Graviton3 and up to 150 Gbps of EBS bandwidth, delivering higher block storage throughput than same-sized Graviton4 counterparts. Sizes scale to 24xlarge (including a metal option) with up to 768 GiB memory and 200 Gbps networking; select large sizes support EFA. Initially available in US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon).

Amazon Nova Act IDE Extension for Agent Development and Testing

🤖 Amazon Web Services announced the Nova Act extension, embedding the agent development workflow directly into popular IDEs such as Visual Studio Code, Kiro, and Cursor. The extension unifies natural-language script creation, fine-grained scripting controls, and integrated browser testing into a single interface, reducing context switching across tools. Built on the Nova Act SDK (research preview since March 2025), the extension is available today from IDE extension marketplaces and the project’s GitHub repository includes documentation and examples to get started.

Amazon RDS supports cross-Region and cross-account snapshots

🔁 Amazon RDS now supports single-step cross-Region and cross-account copying of snapshots for Amazon RDS and Amazon Aurora. This new capability eliminates the prior two-step process and removes the need for an intermediate snapshot, helping customers achieve tighter recovery point objectives while reducing storage and operational costs. The feature is available in all AWS Regions, including AWS China and AWS GovCloud (US), and can be used today via the AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, or AWS SDKs.

Amazon Connect: Custom Attributes for Interaction Segments

📞 Amazon Connect now lets administrators associate custom, predefined attributes with individual interaction segments. Attributes such as business unit, account type, or contact reason can be centrally managed and applied through contact flows or the UpdateContact API, ensuring each segment retains accurate business context during transfers and multi-party interactions. For example, engagements that start in Support and move to Sales keep distinct business unit names per segment. This capability strengthens reporting and analytics across the customer journey and is available in all AWS regions.

Amazon Redshift Serverless Now Available in Taipei

🚀 Amazon Redshift Serverless is now generally available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) region, enabling analysts, developers, and data scientists to run and scale analytics without provisioning or managing clusters. The service automatically provisions and intelligently scales compute, with per-second billing for workload duration. Users can query data via Query Editor V2 or existing BI tools, load data from Amazon S3, restore snapshots, and directly query open formats like Apache Parquet, while benefiting from unified billing across data sources.