Huntress
Cephalus Ransomware: Don’t Lose Your Head
In mid-August, Huntress saw two incidents that linked back to a ransomware variant called Cephalus, which included DLL sideloading via a legitimate SentinelOne executable.
Thursday, 21 August 2025
Everything this site carried that day, newest first. Stories are kept for a month, and the widely covered ones for a year.
Podcasts: Practical AI / TWIML / No Priors / Dwarkesh
Evolution designed us to die fast; we can change that — Jacob Kimmel
Jacob Kimmel thinks he can find the transcription factors to reverse aging. We do a deep dive on why this might be plausible and why evolution hasn’t optimized for longevity. We also talk about why drug discovery has been getting exponentially harder, and what a new platform for biological…
Databricks / ClickHouse / DuckDB / Supabase / Neon / PlanetScale
The 10 Most Popular Postgres Extensions on Neon
Postgres is loved not just for what it is, but for what it can become: its extension system lets you transform your database into a full-text search engine, a geospatial powerhouse, or a vector store for embeddings – all without switching tools. With many thousands of active data...
Apple Developer News & Releases
Tax and Price Updates for Apps, In-App Purchases, and Subscriptions
The App Store is designed to make it easy to sell your digital goods and services globally, with support for 44 currencies across 175 storefronts. From time to time, we need to adjust prices or your proceeds due to changes in tax regulations or foreign exchange rates. These adjustments are made…
Vercel (blog + changelog)
AI Gateway is now generally available
AI Gateway is now generally available, providing a single unified API to access hundreds of AI models with transparent pricing and built-in observability. With sub-20ms latency routing across multiple inference providers, AI Gateway delivers: AI SDK You can use AI Gateway with theor through the…
Vercel (blog + changelog)
Introducing Streamdown: Open source Markdown for AI streaming
AI Elements Response npm i streamdown Streamdown is a new open source, drop-in Markdown renderer built for AI streaming. It powers thecomponent, but can also be used standalone to give developers a fully composable, independently managed option with. Streamdown is designed to handle unterminated…
Vercel (blog + changelog)
AI Gateway: Production-ready reliability for your AI apps
AI SDK Building an AI app can now take just minutes. With developer tools like the, teams can build both AI frontends and backends that accept prompts and context, reason with an LLM, call actions, and stream back results. But going to production requires reliability and stability at scale. Teams…
Framework blogs: Next.js releases / Svelte / Angular / Django / Rails / Laravel / Spring / React Native / Flutter
Ambitious Projects Are the Framework for Success. The Artisan of the Day Is Will King.
Will King built a playable game in two days with Laravel, a framework he'd never used in production. His talk proves Laravel is the framework for ambitious projects.
OpenAI News
Blue J’s approach for scaling fast in complex, regulated domains
Blue J scaled to three countries and more than 3,000 firms thanks to focus, domain depth, and the right OpenAI model.
Databricks / ClickHouse / DuckDB / Supabase / Neon / PlanetScale
Announcing the ClickHouse Connector for AWS Glue
Today, we’re announcing the launch of the official ClickHouse Connector for AWS Glue, which utilizes their Apache Spark-based serverless ETL engine.