On October 20, 2025, Amazon Web Services experienced one of its most significant outages in recent years. A network load balancer bug in the US-East-1 region brought down Netflix, Snapchat, Reddit, Robinhood, Fortnite, and countless other services for 12 hours. Here’s what happened and what developers need to learn.
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Dev Weekly: OpenAI's Massive AMD Deal, App Store Launch & Developer Talent Crisis (Oct 13–19, 2025)
OpenAI partners with AMD for 6GW of GPUs challenging NVIDIA, launches app ecosystem at $500B valuation, and UK faces developer shortage
This week felt like a turning point. OpenAI made two massive moves - a play to become the next App Store and a GPU deal with AMD that challenges NVIDIA’s monopoly. Meanwhile, SoftBank dropped $5.4 billion on robotics, and a new study revealed the UK developer workforce is aging with...
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Dev Weekly: Windows 10 Dies, Sora 2 Sparks Deepfake Fears, Nobel Goes to Quantum (Oct 6–12, 2025)
Microsoft kills Windows 10, OpenAI's Sora 2 launches amid controversy, Nobel Prize honors quantum pioneers, Ubuntu replaces sudo with Rust
This week was wild. Microsoft announced the death of Windows 10, OpenAI dropped a controversial video generator and signed a massive GPU deal with AMD, the Nobel Prize honored quantum computing pioneers, and 400 million PCs are about to become e-waste. Here’s what happened this week in tech.
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Dev Weekly: California Regulates AI Hiring, Claude Gets Developer Tools & EA's $55B Exit (Sep 29–Oct 5, 2025)
California enforces AI hiring law, Anthropic launches Claude developer tools, GitHub brings AI to terminal, and EA sells for $55 billion
The first week of October brought some real shake-ups to the tech world. From California becoming the first state to actually enforce AI hiring rules to the biggest leveraged buyout in history, here’s what happened while you were coding.
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Dev Weekly: Nvidia's $100B AI Bet, Postgres 18 & Anthropic Copyright Battle (Sep 22–28, 2025)
Nvidia's $100B AI bet, H-1B visa chaos, Anthropic copyright battle, and PostgreSQL 18's major upgrade
The fourth week of September brought some of the biggest tech industry shakeups of the year. From Nvidia’s historic AI investment to immigration policy changes that have developers reconsidering their career plans, here’s what dominated the conversation.
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Dev Weekly: Meta Connect Fails, Java 25 LTS, NPM Attack (Sep 15–21, 2025)
Meta demo failures, Java 25 LTS release, and the ongoing NPM supply chain attack
The third week of September 2025 delivered some of the biggest developer news stories of the year. From embarrassing live demo failures at major conferences to significant security incidents and exciting product launches, here’s everything that happened in the developer world this week.
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Dev Weekly: NPM Attack, AI Outage & VMware Exodus
Your weekly dose of software development news, trends, and insights from September 8-14, 2025
This week brought some serious wake-up calls for the developer community. From the biggest supply chain attack in NPM history to AI services going dark, here’s what had everyone talking:
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Dev Weekly: Stripe Launches Tempo Blockchain, Google Fined $3.5B, Microsoft Open Sources BASIC
Your weekly dose of software development news, trends, and insights from September 1-7, 2025
This week delivered some massive news including a major blockchain launch, regulatory fines, nostalgic open source releases, and a gaming event that crashed multiple platforms. Here’s what every developer needs to know:
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Dev Weekly: Nvidia's Mystery Customers, Meta Ditches Scale AI and Nx Supply chain attack
Your weekly dose of software development news, trends, and insights from August 25-31, 2025"
This week brought critical security news and major AI industry developments that every developer needs to know:
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Dev Weekly: Coinbase Fires Engineers, GitHub Gets Agents Panel, and Intel Gets a Government Lifeline
Your weekly dose of software development news, trends, and insights from August 18-24, 2025
This week delivered some jaw-dropping stories that had developers debating everything from AI adoption policies to the future of chip manufacturing. From a CEO’s controversial firing decisions to government bailouts, here’s what dominated our feeds:
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Dev Weekly: GPT-5 Arrives, GitHub CEO Departs, and AI Safety Gets Real
Your weekly dose of software development news, trends, and insights from August 11-17, 2025
This week delivered some truly seismic shifts in the developer world. From OpenAI’s latest model hitting your IDE to one of tech’s biggest leadership changes, here’s what kept us glued to our feeds:
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Dev Weekly: GPT-5 Revolutionizes Development, Critical RubyGems Security Threat, and Python's Performance Leap
Your weekly dose of software development news, trends, and insights from August 4-10, 2025
The week of August 4-10, 2025, delivered seismic shifts across the software development landscape. From OpenAI’s revolutionary GPT-5 launch to critical supply chain security threats, major cloud infrastructure updates, and significant language runtime improvements, this week had everything that defines our rapidly evolving industry. Here’s your essential guide to what...
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Dev Weekly: AWS Goes AI-Native, Mistral Unleashes Voxtral & Layoffs Hit Hard
Weekly Software Development News: July 28 – August 2, 2025
This week saw AWS unveil a revolutionary AI-driven software methodology, developers celebrate Mistral’s open-source voice model, and cloud platforms roll out critical upgrades. Dive into the biggest headlines, platform updates, security alerts, and community news shaping the dev landscape.
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Dev Weekly: GitHub Goes Dark, Python Breaks Free, and Azure Hits 1M Pods
Weekly Software Development News: July 21-27, 2025
It was an action-packed week for software development! GitHub’s longest outage in recent memory brought global dev work to a halt. Meanwhile, Python 3.14 RC1 smashed through the GIL bottleneck, Azure pushed pod scaling to a million, and critical security incidents kept cybersecurity teams on edge. Dive in for the...
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