A quick roundup of developer news since the last digest.
Security
- Counterfeit TLS certificates issued for Google and other big services: Attackers reportedly obtained fraudulent certificates for Google and other large services, a reminder to keep an eye on certificate transparency logs and CA trust. Ars Technica
- Cloudflare uses AI to attack its own WAF: Cloudflare put frontier AI models in a controlled harness that starts from blocked attacks and generates new variations, to find gaps in its Web Application Firewall before real attackers do. InfoQ
Infrastructure & data
- Spanner Omni reaches general availability: Google's distributed SQL database can now run on-premises, across clouds or on a laptop, with software replacing Colossus and TrueTime. There is no availability SLA, so expect trade-offs in tail latency and operations. InfoQ
- Session-ordered Kafka pipeline in Go: A walkthrough of layering strict per-session ordering over Kafka partitions for thousands of independent channels, using consistent hashing, retries and contiguous watermark commits. InfoQ
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