AWS Network Firewall now supports Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) prefix lists to simplify management of your firewall rules and policies across your VPCs. Prefix lists enable you to group one or more CIDR blocks into a single object. You can group IP addresses that you frequently use in a prefix list, and reference this list in AWS Network Firewall rule groups. Previously you needed to update individual firewall rules when scaling your network to add new IP addresses, which can be time-consuming and error-prone. Now you can update the relevant prefix list and all AWS Network Firewall rule groups that reference the prefix list are automatically updated. As you scale your network, you can use prefix lists to simplify management of your firewall rule groups and policies across multiple VPCs and accounts in the same AWS Region. You can use AWS-managed prefix lists  or you can create and manage your own prefix lists.

Amazon Athena users can now analyze and tune their queries using interactive, visual tools. Optimizing queries and debugging failures are challenging tasks that often require knowledge of query behavior and a careful approach to tuning query logic. With today’s launch, you can now use the Athena console to analyze your queries with tools that make it simpler to debug errors and improve performance.

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Performance Insights is now available in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region. Amazon RDS Performance Insights is a database performance tuning and monitoring feature of RDS and Aurora that helps you quickly assess the load on your database and determine when and where to take action.

Today, we are excited to announce that Amazon Fraud Detector (AFD) now supports Account Takeover Insights (ATI) model, a low-latency fraud detection machine learning (ML) model specifically designed to detect accounts that have been compromised through stolen credentials, phishing, social engineering, or other forms of account takeover. The ATI model is designed to detect up to 4 times more ATI fraud than traditional rules-based account takeover solutions while minimizing the level of friction for legitimate users.

Starting today, Amazon EC2 C6i, M6i and R6i instances are available in the Europe (Stockholm, Milan), and Asia Pacific (Hong Kong). Additionally, the Amazon EC2 C6i and M6i instances are now available in Middle East (Bahrain) and R6i instance is now available in Europe (Frankfurt). These instances are powered by 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code named Ice Lake) with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz, offering up to 15% better compute price performance over comparable Gen5 instances for a wide variety of workloads, and always-on memory encryption using Intel Total Memory Encryption (TME).

Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS) web broadcast SDK gives you the ability to capture live video from web browsers and send as an input to an Amazon IVS channel. You can include it on new and existing websites, with support for both desktop and mobile web browsers.

The Gadget Master book collection – all the titles we’ve featured under the rather capacious category ‘Gadget Book’ – is expanding further. New entries range from nostalgic gizmos and quantum physics to Bluetooth LE Audio and designing embedded systems…

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GlacialPower of Taiwan has announced a 300W constant voltage led driver series that supports triac dimming. Called GP-CVM300P-xxVH , they come in 12, 24, 36 and 48V models. “At full load these new drivers provide active power factor correction of more than 0.94 at 230Vac,” according to the company. They deliver “power efficiency up to …

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The heatwave rolling across Europe has been topping 40°C (104°F) in several places, which is unusual for the more temperate regions. New all-time heat records in Nantes and Biarritz are at or above 42°C (107.6°F). Wales set a new all-time record when the thermometer hit 37.1°C (98.8°F) in Flintshire near Liverpool. In Dublin, 33°C (91.4°F) …

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NXP today announced that it has signed an MOU  with Foxconn to jointly develop platforms for connected vehicles. Foxconn will leverage NXP’s portfolio of automotive technologies and its longstanding expertise in safety and security to enable architectural innovation and platforms for electrification, connectivity and safe automated driving. The collaboration builds on the company’s initial digital …

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