An event to note: the 2026 Imperial Robotics Summer School. The week-long programme will run from 20-24 July this year and the call for applications is now open. Specifically, the …

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Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now supports the Oracle January 2026 Release Update (RU) for Oracle Database versions 19c and 21c, and the corresponding Spatial Patch Bundle for Oracle Database version 19c. We recommend upgrading to the January 2026 RU as it includes security updates for Oracle database products. The Spatial Patch Bundle update delivers important fixes for Oracle Spatial and Graph functionality to provide reliable and optimal performance for spatial operations.

You can apply the January 2026 RU from the Amazon RDS Management Console, or by using the AWS SDK or CLI. To automatically apply updates to your database instance during your maintenance window, enable Automatic Minor Version Upgrade. You can apply the Spatial Patch Bundle update for new database instances, or upgrade existing instances to engine version ‘19.0.0.0.ru-2026-01.spb-1.r1’ by selecting the “Spatial Patch Bundle Engine Versions” checkbox in the AWS Console.

You can use AWS Organizations upgrade rollout policy to stagger automatic minor version upgrades for your Amazon RDS database instances such that automatic minor version upgrades are first applied to non-production environments, allowing you time to validate before the upgrades are applied to production environments. For additional details, refer to Amazon RDS for Oracle documentation on using AWS Organizations upgrade rollout policy for automatic minor version upgrades.

Photon Bridge progressing its photonics platform, Meta’s CEO defending his company’s alleged addictive practices, and a study on how semiconductor seed crystals could be produced commercially in orbit…

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Here’s a book to note, from Raspberry Pi, if you have younger children – Unplugged Tots. It aims “to spark curiosity, logic, and creativity in today’s kids with no screens or tech required” says the Raspberry Pi team.

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Istanbul airport (IST) has more flight connections and destinations served than any other airport, according to the OAG megahub rankings for 2025, with 82,733 connections and 327 destinations. Frankfurt (73,221 …

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Vishay is introducing four compact power inductors offering inductance values from 0.24µH to 4.70µH and typical DCR down to 6.6mΩ. As well as the commercial IHLL-0806AZ-1Z and IHLL-1210AB-1Z, there are …

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Omron is expanding its G9EK screw-terminal relay family with the G9EK-1-EX, for 250A/500VDC switching in a compact, gasless design. The high-current relay targets EV charging, renewable energy, and e-mobility applications, …

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The Optical Transport equipment market grew 10% in 2025, driven by demand for datacentre interconnect (DCI), says Dell’Oro, “revenue from direct purchases of WDM equipment for DCI grew nearly 40% …

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The Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) has produced a report called AI/ML for Wi-Fi: Enabling Scalable, Intelligent Wi-Fi Ecosystems. “Wi-Fi is now expected to perform like critical infrastructure across homes, enterprises …

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Taalas of Toronto, a two year-old startup, has raised $219 million to make customised chips to run any AI model. The company claims its approach can speed up inference performance …

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