Many electronics companies have won Queen’s Awards, for innovation, international trade and sustainable development. Sorry if we missed you out The list is long and sometimes hard to interpret. To be added on to the list for Queen’s Awards, please comment below if we’ve missed you. East region Argon Design, Cambridge, innovation: Verification of video decoders for …

Electronics firms win Queen’s Awards

The MariaDB audit plug-in is now available for RDS MySQL (5.6.29 and 5.7.11) and RDS MariaDB 10.0.24 instances. The MariaDB audit plug-in provides event logging for database activity to help customers meet corporate compliance requirements and troubleshoot application issues. Some of the key details for implementing the plugin are:

• Enabling and disabling the audit plug-in – Users can enable audit plug-in by creating an option group, adding MARIADB_AUDIT_PLUGIN option to the group, and attaching the option group to the RDS instance. Audit logging can be disabled by simply removing the option group from the instance.
• SERVER_AUDIT_EVENTS variables – These variables allow users to specify the events they want to include in the logs (CONNECTION: users connecting and disconnecting, QUERY: queries and their result, and TABLE: which tables are affected by the queries).
• SERVER_AUDIT_EXCL_USERS and SERVER_AUDIT_INCL_USERS variables – These variables specify which users’ activity should be excluded from or included in the audit. SERVER_AUDIT_INCL_USERS has the higher priority and all users’ activity is recorded by default.

The MariaDB audit plug-in for RDS MySQL and MariaDB is available in all supported RDS regions.

The US has committed some US$ 125 million over the next five years to support projects in
water conservation and efficiency in Jordan according to newspaper reports.

Scientists at Georgia Institute of Technology and Nanjing University have developed a solar
thermal desalination process based on what the researchers claimed to be low-cost and durable treated aluminium oxide sheets that focus the sun’s energy.

Obama will make his first trip to Flint, Michigan, since the city was found to have lead-tainted drinking water next week.

Joel Beauvais, deputy assistant administrator for the EPA’s Office of Water, said that agency management will meet with state, local government and public health officials next month, and the EPA will release an action plan by the end of the year.

Enables fully operational cloud 3.0; next-gen, software-defined data center to improve multi-tenancy and security.

Despite growing water scarcity in the port city of Visakhapatnam, seawater desalination projects remain on the drawing board according to newspaper reports.

Toray Industries’ US membrane arm has bought TCK Membrane America – a manufacturer of reverse osmosis /nanofiltration (RO/NF) membranes in Anaheim, California.

Indian gas and oil firm ONGC has opted to build its own Rs 439 crore (US$ 66 million) reverse
osmosis desalination facility as it faces uncertainty over provision from the local water supplier
according to Times of India.