The circular connector specialist binder has appointed Anglia Components as distributor for the UK and Ireland.

Read full article: binder signs Anglia to boost UK industrial presence

The Japanese government is seeking to keep control of Toshiba NAND technology.

Read full article: Japan government jittery about Toshiba tech going abroad

Infineon will be selling the fifth generation of its stand-alone quasi-resonant flyback controller and integrated power IC CoolSET family in May. The ICs are especially designed for AC/DC switch mode power supplies in a great variety of applications such as aux power for home appliances, server, and industrial SMPS. The latest 700 V and 800 …

Read full article: Infineon to sell 5th gen CoolSET quasi-resonant fly-back controller in May

Uninitialised variables are a critical attack vector that can be reliably exploited by hackers to launch privilege escalation attacks in the Linux kernel, according to research at the Georgia Institute of Technology. “While other kernel bugs and vulnerabilities have been examined and remedied, uninitialised-use bugs are not well studied, and to date, no practical defence …

Read full article: Georgia Tech finds subtle Linux vunerability

Apple is in the midst of a hiring spree for engineers specialising in graphics technologies for a new “graphics team” to be based in London, it has emerged.

Read full article: Apple on hiring spree for London-based GPU development team

Analog Devices introduces a pair of gallium nitride (GaN) power amplifier modules intended to replace travelling wave tubes.

Read full article: Two broadband 6GHz modules from ADI

As Q1 ends, the prospect emerges of 2017 being one of the great semi years like 1984 and 2000. As always, it’s the memory guys who drive the boom and bust. Micron had y-o-y February growth of 56%. Samsung is forecasting 48% Q1 growth based on the soaring price of memory. Toshiba’s chip business, mostly memory, …

Read full article: Boom

AWS Database Migration Service has expanded its functionality to support migration of NoSQL databases. This gives you significant new migration options in addition to its existing relational database and data warehouse migration capabilities.

This new Quick Start automatically deploys an Alfresco Content Services cluster on the AWS Cloud. It replaces the Quick Start for Alfresco One with Alfresco Content Services 5.2 and adds Amazon Aurora support. 

Today, we made it easier for you to organize your AWS accounts in AWS Organizations by using a new tree view and additional UI improvements. The new tree view enables you to browse the accounts and organizational units (OUs) in your organization and apply service control policies (SCPs) from the Organizations console. For example, you can use the tree view to see the hierarchy of OUs in your organization. You can then select a specific OU to see all its AWS accounts and then apply an SCP to those accounts.