Today, we made it easier for you to understand the permissions your AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies grant with policy summaries in the IAM console . Instead of reading JSON policy documents, you can scan a table that summarizes the services, actions, resources, and conditions defined in each policy. This summary enables you to quickly understand the permissions defined in each IAM policy. You can find this summary on the policy detail page or the Permissions tab on an individual IAM user’s page. To learn more about policy summaries, see the blog post, Move Over JSON – Policy Summaries Make Understanding IAM Policies Easier , and the IAM documentation, Understanding Policy Summaries in the AWS Management Console .

Amazon AppStream 2.0 now supports Fleet Auto Scaling to help you optimize your streaming costs.

You can now view AWS Lambda function policies from the AWS Lambda console. Previously, you needed to use the AWS CLI or SDK to see which services and accounts have permissions to invoke your Lambda functions. You can view Lambda function policies from the Triggers tab of any function.

The call for nominations for the Lee Kuan Yew Water Prize 2018 has been opened by the Singapore International Water Week…

 

MIT spin-out Arctic Sand has created plenty of interest in the dc-dc converter world – so much so that Murata has just bought the company. But exactly what the firm’s unique technology is, has remained under wraps. Now Electronics Weekly has been given a peep behind the scenes by company CEO Gary Davison. It transpires …

Read full article: More on: Arctic Sand’s novel dc-dc converter technology

Funny thing about these software chaps is that they all seem to have a hardware chap inside struggling to get out. Microsoft went in for games machines, tablets and mobile phones, Google went in for driverless cars and the Internet of Balloons, now Facebook is, according to Business Insider, adding brain scanning, cameras, drones and …

Read full article: The Hardware Urge

Wright Electric, which is developing electric passenger aircraft, is working with Easyjet on a plan to develop a 737 type plane for short-haul flights. “Depending on how it’s designed, you can have an electric plane that’s substantially less loud than a fuel plane,” said Jeff Engler, Wright Electric’s co-founder. “the way we’ve designed our plane …

Read full article: Electric plane company works with Easyjet

Texas start-up Mythic has raised $9.3 million in VC money to bring a chip to market which will deliver local processing of AI functions like voice control and computer vision. That is a similar ambition to ARM’s new DynamIQ microarchitecture which, among other things, aims to take AI processing out of the cloud and onto …

Read full article: Mythic aims to bring AI to the device

Quantum dot solar cells could become more efficient, now that the Los Alamos Lab has uncovered a mechanism that has been holding them back. The dots are made form electro-optically active materials whose size as well as composition controls the photon energy that they interact with, allowing their absorption (and emission) wavelength to be tuned …

Read full article: Quantum dot solar inefficiency source found

The Vault7 dump of hacking recipes used by the CIA could be a very positive thing for companies who can now check if their equipment is compromised.

Read full article: Vault7 upside for the electronics industry