Amazon WorkSpaces now allows you to integrate with your on-premises Microsoft Active Directory using an interforest trust with the AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory (Enterprise Edition), also called AWS Microsoft AD. By establishing a single interforest trust relationship, you can assign Amazon WorkSpaces for users in any of your on-premises domains. AWS Microsoft AD automatically discovers and routes authentication requests to the correct domain controller, which means that your users can use their existing Microsoft Active Directory credentials to log in to their WorkSpaces, without having to specify their domain name.

You can now attach or replace an AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) role to your existing Amazon EC2 instance. IAM roles enable your applications running on EC2 to use temporary security credentials that AWS creates, distributes, and rotates automatically. Using temporary credentials reduces the risk of long-term key compromise. To enable IAM roles for your existing EC2 instances, follow the example described in the AWS Security Blog post .

AWS Server Migration Service (SMS) is now available to customers in the AWS US West (Oregon), US East (Ohio), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Seoul), and Asia Pacific (Mumbai) regions. AWS Server Migration Service (SMS) is an agentless service which makes it easier and faster for you to migrate thousands of on-premises workloads to AWS. AWS SMS allows you to automate, schedule, and track incremental replications of live server volumes, making it easier for you to coordinate large-scale server migrations. 

Senegal’s water utility Société Nationale des Eaux du Sénégal has awarded a €7.6 million contract to Veolia to build an iron removal water plant…

 

Temporary treatment changes will affect plants serving central and northern parts of the state.

Report says Flint’s water plant will cost $108M to repair.

 

Imec makes a thin-film tag on plastic, compatible with the NFC Barcode protocol, a subset of ISO14443-A, which is available as standard in many smartphones.

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An appropriate corollary of Zuck becoming USA president in 2020 would be Ed Snowden becoming Russian president at the same time. Zuck and Ed could nullify the the effects of US-Russian spying. Would that be a good idea for the world’s second oldest profession? Actually, maybe not. For one thing it would put Bond out …

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This year, Asian investment in European tech could double ‘entirely transforming the European tech ecosystem’ with the UK being the most favoured country, say specialist investment bankers Magister Advisors. In 2015, AQsian investors invested $58 billion in the European technology industry. “2017 will be a watershed year for Asian investment into European tech,” says Magister, …

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Valens, the Israel-based chip developer, has introduced a reference design for HDBaseT transmission of 18Gbit/s HDMI 2.0 video, including 4K 60 4:4:4 resolution video streaming. Based on an ultra HD video interface chip from Lattice Semiconductor, the reference design supports the growing interest in ultra-high-definition transmission and high dynamic range (HDR) picture quality. In the reference …

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