Analog Devices will have a new CFO from 05 February: Richard Puccio, who will also be an executive v-p and report to CEO and chair Vincent Roche. “We welcome Rich’s …

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“The first human received an implant from Neuralink yesterday and is recovering well,” tweeted Elon Musk yesterday. “Initial results show promising neuron spike detection.” Neuralink is Musk’s electronic brain interface …

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Power Integrations has announced the fifth generation of its InnoSwitch isolated fly-back ac-dc converter ICs, which removes the need for primary-side active clamping when operated in zero-voltage switching (ZVS) mode. …

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Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Db2 now supports Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code (EBCDIC) collation sequence. With this launch, you can now maintain the collation sequence when migrating from Db2 on z/OS, which supports the EBCDIC collation sequence, to Amazon RDS for Db2. You can specify the EBCDIC collation sequence when creating a database using the rdsadmin.create_database stored procedure provided by Amazon RDS for Db2.

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R7i instances are available in Asia Pacific (Jakarta) and South America (Sao Paulo).

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M2 Pro Mac instances are now generally available (GA) in US East (N. Virginia) and Asia Pacific (Sydney). EC2 M2 Mac instances are now GA in Europe (Frankfurt) and Asia Pacific (Sydney). Customers now have access to additional regions with Apple silicon hardware, enabling them to run macOS workloads in regions with pre-existing networking configurations, satisfy data residency requirements, and ensure high availability and continuity of operations with multi-region/multi-availability zone (AZ) architecture.

Today, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) launched integrated service discovery in Canada West (Calgary) AWS Region. 

Amazon DataZone has added several enterprise features, including support for AWS CloudFormation, a user interface for creating custom data assets, and HIPAA eligibility. Amazon DataZone is a data management service to catalog, discover, analyze, share, and govern data at scale across organizational boundaries with governance and access controls. It provides data visibility and helps data producers and consumers across business units more securely share data.

Starting today, EC2 Auto Scaling and EC2 Fleet customers who use attribute based instance type selection can define their Spot instances price protection limit as a percentage of an instances’ On-Demand price. With this new mechanism, customers have greater control over the instance types that are launched by EC2 Fleet or EC2 Auto Scaling, while also maximizing the benefit of Spot’s lower prices.

What is the most lucrative Sucker-Sell at the moment? Ed asks his diary. Very clearly  the answer is AI. But without having direct control over any aspect of the technology, …

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