Today, we announce the general availability of AWS Database Encryption SDK, an upgrade to the existing Amazon DynamoDB Encryption Client, which enables you to include client-side encryption in your DynamoDB workloads. 

Public IP Insights is an Amazon VPC IP Address Manager (IPAM) feature that provides a unified view of all public IPv4 addresses, making it easier for you to monitor, analyze and audit public IPv4 addresses used across AWS services, in your AWS account.

Today, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) announces a preview of JSON protocol support, enabling lower latency and improved performance for SQS customers. Based on AWS performance tests for a 5KB message payload, JSON protocol for Amazon Simple Queue Service reduces end-to-end message processing latency by up to 23% and reduces application client side CPU and memory usage. Amazon SQS is a fully managed message queuing service that enables you to decouple and scale microservices, distributed systems, and serverless applications.

A very famous, Nobel Prize-winning Danish physicist was given, in WWII, two Nobel medals for safe-keeping by two German Nobel laureates. Hitler hated the Nobel Prizes and forbade Germans to accept them and, if the Nazis found these medals, the physicists would probably face death. When Germany invaded Denmark the Danish physicist was in a …

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Nothing says it’s summer more, in the newspapers, than a book list of recommended reading. You know the one, where authors plug their mates or fellow writers on the same imprint, and where they never read a classic book for the first time, it’s always re-read the classic book…

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For example, what caught David Manners’ eye this week was Germany taking €20bn from its climate fund to subsidise chips…

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Gartner’s 2023 Storage Hype-Cycle sees the demise of Storage Class Memory (thanks to Intel canning Optane), Copy Data Management, Enterprise Information Archiving, Persistent Memory DIMMs, and Management Software-Defined Storage. Hybrid Cloud File Data Services had a rapid ascent to the Peak Of Inflated Expectations but is now heading for the Trough Of Disillusionment.

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Amazon has announced – for its Project Kuiper satellite constellation – that construction is underway on a new satellite-processing facility at Space Florida’s Launch and Landing Facility at Kennedy Space Center. A constellation of over 3,200 LEO satellites is planned to planned to provide global broadband services. The location at the Kennedy Space Center will …

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Socionext is in mass production  of  a powerline SC1320A HD-PLC chip which measures 7mm × 7mm, consumes 200mW and has a 3.3v power supply. HD-PLC (High Definition Power Line Communication) technology superimposes high-frequency signals (2 to 28 MHz) over power lines, telephone lines, twisted pair, coaxial cables, and other types of wires. The fourth-generation of …

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Hynix cut NAND production by 5-10% yesterday but said that the DRAM market is on the way back, with H2 demand from data centre and gaming expected to increase. “We have long-range visibility from our clients into next year,” says Myoungsoo Park, Hynix’s head of DRAM marketing. Hynix had a Q2  $2.28 billion operating loss, down …

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