Amazon RDS for SQL Server now allows customers to directly join their RDS for SQL Server DB instances to the domains of self-managed Microsoft Active Directory (AD). Self-managed AD can be on-premises or in the cloud. Currently, customers can only use NTLM as the authentication protocol for self-managed AD.

I have recently completed a project setting up a Digital Twin of the government which I have called HMG-2, Ed confides to his diary. HMG-2 will model the effect of every government decision on every other government department, so that we will know, in advance of decisions being taken, exactly what the effect is going …

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Gallup recently released its Law & Order Index, which reports confidence in the police, feelings of personal security and incidences of theft or mugging in different countries over the past year. Gallup found that riot-wracked France had a score of 85 out of 100, whereas the UK scored only 79 – putting us 62nd in …

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I had smart meters installed – for two reasons: to automate meter reading, and to get more accurate in-house power readings than the clip-on ‘Owl’ system already installed. Annoyance one, …

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The UK Space Agency is funding a new initiative to secure foreign direct investment (FDI) opportunities for the UK. It will be supporting the Department for Business and Trade and various space cluster representatives across the nation. Basically, it is to encourage startups and established companies from around the world to set up, or expand, …

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TTTech Auto and ZettaScale Technology are offering a unified communication platform for the automotive industry called Zetta Auto. Zetta Auto is initially focusing on making Serviced-Oriented Architecture (SOA) communication safe, effective and predictable and looking at unification for cloud-to-MCU communications. The platform delivers the unified integration of  the Data Distribution Service (DDS), Time Sensitive Networking (TSN) and …

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A device which reduces the noise in quantum computers has been introduced by a team of scientists at the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).  A “toggle switch” device connects two superconducting qubits to a circuit called a “readout resonator” that can read the output of the qubits’ calculations. This toggle switch can …

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Hamamatsu Photonics is to  build  a new $260 million factory capable of processing 8000 eight inch equivalent wpm at its manufacturing site in Ichino-cho, Higashi-ku, Hamamatsu City  to boost its pre-processing stage production capacity. The groundbreaking ceremony  will be held on Friday, June 30, 2023, and the building is scheduled for completion in June 2025. The …

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Texas Instruments has created a series of precision current monitors with digital outputs, for use across power rails from  -100mV to +85V, at up to ±78.64A. In each case, an internal ΣΔ ADC measures current across an integrated sensing resistor, as well as voltage and temperature – communication with the host if via I2C. The …

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We are happy to announce the preview release of the AWS .NET Distributed Cache Provider for DynamoDB . This library enables Amazon DynamoDB to be used as the storage for ASP.NET Core’s distributed cache framework.