On April 18, 2023 Amazon announced quarterly security and critical updates for Amazon Corretto Long-Term Supported (LTS) versions of OpenJDK. Corretto 20.0.1, 17.0.7, 11.0.19, 8u372 are now available for download. Amazon Corretto is a no-cost, multi-platform, production-ready distribution of OpenJDK. With this release, we are declaring aarch64 Alpine Linux binaries of Corretto 17, 11, and 8 GA.

Amazon GuardDuty is now available in the Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region. You can now continuously monitor and detect security threats in this additional region to help protect your AWS accounts, workloads, and data.

Amazon SageMaker Studio Lab deployed CAPTCHA, (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart), to deter automated bots and scripts, from absorbing compute capacity that is meant for customers experimenting with machine learning.

Amazon CodeCatalyst (Preview) has added an administrative dashboard for Dev Environments. This dashboard enables users with the Space administrator role to centrally view and manage Dev Environments across projects. CodeCatalyst is a unified software development service that makes it faster to build and deliver software on AWS. Dev Environments, a feature of CodeCatalyst, are preconfigured, scalable cloud development environments accessible from popular IDEs.

Amazon Comprehend announced that Amazon Comprehend APIs for Document Classification will now use layout of the document in addition to text, to provide higher accuracy. 

Amazon Inspector now supports deep inspection of EC2 instances when the continual EC2 scanning feature is activated. With this expanded capability, Inspector now identifies software vulnerabilities in application programming packages including Python, Java, and Node.js packages in addition to operating system packages. Inspector discovers these application programming packages installed in default directory paths, and also allows customers to provide additional custom directory paths for Inspector discovery. This feature is activated by default for all new customers, and existing customers can activate this feature across their organization with a single click in the console. Deep inspection of EC2 instances is offered at no additional cost to Inspector customers.

Are people thinking less? I ask because it seems to me that you don’t see people thinking as much as they used to. It used to be usual to see people gazing into the middle distance wrapped in thought but nowadays, if  unoccupied, people tend to  gaze at their mobile device. Are great thoughts being …

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This is an interesting one – displaying environmental information for a room in the form a piece of art.

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Juice meet Ariane. Araine meet Juice. We are, of course, talking space craft and rocket, ahead of ESA’s dramatic Jupiter mission.

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Thanks to IDC for this one – the top five Ethernet switch companies:

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