AWS Glue crawlers now have enhanced support for Linux Foundation Delta Lake tables, increasing operational efficiency to extract meaningful insights from analytics services such as Amazon Athena, Amazon EMR, and AWS Glue. This feature enables analytics services scan Delta Lake tables without requiring the creation of manifest files by Glue crawlers. Newly cataloged data is now quickly made available for analysis using your preferred analytics and machine learning (ML) tools. 

You can now use AWS PrivateLink to privately access the Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) management APIs from your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). AWS PrivateLink provides private connectivity between VPCs, AWS services, and your on-premises networks. You can now manage your Amazon EKS clusters in your VPC using AWS PrivateLink to help your organization’s security and compliance requirements. You can also access the VPC endpoint from on-premises environments or from other VPCs using AWS VPN, AWS Direct Connect, or VPC Peering. Creating VPC Endpoints incurs charges, see the AWS PrivateLink pricing page for more information.

The AWS Common Runtime (CRT)-based SDK client and the Transfer Manager for Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) are now generally available in the AWS SDK for Java 2.x . The CRT-based S3 client is intended for users who want maximized throughput when transferring objects to and from Amazon S3, and the S3 Transfer Manager is a high level transfer utility built on top of CRT-based S3 client and provides additional functionalities such as file directories transfer and progress monitoring.

AWS Local Zones are now available in two new metro areas—Bangkok and Kolkata. You can now use these Local Zones to deliver applications that require single-digit millisecond latency or local data processing.

There’s nothing more certain to ruin your day than a visit from a representative of Scotland Yard, Ed confides to his diary. “It’s come to our attention at the Yard, Minister, that you’ve had close contacts with a certain Middle East country not unconnected with football,” the Superintendent explained in the convoluted manner of his …

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While pay negotiations have resulted in wage increases in some sectors, overall increases remain below the rise in consumer price, as data from the OECD confirms. The war in Ukraine has significantly increased prices, particularly for energy, adding to inflationary pressures at a time when the cost of living was already rising rapidly around the world. …

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SaxaVord Spaceport, in the Shetland Islands, has announced partnerships with Lerwick Engineering and Fabrication (LEF) and T12 Consultancy to deliver its rocket launch rail. The launch rail – as its name suggests – is the critical component for directing launch vehicles and allow for suborbital launches. The installation work is being supported by £378,000 of …

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Renesas and Fixstars are to jointly develop a suite of tools for the optimisation and fast simulation of software for ADAS – specifically  for the R-Car SoC devices from Renesas. These tools make it possible to develop network models with highly accurate object recognition from the initial stage of software development that take advantage of …

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Intel is delaying its German fab plans while asking for more government subsidies, reports the Volksstimme newspaper. The original plan was to run first silicon in the Magdeburg fab  in H1  2023. According to the Volksstime, costs have risen for energy and materials and Intel’s original costings for the fab of €17 billion have now …

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C. C.Wei, CEO of TSMC (pictured) has  deplored the negative effects of political confrontation on globalisation. “Geopolitical confrontation has distorted the entire market,” Wei told a forum organised by the Monte Jade Science and Technology Association on Saturday, “previously, you make a product and could sell it to the whole world. Now, some products are …

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