Starting today, AWS Site-to-Site VPN supports the ability to deploy IPSec VPN connections over Direct Connect using private IP addresses. With this change, customers can encrypt DX traffic between their on-premises network and AWS without the need for public IP addresses, thus enabling enhanced security and network privacy at the same time.

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition now supports PostgreSQL major version 14 (14.3). PostgreSQL 14  includes performance improvements for parallel queries, heavily-concurrent workloads, partitioned tables, logical replication, and vacuuming. PostgreSQL 14 also improves functionality with new capabilities. For example, you can cancel long-running queries if a client disconnects and you can close idle sessions if they time out. Range types now support multiranges, allowing representation of non-contiguous data ranges, and stored procedures can now return data via OUT parameters. This release includes new features for Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL version 2.1. Please refer to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL updates for more information.

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom for Oracle now supports Oracle Database versions 12.2 and 18c. Amazon RDS Custom is a managed database service for applications that require customization of the underlying operating system and database environment. With support now added for 12.2 and 18c, you can now run your legacy, packaged and customized applications that are dependent on these database versions on Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle.

AWS Lake Formation is a service that allows you to set up a secure data lake in days. A data lake is a centralized curated, and secured repository that stores all your data, both in its original form and prepared for analysis. A data lake enables you to break down data silos and combine different types of analytics to gain insights and guide better business decisions.

Q2 has seen a dramatic change in attitudes to IPOs. Companies are now taking a wait and see  approach to scheduling listings. While Q1 Asian IPOs raised 18% more than in Q121, Asian IPOs in the year to June 14th had raised 26% less than in the same period last year, says Dealogic, showing the …

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Gadget Master is overdue a competition, and we’re talking the Petoi Bittle, the world’s first palm-sized robotic dog…

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At Embedded World this morning, RISC-V International announced approval of its E-Trace (Efficient Trace for Risc-V) and SBI (RISC-V supervisor binary interface) specifications. E-Trace defines an approach to processor tracing that uses a branch trace, intended for debugging any size of application up to super computers. The documentation specifies the signals between the RISC-V core …

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The UK Government has announced it will invest £30 million to help secure the UK’s role in developing a space telescope to explore exoplanets. According to the UK Space Agency, the Ariel mission is due to launch in 2029 and seeks to understand the links between a planet’s chemistry, its evolution and its host star, …

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Claiming to cut both on-resistance and switching loss, while optimising body-diode properties, ST’s 40V MOSFETs, STL320N4LF8 and STL325N4LF8AG, aim to save energy and ensure low noise in circuits for power conversion, motor control, and power distribution. The  40V N-channel enhancement-mode MOSFETs leverage the latest-generation STPOWER STripFET F8 oxide-filled trench technology to achieve superior figures of …

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Imec has introduced the forksheet device architecture to extend the scalability of the nanosheet transistor family towards 1nm and beyond logic nodes. In a forksheet device, the effective channel widths can be made larger than in a conventional gate-all-around nanosheet device due to a reduced spacing between n- and p-type transistors. And this benefits the …

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