Change Manager, a capability of AWS Systems Manager, now allows administrators to auto-approve known and less risky changes through pre-configured change templates thereby eliminating the approval step and expediting changes.

Amazon WorkSpaces now allows users to view default quota and applied quota information through Service Quotas .

Starting today, OpsCenter, a capability of AWS Systems Manager, automatically analyzes operational items in customers’ accounts. Then, OpsCenter generates operational insights when it detects duplicate operational items or a large number of operational items created by the same event source. For each operational insight, OpsCenter recommends actions that operators and IT professionals can take to address the underlying issue. This improves operational efficiency by reducing alert noise, so that you can focus on issues that matter most. By using OpsCenter, you can track and resolve operational items related to AWS resources in a central place, helping to reduce the time to issue resolution.

AWS WAF now enables you to select a specific version of a managed rule group within your web ACL, giving you the ability to test new rule updates safely and roll back to previously tested versions. When using a versioned managed rule group, you control when new rule updates are applied to your traffic. By default, you will continue to automatically receive rule updates to your managed rule group. You can change this behavior by manually selecting a version, enabling you to pause automatic updates or go back to a previous version. Once you select a specific version, you will no longer receive automatic updates but will remain on the selected version until it reaches end of life.

Amazon Comprehend is a natural language processing (NLP) service that uses machine learning to analyze text documents and identify insights such as sentiment, entities, and topics in text. Today, we are updating our custom entity recognition models so that you can train models with fewer training documents. Custom entity recognition extends the capability of Amazon Comprehend by enabling you to identify new entity types not supported as one of the preset generic entity types. This means that in addition to identifying the entity types from the Detect Entities API such as LOCATION or DATE, PERSON, you can analyze documents and extract entities like PRODUCT_CODE, EMPLOYEE_ID, CONTRACTOR_NAME or business-specific entities that you define and that fit your particular needs. Starting today, we have reduced the minimum required training documents by 50%. This means, you can train custom models with as few as 100 annotations per entity type from 250 documents. If you have more training documents, you can even expect to get better results from the newer models than before!

Greaser’s been banging on for ages about getting into the cryptocoin racket, Ed confides to his diary. It seems barking mad to me.  “With tens of thousands of these different Scamcoins floating about how on earth can you persuade people to buy yours?” I ask Greaser. ‘Look Ed with your influence you can give it …

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The #T-TeC 2021 competition, which is supported by Leonardo, aims to encourage a new generation of scientists and innovators, with the aim of “creating a bridge between the academic world of research and the innovative space sector”. T-TeC stands for Telespazio Technology Contest, with Telespazio being the Rome-based space flight services company, a JV owned by Leonardo and …

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A team at the US Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and UC Berkeley have built a cobalt-doped van der Waals zinc-oxide magnet from a solution of graphene oxide, zinc, and cobalt. Baking in a conventional lab oven transformed the mixture into a single atomic layer of zinc-oxide with a smattering of cobalt …

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Researchers from Skoltech, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, and Uppsala University have predicted the existence of antichiral ferromagnetism, a nontrivial property of some magnetic crystals that opens the door to a variety of new magnetic phenomena. Chirality, or handedness, is an extremely important fundamental property of objects in many fields of physics, mathematics, chemistry and …

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Fibre optic cables could be fed through the water mains to connect homes, businesses and mobile masts in rural areas without digging up the roads, says the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS). £4 million is available for  innovators to trial what could be a quicker and more cost-effective way of connecting fibre optic …

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