Amazon Kinesis Firehose is the easiest way to load streaming data into AWS. Today we have added a built-in integration that allows you to send streaming data from Kinesis Streams to Kinesis Firehose by configuring your stream as a data source to Kinesis Firehose using the console or API. You can now create and configure a Firehose delivery stream to automatically read data from your Kinesis streams and then deliver the data to destinations. This makes it easy for you to persist data in your streams to data stores such as Amazon S3, Amazon Redshift, and Amazon Elasticsearch Service. 

Amazon Route 53 now supports CAA records.

Amazon EC2 Systems Manager State Manager can now be used to trigger Amazon CloudWatch Events, Automation can be used as a CloudWatch Events target, you can now keep track of State Manager association changes, and you can use the new approve action type in Automation.

AWS Budgets lets customers set custom budgets and receive alerts if their costs or usage exceed (or are forecasted to exceed) their budgeted amount.

An open letter urges the United Nations to ban the use of lethal autonomous weapons internationally.

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I am knackered, wasted, Ed confides to his diary, Pam is rapacious, insatiable. As soon as her husband left for London, as per my devious plan, I was dragged into the master bedroom and rogered rigid. And the procedure repeats on an infernal Infinite Loop of rumpy-pumpy – after breakfast, after lunch, before dinner and …

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Applied Materials, 50 years old in November, had a record Q3 with year-on-year sales up 33% at $3.74bn for a net profit of $925m. For Q4, the company expects revenues of $3.85bn to $4bn. It generated $1.37bn cash in Q3. Semiconductor manufacturing equipment sales constituted $2.5bn of the total. Of those, 39% went to foundry customers, …

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Five year-old Palo Alto start-up ThoughtSpot has just raised another $60 million taking its total funding to date to $160 million. The company says its technology takes the place of using analysts to investigate markets. The company’s search technology takes company data and produces conclusions from it such as potential customer profiles and projected sales …

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With the achievement of a 250W light source, ASML is now shipping 100 wafer per hour EUV machines and  expects to go to 125wph later this year. Next year, the plan is to go higher. So, after a tortured development period, EUV enters the production process at 7nm. GloFo and TSMC are expected to insert …

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Mouser has added to its IoT-focused product line after starting to stock the Digi XBee Cellular 3G global embedded modem. According to the distributor, the modem is designed to help OEMs avoid time-consuming and expensive FCC and PTCRB end-device certifications and it enables engineers to quickly and easily integrate 3G (HSPA/GSM) with 2G fallback connectivity …

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