The IoT-Ready Alliance warns that smart lighting could become obsolete without a common method for keeping sensors up to date.

Today, we enabled additional Active Directory (AD) features in AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory (Enterprise Edition), also known as AWS Microsoft AD, that make it easier to migrate more .NET applications to the AWS Cloud. You can now improve the security of .NET applications by using group Managed Service Accounts (gMSA) and Kerberos constrained delegation (KCD) enabled features. With gMSA, you can narrow permissions to your account, thereby reducing risks by not using built-in user accounts with full server control. gMSA makes it easier to manage .NET applications by creating and rotating the account password automatically, and a single account can be used by one or more application servers.

Today, we made it easier in AWS Organizations for you to retrieve and view the email addresses of member accounts in your organization. You can use email addresses as another way to identify individual accounts in your organization.

AWS Schema Conversion Tool (SCT) can now extract data from a Microsoft SQL Server data warehouse for direct import into Amazon Redshift. This follows the recently announced capability to convert SQL Server data warehouse schemas.

We are pleased to announce that Elastic Load Balancing now provides an API that can be used to access service limits for Application Load Balancers and Classic Load Balancers. Prior to the availability of this API, customers needed to contact AWS Support or use Trusted Advisor in order to check their existing service limits for load balancers.

Starting today you can provision AWS WAF on Application Load Balancer resources using AWS CloudFormation.

L’Oréal hopes to further improve its track record on water management after partnering with t SUEZ in a three-year agreement…

Fujitsu is sampling a 128kbit FRAM designed for an operating temperature of up to 125°C. The chip is qualified according to AEC Q100 industrial standard and is aimed at automotive and industrial markets. The MB85RS128TY incorporates 128kbit FRAM memory density, SPI serial interface with a maximum operating frequency of 33MHz, an extended operating voltage range …

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X-Fab has made its first GaN-on-Silicon devices made on 200mm wafers. The wafers used substrates fabricated at Exagan’s 200-mm epi-manufacturing facility in Grenoble, France. Exagan was founded in 2014 by CEA-Leti and Soitec to pursue GaN technology. X-Fab and Exagan have been working on the GaN-on-Silicon project since 2015. These epi wafers meet the physical …

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Drone maker Erle Robotics has come up with a autopilot daughterboard for the Raspberry Pi Zero. Called PXFmini, it can be used to create a ready-to-fly autopilot with support for Dronecode’s open source unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) platform and APM flight stack. The daughter-board, priced at €69, has been designed specially for the Raspberry Pi …

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