You can now monitor and automatically react to changes in your AWS CodeDeploy deployments using Amazon CloudWatch Events. This lets you detect changes in the state of an Amazon EC2 instance or deployment managed by CodeDeploy, and then invoke an action based on rules that you set. This is useful for building workflows and processes that are triggered by changes in your deployments.
Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports the Oracle Label Security (OLS) option
You can now use the Oracle Label Security (OLS) option to control access to individual table rows in your Amazon RDS DB instances running Oracle 12c. With the Oracle Label Security option, you can enforce regulatory compliance with a policy-based administration model, and ensure that an access to sensitive data is restricted to only users with the appropriate clearance level.
Reader End Point for Amazon Aurora
You can now connect to all the read replicas on your Amazon Aurora cluster through a single reader end point. Until now, you could use the cluster end point to connect to the primary instance in the cluster or instance end points to direct queries to specific instances on your Aurora cluster.
View Information About Committed Code Changes in AWS CodePipeline
You can now view details and information about code changes flowing through your software release pipeline in AWS CodePipeline. This provides you more context about changes that have been committed to your source repository and are running through your pipeline. Viewing this information can be useful when reviewing manual approval actions or troubleshooting failures in your pipeline actions.
Will O’ The Wisp Memory
When Intel stole a march on flash-inventor Toshiba and marketed the first flash chip in 1988, everyone would have been surprised if they’d known it would be another 18 years and counting before anyone came up with a flash replacement technology. In the last week we’ve had two which are intriguing – the Israeli firm …
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Self-driving truck goes mining
Volvo is claiming a first for a self-driving truck: operation in a mine. Operating underground in the Kristineberg zinc, copper, lead, gold and silver mine in northern Sweden, the truck will drive back and forth from the surface to 1,320 metres underground over 7km of twisting tunnels. “This is the world’s first fully self-driving truck …
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Fab spending to grow this year and next, says SEMI
SEMI says fab equipment spending will grow 4.1% year-on-year in 2016 and 10.6% in 2017.
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Intel sells 51% of McAfee
Intel has done a deal with the private equity fund Texas Pacific Group to spin off its security group which includes McAfee bought by Intel in 2010 for $7.7 billion. Under the deal a jv is formed in which Intel owns 49% of the security group and TPG has 51%. TPG will pay Intel $3.1 …
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Leti lines up with Weebit Nano for ReRAM development
Leti and Israeli ReRAM start-up Weebit Nano are to collaborate to develop ReRAM memory technology based on silicon oxide (SiOx).
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GloFo launches 12nm FD-SOI at Dresden
Globalfoundries launches its 12nm FD-SOI semiconductor technology, called 12FDX, offering the industry’s first multi-node FD-SOI roadmap.
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