Amazon Inspector now supports deep inspection of EC2 instances when the continual EC2 scanning feature is activated. With this expanded capability, Inspector now identifies software vulnerabilities in application programming packages including Python, Java, and Node.js packages in addition to operating system packages. Inspector discovers these application programming packages installed in default directory paths, and also allows customers to provide additional custom directory paths for Inspector discovery. This feature is activated by default for all new customers, and existing customers can activate this feature across their organization with a single click in the console. Deep inspection of EC2 instances is offered at no additional cost to Inspector customers.

Are people thinking less? I ask because it seems to me that you don’t see people thinking as much as they used to. It used to be usual to see people gazing into the middle distance wrapped in thought but nowadays, if  unoccupied, people tend to  gaze at their mobile device. Are great thoughts being …

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This is an interesting one – displaying environmental information for a room in the form a piece of art.

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Juice meet Ariane. Araine meet Juice. We are, of course, talking space craft and rocket, ahead of ESA’s dramatic Jupiter mission.

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Thanks to IDC for this one – the top five Ethernet switch companies:

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Mouser  has brought out a new eBook in collaboration with Samtec, exploring the challenges of high-speed designs and the new cable technologies emerging to address them. In Samtec Flyover Solutions Break Next-Gen System Architecture Constraints, a range of Samtec thought leaders offer insights into how recent technology breakthroughs have enabled advances in electronics designs. The eBook’s …

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ClearSpace, the space debris removal startup founded in Switzerland, is expanding to the United States. With offices also in the UK, Germany, Luxembourg, it has announced its US subsidiary, ClearSpace Today, expanding beyond Europe for the first time. This will help it address the world’s largest space economy, says the company. “As a global leader …

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Electronics production is in decline, says Semiconductor Intelligence. Shipments of PCs and smartphones were weak in 2022 and continue to decline in 2023, says SI. For the first quarter of 2023, IDC estimated PC shipments dropped 29% from a year earlier. This follows a 28% year-to-year decline in 4Q 2022. For the year 2022, PC …

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China’s memory production  is expected to decline over the next two years. After chaotic mismanagement of domestic China DRAM startups, aided and abetted by US sanctions, China lacks any domestically owned DRAM capacity. Hynix is the only major supplier to have a fab in China – at Wuxi – but output from Wuxi has fallen …

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Five more members have joined the likes of NXP, Microchip and Renesas in the ISELED Alliance, which overlooks a system of multi-colour addressable automotive LED tape lighting, built around ICs from Inova Semiconductors. The new companies are: Blue Whale (MCUs), Lextar (automotive lighting), Liteon (LEDs), Technica (communication test and validation), Asteelflash (electronic manufacturing) and YTMicro …

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