AWS announces the retirement of IAM actions for AWS Billing, Cost Management, and Account consoles under aws-portal service prefix, purchase-orders:ViewPurchaseOrders, and purchase-orders:ModifyPurchaseOrders and is replacing them with fine-grained service specific actions. This launch gives AWS customers more control over access to Billing, Cost Management, and Account services. These new permissions will also provide a single set of IAM actions that govern console and programmatic access to these services.

Today Amazon Pinpoint is launching a new web form experience in the Amazon Pinpoint console to help make it easier for Amazon Pinpoint and Amazon SNS customers to register SMS Sender IDs in Singapore. Customers are no longer required to create a support ticket to register Sender IDs for Singapore. A Sender ID is an alphanumeric originator that identifies the sender of an SMS message, e.g. “AMAZON”. 

Today, AWS CloudFormation updates the language extension transform to support default values and additional intrinsic functions in Fn::FindInMap. Customers can use these features to minimize the size of their CloudFormation templates, and improve their readability. The language transform extends CloudFormation template language with functions such as Fn::Length, Fn::JsonToString, and more. Customers can modularize their templates into groups with different attributes in Parameters and Mappings, and use Fn::FindInMap to refer to attributes of these groups. For example, you can use Fn::FindInMap for EC2 resource type with a Mappings section containing a single map, RegionMap, that associates AMIs with AWS Regions to your EC2 instances. With these language enhancements, you can use intrinsic functions such as Fn::Split, Fn::Select, and others within Fn::FindInMap. Previously, Fn::FindInMap only supported Ref intrinsic functions. Additionally, you can define string or list type default values in Fn::FindInMap. To see the list of supported intrinsic functions and learn about Fn:FindInMap, refer to the user guide .

Intel put up a foil at IEDM showing its progress on delivering five process nodes in four years. “I was skeptical Intel could meet the original Intel accelerated timeline, then they pulled it in (18A moved from 2025 to the second half of 2024), and so far, they are meeting it,” comments Scotten Jones in …

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An eye-catching Lego construction – using an Arduino Uno and OLED display, representing a food dispenser, in miniature…

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I got given a 5kW heater for the workshop, powered by diesel fuel and colloquially known as a ‘Chinese diesel heater’ (right) – they seem to be based on designs from German companies Webasto and Eberspacher. I finally got around to installing over the cold snap before Christmas, putting the heater unit inside the workshop …

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Thanks to TrendForce for this one – the Top Ten tech trends for 2023:  

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Seraphim, the London-based, space-focused VC, has published its predictions for the space sector in 2023, highlighting some of the biggest trends they expect to see in 2023. The seven points comprise: cell phone connectivity from space, commercialisation of the moon beginning in earnest, a trio of drivers underpinning revenue growth, a record year for new …

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Smiths Interconnect has expanded into the burn-in test market with the acquisition of  Plastronics the Texas supplier of burn-in test sockets and spring probe contacts for the semiconductor test market and custom connectors for industrial applications. The deal provides cross selling opportunities in Asia and the US by leveraging the combined sales and manufacturing footprint …

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Rapid Silicon, the startup pursuing FPGAs based on open-source technology, has closed a $30 million Series A Round.. The company has raised $15 million in funding from Cambium Capital and others, including all existing investors from its seed round. The second close is planned for Q1 2023. This funding will be used to invest in …

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