Starting today, Amazon SageMaker JumpStart provides two additional state-of-the-art foundational models, Bloom for text generation and Stable Diffusion for image generation. Customers can access newly added models through the SageMaker Python SDK APIs and SageMaker JumpStart UI inside SageMaker Studio.

Starting today, Amazon SageMaker JumpStart provides a new built-in algorithm for text classification: Text Classification – TensorFlow. It takes text as input and outputs probability for each of the class labels. It is a supervised learning algorithm that supports transfer learning for many pre-trained models available in TensorFlow Hub . These pre-trained models can be fine-tuned using transfer learning even when large amount of text are not available. It is available through the SageMaker built-in algorithms as well as through SageMaker JumpStart UI inside SageMaker Studio.

Today, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) has announced the availability of ECS task scale-in protection, a new feature that enables customers to protect long-running tasks from being terminated by scale-in events and deployments. This feature helps simplify orchestration of queue-processing asynchronous applications such as a video transcoding jobs wherein some tasks may be running for hours even when cumulative service utilization is low or when a new code version is being deployed while some tasks have not yet finished completing ongoing work that would be expensive to reprocess.

Starting today, customers can run Apple macOS Ventura (13.0) as Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) on Amazon EC2 Mac instances. Apple macOS Ventura is the current major macOS release from Apple, and introduces multiple new capabilities and performance improvements over prior macOS versions. Apple macOS Ventura supports running Xcode versions 14.0 and later, which include the latest SDKs for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, and watchOS.

AWS Storage Gateway expands availability to the AWS Middle East (UAE) Region enabling customers to deploy and manage hybrid cloud storage for their on-premises workloads.

Today, we are excited to launch Amazon EventBridge Scheduler, expanding its current scheduling capabilities by making it simple for developers to create, execute, and manage scheduled tasks at scale.

The Amazon Time Sync Service is now available over the Internet. Built on Amazon’s network infrastructure, the Amazon Time Sync Service utilizes a global fleet of redundant satellite-connected and atomic reference clocks in AWS regions to deliver current time readings of the Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) global standard. Previously, Amazon Time Sync was available through EC2 instances.

AWS IoT Device Defender , a fully managed service for auditing and monitoring devices connected to AWS IoT, now supports a new audit check for revoked intermediate Certificate Authority (CA). If a CA revokes an intermediate CA because it is potentially compromised, then all certificates issued by that intermediate CA are also potentially compromised and invalid. This new audit check identifies active device certificates issued by a revoked intermediate CA, and helps customers review and replace these active device certificates.

Amazon Kendra  is now authorized as FedRAMP High in AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. Amazon Kendra is a highly accurate intelligent search service powered by machine learning. Kendra reimagines enterprise search for your websites and applications so your employees and customers can easily find the content they are looking for, even when it’s scattered across multiple locations and content repositories within your organization.

What’s that you say? There’s no such thing as a fish (that’s 3D-printed with a set of mesh-lined gills)? Well, there is now – and it eats up microplastics in the water!

The post Arduino eats microplastics as a fish eats plankton appeared first on Electronics Weekly .