RStudio on Amazon SageMaker now comes with the new RStudio Workbench version 2022.02.2-485.pro2 with enhanced developer productivity and security capabilities. The new capabilities  include an enhanced R help system, improved editor support for the R pipe-bind placeholder and full end-to-end encryption that secures communication between the RStudioServerPro and RSession applications.

AWS Lambda now supports content filtering options for Amazon MSK, Self-Managed Kafka, Amazon MQ for Apache ActiveMQ, and Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ. With event pattern content filtering, customers can write complex rules so that their Lambda function is only invoked to process meaningful events. This helps reduce traffic to customers’ Lambda functions, simplifies code, and reduces overall cost. Filtering was already available for SQS, DynamoDB, and Kinesis as event sources for Lambda.

AWS Cloud Map is now available in Middle East (UAE) AWS Region. AWS Cloud Map is a cloud resource discovery service. With AWS Cloud Map, you can define custom names for your application resources, such as Amazon Elastic Container Services (Amazon ECS) tasks, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, Amazon DynamoDB tables, or other cloud resource. You can then use these custom names to discover the location and metadata of cloud resources from your applications using AWS SDK and authenticated API queries.

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now supports Predictive Scaling in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region. Predictive Scaling can proactively scale out your Auto Scaling group to be ready for upcoming demand. This allows you to avoid the need to over-provision capacity, resulting in lower EC2 cost, while ensuring your application’s responsiveness. To see the list of all supported AWS public regions and AWS GovCloud regions, click here .

One for budding Gadget Masters maybe, or for those who want to deepen their electronics understanding – it’s the UKESF’s Introduction to Electronic Engineering online course, which is currently free.

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The semi slide proceeds apace with some companies seeing huge falls in share price – Nvidia has lost over $540 billion in market cap in 12 months. The SOX  has fallen 42% this year and is expected to go lower – the index is priced at 13.3 times estimated earnings, versus a low of 11.3 …

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Ten years ago we had all these predictions from Sergei Brin and others thst self driving cars would he on the market by now while, every year for several years, Elon has said they’ll on the market by the end of that year. But they still look years, maybe decades away. Even, it is being …

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Amid reports that Intel is about to lay off thousands of employees,  a memo surfaces which CEO Pat Gelsinger (pictured) sent to all Intel staff earlier this month: ‘When I returned to Intel in 2021, I introduced our IDM 2.0 strategy: a multiyear journey to regain unquestioned technology leadership, manufacturing scale and long-term growth. Today, …

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In the fight to buy Toshiba, preferred bidder status has been granted by Toshiba to a consortium put together by the Japanese private equity fund, Japan Industrial Partners (JIP). JIP is reported to have asked over ten Japanese companies, including Chubu Electric, Orix Corp, Nippon Life Insurance Co, Toray Industiries and Central Japan Railway Co …

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Already running for 18 months in Germany, Bosch is expanding its cyber security procurement platform to the UK. Called CyberCompare it has “a team of cybersecurity experts in Germany and the UK”, according to Bosch. “The platform can compare quotes from more than 7,000 providers of cybersecurity solutions and providers for enterprise IT, operational technology …

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