AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) Private Certificate Authority (CA) now supports customizable certificate subject names. Security and public key infrastructure (PKI) administrators, builders, and developers now have greater control over the types of certificate subject names they can create using ACM Private CA. For example, it’s now possible to represent your organization’s directory structure in certificates by including multiple organizational units (OUs) in your certificate subject names. It’s also possible to create subject names representing Internet of Things (IoT) product and vendor identifiers such as those conforming to Matter , a new industry standard for secure and reliable home automation devices.

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL adds support for tds_fdw which allows your PostgreSQL database to connect and retrieve data stored in separate SQL Server databases.

Today, we are announcing the availability of AWS Backup in the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region. AWS Backup is a fully-managed, policy-driven service that allows you to centrally automate data protection across multiple AWS services spanning compute, storage, and database. Using AWS Backup, you can centrally create and manage immutable backups of your application data, protect your data from inadvertent or malicious actions, and restore the data to your specified point-in-time with a few simple clicks.

AWS Service Catalog now supports Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) endpoint policies in all regions. Previously, Service Catalog supported integration with AWS PrivateLink in all regions, where customers could use default policies that provided full access to Service Catalog. With this newly supported feature, customers can create or modify their VPC endpoint(s), interface or gateway, and have the option of attaching a customer-managed policy that specifies access to Service Catalog.

The Amazon Chime SDK lets developers add real-time audio, video, screen-sharing, and messaging capabilities to their web or mobile applications. Amazon Lex provides automatic speech recognition and natural language understanding technologies so you can build conversational interfaces. Today we are launching the Amazon Chime SDK integration with Amazon Lex, enabling builders to develop conversational interfaces for calls to or from the public telephone network. With this integration, you can now easily create conversational experiences in contact centers that use Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) for voice communications.

There’s a planned Intel fab for Magdeburg, Shenzhen being hit by Covid cases, Arm cutting its workforce, Alphawave buying the OpenFive business unit from SiFive, and Imagination Technologies looking to hire around 250 people…

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14 years ago people were talking about 450mm wafers, but it all turned out to be a pipe dream. The cost of transitioning to 450mm wafers was at that time estimated at $100 billion. The previous  transition, from 200mm to 300mm was  funded by the Federal Government of Germany. IBM had led a previous transition. …

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This one may be of interest, we’ll file it under our DevBoard Watch category: the XBee 3 Cellular LTE-M/NB-IoT Dev Kit from Digi.

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Intrinsic ID, the Physical Unclonable Function (PUF) security IP specialist,  has announced the newest release of its flagship hardware IP product, QuiddiKey.  The new release targets advanced process nodes. QuiddiKey 4.x provides additional security countermeasures, extended testability, and requires less non-volatile memory than previous versions. It is available immediately. “The need for trusted, transparent, and …

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UK rocket company Skyrora is progressing its preparations for an orbital launch, announcing the opening of a new rocket engine testing facility in Midlothian, Scotland. The Edinburgh-headquartered space company describes it as a state of the art facility and the UK’s largest such engine testing facility. The site was commissioned and brought into service within …

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