Today, AWS Compute Optimizer launches a new capability that makes it easier for customers to optimize their EC2 instances by leveraging multiple CPU architectures.

Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) now supports Attribute-based access control (ABAC) for API actions including Publish and PublishBatch. ABAC is an authorization strategy that defines access permissions based on tags which can be attached to IAM resources, such as IAM users and roles, and to AWS resources, like Amazon SNS topics, to simplify permission management.

Amazon Lex is a service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text. Amazon Lex now supports Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) endpoints via AWS PrivateLink so you can securely initiate calls to Amazon Lex V2 APIs from within your VPC and without using public IPs or exposing your traffic to public internet. AWS PrivateLink provides private connectivity between VPCs and AWS services, without ever leaving the Amazon network, significantly simplifying your internal network architecture.

The AWS Toolkit for JetBrains now provides developers with convenient IDE functionality to connect to Amazon ECS containers and issue commands using Amazon ECS Exec . This allows developers to directly interact with containers, such as running commands in or get a shell to an ECS container running on an Amazon EC2 instance or on AWS Fargate, without leaving their IDE. ECS Exec uses the AWS Systems Manager (SSM) Session Manager under the hood to establish a connection with the running container.

Amazon EMR Studio is an integrated development environment (IDE) that makes it easy for data scientists and data engineers to develop, visualize, and debug  big data and analytics applications written in R, Python, Scala, and PySpark. With EMR Studio, you get fully managed notebooks based on JupyterLab. JupyterLab is the next-generation web-based user interface for open source Project Jupyter. Today, we are excited to announce that EMR Studio is now upgraded to JupyterLab v3.1.4, providing an enhanced user experience and new usability features.

In a world with plenty of low-noise JFET input op-amps, who would have thought anyone would still be introducing a discrete dual JFET. Well, TI did in August: the JFE2140. Its target is high-end audio amplifiers. Thoughtfully integrated with lots of clamping diodes (12 of them), the pair achieves: 0.9nV/√Hz voltage noise (1kHz, 5mA Ids) 1.1nV/√Hz …

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In his book High Output Management, Andy Grove showed this graphic depicting how he dealt with poor performers: Poor performers tend to ignore their problem, explained Grove, and the first step is getting them to actively deny the problem’s existence. The next stage is getting them to admit there’s a problem although they will insist …

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Government space budgets – driven by demands for space exploration and militarisation – hit records levels of investment, totalling $92 billion. This is according to Euroconsult, a consultancy specialising in the space sector, which also expects such spending to reach $1 trillion over the next decade. The two major main drivers identified are ambitious space …

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The 2022 IEEE Symposium on VLSI Technology & Circuits, now its 42nd year, has announced a “Call for Papers” with submissions around the theme: “Technology & Circuits for the Critical Infrastructure of the Future.” The newly-merged five day Symposium will be held as a hybrid event from June 13 – 17, 2022, at the Hilton Hawaii Village …

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November semiconductor sales were up 23.5% at $49.7billion compared to November 2020’s total of $40.2 billion and 1.5% up on October sales of $49 billion. The cumulative annual total of semiconductor units sold through November 2021 reached 1.05 trillion, which is the industry’s highest-ever annual total.. “Global semiconductor sales remained strong in November, increasing substantially …

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