AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) Private Certificate Authority (CA) announces the release of Version 1.0 (v1.0) of the Private CA Kubernetes cert-manager plugin, an open source plugin for cert-manager that offers a secure certificate authority solution for Kubernetes containers. ACM Private CA is AWS’s managed and highly available private CA service, and cert-manager is a widely-adopted solution for TLS certificate management in Kubernetes. Customers who use cert-manager for certificate lifecycle management can use this plugin with ACM Private CA to improve security over the default cert-manager CA, which stores keys in plaintext in server memory. v1.0 of the plugin replaces v0.3.1 released in July 2021 and is production ready with new features, maintenance improvements, and bug fixes. With this release, we’ve added automated end-to-end integration testing that runs with each software change. This means any plugin changes from now on are automatically tested before being released. This improves quality and production-readiness. The plugin’s repository automatically makes releases available in an AWS-owned ECR repository, so customers always get the latest version of the plugin.

AWS Storage Gateway now supports Dell EMC NetWorker 19.5 and Veeam Backup & Replication 11A on Tape Gateway, enabling you to backup and archive data from Dell EMC NetWorker and Veeam Backup & Replication to AWS without changing your backup workflows. With this announcement, Tape Gateway supports Dell EMC NetWorker 19.5 and Veeam Backup & Replication 11A running on Microsoft Windows Server 2019.

Previews are now available for AWS Glue Interactive Sessions and Job Notebooks, two new serverless features of AWS Glue that help simplify the process of developing data integration jobs. Interactive Sessions enable data engineers to interactively explore and prepare data. Glue Studio Job Notebooks provide serverless notebooks with minimal setup so developers can get started quickly.

Personal Identifiable Information (PII) detection and remediation in AWS Glue is now available in preview. This feature uses pattern matching and machine learning to automatically detect PII at both the column and cell levels during an AWS Glue job run. AWS Glue includes options to log the type of PII and its location and immediately take remedial action as necessary.

As soon as somebody knows you’re a government minister they’re onto you with an angle – usually a demand, Ed confides to his diary. “Where would the UK be without its pubs?” asked a cove at the square beach bar at Sandy Lane where I am sitting out the Covid  season. I recognise him as …

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Those two unlikely tech visionaries, Melania Trump and Paris Hilton, are each setting up NFT peddling businesses. Modestly, Melania has chosen as her first NFT, a picture of herself called Melania’s Vision described as “a breathtaking watercolour art by Marc-Antoine Coulon and embodies Mrs Trump’s cobalt blue eyes, providing the collector with an amulet to …

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Amphenol RF has expanded its SMP product series with a newright‐angle cable plug designed for easier assembly andimproved performance. SMP connectors are for telecommunications and military applications which require compact, secure RF interconnect. This new commercial product utilizes the standard SMP interface and provides a high‐frequency solution that offers reliable performance up to 26.5 GHz. Designed …

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Maker Mahesh Venkitachalam has designed a high quality microphone he calls Mico using the main component of the Raspberry Pi Pico  – the RP2040 controller chip – which can be bought separately from the Pico platform. The sensing device is a MEMS microphone that outputs a pulse density modulated (PDM) signal. Mahesh designed a PCB …

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A New Years Eve request from US Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and the head of the US Federal Aviation Administration asking AT&T and Verizon to delay the launch of 5G services has been rebuffed by the two wireless coperators. There are fears that 5G signals can interfere with radar altimeters on aircraft. The altimeters use frequencies …

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EV batteries are set to cost more as the price of lithium, cobalt and nickel soar. In China, the biggest maker of EV batteries, a ton of lithium is $41,000 a ton, says the Nikkei, which is five times more than last year. The price of cobalt has doubled since January 2021  to $70,000 a …

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