We have updated Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL on Outposts to support MySQL minor versions 8.0.23, and 8.0.25. We recommend that customers upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of MySQL, and to benefit from the numerous bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality added by the MySQL community.

CloudWatch Synthetics now supports using an AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) key that you provide to encrypt the canary run data that CloudWatch Synthetics stores in your Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket. By default, these artifacts are encrypted at rest using an AWS managed key.

Amazon QuickSight now supports advanced styling for your Table and Pivot Table. Authors can create beautiful tables, follow a design pattern or apply a standardized corporate identity to their tabular visuals with the newly launched options to customize borders and colors. They can also apply custom borders and styling for their totals and sub-totals letting them create financial reports like income statements etc. See here for more details.

We are pleased to announce that Amazon Transcribe will now support custom language models (CLM) for streaming transcription. Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for you to add speech-to-text capabilities to your applications. CLM allows you to leverage pre-existing data to build a custom speech engine tailored for your transcription use case. No prior machine learning experience required. 

Today, the AWS Panorama Appliance is generally available. The AWS Panorama Appliance is a new device that enables customers to improve their operations and reduce costs by using existing on-premises cameras and analyzing video streams locally with computer vision.

AWS Security Hub now allows you to designate an aggregation Region and link some or all Regions to that aggregation Region. This gives you a centralized view of all your findings across all of your accounts and all of your linked Regions. After you link a Region to the aggregation Region, your findings are continuously synchronized between the Regions. Any update to a finding in a linked Region is replicated to the aggregation Region, and any update to a finding in the aggregation Region is replicated to the linked Region where the finding originated. To learn more about this feature, you can read about in our documentation here  or watch a demo video .

If you need to know how current sensors work, and what technologies suit which applications, Swiss current sensor maker LEM has a very detailed free download that describes current sensing methods over nearly 50 clearly-written pages. It can be found behind this link

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Our former deputy prime minister Nick Clegg announces that his current employer Facebook intends to hire 10,000 Europeans in the next five years to build the metaverse. The immediate reaction all round is that this is a political gesture to buy off EU regulatory moves against Facebook.  That is backed up by Clegg’s sucking up …

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Thanks to the New York Times for this one – the ten best remunerated CEOs last year: Elon Musk – $595.3 million Chad Richison – $211.13 million Amir Dan Rubin – $199.05 million Tim Cook – $133.7 million John Legere – $137.2 million Thomas Rutledge – $116.9 million Joseph Ianniello – $116.6 million Sumit Singh …

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Digi-Key Electronics and the FPGA and embedded FPGA IP company QuickLogic are partnering to sell IoT and AI technology through the DigiKey Marketplace. Specifically, the agreement covers QuickLogic’s low power, multi-core MCU, FPGAs and embedded FPGAs, voice and sensor processing products. For example, included are the EOS S3 MCU Sensor Processing Platform, EOS S3-AI, EOS …

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