Thanks to CB Insights for this one – the top 11 data breaches:

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Melexis, the Belgian automotive chip  fabless specialist, has launched an automotive-grade fan driver IC for automotive and other applications where a highly reliable, ultra-small solution is needed. The US168KLD and US169KLD are automotive grade single-chip solutions for driving single-coil brushless DC fans and motors. According to Melexis, as a result of their soft-switching characteristics, they …

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SEMI’s December billings figure for sales of semiconductor manufacturing equipment was $2.387 billion – 16.3% up on the November 2017 level of $2.05 billion, and 27.7% higher than the December 2016 billings level of $1.87 billion. “December 2017 monthly billings for North American equipment manufacturers ended the year at the highest levels in this record-breaking …

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The third of a series of imec’s views on key aspects of IC technology looks at Computation in Memory. This is the paper: “Computation in Memory fits into a new concept of scaling that may bring huge, largely untapped energy-savings,” says Francky Catthoor (pictured) imec fellow. “Many emerging applications will need the computing power that was …

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During The LED Show track at Strategies in Light, Alumage Advisors’ Mike Gagnon will describe business strategies for SSL providers to build a brighter future on the foundations of IoT and connected lighting.

Amazon EC2 Spot instances receive a two-minute warning when these instances are about to be reclaimed by Amazon EC2. Starting today, the two-minute warning for Spot instances is available via Amazon CloudWatch Events CLI and will continue to be available by accessing the Instance Metadata service .

Starting today, you can use Amazon Chime with video conferencing systems that support Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) for high quality online meetings. With this update, you can join Amazon Chime meetings using your existing video teleconferencing (VTC) systems that support either SIP or H.323 without the need to purchase new equipment.

Starting today, you can view your amortized reservation costs in AWS Cost Explorer and AWS Cost & Usage Reports, as well as monitor those costs via AWS Budgets. This makes it easier to understand and control the comprehensive costs of workloads covered by your Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS, Amazon Redshift, and Amazon DynamoDB reservations. 

The combined sewage and runoff came from the city’s retention treatment basins.

New study points to conventional gas well drilling operations nearby as major source of contamination.