You can use AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles and AWS Security Token Service (STS) to set up cross-account access between AWS accounts. When you assume an IAM role in another AWS account to obtain cross-account access to services and resources in that account, AWS CloudTrail logs the cross-account activity. Starting today, CloudTrail logs AssumeRole calls in the role-owning account (the account being accessed), including the unique ID of the IAM entity (a user or role) assuming the role in the account being accessed. This additional information helps you identify the entity that requested cross-account access and then trace its subsequent cross-account activity.

It’s a bit of a sad day but hardly unexpected. Google is officially ending support for Eclipse Android Developer Tools.

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Cray announces a deep learning toolkit for its supercomputers at the Supercomputing Conference in Utah, the day after IBM and Nvidia announced their deep learning toolkit.

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Congatec has introduced industrial Mini and Pico-ITX motherboards based around Intel’s Apollo Lake processors. Conga-PA5 is Pico-ITX and Conga-IA5 is Thin Mini-ITX, and both of them are long-term available, said Congatec, and come with a choice of Atom, Celeron or Pentium processors (see table below). “System engineers can immediately deploy them to upgrade existing Pico-ITX …

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LiFi is a disruptive technology that is poised to impact a large number of industries, believes Harald Haas, Professor of Mobile Communications at the University of Edinburgh

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UC San Diego researchers have created transistor-less chips based on metamaterials using low-power laser optical control. Transistors and ICs are limited in their performance by the limitations of the materials from which they are made. A semiconductor’s band gap determines the energy that is needed to allow electron flow, while the velocity of electrons is …

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The iFixit team have turned their attention to Google Home, the new voice-activated speaker from Google, running Google Assistant services.

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Ever fancied taking a gamble and investing in a tech start-up? Well, no you can. Indiegogo, the well-known crowd-funding website, is offering an equity service which allows anyone to invest in start-ups and even established companies. Apparently, this is all possible because of new equity crowdfunding regulations that took effect in May this year. These …

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Thanks to US News and World Report for this one – the world’s ten best universities for engineering in 2016: Tsinghua MIT Univ of California at Berkeley Zhejiang Nanyang Technological Univ National Univ of Singapore Harbin Institute Stanford Georgia Tech City Univ of Hong Kong

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IoT security is an increasingly urgent issue, and companies will have to look at the “cost-to-care” ratio which could dictate their response to this issue, writes Andrew Hogan. The internet of things (IoT) has been a discussion point for years, but only recently has the security aspect become anything more than a concept. However, with …

Read full article: Why IoT security is going to cost you more