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Jen Copestake looks at some of the best technology news stories of the week. Source:: BBC News – Technology

A cyber attack that derailed websites of Iran’s transport ministry and its national railway system earlier this month, causing widespread disruptions in train services, was… Read More »A New Wiper Malware Was Behind Recent Cyberattack On Iranian Train System

An ongoing malicious campaign that employs phony call centers has been found to trick victims into downloading malware capable of data exfiltration as well as… Read More »Phony Call Centers Tricking Users Into Installing Ransomware and Data-Stealers

Social media app Clubhouse, for which member invitations were highly coveted throughout the pandemic, has ditched its invite-only exclusivity with a general release last week… Read More »Clubhouse Ditches Exclusivity with General Release | Avast

Its shares surged by almost 50% in pre-market trade after a report that it planned to go private. Source:: BBC News – Technology

Bacteria, fungus and enzymes can all digest plastic, but can they work at a useful commercial scale? Source:: BBC News – Technology

Environmentalists have criticised the gas-fired mine but the company says it offsets its emissions. Source:: BBC News – Technology

The NCSC’s weekly threat report is drawn from recent open source reporting. Source:: NCSC Guidance

Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra), a scalable, highly available, and fully managed Apache Cassandra–compatible database service, now automatically optimizes client connections made through AWS PrivateLink… Read More »Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) now automatically optimizes client connections made through AWS PrivateLink to improve availability and read/write throughput

Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels introduces a simplified on-boarding experience with the ability to explore images, labels, and datasets by one-click creation of example projects. Amazon… Read More »Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels makes it easy for customers to learn how to train machine learning models by providing tutorial videos, and sample datasets

The Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) SDK for Java 2.x is now available and is compatible with the AWS SDK for Java 2.x. You can build… Read More »The Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) SDK for Java 2.x is now available

We are excited to announce the availability of smaller sized Amazon EC2 G4ad instances that deliver up to 40% better price performance over comparable GPU-based… Read More »Introducing new Amazon EC2 G4ad instance sizes

The tech giant says third quarter sales growth will be slower as customers return to physical shops. Source:: BBC News – Technology

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now lets you control which instances to terminate during a scale-in event by allowing you to provide a custom function that… Read More »Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now lets you control which instances to terminate on scale-in

The star says box office takings for Black Widow were hit when it was streamed at the same time. Source:: BBC News – Technology

Today, AWS announces the general availability of AWS IoT SiteWise Edge, a feature of AWS IoT SiteWise that makes it easy for industrial customers to… Read More »AWS IoT SiteWise Edge now generally available

You can now launch RabbitMQ 3.8.17 brokers on Amazon MQ. This patch update to RabbitMQ contains several fixes and enhancements compared to the previously supported… Read More »Amazon MQ now supports RabbitMQ version 3.8.17

Amazon S3 on Outposts now offers two larger storage tiers: 240 TB and 380 TB. These new storage tiers help you meet your needs for… Read More »Amazon S3 on Outposts adds two larger storage tiers

Amazon S3 on Outposts now supports the ability to create and access S3 objects on Outposts directly from your on-premises network. You can now configure… Read More »Amazon S3 on Outposts supports direct access for applications running outside the Outposts VPC

The semiconductor shortage has wreaked havoc on manufacturers, and Apple will soon feel pinch. In the company’s Q3 earnings call, chief executive Tim Cook said… Read More »Podcast: Global chip shortage affects Apple and the iPhone