VW to invest up to $5bn in Tesla rival Rivian
Shares in the US-based electric truck and SUV maker jumped by around 50% after the announcement. Source:: BBC...
AI21 Labs’ Jamba-Instruct model now available in Amazon Bedrock
AI21 Labs’ Jamba-Instruct, a powerful instruction-following large language model, is now available in Amazon Bedrock. Fine-tuned for instruction...
Amazon CodeCatalyst now supports GitLab.com source code repositories
Amazon CodeCatalyst now supports the use of source code repositories hosted in GitLab.com in CodeCatalyst projects. This allows...
Tech Life: Detecting cancer using AI
The role machine learning can play in accurate blood tests for bowel cancer. Source:: BBC News – Technology
Issue #635 (June 25, 2024)
#635 – JUNE 25, 2024 PEP 2026: Calendar Versioning for Python This PEP proposes updating the versioning scheme...
Plugins on WordPress.org backdoored in supply chain attack
A threat actor modified the source code of at least five plugins hosted on WordPress.org to include malicious PHP...
Polyfill.io JavaScript supply chain attack impacts over 100K sites
Over 100,000 sites have been impacted in a supply chain attack by the Polyfill.io service after a Chinese company acquired...
Tata Communications partners with Versa Networks on hosted SASE
Tata Communications has entered the fast-growing SASE market with a hosted offering for global enterprises. It said that...
New Medusa malware variants target Android users in seven countries
The Medusa banking trojan for Android has re-emerged after almost a year of keeping a lower profile in...
Amazon MSK supports in-place upgrades from M5, T3 instance types to Graviton3 based M7G
You can now upgrade your Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) provisioned clusters running on X-86...
Amazon Time Sync Service expands microsecond-accurate time to 27 EC2 instance types
The Amazon Time Sync Service now supports clock synchronization within microseconds of UTC on 27 additional Amazon Elastic...
Amazon RDS for MySQL announces Extended Support minor 5.7.44-RDS.20240529
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for MySQL announces Amazon RDS Extended Support minor version 5.7.44-RDS.20240529. We recommend that...
AWS CodeBuild supports Arm-based workloads using AWS Graviton3
AWS CodeBuild’s support for Arm-based workloads now run on AWS Graviton3 without any additional configuration. In February 2021,...
Amazon Redshift Serverless with lower base capacity available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region
Amazon Redshift now allows you to get started with Amazon Redshift Serverless with a lower data warehouse base...
Amazon ElastiCache supports M7g and R7g Graviton3-based nodes in additional AWS regions
Amazon ElastiCache now supports Graviton3-based M7g and R7g node families. ElastiCache Graviton3 nodes deliver improved price-performance compared to...
Amazon EC2 C6a instances now available in additional regions
Starting today, the general-purpose Amazon EC2 C6a instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) region. C6a...
Amazon DocumentDB announces IAM database authentication
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) now supports cluster authentication with AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) users and...
Amazon Aurora now provides additional monitoring information during upgrades
Amazon Aurora now provides additional granular monitoring information during upgrades for enhanced observability. Customers can use the additional...
AI-Enhanced Navigation Charts Safer Waters for Massive Ships
Maritime startup Orca AI is pioneering safety at sea with its AI-powered navigation system, which provides real-time video...
Neiman Marcus confirms data breach after Snowflake account hack
Luxury retailer Neiman Marcus confirmed it suffered a data breach after hackers attempted to sell the company’s database...