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Findings [1] 2026-09-29 Connected car data privacy is still abysmal, study finds In news that should surprise very few, connected cars remain a complete privacy nightmare. But now we have a better idea of what data those cars are giving away, and to whom, thanks to a study conducted by a team of researchers…

Findings [1] 2026-09-28 Amazon EC2 Future-dated Capacity Reservations Now Supports Postponing Start Dates Amazon EC2 Future-dated Capacity Reservations let you secure capacity up to 120 days in advance by specifying the capacity you need, the start date, and a commitment duration. If your plans change before delivery, you can now postpone your start date…

Findings [1] 2026-09-28 FBI reportedly declares ‘cyber security incident’ after hackers steal agents’ personal data The bureau has not yet publicly confirmed a breach, but has told its agents that their personal information and Social Security numbers were exposed. [2] 2026-09-28 Next five VCs judging Startup Battlefield 200 contenders at TechCrunch Disrupt…

Findings [1] 2026-09-27 Why OLPC’s $100 laptop never stood a chance The idea was big, exciting, and inspiring: What if we could get every kid in the world access to a computer? For a bunch of thinkers and executives in Silicon Valley, it felt like the way to fix everything. But the One Laptop…

Findings [1] 2026-09-26 Can Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince save the web from AI? Today, I’m talking with Matthew Prince, who is CEO of Cloudflare. This episode is part of a two-part series on the future of business. Matthew last joined us on the show about two and a half years ago, at what… What’s…

Findings [1] 2026-09-25 Amazon EC2 M8i and M8i-flex instances are now available in additional regions Starting today, Amazon EC2 M8i and M8i-flex instances are now available in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany) region. These instances are powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, available only on AWS, delivering the highest performance and fastest…

Findings [1] 2026-09-25 Amazon Transcribe adds customer-managed KMS keys for custom resources Amazon Transcribe now lets you encrypt your custom vocabularies, custom vocabulary filters, and custom language models at rest with a customer-managed AWS KMS key that you own and control. Previously, these custom resources were always encrypted with an AWS owned key. Now…

Findings [1] 2026-09-25 Cricut’s new compact crafter prints, cuts, and laminates stickers Cricut announced its first crafting machines with printing capabilities that are primarily designed as all-in-one solutions for turning photos and other images into pre-cut stickers. The Cricut StickerPix Print plus Cut and Cricut StickerPix Print are also two of the smallest machines…

Findings [1] 2026-09-25 AWS Billing and Cost Management now provides billing context for your account through a new API AWS Billing and Cost Management now offers the ListBillingViewSegments API, which returns the billing context of your account over a time period you specify. You can use the API to retrieve information about how your…

Findings [1] 2026-09-24 Amazon EventBridge relaunches event buses for enterprise scale Amazon EventBridge relaunches event buses with a new enhanced Custom event bus that lets you build event-driven applications that decouple teams and can scale with your organization. Create a custom event bus, share it across accounts, and now teams can publish and consume…

Findings [1] 2026-09-24 You might not miss what Nikon removed from its cheaper full-frame Z5 IIC Nikon waited five years to update its full-frame Z5 camera to the Z5 II, but today it announced a new variant of last year's upgrade that removes features instead of introducing improvements in order to make it more…

Findings [1] 2026-09-23 Amazon Kinesis Data Streams announces Service-Managed Partition Keys for simplified data ingestion Amazon Kinesis Data Streams now supports service-managed partition keys for On-Demand Standard and On-Demand Advantage streams, automatically distributing records across shards without requiring customers to specify partition keys to publish data. This capability simplifies data ingestion for workloads where…