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Researchers at MIT have examined how foundation AI models trained on de-identified electronic health records (EHRs) may unintentionally memorize and expose patient-specific data, posing privacy concerns.
New research from MIT reveals how atmospheric inversions regulate the intensity of humid heat waves and related thunderstorms in midlatitude regions experiencing climate warming.
Graduate student C Jacob Payne integrates advanced fabrication and material innovation with historical architectural research to reconnect with and preserve Black American vernacular architecture while envisioning futuristic product designs.
Amazon Web Services expanded its fully managed Apache Kafka service, Amazon MSK, offering Standard and high-throughput Express brokers in the Asia Pacific (New Zealand) region for streaming application development.
Amazon enhanced its WorkSpaces Secure Browser with WebAuthn redirection, enabling secure web authentication via local FIDO2 security keys and biometric devices on compatible Chromium browsers.
Amazon RDS for MySQL added support for the latest MySQL community Innovation Release 9.5 within a managed preview environment, facilitating evaluation of new features and fixes.
AWS launched EC2 G5 instances powered by NVIDIA A10G Tensor Core GPUs in Hong Kong, supporting graphics-intensive and machine learning applications at varying scales.
AWS Resource Explorer, a tool for cross-region and cross-account AWS resource search, is now accessible in the Asia Pacific (New Zealand) region for organizational resource management.
AWS introduced Transfer Family services in the New Zealand region, supporting fully managed file transfers across multiple protocols to Amazon storage services for business modernization.
AWS enhanced EC2 Capacity Manager with Spot interruption data, empowering users to monitor, analyze, and optimize Spot instance usage across regions and accounts.
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