Amazon FinSpace with Managed kdb Insights customers can now create kdb clusters of type General Purpose, featuring support for an increased set of kdb functions and data storage configurations from within a single kdb process. This enables a wider set of customer applications and process to run directly on Managed kdb Insights.

Amazon SageMaker Canvas now supports comprehensive data preparation capabilities powered by Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler. You can now import tabular, timeseries, image, and text data from 50+ data sources, generate Data Quality and Insights reports, and transform data using 300+ built-in operators to build and use machine learning (ML) models all without writing any code. Through this integration, you can accelerate data preparation for ML from weeks to minutes using SageMaker Canvas.

Amazon Redshift now supports storing large objects, up to 16MB in size, in SUPER data type. When ingesting from JSON, PARQUET, TEXT, and CSV source files, you can load semi-structured data or documents as values in SUPER data type up to 16MB. Before this enhancement, you could load semi-structured data or documents in SUPER data type only up to 1MB.

Some of America’s future business leaders inundated with critical race theory in school, study says  Fox Business

DEI programs in universities are being cut across the country. What does this mean for higher education?  CNN

Proposed legislation threatens viewpoint diversity in higher education | Brookings  Brookings Institution

DEI Legislation Tracker  The Chronicle of Higher Education

State Superintendent Ryan Walters wants to expand DEI inquiry to K-12  Tulsa World

Policing Productivity Review (accessible)  GOV.UK

Williams: On free speech, politicians are the real threat  Richmond Times-Dispatch