Book Bits: 29 March 2025

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By purchasing books through this site, you provide support for The Capital Spectator’s free content... Press) In a world shaken by crises, why does the dollar continue to dominate? In this book, Photis Lysandrou explores the interaction between global instability and the enduring strength of the dollar... Drawing on examples from the 2008 Great Financial Crisis to the COVID-19 pandemic and Russ...

Book Bits: 29 March 2025

TutoSartup excerpt from this article:
By purchasing books through this site, you provide support for The Capital Spectator’s free content... Press) In a world shaken by crises, why does the dollar continue to dominate? In this book, Photis Lysandrou explores the interaction between global instability and the enduring strength of the dollar... Drawing on examples from the 2008 Great Financial Crisis to the COVID-19 pandemic and Russ...

AWS continues to support government cloud security and shape FedRAMP’s evolution toward automated compliance

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AWS has been a proud participant in FedRAMP since 2013... As FedRAMP continues to modernize federal cloud security assessments, we are excited to support this transformation toward a more automated and efficient compliance framework... On Monday, March 24, the General Services Administration announced a major overhaul of how it supports cloud service provider IT security authorizations as part of...

Amazon Bedrock Guardrails image content filters provide industry-leading safeguards, helping customer block up to 88% of harmful multimodal content: Generally available today

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Amazon Bedrock Guardrails announces the general availability of image content filters, enabling you to moderate both image and text content in your generative AI applications... This new capability removes the heavy lifting required to build your own image safeguards or spend cycles on manual content moderation that can be error-prone and tedious... With the new image content moderation capability...

US Economic Growth Remains On Track To Slow In Q1

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Economic output is estimated to downshift sharply in next month’s official GDP report for the first quarter, based on the median nowcast from several sources compiled by CapitalSpectator...0% in the first quarter (annualized real rate), according to the median nowcast...2% nowcast, published on Mar... That’s worrisome because the longer the subdued nowcast persists, the higher the odds for a m...

Macro Briefing: 28 March 2025

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US jobless claims edged lower last week, holding at a middling level relative to recent history... Initial claims for unemployment insurance eased to 224,000, seasonally adjusted, which reflects a low number compared with the historical record and suggests ongoing growth, or at least stability, for the labor market... The relatively upbeat profile is based on hard data via three sources: Dallas Fe...

Integrating custom dependencies in Amazon SageMaker Canvas workflows

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SageMaker Canvas offers comprehensive data wrangling capabilities that help you prepare your data, including: Over 300 built-in transformation steps Feature engineering capabilities Data normalization and cleansing functions A custom code editor supporting Python, PySpark, and SparkSQL In this post, we demonstrate how to incorporate dependencies stored in Amazon Simple Storage Servi...