Geek Daily Issue 82: Developer sentenced to 5 years in prison for hacking Weibo server to brush traffic; Ma Huateng returned to China’s richest man; M1 chip supported, VS Code 1.54 released

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Domestic news

1. Invaded Weibo server and falsified traffic: "Cai Xukun's Weibo reposted over 100 million" behind the scenes Xingaid App developer received five years in prison in the first instance

In 2018, the incident of “Star Cai Xukun’s Weibo Reposting Over 100 Million” aroused public attention. In June 2019, the "XingYuan" app, the behind-the-scenes manipulating the aforementioned Weibo scan incident, was investigated. A few days ago, China Judgment Document Network announced the verdict of Cai Kunmiao, the developer of the "Star Aid" App, who was sentenced to five years in the first instance for the crime of providing programs for intruding into computer information systems.

Defendant Cai Kunmiao did not obtain the authorization of the victim's Beijing Weimeng Chuangke Network Technology Co., Ltd. (Weibo) and developed the "Xingyi" App on her own, providing paid services to others without logging in to the Sina Weibo client to forward Weibo blog posts. And automatic batch forwarding service of Weibo blog posts. Later, a large number of users used the software for a fee in the form of recharge to the "Xingaid" App, and invaded the Sina Weibo server by running the above software.

After identification, the "XingYuan" App intercepted the relevant data of the corresponding account in the Sina Weibo server, and then used the same network data format as the intercepted data to submit the data to the server and complete the interaction with the server, so as not to log in to Sina Weibo. The blog client can forward Weibo blog posts and automatically forward Weibo blog posts in batches. According to statistics, at the time of the case, users of the software had logged in with more than 190,000 console Weibo accounts, and the defendant Cai Kunmiao obtained illegal income of RMB 6,253,752.86.

2. Xinyi Technology won the world's number one face recognition mask! Will cooperate with Tsinghua University to launch the world's largest public face dataset

Recently, Xinyi Technology ranked first in the world with absolute advantage in the NIST-FRVT face recognition evaluation of wearing masks, and ranked first in the world's top three and domestic mainstream manufacturers in the FRVT 1:1 face recognition evaluation.

In order to help solve the problem of data and standards in the current domestic face recognition field, and to further promote the progress and development of the industry, Xinyi Technology will jointly launch the world's largest public face with Tsinghua University based on the NIST-FRVT entry process and optimization experience Data set and a series of benchmarks based on this data set.

3. Ma Huateng succeeded Nongfu Spring’s founder Zhong Sui Sui and returned to China’s richest man

According to the Forbes real-time data list, Tencent Chairman Ma Huateng succeeded Nongfu Spring’s founder Zhong Suisuan as China’s new richest man. At present, Ma Huateng's net worth is 63.7 billion U.S. dollars, ranking 14th in the world's richest man list, behind Microsoft's former CEO and president Steve Ballmer.

4. Tencent gained US$120 billion from its holdings of 100 listed companies last year

According to internal data obtained by foreign media, Tencent received a total of about 120 billion U.S. dollars in income last year through its minority stakes in about 100 listed companies, which is about 6 times its expected profit in 2020. According to internal data from Tencent, as of the end of last year, the shares of listed companies held by Tencent (excluding the consolidated subsidiaries Tencent Music Entertainment Group and China Reading Group) were valued at approximately RMB 1.2 trillion (approximately US$184 billion), compared with the previous year. The 420 billion yuan (about 64 billion US dollars) in the same period more than doubled. Taking into account the scale of book earnings, some analysts predict that Tencent's net profit in 2020 will be around US$20 billion.

International news

5. It is reported that Qualcomm has started testing the Snapdragon 895: code-named Waipio, introducing Leica imaging technology

Roland Quandt, a well-known breaking news great god, revealed that the internal database information he obtained showed that Qualcomm has begun testing the internal model SM8450 processor. According to Roland, Snapdragon 895 is code-named Waipio, which is the Waipio Valley on the north side of the Big Island of Hawaii. The R&D code name of the previous generation of Snapdragon 888 was Lahaina, which continued Qualcomm's habit of using Hawaiian place names.

In addition, the engineering test machine based on the Snapdragon 895 also ran away, equipped with 12GB LPDDR5 memory, 256GB UFS flash memory and so on. The very interesting aspect of the lens is that the internal name of "Leica1" appeared, and it is speculated that Leica is expected to participate in the image adjustment work of the Snapdragon 895.

6. Celebrating the 10th anniversary of the birth of Chromebook, Google introduced many new features for Chrome OS

To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the birth of the Chromebook, Google introduced many new features for Chrome OS. One of the most noteworthy features is the Phone Hub, which allows users to reply to text messages on the Chromebook after the Android phone is connected to the Chromebook device, check the phone’s power, enable Wi-Fi hotspots, locate and so on.

Another noteworthy feature added is Nearby Share, which is a bit similar to Airdrop, which allows Chromebooks to send and receive files between other Android phones or Chrome OS devices. Google said that this feature will land in Chrome OS in the next few months, and finally provide a complete AirDrop competitor for its notebook operating system.

7. Microsoft Windows 10 Edge browser classic version officially stops technical support**

On March 10, according to the Microsoft blog, Microsoft officially ended its technical support for the traditional classic Edge Legacy browser on March 9, 2021. It will not receive any new security updates.

Since Windows 10 version 20H2 already uses the new Microsoft Edge as the default browser, it will not be reinstalled, only the Edge Legacy browser will be removed.

8. Hackers hacked 150,000 surveillance cameras, and Tesla was exposed by hacked Shanghai warehouse video

On March 10, a group of hackers stated that they had hacked into the massive surveillance camera data collected by the Silicon Valley surveillance startup Verkada, and could see real-time video recordings of 150,000 surveillance cameras in hospitals, companies, police stations, prisons, and schools. .

Companies whose surveillance video has been exposed include Tesla and software provider Cloudflare. In addition, the hacker was able to see videos inside the women's health clinic, mental hospital, and Verkada's own office. One of the videos was taken from inside Tesla's warehouse in Shanghai, where workers on the assembly line can be seen. The hackers claimed that they were able to access 222 cameras in Tesla's factories and warehouses.

9. Apple product serial number format will be changed: some key information will be deleted

According to foreign media MacRumors, Apple will soon make major changes to the serial number format of future products, and some key information will be stripped away. In this week’s AppleCare internal email obtained by MacRumors, Apple stated that the new serial number format will consist of a randomized alphanumeric string of 8-14 characters and will no longer contain manufacturing information or configuration codes. Apple stated that the serial number format transition is planned "early 2021" and confirmed that the IMEI number will not be affected by this change.

Programmer area

10. OpenAI's most advanced machine vision system was fooled by handwritten notes

Researchers from the machine learning lab OpenAI discovered that their state-of-the-art computer vision system can be fooled by simple tools. As shown in the figure below, you only need to write down the name of an object and paste it on another object, which is enough to trick the AI software into misrecognizing what it sees.

11. The kcpuid utility contributed by Intel will soon be incorporated into the Linux 5.13 kernel code

Intel engineers have been developing a tool called "kcpuid" to display the features/capabilities of the original CPU under Linux.

The kcpuid utility contributed by Intel is an in-kernel-tree tool, similar to the perf user space component that also resides in the tree, as well as other non-kernel code. KCPUID will report the characteristics of the CPU based on the existence of the CPUID instruction, regardless of whether the kernel is using a certain characteristic. This utility can also provide output similar to /proc/cpuinfo for easy analysis/comparison.

Another advantage of this tool is that CPUID leaf definitions are saved in a CSV file, which is easy to parse and add new content. The kcpuid command-line utility supports many different options to dump the supported CPU features in various ways. KCPUID was merged into tip's x86/misc branch, which means it should become part of the Linux 5.13 merge window in two months.

12. Visual Studio Code 1.54 released, compatible with M1 chip MacBook

Visual Studio Code 1.54 has been released, and the updates are as follows:

Apple Silicon build-VS Code is now available in stable version on Apple Silcon
Accessibility optimization-provide better word navigation for views and buttons on windows and roles
Persistent terminal process-the local terminal process resumes when the window is reloaded
Timeline view improvements-compare changes on the historical timeline of Git
Brackets extension-use Brackets keyboard shortcuts in VS Code

—— Provide better word navigation for views and buttons on windows and roles

Persistent terminal process-the local terminal process resumes when the window is reloaded
Timeline view improvements-compare changes on the historical timeline of Git
Brackets extension-use Brackets keyboard shortcuts in VS Code

For more update details, please visit: https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_54