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- An Ali Feizhu employee was sentenced to six years for selling air tickets and reimbursing invoices for more than 10 million yuan in four years, involving a total of 6.6 billion yuan
- OnePlus announced that it will cooperate with Hasselblad to develop an imaging system, the OnePlus 9 series will be the first
- Meitu purchases 40 million U.S. dollars worth of cryptocurrency as a store of value
- Douyin: 318,000 women post selfie videos every day and silently delete them
- BOSS directly hires a report on gender differences in the workplace: the average salary of urban employed women is 75.9% of that of men
- US antivirus software giant McAfee will sell its corporate business for US$4 billion
- DJI responds to "North American layoffs": North America is still the largest market
- Qualcomm's quasi-CEO claims to be awake at night: chip shortages and Nvidia's acquisition of Arm are all pitfalls
- EU approves Microsoft's acquisition of Zenimax for US$7.5 billion
- Nokia has laid off 11044 employees, and China has the largest layoffs of 3,500 people
- Texas grid is vulnerable, Tesla is secretly building a giant battery system
- Apple M1X/M2 processors are all exposed: up to 16 cores, four times the performance of M1
- Apple releases the official version of iOS 14.4.1 and macOS 11.2.3, fixing WebKit vulnerabilities
- Linus Torvalds warns against using Linux 5.12-rc1
- Investigate supply chain attacks in the Go ecosystem
- Jenkins 2.282 released
An Ali Feizhu employee was sentenced to six years for selling air tickets and reimbursing invoices for more than 10 million yuan in four years, involving a total of 6.6 billion yuan
Recently, in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, the Judgment Document Network disclosed a major case of illegal sales of invoices. Luo, an employee of Alibaba's Flying Pig Travel, printed more than 16 million air tickets itineraries around 4 years, and made a total of more than 10 million yuan in illegal profits. The face value is 6.6 billion yuan. In the end, Luo committed the crime of illegally selling invoices and was sentenced to six years in prison.
OnePlus announced that it will cooperate with Hasselblad to develop an imaging system, the OnePlus 9 series will be the first
On the afternoon of March 8th, OnePlus held a press conference in Shenzhen. Founder and chief product manager Liu Zuohu announced at the scene that OnePlus will formally start a three-year cooperation with Hasselblad in the imaging section, and it will be launched on the OnePlus 9 series of mobile phones. First set up a joint research and development imaging system.
Meitu responds to the purchase of 40 million U.S. dollars worth of cryptocurrencies as value reserves
After Tesla, Square and other companies, the Chinese technology company Meitu disclosed that it purchased $40 million worth of cryptocurrency. On March 7, Meitu stated in a public statement that it purchased 15,000 Ethereum and 379.1214267 Bitcoins on March 5, valued at US$22.1 million and US$17.9 million, respectively.
Meitu stated that it wants to use cryptocurrency as an investment appreciation tool. It plans to use its cash reserves of 100 million US dollars to purchase cryptocurrency. The purchase on March 5 is the first time in its investment plan.
In this regard, Meitu Chairman Cai Wensheng posted in the Moments that the company will continue to deploy the blockchain. This time the purchase of cryptocurrency as a value reserve for the long-term development of the blockchain strategy, there will always be someone who will be the first to eat the crab. According to rumors, Meitu Chairman Cai Wensheng claimed in 2018 that he personally purchased 10,000 Bitcoins.
Douyin: 318,000 women post selfie videos every day and silently delete them
On March 8, Douyin released the "2021 Douyin Women Data Report". The report showed that in the past year, Douyin female users posted 21.35 million love videos, and 53.06 million videos recorded the moments of their hard work. There are 13.2 million women earning income directly from the platform. On average, 318,000 women post selfie videos every day and delete them silently. 2.01 million female users posted fitness videos. Running, lifting irons, boxing, etc. are all their favorite sports.
Interestingly, in the past year, female Douyin users searched 73.67 million times for excavator-related content, of which 29.43 million were searches for children's excavator toys, and other searches were mainly for videos of large excavators.
BOSS directly hires a report on gender differences in the workplace: the average salary of urban employed women is 75.9% of that of men
On March 8th, BOSS directly hired the research institute to release the "2021 China Workplace Gender Pay Difference Report". The content shows that in 2020, the average salary of urban employed women is 6,847 yuan, which is 75.9% of the average salary of men, and the salary gap is widening; the higher the salary level, the greater the difference between men and women.
US antivirus software giant McAfee will sell its corporate business for US$4 billion
It was reported on March 8 that McAfee, a professional security technology company in the United States, said on Monday that it would sell its corporate business to a consortium led by Symphony Technology Group for US$4 billion in cash. McAfee said that the transaction is subject to customary regulatory approvals. And the transaction conditions are expected to be completed before the end of this year.
DJI responds to "North American layoffs": North America is still the largest market
It is reported that one-third of the staff in the UAV giant DJI North America were laid off or voluntarily resigned last year. They came from offices in Palo Alto, Burbank and New York. In February of this year, the head of DJI's US R&D Resign.
For the above news, DJI did not give an official response. However, the relevant person in charge of DJI said that last year DJI's global revenue still increased by about 30% compared with 2019, which belongs to the planned data. "North America is still DJI's largest market." The above-mentioned person said.
It is understood that DJI currently has 14,000 employees worldwide and 200 in the North American market. In the previous rumors of layoffs, there is news that DJI is preparing for a layoff of 14,000 employees since last year. Since March last year, it has cut two-thirds of its marketing and sales personnel. But DJI later denied it. The relevant person in charge said, “Considering the 14,000 employees in DJI, according to this statement, the company is no one.”
Qualcomm's quasi-CEO claims to be awake at night: chip shortages and Nvidia's acquisition of Arm are all pitfalls
Last Friday, the technology media CNET interviewed Cristiano Amon, the quasi-CEO of mobile chip giant Qualcomm. Cristiano Amon said that the supply chain problems exposed by the chip shortage kept him awake at night.
Cristiano Amon told reporters in the interview that Qualcomm's next main task will be to occupy the emerging 5G market. At the same time, he also mentioned that Nvidia's acquisition of Arm will destroy healthy competition in the industry.
He believes that the main reason for this chip shortage is the sudden increase in demand for high-tech products, but the supply chain has not grown along with it, and he expects this chip shortage will continue until the second half of 2021.
EU approves Microsoft's acquisition of Zenimax for US$7.5 billion
Six months ago, Microsoft announced the acquisition of Zenimax, Bethesda's parent company, for $7.5 billion. Since this is a large-scale acquisition, the entire acquisition requires multiple approvals. Now this transaction has been unconditionally approved by the European Union. The EU stated that the acquisition will not affect the compatibility of the common market. Bethesda's 8 studios, including Arkane, Tango Gameworks, id Software, Bethesda Game Studios, etc. have all joined Microsoft. Microsoft also plans to keep Bethesda operating independently.
Nokia has laid off 11044 employees, and China has the largest layoffs of 3,500 people
In the latest annual report released by Nokia recently, it can be seen that nearly 5,000 jobs were reduced in 2019, and more than 6,000 jobs disappeared last year. The report shows that Nokia's net layoffs reached 11044, making Nokia's average number of employees in 2020 to 92,039, which means that the total number of employees has dropped by 11% in just two years. Regional analysis shows that employment figures all over the world have declined, but China has experienced the largest decline. Last year, the number of employees in China fell by 12% to 13,749, a decrease of nearly 3,500 since 2018.
Texas power grid vulnerable to Tesla is secretly building a giant battery system
According to reports, Tesla CEO Elon Musk is entering the Texas power market, secretly building a giant battery system, preparing to connect to the grid that almost collapsed last month. This move marked Tesla's first major foray into the heartland of the US energy economy. A Tesla subsidiary called "Gambit Energy Storage LLC" is quietly building an energy storage project of more than 100 megawatts in Angleton, Texas, about 40 miles south of Houston.
Apple M1X/M2 processors are all exposed: up to 16 cores, four times the performance of M1
The latest news reveals that M1X and M2 processors are already on the road. Of course, it is still a little doubtful whether such names will be adopted in the end. The details of the specifications are basically clear. Among them, the M1X is designed with 12 cores and the M2 is designed with 16 cores, including 12 high-performance cores (large cores) and 4 efficiency cores (small cores). The performance will be four times stronger than the current M1. M1X is twice as strong as M1.
Apple released the official version of iOS 14.4.1 and macOS 11.2.3, fixing WebKit vulnerabilities
This update fixes the memory corruption problem in WebKit (the engine that powers Apple's Safari browser). The vulnerability was discovered by security researchers at Google and Microsoft, and it could allow bad actors to use "maliciously crafted" web content to execute code on your device.
Linus Torvalds warns against using Linux 5.12-rc1
Linus urgently urged users not to use the recently released Linux 5.12-rc1 on the mailing list.
He said that on the public git tree, the label of v5.12-rc1 was renamed to v5.12-rc1-dontuse. Dontuse means not to use it, because this version destroys the processing of the swap file swapfile, which will lead to the file system. Unavailable . When the kernel swaps the contents of the memory and writes it to the disk, the data will be randomly written to the same disk and partition where the swapfile is located. It will not only overwrite the data of the existing file, but also overwrite and destroy the metadata, which may lead to the entire The file system cannot be mounted and used. Torvalds says that if you don't use swap files, or use swap partitions instead of swap files, you won't be affected.
Investigate supply chain attacks in the Go ecosystem
The dependency obfuscation supply chain attack has attracted a lot of attention recently. In the Go ecosystem, the dependency obfuscation problem basically does not exist because it clearly specifies the package to be imported. But Go is not immune to supply chain attacks, because you may make input errors when importing external software packages, and if an attacker exploits such input errors, you may still accidentally integrate into the software. Malicious package.
Some developers investigated this mistyped supply chain attack in the Go ecosystem and found suspicious software packages with similar names in a number of popular libraries. One of them will visit the IP address belonging to Tencent, and send the collected system information as URL parameters in HTTP form.
Jenkins 2.282 released, a continuous integration tool written in Java
A few days ago, Jenkins released version 2.282. Jenkins provides continuous integration services for software development, supports software configuration management (SCM) tools (including AccuRev SCM, CVS, Subversion, Git, Perforce, Clearcase and RTC), can execute projects based on Apache Ant and Apache Maven, and any Shell scripts and Windows batch commands. Jenkins is free software released under the MIT license. The main update content:
- Convert SSHD module to plugin
- Remove the recently upgraded separate plug-in
- Upgrade to Winstone 5.14 to include Jetty 9.4.37.v20210219
- Remove the hard code of JKS in order to use other key storage
For more update details, please visit: update announcement