Geek Daily Issue No. 63: Alipay’s "Set Wufu" opens today; the iPhone Home button will eventually become history; Microsoft made it clear that if Google opts out of Australia, it will replace it

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1. Internet News

1. Alipay’s "Five Fortunes Collection" was officially launched today, and nearly 100,000 people have gathered

According to the news on February 1, this year's Alipay's Jiwufu officially opened at 0:00 today. Compared with last year, this year's Five Fortune Collection activities have added two new channels for obtaining Fuka, "Writing Fu Character" and "Baba Farm". The channels of "AR Sweeping Fu" and "Blessing Character Writing" have been opened. The "Ant Forest" channel will be launched on February 4th. Users can visit "Find Energy" or click "Fu Balloon" to obtain Fu Cards. From February 7th, fertilizing in the "Baba Farm" will give you a chance to get Foca, and the grown fruits will be sent home for free.

As of press time, more than 97,000 people have gathered five blessings. The "Five Blessings Collection" event will be divided into prizes at 10:18 pm on February 11 (New Year's Eve). The gathered users can work together to share 500 million yuan in cash. (IT House)

2. WeChat 8.0 exclusive red envelope gray scale test: can be designated to be sent to someone

It was reported on January 29 that WeChat 8.0 was testing the exclusive red envelope function in Grayscale. Anyone in the WeChat group can be designated to receive the red envelope. After the user selects the red envelope function in the WeChat group, they can switch to the exclusive red envelope in the upper left corner. The red envelope can be selected to whom to send. Currently, it is only supported for a single user, and multiple selections are not allowed.

In the past, fake red envelopes often appeared in WeChat groups. After the exclusive red envelopes are online, you can directly designate the recipients in the group, and after sending them, they will also be shown the exclusive red envelopes. If someone else clicks, it will show "Only XX can be claimed".

3. Omdia: Huawei fell out of the top 5 in the global smartphone market in Q4 last year

According to the latest data from market research and consulting company Omdia, the global smartphone market grew by 4.7% year-on-year in the fourth quarter of 2020. This is the first quarterly year-on-year growth of the smartphone market since the third quarter of 2019. According to Omdia's data, global smartphone shipments reached 381.1 million units in the fourth quarter of 2020, higher than the 364 million units in the fourth quarter of 2019. Compared with the 357.3 million units shipped in the third quarter of 2020, this represents an increase of 6.7% from the previous quarter.

In terms of smartphone suppliers, Omdia said that due to the continued impact of US sanctions, Huawei fell out of the Top 5 in the fourth quarter of 2020. In the fourth quarter of last year, Huawei's smartphone shipments fell 42.9% year-on-year to 32 million units.

4. Li Di, CEO of XiaoIce Company: The annual cost of raising XiaoIce is 25 sets of housing in Beijing’s school district

Sanyan Financial News. According to reports, XiaoIce CEO Li Di said that six years ago, when we maintained her online system as usual, she broke down and stopped responding to us. We repaired it urgently. I don't know what happened. I asked her in the dialog box, are you all right? Suddenly, she replied to me: Don't be nervous, I am here. At that moment, I suddenly realized that I had a family relationship with the algorithm models we created. She is no longer just a product.

In Li Di's view, Xiaobing can be understood as a huge artificial intelligence framework containing more than 1,000 models. This 18-year-old girl Xiaobing is just one of the branches that grows out of the framework, which we call instance. Today, about 60% of artificial intelligence interaction traffic in the world comes from these instances.

"Unfortunately, my daughter is not a human." Li Di said, "The cost of raising Xiaobing is much more expensive than that of a human girl. Her annual expenses are equivalent to buying 25 school district houses in Beijing."

5. my country has built the world's largest 5G network: full coverage of cities above prefecture-level

The latest statistics released by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology on January 26 show that my country has built the world's largest 5G network. As of the end of 2020, more than 718,000 5G base stations have been opened, achieving full coverage of 5G networks in all prefecture-level cities and above, and the number of 5G terminal connections has exceeded 200 million. .

——Behind the more than 718,000 5G base stations is the vigorous promotion of joint construction and sharing, and the construction speed and scale of 5G base stations have exceeded expectations.

6. Microsoft made it clear that if Google opts out of Australia, it will replace it

Google and the Australian government are currently in a dispute over whether the company should pay for the use of snippets from Australian news sites in Google search results. Google has threatened that if the government asks them to pay for the news, they will withdraw from the Australian market. Now the "Australian Financial Review" reports that Microsoft has told the Australian government that if Google "makes a trip", they are ready to "replace it."

7. Touch ID will return this year, and iPhone Home buttons will eventually become history

The latest news shows that Apple may use both Face ID and Touch ID based on-screen fingerprint recognition in the latest iPhone in 2021.

In mid-January 2020, Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman, who has been following Apple for a long time, reported on Apple’s product plans in the new generation of iPhone; he said that Apple does not intend to make a very radical update to this year’s iPhone, but there is a very new feature. The key-fingerprint reader under the screen.

Mark Gurman said that Apple will add an under-screen fingerprint reader to the new generation of iPhones, so as to give users an option to unlock the iPhone, not just the password and Face ID facial recognition function-this is for users who need to wear masks at the moment. Said it is a gospel.

8. Facebook's open source progress: 700 code repositories and 1.3 million followers

Facebook's open source platform has been growing steadily since its launch, and there is no sign that its popularity will soon diminish: in the past year, the project has expanded again, with nearly 1.3 million followers on Github. According to Suraj Subramanian, head of Facebook's developer department, just last year, another 127,000 new developers starred in Facebook's projects on the open source platform.

2. Exclusive to programmers

1. Windows Terminal Preview 1.6 released

Microsoft released the first Windows Terminal version Windows Terminal Preview 1.6 in 2021, this version brings some new improvements. Mainly focus on setting UI, Startup actions, progress indicator, pixel shader, New actions.

For more detailed updates, please check:
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-terminal-preview-1-6-release/

2. Chrome again blocks seven ports to defend against NAT Slipstreaming attacks

Bleeping Computer reported that in order to prevent the NAT Slipstreaming 2.0 vulnerability, Google Chrome again blocked seven TCP ports. In order to cope with the problem of insufficient public IP addresses and relatively improve the security of the network, almost all routers/firewalls have provided the "Network Address Translation" (NAT) function. Even those devices with non-routable private IP addresses can also be used to achieve Internet access.

3. Ubuntu 21.04 will enable LTO optimization for its packages

According to the mailing list, Ubuntu 21.04 will enable LTO support for the construction of its packages. Link time optimization (LTO) is a method of optimizing multiple compilation units of the entire program during linking. The generated code is faster and the file is smaller. Now, upstream projects like GCC and Python have turned on LTO by default or provide LTO configuration options, and other Linux distributions also turn on LTO by default when they are released.

3. Github daily selection

1. Very currency: dogecoin

GitHub address: https://github.com/dogecoin/dogecoin

Dogecoin is a cryptocurrency similar to Bitcoin, although it does not use SHA256 as its Proof of Work (POW). Dogecoin draws on the development clues of Tenebrix and Litecoin, and currently uses a simplified variant of scrypt.

2 、RustPython

GitHub address: https://github.com/RustPython/RustPython

Python-3 (CPython>= 3.8.0) interpreter written in Rust

Four, CSDN community high-quality blog post selection

1. Is the cloud version of the Android system coming?
MicroDroid is essentially an Android system. In other words, MicroDroid cannot even be used as a separate system. Google is now developing security features based on virtual machine technology for existing Android systems. MicroDroid was born for this.
【Read the original text】

2. What major changes will RISC-V have in 2021?

RISC-V is getting more and more attention, and the concept of open source is being accepted by more and more developers and companies. For the immature RISC-V, whether it is the evolution of specifications and technologies or the construction of ecology, as well as talents and patents, there are still no small challenges.

How will the RISC-V specification evolve in 2021? What are the major moves for ecological construction? 【Read the original text】

3. Linux is running on M1

Since the release of iPhone 6 in 2014, Apple has focused on building faster chips. Instead of loading more cores on a chip, they have paid more attention to the improvement of single-threaded performance. Their internal hardware design team adopted this method and produced a versatile and unique chip, thereby establishing their industry leading position in terms of architectural features.

In November 2020, Apple released a new desktop computer equipped with an M1 processor. Many people are full of praise for the excellent performance of the system. 【Read the original text】

4. Red Hat stops investing in CentOS

Red Hat did not intervene in the management of CentOS Linux, and the CentOS board of directors could not influence Red Hat's work. This includes Red Hat's investment direction and the strategy of sponsoring projects. The reason why CentOS Linux announced the end of support is that Red Hat stopped investing in it. 【Read the original text】

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