Geek Daily Issue 61: Google's open source virtual reality drawing application Tilt Brush; Shenzhen Hammer Digital Technology Co., Ltd. has been cancelled; Intel will outsource 3nm chips to TSMC

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1. Internet News

1. Can the business hall see detailed Internet data? Expert: The function is necessary, and the safety certification level can be improved

Recently, the business hall saw the topic of detailed Internet data on Weibo’s hot search. According to Weibo netizen @迷迷新闻大赏, you can view your own detailed Internet data through the mobile phone business hall App of the operator, and even Which App was used when.

Many netizens expressed concern about this feature, believing that it may involve infringement of personal privacy.

Fu Liang, an independent telecommunications analyst, believes that after logging in with a user's personal account, he can see his own phone bill information. After passing a higher level of authentication, he can see the details of the Internet and phone calls. This is a necessary basic service.

In Fu Liang's view, there is no problem with this function and does not involve privacy leakage. As for the app used to count the user traffic, Fu Liang said that the operator can only find out that the user has posted on Weibo, but it cannot find out what illegal content is posted on Weibo, let alone the user's WeChat password; In addition, this information can only be seen with sufficient permissions.

2. TikTok is permanently banned, ByteDance India layoffs

On January 27, according to people familiar with the matter, after India announced a permanent ban on short video app TikTok (TikTok overseas version), its parent company ByteDance has notified Indian employees that it is reducing the size of the Indian team and only keep the key post.

According to people familiar with the matter, ByteDance claims that it has no choice because the Indian government has not provided clear information on when the app will return to the country since TikTok was banned at the end of June last year.

3. Shenzhen Hammer Digital Technology Co., Ltd. has been cancelled

Shenzhen Hammer Digital Technology Co., Ltd. changed its business status on January 20, 2021, from existence to cancellation. The company was established in April 2016. The legal representative of the company is Wen Hongxi, and the sole shareholder is Hammer Technology (Chengdu) Co., Ltd. Luo Yonghao is the company's executive director, actual controller and ultimate beneficiary.

4. Apple did not send the charger, a man took it to court

Since the iPhone 12 series does not have a standard charger, whether the charger comes standard has become a hot topic. According to news on January 27, an enterprise investigation revealed that Mr. Yang of Xi’an took him to court for not sending the charger to Apple. The court hearing was on January 26. In the civil complaint, Mr. Yang has three major demands:

  • According to law, the defendant (Apple) was ordered to replace the USB-C to Lightning cable with a USB-A to Lightning cable free of charge;
  • According to the law, the defendant Apple was ordered to provide a charging adapter compatible with the USB-A to lightning cable;
  • The court order in this case shall be borne by Apple.

According to reports, Apple did not appear in time and did not respond to this case.

5. Loongson, Feiteng, Alibaba Cloud, etc. will launch Anolis OS 8 system: support domestic and foreign chips

The domestic OS adds a new member. On January 27, Tongxin Software announced that it has reached a cooperation with Alibaba Cloud and other companies to jointly build the OpenAnolis community and launch the Anolis OS 8 system in the second quarter. Alibaba Cloud mentioned that in the past, there was a lack of native Linux operating system upstream communities in China, and everyone could only obtain code from overseas sites such as Fedora, OpenSUSE, and Debian.

The short-term goal of the community is to develop Anolis OS 8 as an alternative to CentOS and rebuild a distribution compatible with international mainstream Linux manufacturers.

6. Google is developing a cloud system that can run on any device, called MicroDroid

Google is planning to develop a new version of the Android system called MicroDroid. This new operating system is an Android built specifically for virtualization. In the future, the smartphone operating system may develop a system that can be operated in the cloud. This new version of the Android system has now appeared in the description submitted by Google developers.

7. Intel will outsource 3-nanometer chips to TSMC

According to DigiTimes reports, people familiar with the matter revealed that Intel signed an outsourcing contract with TSMC last year, which will be handed over to TSMC to produce CPU chips using 3nm technology in the second half of 2022. According to reports, Intel will become TSMC’s second largest customer of 3-nanometer chips after Apple.

8. The former CEO of Qualcomm re-enter the business: Use RISC-V to reduce the power consumption of the 5G platform by 10 times

On January 27th, Qualcomm's former CEO Paul Jacobs and former CTO Matt Grob (Matt Grob) announced that they have joined the advisory board of a 5G startup EdgeQ, and will work with EdgeQ thereafter. Cooperation to launch the industry's first fully open and programmable 5G platform based on the RISC-V architecture this year.

According to the official introduction of EdgeQ, this 5G platform based on the RISC-V architecture can reduce the original power consumption of the 5G platform by 10 times and reduce the total cost of ownership by 50%.

9. Apple pushes iOS 14.4 system update to detect unofficial camera parts

Apple officially pushed the iOS 14.4 system update to users. This update adds a notification function when the camera on the iPhone cannot be verified as a brand new genuine Apple camera in the iPhone 12 series products. At the same time, it fixes the artifacts that may appear in HDR photos taken by iPhone 12 Pro.

10. One-third of employees in the technology industry say they only have 3 to 4 hours a day.

A survey conducted by Blind, an anonymous employee communication platform, found that 31% of employees in the technology industry replied that they actually work only 3 to 4 hours a day, 27% said they work 5 to 6 hours, and 11% only work 1 to 2 hours. 30% of people work 7 to 10 hours. The survey did not ask employees about their self-reported work efficiency, and productivity often varies from person to person.

The epidemic does not affect everyone equally. An Amazon employee said that Amazon requires at least 10 hours of work, with the exception of sometimes short working hours on Fridays and long working hours on weekends. After the COVID-19 pandemic, working hours have been longer, and the boss has also asked for longer hours. A Facebook employee said that if meetings are included, the working time is 9 to 10 hours, and if not, it may be less than 1 hour.

2. Exclusive to programmers

1. Google's open source virtual reality drawing application Tilt Brush

Google announced Tilt Brush, an open source virtual reality drawing application. The source code is hosted on GitHub. It adopts the Apache 2.0 license and users can freely use and modify it. Tilt Brush was released in 2016 and supports mainstream VR devices. It is known as one of the best VR creation tools. Users can create various works in a virtual three-dimensional space. Google said that Tilt Brush will continue to be sold on digital platforms such as Steam after open source.

Project address: https://github.com/googlevr/tilt-brush

2. You can get root privileges without a password, and new vulnerabilities in sudo have been exposed

"This may be the most important sudo vulnerability in the near future." Because this sudo vulnerability CVE-2021-3156 can allow any local user to gain root privileges without authentication.

Qualys security researchers discovered a sudo privilege escalation vulnerability named "Baron Samedit" (CVE-2021-3156). The vulnerability researcher disclosed the vulnerability on January 13 and made sure to issue a patch before the discovery was made public. program.

Qualys researchers believe that this problem is that any local users (regular users and system users, whether listed in the sudoers file) can take advantage of heap-based buffer overflow, and attackers can gain root privileges without knowing the user's password.

3. Github daily selection

1. Independent and flexible API: TwitterTextEditor

GitHub address: https://github.com/twitter/TwitterTextEditor

An independent and flexible API that provides a full-featured rich text editor for iOS applications.

This provides powerful text attribute update logic, extended text editing events, and safe text input event processing in a simple API based on delegation. TwitterTextEditor supports the latest version of iOS.

2 、Dryvo

GitHub address: https://github.com/AdamGold/Dryvo

Dryvo is a unique solution for the driving course industry. Our goal is to save teachers' time and increase income, and give students control over the entire process. Dryvo is changing the way driving courses are managed.

Four, CSDN community high-quality blog post selection

1. Let the special effect codes of
WeChat 8.0 "crack" and "bomb" come . A major feature of the WeChat 8.0 update is to support animated emoticons. If the message sent only has a built-in emoticon icon, this emoticon will have a simple animation, some Special emoticons also have full-screen special effects. For example, the firework emoji has full-screen fireworks special effects, and the bomb emoji has an explosion animation and the message and avatar will also vibrate. In line with the professional spirit of being a front-end engineer, I want to see if I can achieve a similar special effect. After tossing for a long time, the result is as follows: Insert picture description here
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2. The new version of Firefox is released, cookies are really not delicious

Recently, the new version of Firefox browser Firefox 85 was released. It is reported that under this version, even with Supercookie, it is difficult to obtain user privacy. This feature has aroused heated discussions among netizens, so that two of the Hacker News lists are discussing new versions of browsers. So, what is this super cookie? Read the original text

3. Those computer codes that affect the scientific circle

Programmers use code to change the world. Based on the rapid development of computer hardware, Moore's Law is gradually forgotten, and the scientific circle has also been affected by a series of influences. Recently, the top science journal Nature published an article introducing the top ten computer codes that have changed the scientific circle since the 1950s. Of course, the rankings are in no particular order and are for reference only. Read the original text

4. Yu Chengdong , CEO of Huawei Consumer Business, also serves as President of Huawei Cloud and Computing

In the latest news, according to No.1 Financial News, Huawei’s mobile phone head Yu Chengdong has been appointed as the President of Cloud BU. Huawei issued a statement that Yu Chengdong, the current CEO of Consumer BG, plans to appoint the president (and) of Cloud & AI BG, the director of the Cloud & AI BG administrative management team, and the president (and) of Cloud BU and the director of the Cloud BU administrative team. Hou Jinlong, the current president of Cloud and Computing BG, plans to appoint the chairman of Digital Energy this time. Read the original text

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