Author | Li Dongmei The epidemic finally ushered in a turnaround in mid-March: At present, there are no new infections in many provinces across the country, and the number of infections in Wuhan is also declining. However, the overseas epidemic is not optimistic. Affected by this, U.S. stocks have blown twice within a week, and major technology companies have encouraged employees to work from home. Let's also review together, besides the epidemic, what are the major events that deserve attention in the field of science and technology.
News Ctrip internal letter: executives voluntarily cut their salaries, Liang Jianzhang and Sun Jie will be paid 0
On the morning of March 9, Sun Jie, CEO of Ctrip, issued an internal letter stating that starting this month, he and the chairman of the board of directors Liang Jianzhang will have zero salary. The company's senior management also proposed a voluntary salary cut, with a minimum salary of half, until the industry resumes. Sun Jie said that it has experienced the first stage of the "war epidemic" focusing on protecting consumers' rights and helping industry chain suppliers. Starting last week, Ctrip has entered the second stage of the "war epidemic", linking hundreds of destinations. , The resource side of the entire industry chain jointly launched the "Tourism Revival V Plan".
The U.S. government again extends Huawei's temporary license until May 15
On March 10, local time, the U.S. government stated that it would extend Huawei’s temporary license until May 15, allowing U.S. companies to conduct business with Huawei. Previously, the U.S. Department of Commerce extended it to April 1, 2020. The Bureau of Industry and Security of the U.S. Department of Commerce has extended Huawei's temporary general license four times, which authorizes specific limited transactions in transactions involving export, re-export, and transfer.
The U.S. is investigating ZTE for alleged bribery
According to two people familiar with the matter, the US Department of Justice has launched a new and separate bribery investigation. The subject of the investigation was ZTE, who admitted three years ago to violate US sanctions on Iran and North Korea.
This new investigation has not been reported before, and the focus of the investigation is on ZTE’s alleged bribery of foreign officials in order to gain an advantage in its global business. Just before this new investigation, ZTE just ended the company's inspection period. According to the plea agreement signed with the U.S. Department of Justice in March 2017, ZTE accepted a period of inspection. According to the agreement, ZTE agreed to accept civil and criminal penalties and pay a fine of up to 1.19 billion U.S. dollars.
A spokesperson for the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York declined to comment.
A ZTE representative said in a statement: “ZTE is fully committed to fulfilling its legal and compliance obligations. The top priority of the company’s leadership team is to make ZTE a credible and reliable business partner in the global market. I am proud of the tremendous progress. In addition, ZTE is inconvenient to comment."
US stocks triggered circuit breakers twice this week, and the market value of the five major technology giants evaporated by more than US$400 billion overnight
As of press time, there have been three triggering circuit breakers in the history of the US stock market, two of which occurred this week, and the most recent circuit breaker occurred on Thursday. On the same day, Apple's stock price plummeted 9.88%, Facebook fell 9.30%, Alphabet fell 8.2%, Amazon fell 7.98% and Microsoft fell 9.48%, and the market value lost more than US$400 billion overnight.
ByteDance's organizational structure has been adjusted, and it plans to recruit 10,000 people in 2020
On March 12, 2020, Zhang Yiming, the founder of ByteDance, issued a letter to all employees. The letter announced the organizational upgrade of ByteDance (China Region): Zhang Lidong will serve as chairman and Zhang Nan will serve as CEO, assuming the roles of regional functions and business leaders in China. In addition, this adjustment also involves core businesses such as Watermelon Video, Feishu, and Douyin. It is an adjustment involving the largest number of business line leaders and the highest level of position since the establishment of Bytedance. The following is the list of adjustments:
Note: Bytedance has two executives with the same name and surname, both named Zhang Nan. The current CEO of Bytedance China is Zhang Nan (Kelly, gender: female), and Zhang Nan (gender: male), the former head of Watermelon Video.
In addition, it is reported that ByteDance will focus on education business this year. Chen Lin, senior vice president of ByteDance, said that the education business of ByteDance is still hiring people and will recruit more than 10,000 people this year. Among them, in the spring campus recruitment, ByteDance's education business will provide more than 1,500 positions for fresh graduates, covering many fields such as teaching, research and teaching, products, research and development.
Star AR unicorn Magic Leap seeks $10 billion sale
According to Bloomberg News, AR unicorn startup Magic Leap is discussing various strategic options with consultants, including establishing partnerships with large companies or selling a large number of shares before a possible IPO. If they do, they hope that the final sale price will exceed 100. One hundred million U.S. dollars. There had been news that Facebook was negotiating with Magic Leap, but the results were not satisfactory. The initial talks did not progress to the stage of the sale transaction.
The robot uses AI and imaging technology to draw blood or infusion for people
Recently, a research team from Rutgers University in the United States combined robotics, AI, optics and ultrasound imaging technology to create a device that can draw blood from a person, which can automate a series of blood draws, catheter infusions and other tasks. Research results show that this type of image-guided autonomous system can outperform humans in dealing with complex medical tasks. In this system, AI robots need to go through the following steps to complete a set of processes:
- Automatic needle loading, and subsequent automatic processing of used needles;
- Determine the appropriate blood vessel as the target intubation site;
- Use ultrasound imaging technology to locate the target blood vessel;
- Segment and track the target blood vessel in the image, and distinguish arteries and veins at the same time;
- Align the needle with the target blood vessel while compensating for the movement of the arm;
- Based on the ultrasound image feedback, the needle is introduced into the target blood vessel again, and the blood vessel motion is compensated at the same time;
- AI recognizes the success of vascular access;
- Perform blood draw or infusion.
Severe epidemic, Silicon Valley technology companies start telecommuting
This week, the global epidemic has spread. As the number of patients diagnosed with the new crown virus in the San Francisco Bay Area continues to increase, many technology giants have taken actions to combat the spread of the epidemic. Based on relevant information, AI Frontline compiled the response measures taken by major technology companies during this period:
Xuan Nan, the former head of Alibaba China and Taiwan, resigned and founded Future Technology
According to sources, Qiang Hui (Hua Ming Xuan Nan), vice president of the Zhongtai Business Group, who resigned from Alibaba at the end of 2019, has recently established Lai Future Technology (Zhejiang) Co., Ltd., which is positioned to empower companies to complete digital transformation.
According to the official introduction of Lai Mirai Technology, the company is committed to building an enterprise intelligent middle-stage, digital enterprise production and operation elements, intelligent enterprise market insight capabilities, shaping customer-centric business processes, helping enterprises to carry out digital transformation, and promoting the digital transformation of the industry. development of.
Amazon has signed contracts with several retailers to sell its Go system
据外媒报道，亚马逊将开始向其他零售商出售其无人便利店 Go 系统。据悉，目前亚马逊已经有“数家”零售商签约使用该系统。
顾客逛亚马逊无人便利店 Go 时，Go 系统会使用安装在天花板上的摄像头和货架重量传感器来自动跟踪顾客和商品的情况。一旦完成购物，顾客就可以走出商店，而不需要扫描任何东西，也不用与收银员互动。顾客的账户将自动缴费，发票将通过电子邮件发送给他们。
达摩院医疗 AI 技术在武汉金银潭上线
武汉金银潭医院上线病原宏基因组检测平台，通过引进达摩院医疗 AI 技术，可同时完成新型冠状病毒和其他 16800 多种病原微生物的全基因组序列检测，可为新冠病毒肺炎引起的继发、并发感染迅速找到病原，以此实现精准诊断。该检测平台由阿里云、达摩院、杭州杰毅生物技术有限公司、因美纳科学器材有限公司联合搭建并免费提供金银潭医院使用。
网络犯罪每年净赚 1.5 万亿，净收益超过了科技巨头年收益总额
根据 Atlas *** 的一项新研究显示，网络犯罪分子的净收益超过了科技巨年年度净收益的总额。该公司的研究人员发现，网络***每年使犯罪分子赚取超过 1.5 万亿美元的收入，这是沃尔玛每年收入 5140 亿美元的三倍。而 2019 年，苹果、亚马逊、Facebook、特斯拉和微软的净收益总额为 7610 亿美元。
Atlas *** 首席运营官 Rachel Welch 表示：“究其原因是因为网络犯罪门槛较低、且利润超过传统犯罪，因此网络犯罪是大多数犯罪分子的首选。因此，我们可以预期，网络犯罪案件将在 2020 年达到新的高度。”
历时 8 年，微软摧毁全球最大僵尸网络 Necurs
近日，微软宣布已成功摧毁了感染全球 900 多万台计算机的僵尸网络 Necurs，该僵尸网络两个月内产生了 380 万封垃圾邮件。据称，微软之所以能摧毁该网络，是因为背后有来自 35 个国家和地区的国际警察和私企科技公司的配合和支持。
Necurs 僵尸网络于 2012 年首次被发现，它由几百万台受感染的设备组成，一直致力于分发银行恶意软件、加密劫持恶意软件、勒索软件以及每次运行时发送给数百万收件人的各种电子邮件进行诈骗。值得一提的是，这一行动微软策划了八年。
AI 开源工具 TensorFlow Quantum
这是一款谷歌开发的、用于快速建立量子机器学习模型原型的开源库。TFQ 的关键特征是能够同时训练和执行多个量子电路的能力，得益于 TensorFlow 能够跨计算机集群并行化计算，并在多核计算机上模拟相对较大的量子电路。
项目地址：https://github.com/tensorflow/quantum
loadlibrary
Google 研究人员开源了一个可以将 Windows DLL 加载到 Linux 的库 loadlibrary，该库允许原生 Linux 程序从 Windows DLL 加载和调用函数。库中包含一个自 ndiswrapper 派生的自定义 PE/COFF 加载器。该库将处理重定位和导入，并提供类 dlopen API。
项目地址：https://github.com/taviso/loadlibrary
IT 业界热评新闻 厦门银行手机 APP 被小学文化犯罪分子破解
根据中国裁判文书网披露的一起“***”***厦门银行手机银行 App 案件，两名犯罪分子分别为 00 后和 95 后，对应学历分别为初中文化和小学文化，利用虚假身份开户骗钱。
该判决文书显示，被***后，2019 年 1 月 5 日至 15 日之间，田某通过软件抓包（抓取网络传输的数据）、PS 身份证等非法手段，破解人脸识别等功能，在厦门银行手机银行 App 内使用虚假身份注册银行Ⅱ、Ⅲ类账户 76 个。注册虚假账户后，田某将上述账户信息（包括身份证号、银行卡号、绑定的手机号）卖给张某等人，非法获利两万多元。
网友趣评：手段如此低劣，居然成功了。
Soul 合伙人涉嫌“设局恶意举报竞争对手”被批捕
A few days ago, the partner of the social app Soul was arrested by the Shanghai Putuo District People’s Procuratorate on suspicion of "maliciously reporting a competitor."
It is reported that Soul operating partner Li previously discovered that a social product Uki APP is similar to his own product, so he instructed his subordinates to collect bad information on the platform. After the collection failed, he instructed his employees to register their accounts and publish them on the platform. The content that violates the regulations, and then screenshots to report to the relevant departments. This action caused the other party's APP to be removed from the shelves for three months, causing the victim's company to grow almost stagnant and its business seriously jeopardized. The criminal suspects Li and Fan in this case were arrested by the Putuo District People’s Procuratorate on suspicion of damaging business reputation and commodity reputation. According to people familiar with the matter, Li is mainly responsible for the company's product operations and content review.
Netizen's comment: The method is so inferior that it is also successful.