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- Tencent: R&D personnel accounted for 68%, and more than half of technical experts with level 12 or above continued to write codes. The annual average code volume per capita was more than 30,000 lines
- 70,000 master's degree delivery nationwide is rumored
- ZTE announces new operating system MyOS: a major upgrade of privacy and security
- 11 companies including Ali, Tencent, ByteDance, etc. were interviewed
- Musk admits to using in-car cameras to monitor car owners
- Former Apple employees broke the news: Be kind to Apple staff, maybe you can get "free orders" opportunities
- Apple was sued by App developers: In order to lower the purchase price, it was delayed for one year before approving the shelves
- Google restarts investment in real estate projects, plans to spend 7 billion US dollars to build offices and data centers
- Artificial intelligence can debate with humans: the opening remarks are excellent, but they are still lost to professional debaters
- GitLab cooperated with Sequoia Broadband and Gaocheng Capital to establish "Jihu Company"
- Google’s real-time subtitles feature is now available in Google Chrome
- GitLab fixes serious vulnerabilities, users are recommended to upgrade to the latest version
Domestic news
Tencent: R&D personnel accounted for 68%, and more than half of technical experts with level 12 or above continued to write codes. The annual average code volume per capita was more than 30,000 lines
On the afternoon of March 18, Tencent released the 2020 "Tencent R&D Big Data Report" today, which disclosed data on Tencent's R&D investment, R&D efficiency, and open source collaboration in 2020. The report shows that in 2020, Tencent's R&D personnel accounted for 68% of the company's total headcount, a year-on-year increase of 16%.
In 2020, Tencent added more than 4,000 R&D projects, a year-on-year increase of 22%; new codes exceeded 2 billion lines, a year-on-year increase of 67%. In 2020, the code review coverage rate will reach 70%, with an average reviewer participating 90 times and reviewing an average of 293 lines of code each time.
At the same time, 70% of Tencent's technology leaders continue to output codes. In 2020, the average output per person will be 32,000 rows. 54% of technical experts at level 12 and above devote themselves to coding, and output more than 30,000 lines of code per capita.
C++ is Tencent's most popular programming language. With the further development of cloud computing and microservices-related technologies, the use of Go language has increased the fastest, surpassing JavaScript to become Tencent's second most popular programming language. At the same time, TypeScript has become the second fastest growing language in 2020 with its excellent architecture design and high compatibility, and it is also the most potential front-end language.
70,000 master's degree delivery nationwide is rumored
Recently, short videos related to "70,000 masters in the country are delivering food delivery" have been circulating on major platforms. The video said, "There are 7 million food delivery brothers in China, and 1% of them have a master's degree or above".
In 2019, "Hungry?" published the "2019 College Student Takeaway Riders Group Insights". The report pointed out that a total of 9,896 college students from all over the country joined the Ele.me Hummingbird as part-time riders in the summer of 2019. In terms of grade distribution, 1% are graduate students and above. Therefore, the proportion of 1% of graduate students is only the proportion of graduate students with part-time college students, not from all Ele.me riders.
ZTE announces new operating system MyOS: a major upgrade of privacy and security
On March 18, ZTE mobile phone officially stated that ZTE’s mobile phone customization system is 10 years old, and this time ZTE mobile phone has brought a unique new personalized system "MyOS".
It is understood that MyOS specifically targets various hidden dangers of third-party applications, from installation to authorization and full monitoring of sensitive behaviors. At the same time, MyOS provides three types of authorized users: empty authorization, one-time authorization, and centralized authorization. Users can choose according to their needs. For apps that are not commonly used, permissions can also be recovered to avoid long-term collection of user data by apps.
In addition, for some applications that cannot be used without authorization, users can solve the problem through "empty authorization", that is, running the APP and protecting personal privacy.
11 companies including Ali, Tencent, ByteDance, etc. were interviewed
The State Internet Information Office (hereinafter referred to as the “CIO”) stated on the 18th that the regulatory authorities have strengthened the management of the emerging voice social industry. At the same time, the once-popular AI face-changing and other in-depth forgery technologies are also on the "list of attention" this time. The Office of the Cyberspace Administration of China issued an announcement stating that the regulator interviewed 11 technology companies including Alibaba, Tencent, Xiaomi, ByteDance, etc., because these companies have voice social software or applications involving "deep forgery" technology "recently failed to perform security Evaluation procedures".
International news
Musk admits to using in-car cameras to monitor car owners
According to media reports, Musk recently announced on Twitter that he will withdraw the trial permission of some car owners for the FSD beta version. The reason is that these car owners did not pay enough attention to the road conditions when using the FSD beta function. The user asked Musk, Tesla’s in-car camera can detect the gaze of the owner? In this regard, Musk directly answered "Yes". This is also the first time that Tesla has officially admitted that it monitors the driver through in-car cameras.
Former Apple employees broke the news: Be kind to Apple staff, maybe you can get "free orders" opportunities
A woman who has worked at Apple revealed that there is a word at Apple called'surprise and delight' (surprise and delight). Basically, every genius bar member and staff has a quota, and they have the right to surprise customers. She has often seen people come in with a cell phone that has been flooded, and usually there is a charge for replacement and repair. But if you have a good attitude and let the genius bar members feel that you are a nice person, you may be able to replace it for free.
Apple was sued by App developers: In order to lower the purchase price, it was delayed for one year before approving the shelves
On March 18th, Kosta Eleftheriou, the developer of the input method application FlickType (Kosta Eleftheriou), took Apple to court today, saying that while Apple highly praised the FlickType app, it was delayed for a year. Approved on the App Store application store only time.
As for why Apple has not approved the listing of FlickType, its developers believe that Apple's delay is to lower the purchase price. In an interview with the media, Eleftherio said: "I believe they did this deliberately in order to lower the potential sale price."
Google restarts investment in real estate projects, plans to spend 7 billion US dollars to build offices and data centers
Google said that it plans to invest more than $7 billion in the expansion of office space in the United States in 2021, because after the COVID-19 pandemic has passed, expenditures in this area will resume operation. The company said the money will be used to expand offices and data centers in 19 states, creating at least 10,000 full-time jobs for it, of which $1 billion will be dedicated to California.
Artificial intelligence can debate with humans: the opening remarks are excellent, but they are still lost to professional debaters
A few days ago, a study published in the academic journal "Nature" described an autonomous agent capable of competing and debating with humans. Although the human debater was judged to eventually win, the author believes that artificial intelligence may have the ability to participate in complex human activities.
In this study, IBM engineer Noam Slonim and colleagues described an autonomous system called Project Debater (meaning "debater project"), which can engage in meaningful debates with humans. The system can organize opening statements and counter arguments by scanning an archive of 400 million news reports and Wikipedia pages. IBM believes that artificial intelligence debaters can help people reason, build sufficient arguments, and make better decisions. Potential applications of Project Debater include financial consultants, lawyers, public affairs decision-makers, student assistants, and corporate decision makers.
Programmer area
GitLab cooperated with Sequoia Broadband and Gaocheng Capital to establish "Jihu Company"
On March 18, Jihu Information Technology (Hubei) Co., Ltd. announced its establishment in Wuhan, China. This is a Chinese joint venture jointly established by GitLab, an open source software development and project management collaborative platform, the exclusive lead investor Sequoia Broadband Cross-border Digital Industry Fund, and Gaocheng Capital. The first round of investment was hundreds of millions of yuan. Extreme Fox will provide a localized one-stop open source software development and operation (DevOps) platform and related customized products and solutions covering the entire life cycle of software innovation for the Chinese market.
Heavy! GitLab established Jihu in China, can GitHub be far behind?
Google’s real-time subtitles feature is now available in Google Chrome
On March 18th, the real-time subtitles function was launched in Chrome 89. Previously, at the 2019 Google I/O Conference, Google demonstrated for the first time its amazing real-time subtitles accessibility. This feature was first introduced on Pixel phones that updated Android 10, and then on many non-Pixel phones – including the Galaxy S20 series, OnePlus 8 series, OnePlus Nord, etc. What can be confirmed is that the real-time subtitle function now appears in Settings>Advanced>Accessibility. If you don’t see it on Chrome 89, you may need to restart Chrome.
GitLab fixes serious vulnerabilities, users are recommended to upgrade to the latest version
On March 18th, Kingsoft Cloud Security Emergency Response Center monitored that GitLab officially released a security update, which fixed a code execution vulnerability. This vulnerability is a serious risk. It is recommended that GitLab users upgrade to the latest version in time to avoid malicious attacks.
Vulnerability, users are recommended to upgrade to the latest version**
On March 18th, Kingsoft Cloud Security Emergency Response Center monitored that GitLab officially released a security update, which fixed a code execution vulnerability. This vulnerability is a serious risk. It is recommended that GitLab users upgrade to the latest version in time to avoid malicious attacks.
There are serious vulnerabilities in GitLab Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE). An unauthorized but authenticated attacker can construct malicious requests, execute arbitrary code on the GitLab server, and control the server.