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Tencent Zhang Lijun: Games have become a powerful driving force for the development of chips, AI and other technologies
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Tmall Youpin WeChat Mini Program has been suspended: due to the existence of inducing sharing behavior
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WeChat adds article reading function
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Xiaomi's customized Xiaoai function will be shut down on July 10
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Google's medical version of ChatGPT has been tested in the clinic! Many indicators are comparable to real doctors
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After laying off 10,000 employees at the beginning of the year, Microsoft launched a new round of layoffs again
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Threads surpassed 100 million users within 5 days of its launch, surpassing the record of ChatGPT
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Musk's multiple rounds of "cost reduction and efficiency increase" have achieved remarkable results: Twitter traffic has fallen to the bottom
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Evernote has laid off most of its US employees and will move most of its business to Europe
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How to notify customers before deleting data
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Meta Pushes Python Projects to Adopt PEP 703 Proposal
domestic news
Tencent Zhang Lijun: Games have become a powerful driving force for the development of chips, AI and other technologies
On July 8, Zhang Lijun, vice president of Tencent and general manager of East China Headquarters, said at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference Game AI Application and Game Technology Forum that in the past half a century, games and cutting-edge technologies have been in a close symbiotic relationship among. Driven by users' ever-increasing experience needs, games can always embrace and apply the most cutting-edge scientific and technological achievements in a timely manner. In turn, games have also become a powerful driving force for the development of chips, AI and other technologies. Game technology is not only constantly innovating game product forms and R&D methods, but is also expected to bring new possibilities to more fields of production and life. (Securities Times)
Tmall Youpin WeChat Mini Program has been suspended: due to the existence of inducing sharing behavior
According to previous reports, Tmall launched a small program called "Tmall Youpin" in WeChat before the 618 event. According to the data of this small program, it changed its name from "Meow me" to " "Tmall Youpin", this is the first e-commerce retail mini-program named after "Tmall" in Taoyuan's WeChat. However, netizens noticed that Tmall Youpin’s WeChat mini-program has been suspended, and the page shows that “Tmall Youpin has suspended its service due to violations of regulations.” The specific reason is that there are inducing sharing behaviors. (IT House)
WeChat adds article reading function
WeChat recently released the iOS version 8.0.39 update. After using the update, it was found that the new version of WeChat has added the official account reading function and adjusted the transfer interface. In version 8.0.39, WeChat has added a "read aloud" function to the official account, find an article in the official account, click "..." in the upper right corner and select read aloud to enter the playback interface, which supports back 15 seconds and fast forward 30 seconds , 0.75 to 2.0 double speed playback, collection, forwarding and other functions. In addition, the WeChat 8.0.39 version is still on the page for initiating transfers, adding a WeChat ID display under the nickname of the other party's contact. (fast technology)
Xiaomi's customized Xiaoai function will be shut down on July 10
According to the Xiaomi Xiaoai team announcement, Xiaomi's "Customized Xiaoai" function will be officially shut down and offline at 24:00 on July 10, and the data related to the customized image in the user account will be cleared; the customized image that has been opened will return to the "no image" status. The wake word and tone set by the user remain unchanged. This feature first debuted at the Mi 10 launch event in February 2020.
international news
Google's medical version of ChatGPT has been tested in the clinic! Many indicators are comparable to real doctors
Google released the medical large-scale model Med-PaLM 2 only 2 months ago, and it has been "secretly" practicing in medical clinics for a long time. Foreign media broke the news that as early as April this year, Med-PaLM 2 began to be tested in multiple clinics. Responsible tasks include answering medical questions, summarizing documents, or processing medical big data, etc. (Qubit)
After laying off 10,000 employees at the beginning of the year, Microsoft launched a new round of layoffs again
In January, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced that the company would cut 10,000 jobs. Recently, several company employees have changed their personal information on LinkedIn, indicating that they belong to a new round of layoffs, mainly affecting sales, marketing and customer support departments. As of the third quarter of Microsoft's fiscal year ending March 31, 2023, the company's net profit reached US$18.3 billion, a year-on-year increase of 9%, and Microsoft will announce its fourth-quarter financial report at the end of July. (IT House)
Threads surpassed 100 million users within 5 days of its launch, surpassing the record of ChatGPT
The Twitter competitor Threads app (App) launched by Meta has more than 100 million registered users in less than 5 days, breaking the record of the artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT and becoming the consumer app with the fastest growing number of users in history. Quiver Quantitative, a network data tracking website, said in a report that as of 07:00 GMT on the 10th, the number of Threads users had exceeded 100 million. Previously, it took ChatGPT 2 months to reach the 100 million user mark, while the short video app TikTok and the video social platform Instagram took 9 months and 2 and a half years to reach this goal, respectively.
But Adam Mosseri, head of Meta-owned Instagram, recently shared his thoughts on Threads, saying the platform isn't aiming to replace Twitter, especially when it comes to political content and hard news. Mosseri explained that there are "enough" communities on Threads, covering sports, music, fashion, beauty and entertainment, that the platform doesn't have to focus on politics or hard news. (Pin Wan)
Musk's multiple rounds of "cost reduction and efficiency increase" have achieved remarkable results: Twitter traffic has fallen to the bottom
Since Musk took over Twitter, he has carried out several rounds of "cost reduction and efficiency increase" to reduce the platform's operating costs. However, according to the traffic data of Twitter released by Cloudflare recently since January this year, Musk's multiple rounds of cost reduction and efficiency increase can be said to be "excellent results" in a negative sense. According to Twitter's DNS server traffic records, Twitter's traffic is currently declining rapidly. In January, Twitter's global traffic ranking was 32nd, then dropped to 34th and 35th in March and April, 37th in May, and 38th last month. After entering July, Twitter's ranking dropped to 40th place.
Evernote has laid off most of its US employees and will move most of its business to Europe
Note-taking app company Evernote has announced that it has laid off most of its employees in the United States and Chile. Evernote said in an announcement on the 9th that the employees were notified on July 5 that they would be layoffs, and provided employees with 16 weeks of severance pay, performance bonuses and up to one year of health insurance. Now, Italian parent company Bending Spoons is moving most of Evernote's business to Europe. The company said the move was aimed at improving operational efficiency and leveraging Bending Spoons' very strong employer brand in Europe. (TechWeb)
Programmer Zone
How to notify customers before deleting data
InfluxDB Cloud closed its GCP europe-west1 (Belgium) data center, and some of its customers didn't realize their data was lost until after the service was shut down. The company's co-founder and CTO claimed that they had sent three rounds of email notifications to affected customers in advance and had done what they could. The move sparked widespread debate: how to notify customers before services are shut down or data is deleted? Emails are easy to miss, especially if customers receive a lot of emails every day, probably many of them are spam, and it is very difficult to identify the importance of a certain email. Customers don't often check data center availability as long as it's working. Taking Microsoft as an example, it will perform a scream test (Scream test) before a certain product or server is shut down. In this way, all users know that they need to migrate data as soon as possible. For specific discussions, please view: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36657829 (Solidot)
Meta Pushes Python Projects to Adopt PEP 703 Proposal
Meta is working to push the Python project to adopt the PEP 703 proposal to improve the multithreading performance of Python code. PEP 703 refers to Making the Global Interpreter Lock Optional, making the global interpreter lock optional. CPython's Global Interpreter Lock (GIL) prevents simultaneous multi-threaded execution of code, which has become a major obstacle to improving the efficiency of Python code on multi-core CPUs. The PEP 703 proposal, in addition to making the GIL optional, incorporated the necessary changes to ensure interpreter thread safety. Meta has committed that if the PEP 703 proposal is accepted, it will dedicate three engineer-years by 2025 to work with the core team to implement PEP 703. Related discussion https://peps.python.org/pep-0703/ (Solidot)