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• Musk’s company will breed dinosaurs: they can be bred within 15 years, Jurassic Park is just around the corner
• Qingju, a bike-sharing brand of Didi Chuxing, releases a concept car called Qingju X
• The hacker group that was exposed to attack the U.S. oil pipeline also claimed to have stolen confidential information from Japan’s Toshiba
• Meishe Technology sues ByteDance's Douyin and other 6 apps for plagiarizing their codes
• WeChat: Mini Programs will no longer be provided to open the App service after May 20, which has been complained by a large number of users
• Tesla's crazy popular science car use function, there is news that it will add a "car test"
• 8 departments jointly interviewed 10 transportation platform companies including Didi and Shouqi
• Forbes released the 2021 Global 2000 Top 2000: Apple is sixth, and Kuaishou is on the list for the first time
• The end of the big factory is to build a car?
• Microsoft Edge for Linux is now in Beta channel
• GitHub Desktop ushered in the new version 2.8 to improve the difference and compare the user experience
• Distributed SQL engine Apache Trafodion announced its retirement
• Microsoft brings threat and vulnerability management capabilities to Linux
• Microsoft announces new open source project eBPF for Windows

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Musk’s company will breed dinosaurs: they can be bred in 15 years, Jurassic Park is just around the corner

On May 13th, Neuralink co-founder Max Hodak said that we can breed and genetically improve the "super alien species"-dinosaurs within 15 years. The Jurassic Park in science fiction movies is just around the corner. It is reported that Neuralink is a new high-tech company established by Elon Musk, dedicated to connecting the human brain with the machine interface by manufacturing micron-level equipment. In July 2016, Neuralink was registered in California as a "medical research" company, and Musk provided the company's operating funds.

Qingju, a bike-sharing brand of Didi Chuxing, releases a concept car called Qingju X

Qingju, a bike-sharing brand owned by Didi, released a two-wheeled concept motorcycle-Qingju X. This car uses a semi-enclosed shape, and the front and rear lights use through-type headlights. In terms of safety, it is equipped with automotive-grade millimeter-wave radar, which can realize ADAS collision warning. At the same time, it supports power-on health self-check, face recognition, fingerprint recognition, and APP health reminders. It will be equipped with a long-life high-density lithium battery and supports wireless fast charging. In terms of intelligent interconnection, it includes voice interaction and car navigation. It is understood that Didi hopes to realize the green orange X on the road in 5 years.

The hacker group that was exposed to attack the U.S. oil pipeline also claimed to have stolen confidential information from Japan’s Toshiba

On May 14 news, according to Kyodo News, the hacker group DarkSide issued a statement on the Internet saying that it had stolen Toshiba Group’s confidential information. The organization is said to have participated in a cyber attack that led to the closure of the largest US oil pipeline company (Colonial Pipeline). Toshiba TEC admitted that its European subsidiaries had been attacked by cyber attacks, and said that "data leakage is likely to occur."

DarkSide claimed on the highly anonymous "dark web" that it had stolen more than 740GB of confidential information from Toshiba Group's French base. It is said that it includes related information such as products and personnel. The organization may have infected the computer with a "ransomware" that asks for money in return for restoring information.

Toshiba TEC stated that "the impact is limited to certain businesses in Europe, and no leakage of customer information has been discovered."

Meishe Technology sues ByteDance's TikTok and other 6 apps for plagiarizing its code

Meishe Technology said: Through comparison, it is found that since the "Tik Tok" version 3.0 on November 1, 2018, its related software codes for realizing functions such as video and audio editing and processing have been copied from the relevant Meishe software that Meishe Technology enjoys copyright. . What was even more shocking to us was the comparison of the other 6 apps under the Bytedance: "Cut Ying", "Massive Creativity", "Multi-Flash", "Faceu", "Picture Worm", and "Light Camera". , We found that there are all traces of code plagiarism, many of which have the same function names, and even the misspelled functions of Meishe Technology are copied intact.

Meishe Technology requires the above-mentioned companies to immediately stop the infringement, publicly apologize in full on its own media platforms, and compensate for economic losses and reasonable expenditures totaling RMB 2.274 billion.

WeChat: Mini Programs will no longer be provided to open the App service after May 20, which has been complained by a large number of users

On May 15th, the WeChat Open Community issued a notice announcing that the "Mini Program Open App Technical Service" will no longer be provided after May 20, 2021. WeChat said that it has received a large number of user complaints recently. During the use of the Mini Program, the normal use process is blocked and guided to jump to the app. Such situations have seriously affected the user experience of the Mini Program.

Tesla's crazy popular science car use function, there is news that it will add a "car test"

Starting from May 14th, Tesla's official Weibo has opened some teaching modes for using cars, and there are also car guides for Tesla novices. Including stop mode, three modes, each with its own strengths; energy recovery, smart use, assisting driving; safe distance between vehicles, paying attention to road conditions, maintaining distance between vehicles; ABS system, timely intervention, efficient braking and so on. And also put this Weibo to the top.

8 Departments jointly interviewed 10 transportation platform companies such as Didi and Shouqi

According to news on May 14, this morning, the Ministry of Transport, the Central Cyberspace Administration of China, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, the General Administration of Market Supervision, and the State Bureau of Letters and Calls and other new forms of transportation Coordinating and supervising the 8 member units of the inter-ministerial joint meeting on 10 transportation companies including Didi Chuxing, Shouqi Ride-hailing, Cao Cao Travel, Meituan Travel, T3 Travel, Gaode, Dida Travel, Manbang, Huolala, Kuaigou Taxi, etc. The new transportation platform company conducts joint interviews.

The interview pointed out that recently, all sectors of society have concentrated on the high percentage of online car-hailing platform companies, the non-open and transparent allocation mechanism, arbitrary adjustment of pricing rules, and the monopoly of freight information by Internet freight platforms, maliciously lowering freight rates, and arbitrary increase of membership fees. Suspected of infringing on the legitimate rights and interests of employees has aroused widespread concern in the society. The interview requires that each platform company should face up to its own problems, earnestly implement the main responsibility of the enterprise, and immediately carry out rectification.

Forbes released the 2021 Global 2000 Top Companies: Apple is sixth, and Kuaishou is on the list for the first time

May 13 news, today, Forbes released the 19th Forbes Global 2000 (Global 2000). The list selects the world's 2,000 listed companies with the highest market value each year based on the four major measurement criteria of sales, profits, assets, and market value.

The top five on the list have slightly changed. The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China has topped the list for nine consecutive years. JPMorgan Chase advanced one place to second place. Berkshire Hathaway rose from fourth to third in 2020. Last year's ranking, China Construction Bank slipped two places to fourth place. Saudi Aramco remains in fifth place.

From an industry perspective, many technology companies have made significant progress. Apple rose three places from ninth place a year ago, and tied for sixth place with Bank of America and Ping An. The ninth place is the Agricultural Bank of China, which slipped from the fifth place. Bank of China, which was ranked tenth last year, was squeezed out of the top ten by Amazon this year. In the past year, Amazon's stock price has soared, and this year's ranking has risen 12 places in one breath.

In terms of regions, the United States has the largest number of companies on the list, with as many as 590; China (including Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan) is the second with a total of 395 companies on the list.

The end of the big factory is to build a car?

Huolala started to start a car-building project to realize the closed-loop of the logistics chain and the "digital intelligence" of the car. Currently, it has begun recruiting talents in the manufacturing of new energy trucks, including new energy truck product experts and other positions. Huolala announced a US$515 million Series E financing in December last year. At the beginning of this year, the media revealed that it was about to complete a US$1.5 billion Series F financing with a valuation of US$10 billion.

At the 360 Group Smart Car Strategic Media Communication Conference, 360 Group founder and chairman Zhou Hongyi announced that he would formally become the product manager of Nezha Automobile, and form the new "Product Manager CP" of Nezha Automobile with Zhang Yong, CEO of Nezha Automobile. Regarding the way to participate in car building, Zhou Hongyi said, "We chose to build a car together instead of building a car by ourselves." In addition, Zhou Hongyi also stated that he will work with Nezha Motors to build a smart car with a positioning of around 100,000 yuan for mass users.

Earlier, Foxconn, Huawei, and Apple were all preparing to enter the smart car industry, followed by Baidu, Xiaomi, and Bitauto announced that they would build cars, and OPPO was also reported to be preparing to build cars.

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Microsoft Edge for Linux is now in Beta channel

The long-term development work of the Linux version of the Chromium-based Edge browser has been in progress. Microsoft first announced it in Build 2019 and officially announced it later that year. However, it wasn't until October last year that the Dev channel planned by Edge Insider made its debut on Linux. More than six months later, Microsoft announced today that it is time for the Beta channel to open to Linux users.

The long-term development work of the Linux version of the Chromium-based Edge browser has been ongoing. Microsoft first announced it in Build 2019 and officially announced it later that year. However, it wasn't until October last year that the Dev channel planned by Edge Insider made its debut on Linux. More than six months later, Microsoft announced today that it is time for the Beta channel to open to Linux users.

GitHub Desktop ushered in the new version 2.8 to improve the difference and compare the user experience

GitHub has just launched a new version of GitHub Desktop 2.8, which aims to provide developers with a more seamless project work experience. The first is the improvement of the diffs function. The GitHub Desktop 2.8 version is now able to better understand code changes, hide the surrounding white space, and assign new aliases to local repositories.

In contrast, the old version of GitHub Desktop intelligently checks the upper and lower lines of code changed by yourself or others, causing many developers to complain that it is difficult to fully understand specific changes.

But now, developers can click the "Extension" button in GitHub Desktop 2.8 to see the rest of the modifications surrounding a particular file.

Second, users can clean up the white space around code changes. GitHub explained that sometimes there is not enough contextual information displayed around the change, resulting in a large blank area.

With this update, developers can click the small gear icon in the upper right corner of the difference window, and then choose to hide the blank area to help you better understand the relevant code changes.

Finally, there are updates related to the naming of local repositories. GitHub stated that many developers keep multiple copies of a repository on GitHub Desktop, making it difficult to distinguish between them.

The good news is that after the GitHub Desktop 2.8 update, users can now assign different aliases to each repository. And this change will only be reflected locally so that developers can better distinguish it when necessary.

Distributed SQL engine Apache Trafodion announced its retirement

Apache Trafodion is officially retired after a vote by the submitters of Apache Trafodion.

Apache Trafodion is a Webscale SQL-on-Hadoop solution for Hadoop that supports transaction or operational workloads on Hadoop. Trafodion is based on the scalability, elasticity and flexibility of Hadoop to provide guaranteed transaction integrity, enabling new big data applications to run on Hadoop. In February 2018, Apache Trafodion became the top Apache project.

However, due to the inactivity of the project, Apache Trafodion moved into the Attic in April 2021 and announced its official retirement on May 14 this year. The decommissioning of the Apache project will not directly close all content, because existing users not only need to know the decommissioning of the project, but also retain the necessary information access to their own development work. Therefore, the user mailing list is still open, and the other resources of the project will continue to be provided in a read-only state, including websites, wikis, svn, downloads, and bug trackers. The URL remains unchanged.

Microsoft brings threat and vulnerability management capabilities to Linux

It was reported on May 13 that Microsoft brought its own security software Defender to macOS in 2019. Microsoft recently announced that Defender's threat and vulnerability management (TVM) function has been launched on Linux and macOS platforms.

Microsoft said that TVM allows users to review recently discovered vulnerabilities in applications and potential system misconfigurations, and remediate any affected managed and unmanaged devices.

Currently online is only a public preview version, supporting macOS, RHEL, CentOS and Ubuntu systems, and Oracle Linux, SUSE and Debian will be added soon.

In addition, Microsoft also plans to introduce TVM to Android and iOS platforms this summer.

Microsoft announces new open source project eBPF for Windows

Microsoft has released a new open source project eBPF for Windows to make eBPF work on Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016 and later.

eBPF is a new design introduced in kernel 3.15. It develops the original BPF into a "kernel virtual machine" with a more complex instruction set and wider application range. It supports injecting a small piece of "kernel code" written in C language into the user mode. Run in the kernel to provide more programmability, scalability, and agility. In order to prevent the injected code from causing the kernel to crash, eBPF will strictly check the injected code and reject the injection of unqualified code.

Microsoft said that ebpf for windows uses several existing eBPF open source projects, including IOVisor uBPF and PREVALIL validators, but it is not a branch of eBPF. The project aims to allow developers to use the familiar eBPF tool chain and application programming interface (API) to develop eBPF programs on existing versions of Windows, and allow eBPF programs to be executed in kernel mode or run as a user-mode protected service . Currently, the project is hosted in the GItHub warehouse.