Aurora Developer Weekly【No.0709】

IT news in a week

Huawei Harmony OS2 users have exceeded 30 million, Gree will introduce Hongmeng

According to media reports, the official Weibo news of Huawei Terminal Company stated that since Harmony OS2 started the upgrade, users have exceeded 30 million. Recently, Gree Chairman Dong Mingzhu also said: “Hongmeng operating system will be introduced in the future.” According to the report, Gree is a Fortune 500 Chinese traditional home appliance company and the company with the largest market share in China’s air-conditioning market. Because the company also develops smart phone business, it is very likely that Hongmeng system will be applied to smart phones.

iOS app tracking transparency feature allows mobile advertisers to target Android users more

As Apple implemented a framework on iOS, mobile advertisers began to spend more money targeting Android users, which severely affected the amount of data advertisers can collect for iPhone and iPad users. According to the “Wall Street Journal” report, in April Apple launched an app tracking transparency framework, requiring all apps on iPhone and iPad to obtain user consent before tracking the activities of other apps. Since then, advertisers have begun to reduce spending on Apple platforms. . Without proper user tracking, the data advertisers have on user interests, preferences, etc. will be significantly reduced.

Amazon failed to build its own Android app store: it became evidence of accusing Google of monopoly

In the latest app store antitrust lawsuit filed against Google in multiple states in the United States, the prosecutors found a strange victim to support them: Amazon. Amazon is one of only a few companies with a higher market value than Google. Amazon also has an app store. More than ten years ago, Amazon started to build its own Android app store, but it did not achieve much success. In Google’s lawsuit, Amazon’s name was mentioned more than 20 times to prove that even a well-funded and powerful technology giant like Amazon cannot resist Google’s control of smartphone operating systems. It is unclear whether Amazon has complained to antitrust investigators about Google's actions. Amazon has not yet commented.

Vivo calls on App developers to conduct self-inspection and self-correction. Non-compliance with privacy will be removed and frozen

Vivo today released the "Notice of Self-Inspection on Issues concerning the Violation of App Collection and Use of Personal Information and Infringement of User Rights and Interests" (hereinafter referred to as the "Notice"). In response to the current App illegal collection and use of personal information, excessive claims and frequent harassment, and other issues that infringe on user rights and interests are still emerging, the situation of management and control is becoming increasingly severe. In view of the above, we hereby call on developers to conduct self-inspection and self-correction of their apps in accordance with the relevant App privacy compliance requirements. The platform will also continue to conduct special privacy and compliance investigations on the entire library of apps. If the investigation process finds that apps are not in compliance with privacy regulations For problems, we will take measures including but not limited to removal, application freezing, account freezing, etc. Please also be aware.

Tencent deploys facial recognition to identify minors who play games at night

Tencent announced the deployment of face recognition to identify minors who are still playing games after 10pm. Minors are prohibited from playing games between 10 pm and 8 am, and some minors use adult accounts to bypass restrictions. Tencent's new game feature is called "Zero Cruise", and it is aimed at players who circumvent restrictions: We will conduct face screening for accounts that have been played for more than a certain period of time at night and whose real names are adults. Anyone who refuses or fails face verification will be treated as a minor, included in the anti-addiction supervision of Tencent's game health system and kicked off the line. This feature has been launched in more than 60 products such as "Glory of the King" and "Peace Elite", and will gradually cover more other game products in the future.

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Boycott Copilot? Code copyright disputes continue, some developers decided to withdraw from GitHub

The AI coding tool GitHub Copilot has just been released a week or so, and it has caused a lot of controversy. This contradiction and controversy has caused many people to be dissatisfied with Github, and some developers have even begun to boycott Github. The reason for this contradiction is that GitHub Copilot uses copyrighted code as training data. The product puts copyrighted source code into the user’s software without informing them of the license of the source code. Unauthorized and unauthorized use of the copyright owner’s work.

Microsoft announced the suspension of the SQL Server on Windows Containers Beta project

Recently, Microsoft announced in the official community that SQL Server on Windows Containers Beta has been suspended. At the same time, docker hub repos "microsoft/mssql-server-windows-express" and "microsoft/mssql-server-windows-developer" and these The tags in the repositories will be deleted, and the images in these repositories will not be able to download. The project was launched in 2017, and the main purpose is to facilitate developers to connect to SQL Server instances from inside or outside the same container.

Mozilla stops development and supports Firefox Lite

Firefox Lite is a new lightweight Android browser released by Mozilla in 2018. Based on Chromium WebView instead of Mozilla's own rendering engine; this distinguishes it from Firefox for Android and many Chromium-based Android browsers, because one of the development focuses is privacy. The web browser comes with a Turbo mode to block known trackers and advertisements, an option to prevent loading of images, and a component to highlight coupons on specific websites. The browser was retired on June 1, 2021, and will be deprecated on June 30, 2021. Firefox Lite will no longer receive any updates, security or other information after June 30, 2021.

Qt 6.2 Beta released

Qt 6.2 Beta is now released, this is the first Beta version of its 6.2 series. Qt 6.2 includes all the widely used Qt add-on modules and is also the first version in the Qt 6 series that provides long-term support for commercial licensees. Qt 6.2 version provides a number of new features, such as 3D particles, allowing you to use Qt Quick 3D to create exciting 3D user experiences. In addition to new features, Qt 6.2 also restores support for more additional modules that Qt 6 did not provide before.

Visual Studio Code 1.58 released

A few days ago, Visual Studio Code abbreviated as VS Code released the latest version 1.58, this version has a number of updates, some of the highlights are: terminal in the editor: create or move the terminal to the editor area; Workspace Trust: quick customization Workspace trust settings, disabled restricted mode banners; editor scroll bar customization: set the visibility, width and click navigation behavior of the scroll bar; Markdown preview KaTeX support; optimization of editor settings: support multiple checkboxes and Enumerated drop-down menu; sticky debugging environment selection: the debugger will remember the user's previous environment selection, etc.

Aurora Zone

Aurora Notes丨A Preliminary Probe into the New Features of iOS 15 Push

At 1 o'clock in the morning on June 8, 2021, Beijing time, Apple held the WWDC 21 conference. A new version of the iOS 15 system was released at the meeting. The theme of iOS is Focus, connect, and explore.

Students who are concerned should find that the Focus mentioned in this topic is the new notification change in iOS 15. What this article shares is the new push feature in iOS 15.

The Way of User Operation: How to dig deep into the value of push

With the disappearance of the demographic dividend, how to grow rapidly is a problem and challenge that every enterprise must face. Acquiring users quickly means not only an increase in the level of users, but also means that they can be "faster" in the subsequent competition.

"The smell of wine is also afraid of deep alleys." User push is an effective way to help propaganda. However, almost every company is using push. Think about the mobile phone being "bombed" by various push messages every day. In this case Users will only be harassed and cannot be converted, and they will even become disgusted with the company behind the push. Either method requires cost. "Good steel must be spent on the blade". This requires operators to avoid harassing users and pursue a push method with the highest input-output ratio (ROI). That is, find the optimal push channel and formulate the optimal push strategy.

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