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• It is reported that Apple plans to mass-produce Apple Car in 2024 and is visiting Asian suppliers
• Alibaba will fire 10 employees who leaked “sexual assault allegations” posts
• Breaking the news: Huawei's nova 9 series will be released in late September, with sufficient stocks
• Foreign media: TSMC’s 3nm process technology mass production will be postponed, up to 4 months
• Microsoft low-key release of Visual Studio Code for the Web preview
• After ByteDance cancels the size of the week, employee income drops by 17%
• IPhone 13 price exposure: 512GB Pro is cheaper
• AMD announces a new quantum computing architecture
• Siri sued for eavesdropping on user conversations
• Linux Lite 5.6 is officially released
• Apache ECharts 5.2.0 released
• Visual Studio Code 1.60 released
• Python 3.7.12 and 3.6.15 released
• Fanx language 4.0 released, new syntax, new backend
• Red Flag Linux desktop operating system v11 alpha version (0831) update

Industry Information

It is reported that Apple plans to mass-produce Apple Car in 2024 and is visiting Asian suppliers

Apple is visiting supply chains and automakers in South Korea and Japan, including Toyota Motor, SK Group and LG Electronics, to prepare for mass production of Apple Car electric cars in 2024. The main topic of this discussion is how to produce Apple Car in the face of global chip shortage. Apple is advancing self-driving car technology, and the goal is to produce a passenger car that may include its own breakthrough battery technology as early as 2024.

Alibaba will fire 10 employees who leaked “sexual assault allegations” posts

According to CBN YiMagazine, citing Bloomberg news, Alibaba will fire 10 employees who leaked articles on the internal network that “sue the former company manager for sexual assault”. People familiar with the matter said that these employees removed the personal watermark of the screenshots of the complaint articles on the intranet and released them to the public. This behavior violated company policy. Three other people were criticized for posting improper comments on public forums.

Breaking the news: Huawei's nova 9 series will be released in late September, with sufficient stocks

According to digital blogger @菊厂影业Fans, the release time of Huawei's nova 9 series mobile phones has been finalized, but it did not disclose the specific time, only that it will be released in late September and will go on sale at the end of September.

In addition, the blogger also said that this time Huawei's nova 9 series mobile phones are adequately stocked, which is much more than the Huawei P50 series, so the major experience stores of this model should also have a lot of goods.

In addition to Huawei's nova 9 series mobile phones, Huawei will also release a series of new products at the press conference in late September.

Combined with the previous news, Huawei's nova 9 mobile phone will support 4G networks and be equipped with Hongmeng HarmonyOS 2.1 system.

The standard version of Huawei nova 9 is equipped with a 4500mAh battery and supports 66W super fast charging, while the high-end version will be equipped with a 4000mAh battery and supports 100W super fast charging. Its charging scheme is exactly the same as the Honor 50 series.

Foreign media: TSMC’s 3nm process technology mass production will be postponed, up to 4 months

According to foreign media reports, TSMC, which has been mass production of 5nm process technology for more than one year, is making every effort to promote mass production of 3nm process. Their 3nm process plans to risk trial production this year and officially mass production in the second half of next year.

However, the latest reports from foreign media show that the mass production time of TSMC's 3nm process technology will be delayed by up to 4 months. Foreign media also mentioned in the report that TSMC has also confirmed that their mass production time for this process will be postponed.

In recent quarterly earnings analyst conference calls, TSMC CEO Wei Zhejia revealed that their 3nm process is progressing well. If the mass production time is delayed, TSMC's 3nm process technology may not be able to mass produce in the second half of next year as planned.

TSMC and Samsung Electronics are currently advancing the mass production of the 3nm process, and the two major chip foundries attach great importance to this process. At the end of June this year, some foreign media reported that the 3nm chip process technology that Samsung Electronics had high hopes had been successfully taped out.

But judging from foreign media reports, Samsung Electronics’ 3nm process has also encountered difficulties. Research institutes predict that Samsung's 3nm process technology, which uses GAA technology, is unlikely to be mass-produced before 2023. People in the industry chain also revealed that Samsung's 3nm process technology using full gate transistor (GAA) technology still has challenges in research and development, and there are still key technical issues that have not been resolved.

Microsoft low-key release of Visual Studio Code for the Web preview

According to foreign media reports, Microsoft announced the public preview version of Visual Studio Code for the Web in an article that has been deleted (estimated to be published earlier).

Visual Studio Code for the Web is the Web version of Visual Studio Code. According to reports, it is a brand-new web-based code editor that runs entirely in the browser. Anyone can use https://vscode.dev, quickly open and browse the source code hosted on GitHub and local computer (the Azure Repos repository will be supported later), and perform light Changes in magnitude.

This technology looks the same as the https://github.dev/) already launched by Microsoft's GitHub. However, GitHub's web editor only supports use in GitHub repositories, and Visual Studio Code for the Web does not have this restriction.

The announcement also mentioned that VS Code for the Web cannot access computing resources, so users still cannot use it to build, run, or debug applications, nor can they call integrated terminals. However, users can upgrade VS Code for the Web service to a GitHub Codespaces instance-suitable for situations that require a complete remote environment, build, debug, make full use of extensions, and access the terminal to get a complete VS Code experience.

After ByteDance cancels the size of the week, employee income drops by 17%

August 31st was the first payday after ByteDance canceled the big and small weeks. Many employees found that their wages had been reduced to varying degrees compared with the past. An employee of ByteDance said on the social platform: “In the rest of my life, we finally waited for ByteDance’s general tune, and the general tune of all employees has been reduced by 17%.” It is reported that in July 2021, ByteDance officially announced that from August On the 1st, the overtime system for large and small weeks was cancelled, but byte employees were not happy, because overtime means double wages for the same working hours, and the cancellation of overtime is equivalent to a disguised pay cut.

In addition, on the evening of September 1, news reported that ByteDance plans to sell its securities business starting this year, with an overall valuation of RMB 500 million to RMB 1 billion. The sale is planned to begin in the first half of 2021. It has successively communicated with CICC, CITIC, Fuxing Group, Niuguwang, and Oriental Fortune, among which two companies have given letters of intent for investment. Later, Bytedance responded that the company is shrinking financial-related businesses and does have plans to sell securities businesses. According to media reports, the current follow-up solution given by ByteDance is "either internally transfer jobs, or choose to leave on October 8. The compensation plan is N+2."

IPhone 13 price exposure: 512GB Pro is cheaper

August will end, which means that the pace of Apple's autumn conference is getting closer. The latest news this week is that the iPhone 13 series will be released on September 14th, pre-orders will be opened on the 17th, and the first batch of goods on the 24th, AirPods 3 will be on sale on September 30th.

Regarding the configuration and price, there is also a new revelation. Simply put, the iPhone 13 Pro starts with 128GB, and the price is still 8,499 yuan, but the 256GB is cancelled, and the original top 512GB becomes a mid-range configuration. The price is reduced to 10499 yuan, and 1TB is added. , Priced at 13,299 yuan. In the same way, the iPhone 13 Pro Max will be priced at 9,299 yuan starting with 128GB, and the top 1TB will reach a new high of 14,099 yuan. However, the iPhone 13/13 mini still has three capacities of 64GB, 128GB, and 256GB, and the price remains exactly the same as last year's iPhone 12/12 mini.

AMD announces a new quantum computing architecture

According to foreign media reports, AMD and a research team recently filed a patent application to construct a more efficient and reliable quantum computing architecture by adopting the traditional multi-SIMD (single instruction multiple data) method, while reducing the number of given calculations. The number of qubits required is to alleviate scaling problems and calculation errors caused by system instability. AMD's approach aims to improve the existing quantum architecture by actually reducing the number of qubits required to perform complex calculations—realizing the science fiction-like concept of "quantum teleportation".

Siri sued for eavesdropping on user conversations

The U.S. District Court ruled today that a lawsuit against Apple is allowed to proceed. The lawsuit alleges that Apple’s voice assistant Siri violated user privacy, but rejected an allegation made under the California Unfair Competition Act. In addition to Apple Siri, Amazon's Alexa and Google Assistant have also received similar complaints.

The latest technology trends

Linux Lite 5.6 is officially released

The Linux Lite 5.6 Final version was officially released on August 31, and is currently available for users to download and install normally. Linux Lite is a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu LTS. It aims to introduce Windows users into the Linux system and provides a complete set of applications to meet the needs of users. The lightweight design is very friendly to novices. The release of Linux Lite 5.6 includes the following highlights:

• Update to the novice help manual-Linux Lite guide
• Brand new Papirus icon theme
• Added 2 functions in Lite Tweaks
• 7 new wallpapers added
• The default version of Python is now set to Python3
• Support "Pay What You Want" download method
• Bug fixes and functional enhancements for the target audience.

Apache ECharts 5.2.0 released

Apache ECharts 5.2.0 was officially released on September 1, 2021. In this version, Apache ECharts introduces a very cool global transition animation, and has done a lot of color palette strategy, polar coordinate histogram labels, etc. Optimized and enhanced; also enhanced the performance of high-dimensional data; optimized the type of custom series.

It also fixes some bugs such as: fix the problem that an error may be reported when calling setOption twice to update the data; fix the problem that the graphics frame is zoomed; fix the problem that the polarIndex configuration item in the type is lost.

Visual Studio Code 1.60 released

Visual Studio Code 1.60 has been released, some of the main highlights are as follows:

• Automatic language detection

In the previous version, VSC introduced an experimental feature for untitled files, which automatically sets the language mode of the file based on the content. The automatic language detection function uses machine learning to guess the language, and the machine learning model runs entirely locally on the user's machine. Now, VSC enables automatic language detection by default and expands the detection to include files without file extensions. Here is an example from the Internet and paste it into an untitled editor:

Automatic detection options in the Notebooks language selector:

• High-performance bracket coloring

The editor now supports native bracket pair coloring. You can enable bracket pair coloring by setting "editor.bracketPairColorization.enabled": true. All colors are themed, and up to six colors can be configured. This function is implemented to solve the performance problem of CoenraadS's famous Bracket Pair Colorizer extension. Now, even in large files, changes are immediately reflected:

• Set the syntax highlighting of code blocks in the editor

The syntax highlighting of code blocks in the setting description is now supported:

• Customize characters for rendering block diagrams and block elements

When GPU acceleration is enabled (terminal.integrated.gpuAcceleration), box drawing and block element characters now use pixel-perfect custom glyphs instead of fonts. This means that even if the user sets the line height or letter spacing in the terminal, there is no gap in the drawing of the box.

• Set value in WATCH view

Now you can use the "Set Value" operation in the context menu in the WATCH view to set the value of the monitored expression.

• Locked editor group

Now supports locking the editor group, not only for the terminal, but also for any editor. If the user has opened multiple editor groups, it can now be locked using a new command or from the overflow menu:

Python 3.7.12 and 3.6.15 released

The latest security fix package Python 3.7.12 and 3.6.15 for Python 3.7 and Python 3.6 has been released.

Python 3.7 is now in the security repair phase of its life cycle. At this stage, only security-related issues are accepted and resolved. Python 3.7 will provide security fixes until mid-2023, which is five years after the initial release. Security fix versions are generated periodically as needed, and only source code is provided-Python usually does not provide binary installers for security fix releases.

The main security issues fixed in this update are as follows:

Security

• bpo-44394: Upgrade libexpat from 2.2.8 to 2.4.1, fix the CVE-2013-0340 "Billion Laughs" vulnerability, libexpat is often used on Windows and macOS.
• bpo-43124: Make smtplib's internal putcmd function safely process the existing \r and \n characters during input to avoid (unlikely) command injection.

Library

• bpo-45001: Make email date parsing more robust to incorrectly formatted input (that is, Date: headers that only contain spaces).

It is worth noting that Python 3.9 is now the latest functional version series of Python 3. The official recommendation is to upgrade as soon as possible.

Fanx language 4.0 released, new syntax, new backend

Fanx language 4.0 is released, with new features including a newly designed syntax and more compilation targets.

new backend

In this version, the generated C code and independent virtual machines are available. So far, Fanx language has truly achieved the four compilation goals of JVM, Javascript, to C, and VM.

Although the new back-end has not been tested extensively, the product quality has not been reached. But we have taken the first step away from the JVM platform.

New grammar

In the long-term use, I found that the previous grammar was still not perfect. Due to compatibility considerations, there have not been too many changes. This time it finally made a destructive change and revised a lot of grammar.

The previous code file uses the .fan suffix, and the new syntax uses the .fanx suffix. Two formats can be mixed in the same project. Their implementation shares most of the code.

Red Flag Linux desktop operating system v11 alpha version (0831) update

The Red Flag Linux desktop operating system v11 alpha version (0831) has been updated.

Update log:

Compared with the previous version, the Red Flag Linux desktop operating system v11 alpha version (0831) is mainly updated as follows:

• Fix the problem that the network card of some models cannot be loaded;
• Fix the problem that some models of Bluetooth devices cannot connect;
• Fix the problem that the desktop environment of some models cannot start normally;
• Update the firmware version to increase hardware support;
• Fix some known bugs;