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• Meituan pilots free cycling with digital RMB in Shanghai and other places
• Survey shows that only 10% of Apple users intend to upgrade to iPhone 13
• Amazon will pay college tuition in full for 750,000 hourly workers
• MongoDB's market value has skyrocketed and will become the most valuable listed open source company in history
• Apple’s channel monopoly has been dismantled, and 30% road tax has become history
• Guangming Daily: "996" is a detour in the employment history of the Internet industry
• Tencent: "Common Wealth Special Plan", the first phase of 50 billion yuan of funds began to land
• Google's voice assistant is subject to EU antitrust investigation
• Amazon Elasticsearch Service is renamed Amazon OpenSearch Service
• Rookie of Linux distribution: CutefishOS
• OpenSSL 3.0 is officially released
• Flutter2.5 officially released
• Netty 4.1.68.Final released
• JetBrains launches a new data science IDE-DataSpell

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Meituan pilots free cycling with digital RMB in Shanghai and other places

From September 9th to December 31st, Shanghai citizens opened the Meituan App and searched for "digital renminbi". After completing the registration, they can receive a 10 yuan digital renminbi red envelope, which is used to pay for the Meituan bicycle ride. Additional corresponding digital RMB low-carbon red envelope rewards will be used for more low-carbon travel. It is understood that this event was jointly initiated by Meituan, the Agricultural Bank of China, Postal Savings Bank of China, and China Construction Bank, and is open to 9 major digital RMB pilot projects in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Hainan, Changsha, Suzhou, Xi’an, Chengdu, and Xiong’an New District. Residents in the region will give out digital RMB low-carbon travel red envelopes for free.

Survey shows that only 10% of Apple users intend to upgrade to iPhone 13

A Savings.com survey of 1500 Apple users showed that 64% of the respondents did not plan to upgrade to iPhone 13, 26% of the respondents said they have not yet decided, and only 10% of the respondents expressed interest in upgrading.

Amazon will pay college tuition in full for 750,000 hourly workers

According to reports, Amazon said on Thursday that it will fully fund the company's 750,000 hourly university expenses in the United States.

Facing the tight job market, other large American companies have also used education subsidies or increased salaries to attract employees.

Amazon said that starting from January next year, as long as they are employed for more than 90 days of operating network hourly workers, they can enjoy the company's full funding for university tuition and textbook fees. The company will also begin to provide funding for employees' high school diploma courses, GED and second language certification. Operating network hourly workers include employees who work in Amazon's vast warehouse network and distribution centers.

This benefit applies to hundreds of educational institutions across the United States. Amazon has previously promised to provide 95% of tuition, miscellaneous fees and textbook fees for hourly workers through the Career Choice Program.

MongoDB's market value has skyrocketed and will become the most valuable listed open source company in history

Last week, MongoDB announced its financial report for the second quarter ended July 31, 2021. According to financial report data, the company's total revenue in the second quarter of fiscal year 2022 was US$199 million, a year-on-year increase of 44%. Customer continued strong growth. As of July 31, the total number of customers exceeded 29,000; MongoDB Atlas revenue increased by 83% year-on-year; it accounted for 56% of total revenue in the second quarter.

MongoDB President and CEO Dev Ittycheria said that MongoDB's second quarter performance was exceptionally strong in all aspects, the most prominent of which was the 83% increase in Atlas revenue. The company’s strong growth reflects the desire of almost every enterprise to use modern application data platforms to help them accelerate the pace of digital innovation.

After MongoDB's financial report exceeded analysts' earnings estimates and gave optimistic forecasts, the open source database developer's stock price soared by 31% that day (7.96 billion US dollars, 51.4 billion yuan). It is reported that earlier, Databricks completed a round of private equity financing with a valuation of up to 38 billion U.S. dollars.

Founded in 2007, MongoDB has a market value of more than 33.56 billion U.S. dollars in the open market, making it about to become the most valuable open source company in history. Moreover, MongoDB was valued at only US$1.2 billion when it went public in 2017, and now it is the only listed open source company with a market value of more than US$30 billion.

Apple’s channel monopoly has collapsed, and 30% road tax has become history

The trial of Epic and Apple Century finally ushered in preliminary results.

On September 10, local time in the United States, Oakland Federal Court Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers (Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers) issued the verdict in support of Epic's partial complaint against Apple. In response to the third-party payment issue that the market is most concerned about, Rogers chose to support Epic. The verdict showed that Apple violated the Unfair Competition Law by restricting the use of external payment methods for applications and issued a permanent ban on Apple.

Beginning on December 9, Apple will no longer be allowed to prevent developers from guiding users to use third-party payments, guiding means such as external links, buttons or other guiding terms. This means that Apple’s 30% tax policy has been dismantled.

Guangming Daily: "996" is a detour in the employment history of the Internet industry

In the morning of September 9, Guangming Daily commented on 996: Recently, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security and the Supreme Law jointly published 10 typical cases of overtime labor and personnel disputes, clearly pointing out that the "996 work system" is a serious violation of the law. It is undeniable that the malformed overtime culture was the product of the expansionary development of Internet companies. During the period of rapid growth, many Internet companies wanted to obtain greater marginal benefits by increasing working hours and crowding tactics.

But in the long run, "996" is after all just a detour in the employment history of the Internet industry, and it runs counter to the high-quality development requirements of the Internet industry. "996" seems to be a shortcut, but in fact it is a detour. Internet companies provide a lesson in development. More companies should learn from the small, correct deviations if they run away, and reinforce them if they run far away, and always focus on the resonance of people's happiness and high-quality development at the same frequency.

The article also specifically mentioned that Internet companies can continue to explore the "hybrid office" model in the future.

Tencent: "Common Wealth Special Plan", the first phase of 50 billion yuan of funds began to land

Tencent Ma Huateng and Liu Chiping issued a letter to all employees, stating that the first phase of the 50 billion yuan invested in the "Common Wealth Special Project" will begin on the 99th Charity Day this year. The letter pointed out that this year’s 99 Charity Days will be expanded from 3 days to 10 days. The matching donation mechanism, product system, enterprise linkage, and public welfare infrastructure will be optimized and upgraded, and the total incentive amount will be increased to 1 billion yuan. Support for public welfare projects in the direction of social value issues.

Google's voice assistant is subject to EU antitrust investigation

Alphabet Inc's Google is under investigation by the European Union's antitrust regulators to investigate whether the company may force device manufacturers to use Google Assistant as the default voice assistant on Android devices. The European Commission said in June that its industry investigation of Internet-connected devices has caused widespread concern about certain exclusivity and bundling practices related to voice assistants, such as smart device manufacturers being prevented from installing a second voice assistant on the device.

Amazon Elasticsearch Service is renamed Amazon OpenSearch Service

AWS announced that its cloud service product Amazon Elasticsearch Service was renamed Amazon OpenSearch Service, and claimed that despite the change of product name, they will continue to provide the same experience, and will not use ongoing operations and development methods, and business use Have any negative effects.

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Rookie of Linux distribution: CutefishOS

Foreign media OMG! Ubuntu reported a Linux distribution led by Chinese people-CutefishOS. This project is based on Ubuntu and is positioned as a Linux desktop operating system.

According to the official website of CutefishOS, the company behind it, Cutefish Technology, was established in 2021. It is a company focused on the development and service of Linux desktop operating systems. Cutefish means love and beauty. As the core product, CutefishOS is a Linux desktop operating system with modern design and practicality, which can meet the needs of use in various scenarios.

OpenSSL 3.0 is officially released

OpenSSL 3.0 has been released under the Apache 2.0 license.

OpenSSL 3.0 has been migrated to a provider-based architecture to allow greater flexibility, HTTP/HTTPS in libcrypto and support for Linux kernel TLS, fully "pluggable" TLSv1.3 group, new encoder And decoder support, complete certificate management protocol (CMP) implementation, new API, and integrated support for kernel TLS are many changes in OpenSSL 3.0.

Flutter 2.5 is officially released

Flutter 2.5 is now officially released. The development team said that this version ranks second in Flutter version history. This version closed 4600 issues and merged 3932 PRs.

Looking back over the past year, a total of 1,337 contributors created 21072 PRs, of which 15,172 were merged. This version still improves performance and development tools, as well as adding many new features, including:

• Full screen support for Android, more Material You (also known as v3) support
• Update the text editing function to support switchable keyboard shortcuts
• Added new support for adding dependencies in Visual Studio Code projects
• New test runs in IntelliJ/Android Studio to obtain coverage information, etc.

Netty 4.1.68.Final released

Netty 4.1.68.Final has been released. Netty is an asynchronous event-driven network application framework, mainly used for the rapid development of maintainable high-performance protocol servers and clients.

This version includes two security fixes related to the compression/decompression of Bzip2 and Snappy, so it is recommended to update to this version as soon as possible. In addition, support for M1 Mac has also been added.

Important changes include:

• Bzip2Decoder does not allow setting size limits for decompressed data (#CVE-2021-37136)
• SnappyFrameDecoder does not limit the block length and may buffer skippable blocks in unnecessary ways (#CVE-2021-37137)
• Follow jdk.tls.namedGroups when using native SSL implementation (#11660)
• Add support for m1 Mac (#11666)
• Ensure that HttpData#addContent/setContent releases the buffer before throwing IOException (#11621)
• [HTTP2] Fix memory leak when writing empty data frame with padding (#11633)
• Added "RSASSA-PSS" algorithm to the list of allowed algorithms (#11626)
• Add version of netty-tcnative* to bom (#11609)
• SimpleChannelPool::notifyConnect should tryFailure when an exception occurs (#11566)
• Allow server to initiate renegotiation when using SSLEngine based on OpenSSL/BoringSSL (#11601)
• Only support TLSv1.3 if the JDK also supports it (#11604)
• Fix support for optional encoder error in HttpContentCompressor (#11582)
• Fix the problem that the IP protocol version on MacOS is confused when TCP FastOpen is enabled (#11588)
• Fix IndexOutOfBoundsException caused by multiple buffer consumption in DatagramDnsQueryDecoder (#11592)
• Use StandardSocketOptions#IP\_MULTICAST\_IF as the default source when joining the multicast group (#11585)
• Make sure we only log messages on BoringSSL when the password is not the default password (#11583)

JetBrains launches a new data science IDE-DataSpell

JetBrains, the developer of the well-known software IntelliJ Idea IDE and Kotlin programming language, recently launched an IDE specifically for data science-DataSpell.

At present, DataSpell is still in the early preview stage. Developers can visit jetbrains.com to download. It is currently compatible with Windows, Linux and Mac, and it has native support for Macs using the M1 chip.

The IDE will provide a development environment for data science professionals engaged in exploratory data analysis and machine learning model prototyping. Its feature is an interface designed to prioritize data processing, while allowing encoding. According to JetBrains, DataSpell supports Jupyter Notebook and provides a better experience than traditional Jupyter Notebook. Users can switch between command and edit modes to manipulate cells and their contents. The enhanced functions include:

• Smart coding assistance for Python
• Out-of-the-box catalog
• Folding backtracking
• Interactive table

The cell output supports Markdown and JavaScript. DataSpell is compatible with Jupyter Notebook running on the local device and remote Jupyter, JupyterHub and JupyterLab servers.

In addition, DataSpell supports Python scripts, provides a REPL for running code, and additional tools for processing data and data visualization, including interactive and static ones. DataSpell also supports Python scientific libraries including Plotly, Bokeh, ipywidgets and Altair. At present, DataSpell, which is still in the early preview stage, not only supports Python, but also provides basic support for the R language. Support for other data science languages such as Julia will be added in the future.