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• Huawei releases HarmonyOS 3 developer preview
• Tencent and other 20 companies promise not to monitor personal privacy
• OPPO may self-develope high-end mobile phone chips
• Apple plans to launch a hole-digging screen iPhone next year
• Intel's open source machine programming tool ControlFlag
• Apple's iTunes Store "Purchase" Feature Suffered by Class Action
• Google reduces the burden on subscription apps: App store fees are halved to 15%
• Apple's opposition to Huawei's trademark plagiarism Airpods was rejected
• EU bill to curb technology giants has been postponed
• Windows Terminal Preview 1.12 released
• Microsoft released VS Code running in the browser
• Chrome 95 released
• Eclipse OpenJ9 v0.29.0 released
• MySQL 8.0.27 GA version released

Industry Information

Huawei releases HarmonyOS 3 developer preview version

On October 22, the Huawei Developer Conference 2021 (Together) was held in Dongguan. The HarmonyOS 3 developer preview was officially released at the meeting. HarmonyOS 3 Beta is expected to be released in the first quarter of 2022. According to reports, the HarmonyOS 3 developer preview version reinnovates around the three core values of flexible deployment, hyper-terminal, and one-time development and multi-terminal deployment, and the system performance and development tools are fully upgraded.

Tencent and other 20 companies promise not to monitor personal privacy

On October 22, the Shenzhen APP Personal Information Protection Conference, sponsored by the Cyberspace Administration of the Shenzhen Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China, in conjunction with the Shenzhen Municipal Public Security Bureau, the Municipal Market Supervision Bureau, and the Municipal Administration Bureau, was held in Shenzhen Central Book City.

More than 20 key APP operating companies such as Tencent and Huawei signed the "Shenzhen APP Personal Information Protection Self-discipline Commitment", and publicly stated to the public that "not collecting information beyond the scope, not compulsively requesting user authorization, and not using big data to kill familiarity or abuse Facial recognition data, no monitoring of personal privacy" and other promises.

OPPO may develop its own high-end mobile phone chip

According to people familiar with the matter, OPPO plans to use self-developed mobile system-on-chip (SoC) on mobile phones launched in 2023 or 2024, depending on OPPO's development speed. OPPO hopes to use TSMC’s 3nm process technology to become the second wave of customers using TSMC’s cutting-edge technology after Apple and Intel.

Apple plans to launch the iPhone with digging screen next year

Foreign media reported that Apple plans to use the hole-digging screen on the high-end iPhone models to be launched next year. Previously, overseas bloggers brought the latest conceptual rendering of the iPhone 14 Pro series. The picture shows that the iPhone 14 Pro series uses a smaller hole-digging screen. It is reported that the hole-digging screen technology will be used in 2022, and the under-screen camera technology will be used in 2024. The under-screen camera technology is not only applicable to the iPhone, but also to the future MacBook Pro.

Intel's open source machine programming tool ControlFlag

Intel recently opened up the machine programming tool ControlFlag, which is a tool that uses machine learning to detect computer code problems. Ideally, the application of ControlFlag can reduce the time required to debug applications and software. In the test, Intel's machine programming research team stated that ControlFlag found hundreds of defects in its proprietary "production-quality" software, proving its usefulness.

Apple's iTunes Store "Purchase" feature encounters a class action lawsuit

Apple encountered another class-action lawsuit this week, accusing the company of misleading customers to believe that they were buying goods when they paid for iTunes content, but they were actually only obtaining content authorization. The class action was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York this Monday. The reason is that the user discovered that Apple can delete any digital content from the user's account without prior notice. Although the target of this lawsuit is only the iTunes store, Apple's current operating system also provides paid content for applications such as Apple TV and Apple Music.

burden on subscription apps: App store rake is halved to 15%

Google said on Thursday that it will directly halve the Play Store for subscription apps to 15%, without waiting until the second year. The new commission structure will take effect in January next year, and it is likely to encourage developers to switch from a one-time payment model to a subscription model. E-books and on-demand streaming music services can enjoy a discount as low as 10%. Currently, developers need to pay a 30% subscription fee to the Google Play Store in the first year, and then halve it to 15% from the second year.

Apple objected to Huawei trademark plagiarism AIRPODS rejected

According to data, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. recently added a trademark document, the type is a trademark opposition decision, and the text of the document shows that the opponent is Apple and the trademark involved is the "HUAWEI MATEPOD" trademark. The State Intellectual Property Office considered insufficient evidence and lack of factual basis and approved the registration of the "HUAWEI MATEPOD" trademark of Huawei.

EU's bill to curb technology giants is postponed

According to reports, internal documents show that two new regulations formulated by the European Union to crack down on large technology companies such as Google and Facebook have been delayed, and it will take more time for all parties to approve them. Analysts said that even if the two bills are approved by the European Commission, member states and the European Parliament, it will take years for the EU to actually complete the legislation. Obviously, this has undoubtedly won a respite for large technology companies such as Google.

The latest technology trends

Windows Terminal 1.12 Preview released

Windows Terminal Preview 1.12 has been released. The highlights of the update are as follows:

• Support setting Windows Terminal as the default terminal;
• Matching configuration files, Windows Terminal now supports the correct processing of executable startup matching of terminal configuration files;
• Support recovery window, Windows Terminal adds the option of recovering the last session after restarting
• Increase the fully transparent mode, you can adjust the transparency of the window through the Ctrl + Shift + Scroll key combination

Microsoft released VS Code

Microsoft has now launched a lightweight VS Code web preview version that can be run completely in the browser. This program allows developers to directly use the VS Code in the browser without using the locally installed version for development. The VS Code web preview version can run on browsers that support system file access APIs, such as Microsoft's Edge browser and Google's Chrome browser. And if the browser used by the user does not support the system file access API feature, the user can choose to upload or download the file to the browser for development work.

Chrome 95 released

Google launched Chrome 94 last month, and now four weeks later, Chrome 95 has arrived as scheduled. The updates in Chrome 95 that are worth paying attention to include:

• Chrome will enforce restrictions on the size of the name + value of the cookie;
• Deprecated support for URLs with non-IPv4 hostnames ending in numbers

Google started to abandon FTP support since Chrome 88, and now FTP support has been completely removed, etc. The next stable version of Chrome 96 is expected to be released on November 16.

Eclipse OpenJ9 v0.29.0 released

Eclipse OpenJ9 v0.29.0 has been released. Eclipse OpenJ9 is the JVM of OpenJDK, created by IBM and donated to the Eclipse Foundation. OpenJ9 version 0.29.0 now supports OpenJDK 8 and 11. The main updates are as follows:

• Added full support for AArch64 Linux;
• -Xsoftmx gencon update;
• JITServer technology is now supported by Linux on x86-64 and Power, etc.

MySQL 8.0.27 GA release

The latest version of MySQL 8.0.27 was officially GA on October 19, 2021. This is a maintenance version of MySQL8.0. In addition to fixing 207 bugs, it also adds some new features:

• Multi-factor authentication function;
• In order to improve the ability of monitoring MySQL and troubleshooting, Performance_Schema supports exporting the measurement thread name (not mysqld) to the operating system, similar to the ps execution effect of Unix;
• The replication function enables multi-threaded replication by default. A multi-threaded replication application has many application threads that execute transactions in parallel, etc.