Apple’s hand-made computers were sold for 3.2 million; Facebook broke the news of Yuanyu’s potential harm; .NET 6 was released | SiFu Weekly

40s News Express

• Apple's founder's hand-made computer was sold at 3.2 million
• Google launches Relate, a communication tool for people with language impairments
• Over 70% of respondents believe that Facebook makes the U.S. worse
• Google loses in antitrust appeal, fines exceed US$2.8 billion
• WeChat already supports exporting personal information
• Facebook broke the news that people approve of the potential harm of the universe
• Microsoft Windows 10/11 application store feature enhancement: allows players to backup/repair games
• Microsoft Win11 Dev preview has a strange bug: the battery can be charged to more than 100%
• PostgreSQL releases a new version, supports all version updates
• Microsoft releases Pyjion 1.0, a JIT compiler for Python
• Gradle 7.3 officially released
• Apache Tomcat 8.5.72 officially released
• Python 3.9.8 released
• .NET 6 is officially released, the fastest .NET to date
• Node.js 17.1.0 has been released

Industry Information

Apple's founder's hand-made computer was sold 3.2 million

Recently, an extremely special Apple computer was auctioned in the United States, and the final transaction price of this computer reached a staggering 3.2 million. This is an Apple-I computer made by hand in the office of Hewlett-Packard by Apple's co-founder Steve Wozniak. It is reported that there are only 200 Apple-I computers produced, only about 50 can be found now, and only 6 can work normally, which makes every Apple-I computer an extremely rare Collection.

Google launches Relate, a communication tool for people with language disabilities

During the Google Inventors event, Google showcased its current innovative technology products based on AI technology, and launched the Project Relate application that helped people with language disabilities to conduct conversations. This App can create a customized language model for this group of people, and has three main functions: listening, repeating, and helping.

Over 70% of respondents believe that Facebook makes the U.S. worse

The latest poll released by CNN on the 10th showed that more than 3/4 (76%) of Americans believe that the American social media giant Facebook is making the United States worse, not better. Nearly half of the respondents (49%) said that people they know believe in conspiracy theories because of the content provided by Facebook, especially among young people.

Google loses in antitrust appeal, fines exceed US$2.8 billion

According to reports, the "Comprehensive Court" of the EU Intermediate Court rejected the Google Shopping antitrust appeal case today, and Google faced a fine of US$2.8 billion. As early as June 2017, the European Union had announced a fine of 2.42 billion euros (about 2.8 billion US dollars) on Google Shopping. The reason is that Google favored its own service Google Shopping and "downgraded the services of competitors." Regarding the EU’s ruling, Google subsequently appealed to the EU “comprehensive court”.

WeChat already supports exporting personal information

Recently, WeChat ushered in the 8.0.16 update. On the Settings->Privacy page, a new "Personal Information and Permissions" option has been added. After clicking on this option, system permissions management, authorization management, personalized advertising management, and personal information can be performed. Browse and export.

The domestic version of WeChat supports exporting personal information, including avatar, name, WeChat ID, gender, region, personalized signature, mobile phone number, QQ number, email address, my address, logged-in devices, WeChat version and other information.

Facebook broke the news that people approve of the potential harm of the universe

On November 9th, local time, Haugen, a former product manager of Facebook, lashed out at the concept of "meta universe" that Facebook is currently promoting.

She believes that the Big Mac virtual world depicted by "Meta Universe" will make users more addicted, and Facebook will obtain more personal information and become an online monopoly again. Haugen said that Facebook's efforts to promote "metauniverse" are to divert criticism from all walks of life on its content platform's inadequate supervision of its content platform, which has aggravated social divisions, and to pass on the pressure from European and American governments to strengthen legislation and supervision of large high-tech companies.

Microsoft Windows 10/11 application store feature enhancement: allows players to backup/repair games

According to the foreign media TheVerge report, Microsoft's Win10/11 app store has recently made many optimizations for game installation, making it more like a game store such as Steam. When players buy and install games, the Microsoft App Store provides a different experience from installing UWP apps, with more options.

Specifically, the store will support players to customize the game installation directory, and support to move the game to other directories in the future. The source said that Microsoft is testing the new version of the app store and the Xbox app in order to enable ordinary users and Xbox Game Pass subscribers to have a better experience and solve problems such as the inability to choose an installation directory.

Previously installed applications through the Microsoft Store are located in the exclusive WindowsApps folder under the C drive, and even administrator users do not have access rights. Foreign media said that Microsoft will open the permissions of the game installation directory so that players themselves and certain third-party applications can access the installation directory, and it will also be convenient for players to modify.

Microsoft Win11 Dev preview has a strange bug: the battery can be charged to more than 100%

Recently, some insiders noticed a peculiar bug in the Win11 Dev preview build 22494. Win11 incorrectly reported that the battery power of the laptop exceeded 100%. This is obviously physically impossible, at least currently impossible.

As shown in the picture above, a Redditor named GlitchyDragon65 posted a screenshot of his desktop. The battery level shows 115% and it is running Build 22494 version of Win11.

Another Reddit user, Zondax, also posted a similar picture. The battery level showed 103%, which was later increased to 104%.

Microsoft engineer Jennifer Gentleman has noticed these posts and said that this issue is being investigated because there have been many reports of this error. Interestingly, she also confirmed that this battery shows that the bug also exists in the older Dev version.

The latest technology trends

PostgreSQL releases a new version, supports all version updates

The PostgreSQL Global Development Group has released updates to all supported versions of its database system, including 14.1, 13.5, 12.9, 11.14, 10.19 and 9.6.24.

This version closes two security vulnerabilities and fixes more than 40 bugs reported in the past three months.

Main update content

• Fix the update of element fields in the array of fields that are part of the combination;
• Repair the accuracy loss in extreme cases in the digital power() function;
• Avoid crashes when deleting the role that owns the object at the same time

Microsoft releases Pyjion 1.0, a JIT compiler for Python

Pyjion is a just-in-time (JIT) compilation system for Python developed by the Python Software Foundation researcher and Microsoft researcher Anthony Shaw. It is not an independent runtime like PyPy, but an installable library that runs under CPython 3.10.

After installation, you only need to import the Pyjion library and enable it, and you can use it in the program: everything that runs after importing belongs to JIT compilation. Pyjion, an embedded JIT compiler for Python 3.10 and above, has released version 1.0.

Gradle 7.3 officially released

Gradle 7.3 version introduced a declarative test suite API for JVM projects, added support for building projects using Java 17, and updated the Scala plugin to support Scala 3.

main update content

• New features and usability improvements: support for Java 17, the declarative test suite in the JVM project;
• Reliability improvement: Allow copying a single file to a directory containing unreadable files, and configure support for input normalization in the cache;
• Fixed a small JvmTestSuitePlugin document format problem and a secure third-party JAR package

Apache Tomcat 8.5.72 officially released

Apache Tomcat 8.5.72 is now officially released. This version implements the specifications that are part of the Java EE 7 platform.

Main update content

• Further improve HTTP/2 flow control window management;
• Fix the problem that caused some Servlet non-blocking API reading errors in the HTTP request body to block IO;
• Improve the practicality of the thread name cache used in JULI;
• Further improve the management of the connection flow control window, etc.

Python 3.9.8 released**

Python 3.9.8 is the seventh maintenance version of the 3.9 series, and 3.10 is the latest version of Python 3.

Main update content

• Use flexible function and variable annotations;
• Support the IANA time zone database in the standard library;
• New PEG parser for CPython;
• Unicode support updated to version 13.0.0, etc.

.NET 6 is officially released, the fastest .NET to date

Recently, Microsoft announced the official launch of .NET 6, and called it the fastest .NET version to date.

According to Microsoft's announcement, .NET 6 is the first version to natively support Apple Silicon (Arm64), and it has also been improved for Windows Arm64.

The .NET team has built a new dynamic profile guided optimization (PGO) system that provides in-depth optimization that only occurs at runtime.

Other changes include the use of dotnet monitor and OpenTelemetry to improve cloud diagnostics, provide stronger and more efficient WebAssembly support, and add new APIs for HTTP/3, JSON processing, math, and direct memory manipulation.

As a long-term support version of LTS, .NET 6 will receive 3 years of technical support.

Node.js 17.1.0 has been released

Node.js 17.1.0 version is officially released.

Main update content

• Add VoltrexMaster as a Node.js project partner;
• Support JSON import assertion (import assertion);
• Adding a return value to the unsubscribe method of the diagnostic channel introduces this new Promise Hook module, which can show users the PromiseHook API in V8 more directly