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• Apple M3 processor exposure: trial production, up to 40 cores, 3nm process
• MonoX was stolen $31 million by hackers due to vulnerabilities
• Byte employee sentenced for manipulation of Douyin hot list
• There will be major changes in Android permissions management: idle apps can’t get any private information
• Apple postpones App Store support for external payment links
• Ministry of Industry and Information Technology: Build 2-3 open source communities with international influence by 2025
• Facebook lifts ban on cryptocurrency advertising
• IntelliJ IDEA 2021.3 released
• Spring Boot 2.6.1 released
• WebStorm 2021.3 released
• IPython 7.30 is officially released
• Eclipse 4.22 RC2 released
• GitLab 14.5 released

Industry Information

Apple M3 processor exposure: trial production, up to 40 cores, 3nm process

According to DigiTimes, Apple's chip foundry partner TSMC TSMC is trial production of the 3nm process, which is N3. TSMC plans to start mass production of 3nm process products in the fourth quarter of 2022. The first customers of TSMC’s N3 process include Apple and Intel, and shipments are scheduled for the first quarter of 2023. Technological progress means that the performance and energy efficiency of the chip will be further improved, that is, faster processing speed and longer battery life.

MonoX was stolen $31 million by hackers due to loopholes

Blockchain startup MonoX Finance said on Wednesday that hackers have successfully stolen $31 million due to loopholes in the part of the software used to draft smart contracts. MonoX Finance revealed in an article that an accounting error in the company's software allowed attackers to increase the price of MONO tokens and then use it to cash out all other deposited tokens. The hacker then exchanged the token for USD 31 million worth of tokens on the Ethereum and Polygon blockchains.

Byte employee sentenced for manipulation of Douyin hot list

On November 26, the judgment published by the China Judgment Documents Network showed that the two employees of Bytedance received more than 580,000 yuan in money from others and pushed the content designated by the other party on the Douyin Hot List. The First Instance Division of the People's Court of Haidian District, Beijing The two were guilty of accepting bribes by non-state staff.

There will be major changes in Android permissions management: idle apps can’t get any private information

In the upcoming update, all devices with Android 6 and above will get a new option in privacy management: application permissions are automatically reset. After turning on this function, when an app is idle for a long time, the system will automatically clear all permissions granted to the app. This allows some apps to obtain personal information in the background for a long time without the user’s knowledge. , After the Android system will add new bookshelf, music player and photo album gadgets, the new gadgets will have a new design, and the ease of use will be improved.

Apple postpones App Store support for external payment links

According to reports, on December 13, Apple filed an appeal with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, requesting the court to reject a ruling made by the lower court last month, requiring Apple to immediately change the operating model of its App Store. In September of this year, Apple made a compromise with regulators and updated the App Store policy, saying that it will allow users of media apps to bypass the Apple App Store and pay directly on the websites of third-party app developers. The policy will take effect globally in early 2022.

Ministry of Industry and Information Technology: Build 2-3 open source communities with international influence by 2025

On November 30, according to the official website of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the "Fourteenth Five-Year" Software and Information Technology Service Industry Development Plan (hereinafter referred to as the "Plan") was released recently, proposing to build 2-3 companies by 2025. An open source community with international influence.

"Open source can gather wisdom and learn from others' strengths, accelerate software iterative upgrades, promote collaborative innovation between production and use, and promote the improvement of industrial ecology. It has become the leading model of global software technology and industrial innovation." News held today by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology At the press conference, Wang Weiwei, director of the Software Industry Division of the Information Technology Development Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said that at present, my country has become an important contributor to the global open source ecology, and the number of developers participating in international open source community collaboration ranks second in the world; The open source trend of "embrace" is obvious, and software companies using open source technology account for nearly 90%; the construction of domestic open source foundations has made substantial progress.

Facebook lifts ban on cryptocurrency advertising

For a long time, Facebook (Meta) has banned most cryptocurrency companies from advertising in its services. Facebook will abandon the ban on Wednesday. In the future, the number of regulatory licenses that Facebook will accept will increase from 3 to 27, relaxing the requirements. It is reported that Facebook implemented a cryptocurrency advertising ban in 2018, which was slightly relaxed in May 2019. The ban prohibits cryptocurrency and blockchain startups from promoting their work and contacting potential customers through Facebook and Instagram.

The latest technology trends

IntelliJ IDEA 2021.3 released

IntelliJ IDEA 2021.3 is now released. This version provides some new features and quality improvements to enhance the user experience.

Main update content

• Support remote development, new and faster ways to view, diagnose and repair IDE problems;
• Added support for Android Studio Arctic Fox 2020.3.1;
• Now supports updating user npm packages to the latest version;
• Introduced a new refactoring to extract constants in Kotlin;
• Added two new checks that can help simplify the code, etc.

Spring Boot 2.6.1 released

Spring Boot 2.6.1 was officially released, mainly to support Spring Cloud 2021.0 released this week. This version includes 11 bug fixes and documentation improvements.

Main update content

• Fix spelling errors in the "External Application Properties" section of the document;
• Fix the output of "spring --version" in the reference document;
• Fix the compatibility problem of ErrorPageSecurityFilter deployed to Servlet 3.1, etc.

WebStorm 2021.3 released

WebStorm 2021.3 is officially released, which is the last major update this year.

Main update content

• Support remote development, improve HTML completion and Deno integration;
• Improved support for monorepos, speeded up the indexing time of JavaScript files, and quickly fixed the problem of downloading remote ES6 modules;
• Easier to manage project dependencies, redesigned Deno plugin, support for Angular 13, better HTML completion, etc.

IPython 7.30 is officially released

IPython is a Python interactive shell. IPython 7.30 is currently officially released. This version mainly fixes several bugs introduced in the old version, especially path processing, and introduces some functions and improvements, such as% command can directly execute notebook files And ipy script.

In addition, when special instructions are needed, this version is the penultimate version before the release of IPython 8.0. IPython will be released in early 2022, and support for Python 3.7 will be dropped at that time.

Eclipse 4.22 RC2 released

Eclipse 4.22 released the second RC version, the new version has been updated in editors, windows, toolbars and themes.

Main update content

• Support Java 17;
• Support to convert string connection into text block (Text block);
• Improved the lambda support in the call hierarchy view;
• Use an external browser by default;
• New Launch Configuration view;
• The text editor supports selecting multiple lines of text;
• Use the default Windows dark theme style title bar

GitLab 14.5 released

GitLab 14.5 has been officially released.

Main update content

• Introduce code security scanning;
• Use CI/CD tunnels for fine-grained access control;
• Combine the Group level settings approved by PR;
• Free K8s agent;
• Project topics, etc.

This version adds a new Explore topics tab to the project.