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40s Newsletter

• Father of iOS Jailbreak Wins $2 Million for Critical Vulnerability Discovery
• Apple's new iMac Pro will be released in June this year with a Mini-LED screen
• The president of Nintendo said that he would not enter the metaverse for the time being because he did not understand
• Microsoft warns Windows 10 users that support for multiple outdated versions will end in May
• The war is rekindled! Apple vs Ericsson 5G court battle to start in June 2023
• Apple CEO Cook's salary is 1,500 times that of employees, agency recommends "pay cut" for him
• Google Announces Android Privacy Sandbox Program, Releases Developer Preview This Year
• Nvidia loses $1.36 billion on termination of ARM acquisition
• Intel CEO: intends to form a consortium to buy ARM
• TypeScript 4.6 RC released
• Visual Studio 2022 17.1 officially released
• Elasticsearch 8 released
• Linux 5.18 will improve support for Intel-sized cores
• IntelliJ platform removes Log4j components

Industry information

Father of iOS Jailbreak Wins $2 Million for Critical Vulnerability Discovery

Bonuses can be obtained for discovering loopholes. Many manufacturers use this kind of incentives to encourage white hats to help themselves find loopholes in the system. Recently, Freeman, a well-known white hat hacker and developer of the iOS jailbreak software Cydia, discovered a critical vulnerability in the Ethereum system and received a huge bounty of up to $2 million. After that, every generation of Apple's jailbreak was indispensable for Cydia. Before that, Freeman also sued Apple, arguing that Apple does not allow third-party App stores to be a monopoly, but it ended in failure.

Apple's new iMac Pro will be released in June this year with a Mini-LED screen

According to MacRumors, analyst Ross Young said today that Apple's upcoming iMac Pro with a Mini LED display could launch in June. Apple has been working on a larger-screen version of the iMac for months, and if the June schedule is accurate, it could debut at the WWDC Worldwide Developers Conference.

The president of Nintendo said that he would not enter the metaverse for the time being because he did not understand

Recently, Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa told NFT and the Metaverse in the recent Q&A session of the financial report: The Metaverse is being followed by many companies around the world, and it is clear that it has huge potential. When introducing the Metaverse, some people will also use "Assemble! Games like Animal Crossing, for example. In fact, I am also very interested in this concept, but it seems that it does not match Nintendo's plan. Furukawa Juntairo also said that at this stage, there is no way to clearly define the form of the metaverse, and it is impossible to figure out what kind of surprises and fun the metaverse will bring to users. As a company that provides entertainment, Nintendo is the most important thing to provide players with surprises and fun.

Microsoft warns Windows 10 users that support for multiple outdated versions will end in May

On February 13, according to foreign media reports, although Microsoft said it would not force users to upgrade to Windows 11, its many outdated versions of Windows 10 will soon lose the support of the technology giant. The company has issued an EOS (End of Service) warning to Windows 10 users, and support for these versions will end in May 2022.

In the newly released support document, Microsoft reminds its users that Windows 10 20H2 (or the October 2020 update as it is called) will end its service on May 10 this year, including Windows 10 Professional Workstation Edition, Professional Education Edition , Professional and Home editions.

The war is rekindled! Apple vs Ericsson 5G court battle to start in June 2023

Apple's 5G patent dispute with Ericsson will go to court in June 2023, according to the newly announced schedule, according to appleinsider. Apple and Ericsson have been in a patent licensing dispute for years. Back in 2015, the two sides filed lawsuits against each other, which eventually led to the latter seeking an iPhone ban in the United States. In December 2015, the parties reached an agreement to resolve the patent dispute, a licensing agreement covering 2G, 3G and 4G technologies, valid until the end of 2020, excluding 5G technology. Six years later, the Apple-Ericsson dispute resurfaced in October 2021.

Apple CEO Cook's salary is 1,500 times that of employees, agency recommends "salary cut" for him

Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), a prominent proxy advisory firm, has urged Apple shareholders to reject Tim Cook's compensation package at a shareholder meeting, citing concerns over the size and structure of his equity awards. "The design and size of the stock award received by CEO Cook in fiscal 2021 is of great concern. Half of the award lacks performance criteria," ISS said in a letter Wednesday. Cook's total compensation for fiscal 2021 is $9,870 million, a more than fivefold increase from $14.8 million in fiscal 2020, including $3 million in base salary and $82.3 million in equity awards. ISS believes Cook's equity award should be $75 million, half of which is purely a tenure-time award. According to regulatory filings, Cook was paid 1,447 times as much as the average Apple employee.

Google announces Android Privacy Sandbox, plans to release developer preview this year

Recently, Google announced the launch of the Android Privacy Sandbox, which aims to introduce newer, more private advertising solutions to limit the sharing of user information with third-party agencies, but without harming the short-term interests of advertisers. According to reports, Google plans to release a developer preview of the privacy sandbox along with the beta version during the year. According to reports, the privacy sandbox launched this time is based on Android's existing web page, providing a clear path for improving Android privacy without affecting users' access to free content and services.

Nvidia loses $1.36 billion on termination of ARM acquisition

Nvidia also announced when it released its fourth-quarter earnings report that it had terminated its agreement to acquire ARM, a chip design company owned by SoftBank Group, and therefore charged $1.36 billion in operating expenses in the first quarter of fiscal 2023.

Intel CEO: intends to form a consortium to buy ARM

Intel's chief executive Pat Gelsinger said on Thursday that Intel would be interested in participating if a consortium buys British semiconductor and software design company ARM. Kissinger said the industry had been discussing forming a consortium to buy ARM long before Nvidia proposed to buy ARM from SoftBank Group. "So if there's a consortium coming to buy ARM, we'd probably be very willing to get involved in some way," he said on the sidelines of Intel's investor day.

Latest technical developments

TypeScript 4.6 RC released

The first RC version of TypeScript 4.6 is released. Before the official stable version is released, there will be further updates in addition to bug fixes.

Major update content

• Allow constructor code to be executed before super() function;
• Provide control flow analysis for Destructured Discriminated Unions;
• Improve recursion depth checking, etc.

Visual Studio 2022 17.1 officially released

Microsoft's official blog officially announced that Visual Studio 2022 17.1 has graduated from the preview version and is officially released. This version has added many new features.

Major update content

• Git, search and navigation enhancements;
• Productivity improvements in C# and C++ to retrieve code faster using index lookup in files;
• Automatic synchronization of code files and the ability to personalize colored tabs

Elasticsearch 8 released

After nearly three years, Elasticsearch 8 was officially released. According to the official blog, with the enhancement of Elasticsearch's vector search function, native support for modern natural language processing models, increasingly simplified data online, and streamlined security experience, Elastic 8.0 ushered in a new era of speed, scale, relevance, and simplicity. As of 8.0, Elastic Stack security is enabled by default for self-managed clusters with almost zero configuration effort.

Linux 5.18 will improve support for Intel-sized cores

Linux 5.18 will add support for the Intel Hardware Feedback Interface (HFI or Enhanced Hardware Feedback Interface - EHFI) to better utilize the size and size of Intel's new processors. Intel Alder Lake uses a mix of cores for the first time, including performance P cores and energy-efficient E cores. Ideally, background tasks and light workloads can use E cores to save power, while latency-sensitive and compute-intensive tasks can use P cores.

But neither Windows nor Linux support for large and small cores is ideal, Linux may be worse, but this situation will improve with the release of Linux 5.18.

IntelliJ platform removes Log4j components

JetBrains announced on the official blog that the IntelliJ platform will remove the Log4j component. IDEs for the IntelliJ platform are not affected by the Log4j vulnerability as they use a patched version of log4j 1.2 with all networking related code removed.

At the same time, IntelliJ is less demanding on the logging framework; the only features required are logging to file and console, and the possibility to configure logging levels for different parts of the codebase. All of these requirements are included in the standard logging API (java.util.logging) that is part of the JDK, to avoid false security alerts and reduce the potential attack surface, JetBrains decided to stop using log4j entirely and switch to java.util.logging as Standard logging framework.

Changes will be released in version 2022.1.