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• Linux developers are fastest at fixing security flaws
• Chrome, Edge grab the market Firefox browser share plummeted from 20% to 4%
• Apple is developing a folding screen MacBook, and the folding screen iPhone may be delayed until 2025
• Trump's own social media, Truth Social, tops Apple's App Store within hours of launch
• WeChat supports sending 4K original video, the volume is within 1GB
• Meta Announces Global Release of Short Video Product Reels
• iPhone 14 details exposed: Apple solves the biggest shortcoming
• Musk: Tesla cars are expected to run Steam games
• Another employee of ByteDance was carried away by the ambulance on a stretcher. The party responded: He has gone home to rest
• Intel's roadmap leaked: It is accelerating the development of notebook CPUs, and it is expected to surpass Apple's M1 Pro / Max in two years
• Android Studio Bumblebee (2021.1.1) stable version officially released
• Podman v4.0 officially released
• PostgreSQL starts supporting Zstd
• Rust 1.59.0 stable release officially supports inline assembly
• GIMP 2.99.10 released

Industry information

Linux developers are fastest at fixing security flaws

Security researchers at Google Project Zero say Linux developers are the fastest at fixing security flaws, much faster than Google. The researchers investigated the time to fix for bugs reported between January and December 2019. The average time it takes for open source programmers to fix a Linux issue is 25 days, while the time it takes for Linux developers to fix a security vulnerability has dropped from 32 days in 2019 to 15 days in 2021. This compares to 69 days for Apple, 44 days for Google, 46 days for Mozilla, 83 days for Microsoft, 109 days for Oracle, and 44 days for open source organizations and enterprises such as Apache, Canonical, Github and Kubernetes. Overall, the average time to fix a security breach was 52 days, a huge improvement from 80 days three years ago.

Chrome, Edge grab the market Firefox browser share plummeted from 20% to 4%

FireFox, this beautiful Firefox browser used to be a must-have software for many people to surf the Internet. 20% of the world's 1.5 billion Internet users choose Firefox browser. 80% of which is still relying on Google cooperation.

Apple is developing a folding screen MacBook, and the folding screen iPhone may be delayed until 2025

The well-known research firm Display Supply Chain Consulters (hereinafter referred to as "DSCC") analyst Ross Young (Ross Young) released a report saying that Apple is likely to delay the release of the folding screen iPhone until 2025, and the company is currently exploring Develop a full-screen folding screen MacBook. Although Apple is likely to delay the release of the folding-screen iPhone, the company is said to be exploring the possibility of offering its users a full-screen folding MacBook notebook. Apple is said to be in discussions with suppliers to launch a foldable laptop with a display size of about 20 inches.

Trump's own social media, Truth Social, tops Apple's App Store within hours of launch

Truth Social, the social media app of former US President Donald Trump, was launched on the Apple App Store on Sunday night, and within hours it became the most downloaded free app. This means that after being blocked by social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook, Trump has finally returned to the social media market.

WeChat supports sending 4K original video, the volume is within 1GB

The latest version of WeChat client (iOS and Android) now supports sending original video content with a maximum resolution of 4K and a size within 1GB. Just select "Picture" in the chat interface, then select a video, and then select the "Original Picture" option to send the original video file.

Meta Announces Global Release of Short Video Product Reels

Meta, the parent company of Facebook, announced on Tuesday that it would open the short-video feature Reels to all Facebook users.

During the beta period, Meta will use 55% of the proceeds to creators and 45% to Facebook, though that may be subject to change as the beta continues. In addition to advertising, creators are paid directly through the virtual consumption mechanism available on Facebook Live. Some analysts said that Meta’s move is to compete with TikTok for the short video market.

iPhone 14 details exposed: Apple solves the biggest shortcoming

Battery life has always been the biggest drawback of the iPhone, and Apple is also trying to solve it. This time TSMC may bring good results. TSMC has squeezed out Samsung with its advanced process and won Apple's 5G RF chip order. The new 5G RF chip will appear in the new generation of iPhone 14 launched this year as soon as possible. In addition to the above upgrades, this year Apple will also increase the battery capacity of the iPhone 14 and further optimize it in the iOS system, all of which hope to improve the battery life of the new phone.

Musk: Tesla cars are expected to run Steam games

Tesla CEO Elon Musk said on social media that the company is currently working to bring its library of games on Steam to its vehicles. When a gaming reporter Ryan McCaffrey asked Musk if cyberpunk games would be introduced on the Model S and Model X in the future, Musk said the company's goal is to no longer port individual games to the car's infotainment system , and the long-term plan is to let car owners play all games on Steam in the future.

Another employee of ByteDance was carried away by the ambulance on a stretcher. The party responded: He has gone home to rest

According to reports, on the afternoon of the 23rd, it was reported on the Internet that ByteDance Company employees were suspected of being carried away on stretchers by ambulance personnel. On the evening of the 23rd, the person who was sent to the hospital in the afternoon responded on the company's intranet: "I was in Weitong at noon today with palpitation, chest tightness, dizziness and diarrhea. After communicating with my SOS classmates, I called 120 to be sent to Haidian Hospital for treatment. After examination, all vital signs were normal. I have now gone home to rest. I would like to thank my colleagues for their care and concern, and I wish you all good health.”

Intel's roadmap leaked: It is accelerating the development of notebook CPUs, and it is expected to surpass Apple's M1 Pro / Max in two years

Intel's leaked roadmap suggests the company is working on a new line of CPUs, with the goal of surpassing the M1 Pro and M1 Max chips in late 2023 or early 2024.

Intel's roadmap, originally leaked by Adored TV and joined by Wccftech for more explanation, makes it clear that Intel wants to compete with Apple's 14-inch MacBook Pro (loaded with M1 Pro or M1 Max chips) with its Arrow Lake lineup. It looks like Intel is prioritizing mobile over desktop systems, and while there will be both Arrow Lake-S and Arrow Lake-P series CPUs, the company is aiming to produce its 15th-generation mobile CPUs first, in response to Apple's next-generation MacBook 14 inch laptop.

Latest technical developments

Android Studio Bumblebee (2021.1.1) stable version officially released

The Android Studio team has been busy working on the stable release of Android Studio Bumblebee (2021.1.1) and Android Gradle Plugin (AGP) 7.1.0, the latest version of Android's official IDE and build system.

Improvements have been made to many of the features involved in typical development workflows, including build and deployment, analysis and inspection, and design.

Major update content

• Unified test jobs between Android Studio and your Continuous Integration (CI) server, easy pairing process (connect to ADB over Wi-Fi), improved profiling tools to help you identify and analyze jank in your app ;
• Preview animations and interface interactions without deploying the app to the device

Podman v4.0 officially released

Podman officially released a new version 4.0. In the announcement, Podman said that 4.0 is one of the most important releases ever, adding more than 60 new features, and the main update is a complete rewrite of the network stack to improve functionality and performance.

Major update content

• Improve Podman support for Mac and Windows;
• Improve Pods;
• Over 50 bug fixes;
• Support for new network stacks based on Netavark and Aardvark in addition to the existing CNI stack;
• Improved support for containers in multiple networks;
• Improved IPv6 support and more

PostgreSQL starts supporting Zstd

PostgreSQL now offers compression support through its TOAST storage technology, and has built LZ4 compression support over the past year - for compressing WAL, backup compression, and more, and now PostgreSQL developers are preparing to extend their compression even further with Zstd support capability, Zstd support is expected when PostgreSQL 15 is released.

Zstd (Zstandard) is a fast lossless compression algorithm open sourced by Facebook. It is mainly used in real-time compression scenarios at the zlib level and has a better compression ratio. Zstd can also provide stronger compression ratios at the expense of compression speed, and the speed-compression trade-off is configurable in small increments.

Rust 1.59.0 stable release officially supports inline assembly

Rust 1.59.0 stable release has been officially released.

Major update content

• Inline assembly in the code;
• Introduce destructuring assignment, and disable incremental compilation by default;
• Some methods and trait implementations have been stabilized;
• Const generic parameters support setting default values, etc.

GIMP 2.99.10 released

GIMP is a free, open source, cross-platform image editor available for GNU/Linux, macOS, Windows, and other operating systems.

The new version not only introduces a new "layer set" concept to replace "linked layers". It also adds support for Microsoft Windows .cur files and improved support for Wayland, macOS Big Sur, and PSD/JPEG-XL/HEIF files.