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40s Newsletter

• Apple's iPhone 14 may cancel bangs and adopt a "punch + pill" design
• Yahoo Mail official announcement: stop service in mainland China on February 28
• Ministry of Industry and Information Technology: Users must not be required to read the full text without downloading the app
• Meta was revealed to be disbanding the VR/AR operating system team
• Fined 25 million euros, Apple says it has complied with Dutch requirements to open third-party payments
• Algorithm recommendation management regulations will take effect on March 1
• Google's Fitbit recalls more than 1 million smartwatches: battery overheated causing third-degree burns
• Apple/Google/Microsoft/Firefox join forces to solve web compatibility issues
• Google Chrome 99 Browser Stable Version Released: Introducing Edge Browser A Convenience Feature
• Rust 1.59 released
• TypeScript 4.6 released
• Edge Canary 100 Released: Full Screen Mode for PDF Documents
• GitLab 14.8 adds security approval policies, expands SSH support
• Linux From Scratch (LFS) 11.1 Released

Industry information

Apple's iPhone 14 may cancel bangs and adopt a "punch + pill" design

There are more and more rumors about Apple's new iPhone 14, especially the "bangs". It was previously reported that the iPhone 14 will abandon the "bangs" and replace it with a punch-hole design. The latest news says that Apple is designing a unique "punch + pill" format.

Yahoo Mail official announcement: stop service in mainland China on February 28

Yahoo Yahoo previously announced that from November 1, 2021, users will not be able to use Yahoo's products and services from mainland China, but still retain a small number of services such as mailboxes. On the 26th, Yahoo officially issued an email notification that Yahoo Mail will stop serving in mainland China on February 28, requiring users to change to other mailboxes as soon as possible.

Ministry of Industry and Information Technology: Users must not be required to read the full text without downloading the app

On March 3rd, the Information and Communication Administration of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology held an administrative guidance meeting a few days ago to urge relevant Internet companies to make rectifications.

The meeting pointed out that with the rapid development of the mobile Internet, various types of apps have flourished, providing users with a wealth of application services. However, some websites such as information and online communities frequently recommend apps in pop-up windows when users browse the web, require downloading the app to view the full text, and cannot view comments without the app, which hinders users from using web browsing information and infringes on the legitimate rights and interests of users, and the masses react strongly. .

Meta was revealed to be disbanding the VR/AR operating system team

According to reports, Meta has disbanded the team that developed the operating system for the company's virtual reality and augmented reality devices, and some engineers have been transferred to the AR glasses and Oculus headset teams. Meta's team of about 300 people develop operating systems for virtual reality and augmented reality devices. It was previously reported that Meta had stopped developing custom operating systems for virtual reality and augmented reality devices, but Meta has responded that it has no plans to stop developing operating systems for VR/AR devices.

Fined 25 million euros, Apple says it has complied with Dutch requirements to open third-party payments

Apple said in a letter to the Dutch consumer watchdog on Monday that it had complied with an order to open its App Store to alternative payment providers for Dutch dating apps. Previously, the Dutch Consumer and Market Authority had fined Apple 5 million euros (about 5.7 million US dollars) for five consecutive weeks, with a cumulative fine of 25 million euros, on the grounds that Apple did not comply with its order and proposed solutions to developers. Comes an unfair burden. In the letter, dated February 28, Apple said the company's solution required only "minor technical tweaks" and would incur no additional costs.

Microsoft confirms bug that prevents user data from being deleted after system reset

When users want to fix an elusive system problem or sell an old machine, they can choose to reset the system to the state it was in when it was first installed. A system reset usually deletes previously saved user data on the system, but Windows 11 and Windows 10 have been found to retain some unencrypted user data after a system reset.

Microsoft has confirmed the existence of the bug, saying that if the system is running a sync and file storage tool such as OneDrive or OneDrive for Business that leaves reparse data in a folder, then files synced with OneDrive may remain after a reset . The temporary solution given by Microsoft is to log out or disconnect from OneDrive before resetting.

Algorithm recommendation management regulations will take effect on March 1

On the afternoon of March 1, the "Regulations on the Administration of Internet Information Service Algorithms Recommendation" (hereinafter referred to as the "Regulations") jointly issued by the State Cyberspace Administration of China and other four departments will be officially implemented today. According to the "Regulations", algorithm providers shall not set up algorithm models that induce users to indulge in addiction, excessive consumption, etc. that are illegal or violate ethics. It is not allowed to use algorithms to implement unreasonable differential treatment and other illegal acts in terms of transaction prices and other transaction conditions based on consumer preferences, transaction habits and other characteristics. If the relevant regulations are violated, the algorithm recommends the service provider or imposes a fine, etc., and criminal responsibility shall be investigated if necessary.

Google's Fitbit recalls more than 1 million smartwatches: battery overheated causing third-degree burns

On March 2, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced that Fitbit, a wearable device maker owned by Google, has recalled more than 1 million Ionic smartwatches. It was previously reported that the Ionic smartwatch had overheated batteries and burned users. Fitbit said the company had received a "very limited number" of injury reports and that the total number of smartwatches recalled was less than 0.01% of total sales.

Apple/Google/Microsoft/Firefox join forces to solve web compatibility issues

Browser makers Apple, Google, Microsoft and Mozilla, and software companies Bocoup and Igalia are working together to create a web compatibility specification called Interop 2022 to make web technologies and code consistent across different devices and browsers. Rendering effect (good for front-end development).

For the first time ever, all major browser vendors and stakeholders in the market have come together to address browser compatibility issues. Previously, competing browser manufacturers often disagreed on the compatibility of Web technologies, especially when IE was still alive, it was very common to have three sets of codes on a front-end page.

Latest technical developments

Google Chrome 99 Browser Stable Version Released: Introducing Edge Browser A Convenience Feature

The latest version 99 stable version of the Google Chrome browser has begun to be updated for all users on multiple platforms, bringing a series of convenient new features, one of which, the download shortcut in the top toolbar, is already available on Microsoft Edge Offered for quite some time.

Rust 1.59 released

The Rust team has released a new version of Rust, 1.59.0. Rust language now supports inline assembly, destructuring assignment, const generic defaults and interleaving, creating stripped binaries, incremental compilation off by default

TypeScript 4.6 released

Recently, Microsoft officially released the TypeScript 4.6 version.

Major update content

• Support for pre-execution of constructor code
• Control flow analysis of deconstructed discriminative unions
• Removed unnecessary parameter react-jsx
• Optimize recursive depth checking
• Introduce more syntax checking to JavaScript files
• Introduce new performance analysis tools TypeScript Trace Analyzer, etc.

Edge Canary 100 Released: Full Screen Mode for PDF Documents

After the transition to Chromium, Microsoft is gradually migrating the excellent PDF features from the classic version of Edge to the new Microsoft Edge browser. After adding a series of functions such as PDF screenshots, in the latest Edge Canary 100 channel version, a full-screen mode is provided for PDF documents. In addition, the browser can hide all comments in the document, as well as view their properties.

GitLab 14.8 adds security approval policies, expands SSH support

The newly released GitLab 14.8 updates the software delivery platform with hardware-backed authentication and security approval policies. The new version of GitLab 14.8 supports OpenSSH 8.2's new SSH key types and supports FIDO/U2F hardware authenticators with ecdsa-sk and ed25519-sk key types. With this support, users can take advantage of hardware-backed SSH authentication.

Linux From Scratch (LFS) 11.1 Released

The Linux From Scratch community announces the general availability of Linux From Scratch (LFS) and Beyond Linux From Scratch (BLFS) version 11.1.

This release is a major update for LFS and BLFS, the LFS release includes updates to glibc-2.35 and binutils-2.38, and the Linux kernel is updated to version 5.16.9, with changes throughout the tutorial documentation.