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• The first operating system "Fire Dragon" written in Chinese in the whole universe is suspected of plagiarism
• Download 1 software bundle of 6! Download platform "high-speed download" is the culprit
• WeChat PC version 3.6.0 officially released: support for adding friends function
• Apple: Apps submitted by developers to the App Store must be created with Xcode 13
• UI design software Figma suspends DJI and other company accounts
• WeChat, Douyin, Taobao, Weibo and other top apps have allowed users to turn off "personalized recommendations" with one click
• Android 13 official announcement: see you on May 11
• macOS 12.3 beta completely removes Python 2 code
• 20 years of Debian developers squeezed out of the project
• GPT-3 release new feature: support for editing and inserting
• Swift 5.6 released
• IntelliJ IDEA v2021.3.3 released
• Firefox 98.0.1 released
• Day.js 1.11.0 released

Industry information

The first operating system "Fire Dragon" written in Chinese in the whole universe is suspected of plagiarism

Previously, there was a so-called "Fire Dragon", the first operating system written in Chinese in the whole universe. It was said to be written in the self-created language A and B, and the interface was also Win11 style. However, some people have found clues and pointed out that this so-called operating system developed in Chinese is just a misappropriation of the "Paper Doll Operating System" in the "30-Day Homemade Operating System" by Hidemi Kawai from Japan.

Download 1 software bundle of 6! Download platform "high-speed download" is the culprit

The CCTV 315 party exposed the software bundling problem, involving platforms such as PC6 download site, Kikyo download site, Tengniu.com, Zol software download, and Maanshan Baizhu Network Technology Co., Ltd. When users download software on these platforms, there are generally two ways, direct download and download through a downloader, the so-called "high-speed download", but there is no difference in speed, in fact, it induces users to download more bundled software through the downloader . It is understood that each time a user downloads a piece of software through the downloader, the software side will pay Baizhu Company a fee ranging from about 0.3 yuan to 1.8 yuan, and Baizhu Company has achieved an annual revenue of over 1.2 billion yuan.

WeChat PC version 3.6.0 officially released: support for adding friends function

Yesterday, WeChat released the official version update of WeChat 3.6.0 for Windows, and the much-anticipated "add friends" function has finally arrived. Users can directly click the "+" behind the search bar to search and add friends. It is worth mentioning that in version 3.6.0, when users drag and drop pictures or files to send to their friends, they can also leave a message to their friends at the same time, which makes it more convenient to describe the content of the file. After testing, if you want to recognize the QR code, you only need to start the WeChat screenshot ( Alt+A ), click the newly added "Recognize the QR code in the picture" button in the toolbar, you can turn on the code recognition, which brings benefits to daily work. more convenience.

Apple: Apps submitted by developers to the App Store must be created with Xcode 13

Apple warned developers on Tuesday that the requirements for submitting apps to the App Store are about to change.

Starting April 25, 2022, all apps created for Apple's platforms must be built with Xcode 13, the latest version of the SDK. That said, developers will have to use Xcode 13 next month to develop their apps, and will support new APIs brought by iOS 15 and macOS Monterey, including SwiftUI, ARKit 5, Safari Extensions for iOS, ShazamKit, and SharePlay, among others.

UI design software Figma suspends DJI and other company accounts

On March 12, a news that "Figma will suspend the accounts of companies sanctioned by the United States" spread in the domestic design circle. Subsequently, this rumor was confirmed by a number of industry companies. The sanctions list includes a number of companies including Huawei, DJI, and 360. According to the screenshots from the Internet, DJI has been banned from logging in to Figma. Figma said that DJI's previous design files will be sent to DJI by email or other means in the next two weeks.

And Figma states: "Unless the U.S. sanctions are lifted, all of these companies' files on Figma will be inaccessible." After the news of Figma’s account closure, domestic teams including Instant Design, MasterGo, etc. known as “China Figma” announced that they can import Figma files and support the editing function after import, which will help domestic companies to tide over the difficulties.

WeChat, Douyin, Taobao, Weibo and other top apps have allowed users to turn off "personalized recommendations" with one click

According to incomplete statistics, as of March 15, apps such as Douyin, Toutiao, WeChat, Taobao, Baidu, Dianping, Weibo, and Xiaohongshu have all launched the algorithm close button, allowing users to close the “personality” button in the background with one click. recommended". However, at present, most apps have buried the "personalized recommendation" close button relatively deep, which is generally found in the privacy and advertising-related settings options. It is worth mentioning that apps such as WeChat and Dianping have listed a "Personal Information Collection List" to tell consumers what information they have collected and how to use it.

Android 13 official announcement: see you on May 11

On Thursday, Google parent company Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai announced on social platforms that Google will hold the Google I/O conference online from May 11 to May 12. As usual, this Google I/O conference will bring a new generation of Android 13 operating system, and the Android 13 developer preview version is now online.

macOS 12.3 beta completely removes Python 2 code

In the version announcement released by macOS 12.3, Apple has officially removed the Python 2.7 code, and recommends that users choose Python 3 or other programming languages instead.

20 years of Debian developers squeezed out of the project

Recently, Norbert Preining, a developer who has served in the Debian project for more than 20 years, was downgraded to maintainer last December, an action that led to his decision to leave the project. According to Preining, the Debian account manager team felt that he "has been bullying project members for years" and "cannot communicate with the community team." In an interview, Preining stated that he has now joined the Arch Linux project and will explain more in a future blog post.

Debian is one of the few pure community-driven Linux distributions, not controlled by commercial companies or government agencies. Although Debian uses the Linux Kernel (the core of the operating system), most of the basic operating system tools come from the GNU Project, so it is also called Debian GNU/Linux.

Latest technical developments

GPT-3 release new feature: support for editing and inserting

OpenAI has released a new version of GPT-3 and Codex, which supports inserting edited content directly into existing text, so that developers can directly rewrite or refactor code. The new Insert feature can add context-sensitive text in the middle of existing content to improve the quality of your app's completion, such as writing long text, transitioning between paragraphs, following an outline, or guiding a model to the end.

Swift 5.6 released

The programming language Swift 5.6 has been officially released, and Swift 5.6 enhances the language with some proposals from Swift Evolution, such as:

• Type system enhancements, improved interaction with pointers
• Relax diagnostics for C function pointer arguments
• Improve concurrency security model, etc.

IntelliJ IDEA v2021.3.3 released

IntelliJ IDEA v2021.3.3 has been officially released.

Major update content

• IntelliJ IDEA now correctly builds and filters resources when using Maven 3.8.5.
• Fixed an issue that caused the IDE to freeze and hang when indexing WSL projects.
• Fixed some issues when using Gradle.
• Fixed an issue that caused IDEs to add unexpected refs/heads prefixes when pushing to Gerrit.
• Fixed an issue preventing proper connections to remote hosts via SSH.
• Fixed Quick Documentation popup to display package information correctly.
• Fixed custom fields when creating file templates.
• Fixed an issue that caused Groovy-based test classes to adjust incorrectly when renaming a Java package.
• Fixed IDE behavior when switching between Big Sur tabs using Cmd+Shift+[ and Cmd+Shift+] on macOS.
• Fixed resource pack editor plugin so that entries are no longer incorrectly overwritten.
• Fixed Ctrl+arrow shortcuts when used in Windows Terminal. The caret now jumps to the next word as expected.
• Fixed an issue with pasting resource files from different locations into the source folder.

Firefox 98.0.1 released, removing Yandex and Mail.ru search options

Firefox 98.0.1 has been released, this version is very simple, the Yandex and Mail.ru search options have been removed from the drop-down search menu in Firefox.

If you previously installed custom versions of Firefox with Yandex or Mail.ru, this version will remove those customizations, including add-ons and default bookmarks. Where applicable, the Firefox browser will revert to the default settings provided by Mozilla, and all other versions of Firefox will not be affected by this change.

Day.js 1.11.0 released

Day.js is a lightweight JavaScript time and date processing library with a size of only 2kb, currently released version 1.11.0.

Major updates

bug fix

• Add Kirundi (rn) locale
• Add missing date shorthand D type definition
• Add relative time to Galician (gl) and fix ordinal
• Update German locale (de-at, de-ch)
• Update Icelandic locale relativeTime configuration
• Update index.d.ts annotations
• Update locale German [de] monthsShort
• Update meridiem function to Kurdish (ku) locale
• Update updateLocal plugin type

Features

• Fallback to language-only locale + support for uppercase locale