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• Apple plans to launch Apple Pay "buy now, pay later" service this year
• Huawei tracker exposed, named HUAWEI Tag
• Former WhatsApp executive: I regret selling the company to Facebook back then
• Beijing Healthbao was exposed to details of cyber attack: typical DDoS attack, gang exposure
• Go can run on the browser
• Apple announces discontinuation of iPod touch while supplies last
• One Lenovo employee colluded internally and externally, occupying nearly 10 million working hours in the company
• Twitter's market value falls below Musk's acquisition price: Investors worry that the deal will be difficult to complete
• Fedora 36 released
• PHP 8.1.6 released
• Windows 10 version 20H2 ends support
• IntelliJ IDEA 2022.1.1 released
• .NET 7 Preview 4 released

Industry information

Apple plans to launch Apple Pay "buy now, pay later" service this year

According to Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman, Apple is developing two finance-related services, a hardware subscription plan and a “buy now, pay later” service for Apple Pay transactions.

Huawei tracker exposed, named HUAWEI Tag

For a long time, there have been many Bluetooth trackers in the electronics market, such as Tile's Tile Pro and Musegear Finder 2, Samsung's Galaxy SmartTag and Galaxy SmartTag+, Apple's AirTag, and more.

Now some netizens have discovered that Huawei will also launch similar products. At present, "HUAWEI Tag" has appeared in the introduction of the relevant permission setting interface of the cloud space app. It is reported that HUAWEI Tag” seems to support ultrasonic short-range precise search in addition to conventional Bluetooth, and it is not clear when Huawei will launch this product.

Former WhatsApp executive: I regret selling the company to Facebook back then

According to reports, the former CFO of WhatsApp said that he regretted the sale of the company to Facebook that year.

Neeraj Arora, WhatsApp's former chief financial officer who joined the company in 2011, said on Twitter that with his participation, Facebook completed negotiations with WhatsApp, which Facebook acquired for $22 billion, and that he is now doing so regret.

Furthermore, Arora said, no one knew at first that Facebook would become a "monster" that eats user data and spits out dirty money.

Beijing Healthbao was exposed to details of cyber attack: typical DDoS attack, gang exposure

Yesterday, the 360 Network Security Research Institute disclosed some details of the cyber attack on Beijing Healthbao. Through its accumulated security threat data, it can be determined that the initiator of this incident is its internal gang named Rippr. The gang used the disclosed malicious code family Fbot as an attack weapon. The Fbot variant of the incident, first discovered on February 10, has been unusually active in DDoS attacks since it was discovered. As of today, in just three months, more than 150,000 attacks have been tracked.

Go can run on the browser

Some time ago, Python developer Anaconda released PyScript, which allows Python applications to run in the browser. Since then, developers have followed the same line of thinking to make Go run on the browser as well.

It is understood that Goscript is an unofficial implementation of the Go language specification. It is used for inlining or encapsulation of Rust projects, providing a simpler way to encapsulate and call the underlying Rust code.

Apple announces discontinuation of iPod touch while supplies last

After many generations, the Apple iPod has also evolved into the iPod touch, bringing users a touch-sensitive experience. Apple has been slow to update the iPod touch (seventh generation) since it launched in 2019. In addition to playing music, the $199 iPod touch can send iMessages and make FaceTime calls, but not make phone calls.

One Lenovo employee colluded internally and externally, occupying nearly 10 million working hours in the company

By modifying resumes and increasing working hours, Lenovo employee Yu Moumou, together with Liang Moumou and Liu Moumou, who are outside the company, encroached on Lenovo's working hours by nearly 10 million yuan, and the crime time spanned from 2016 to 2020. The judgment shows that between March 2016 and October 2020, the defendant, Yu Moumou, took advantage of his position in the victim unit Lenovo (Beijing) Co., Ltd. BTIT - Service Department responsible for interviews, working hours confirmation, etc. Defendants Liang Moumou, Liu Moumou and others embezzled a total of RMB 9,901,200 for the working hours of Lenovo, the victim unit, by modifying the consultants' resumes and raising the working hours standards of consultants. Among them, the defendant Liang Moumou participated in the crime for an amount of 2,181,625 yuan, and the defendant Liu Moumou participated in the crime for an amount of 2,765,500 yuan. The money involved has not been recovered.

Twitter's market value falls below Musk's acquisition price: Investors worry that the deal will be difficult to complete

Tesla CEO Elon Musk is currently looking to buy Twitter, but Twitter's stock is falling as investors worry that a deal won't go through. Shares of Twitter have fallen nearly 13 percent since reaching a high for the year in late April, and were at $45.08 as of Thursday's close, well below Musk's April 27 offer price of $54.20 a share. This difference equates to more than $9 billion in market capitalization.

Latest technical developments

edora 36 release

Recently, Fedora 36 was officially released.

Major updates

• Fedora Workstation uses the latest GNOME version - GNOME 42
• Fedora Linux 36 includes the latest version of Ansible
• Fedora Silverblue and Kinoite now put /var on a separate subvolume for new installations
• First general release of Podman 4.0

PHP 8.1.6 released

The latest version of PHP has been updated to 8.1.6, which is a bugfix release.

Major fixes

• Fixed registry settings that are no longer recognized
• Fix potential race condition on resource ID assignment

Windows 10 version 20H2 ends support

As early as February, Microsoft issued a reminder that Windows 10 version 20H2 will stop supporting on May 10, 2022. This version, also known as the Windows 10 October 2020 update, will be widely pushed in September of the same year.

Windows 10 20H2 includes a ton of new features, including changes to the Start menu and taskbar, improved notifications, and an enhanced tablet experience. It's also the first version of Windows 10 to ship with the Chromium-based Edge browser, which has now reached the end of its service.

This means that PCs running this version of Windows 10 will no longer receive any security updates, and customers who contact Microsoft for support will be instructed to update to a supported OS version.

IntelliJ IDEA 2022.1.1 released

Recently, JetBrains released the first small update of the IntelliJ IDEA 2022.1 series, which fixes previous bugs.

Major updates

• JAX-WS actions are again available from the Tools menu [IDEA-293502]
• Missing Swagger UI preview has been fixed [IDEA-291069]
• Fixed long indexing and UI freezes on projects with many artifacts [IDEA-279542]
• Fixed an issue where sorting tabs alphabetically was disabled when dragging and dropping tabs into different editor windows [IDEA-283610]
• Fixed an issue that caused high memory usage and slow performance when processing large JSON files [IDEA-291190]
• Fixed missing items in the server list configured in Settings - Preferences - Tools - Tasks - Servers [IDEA-292023]

.NET 7 Preview 4 released

Major updates

• Enhanced observability of OpenTelemetry's .NET implementation
• Added microsecond and nanosecond properties to date and time structs
• Introduce new metrics for caching extensions
• Improve "On Stack Replacement" performance
• Add new tar API
• Optimizing the performance of regular expressions in .NET 7, adding features