Rendering of iPhone 14 Pro exposed; ​Programmers code to grab vaccine numbers to make a profit of 400,000; Chrome 102 released | Sifu Weekly

40s Newsletter

• Zuckerberg sued for involvement in data breach decision
• Apple iPhone 14 Pro HD renderings exposed
• Apple closes iOS 15.4.1 verification channel
• Win11 "Righteous Extermination": Control Function to Intercept Your Own Files
• A large number of Sohu employees suffered from "wage subsidy" fraud and suffered heavy losses
• The iPhone 14 is expected to achieve an off-screen display, and the screen refresh rate can be reduced to 1Hz
• ​Programmers code to grab HPV vaccine numbers to make 400,000 profits
• Manpower shortage, Intel cancels the rule not to hire former employees
• TypeScript 4.7 released
• JetBrains IDE announces new default UI
• Visual Studio 2022 for Mac has been released
• Linux Kernel 5.18 Stable Released
• Chrome 102 has been released

Industry information

Zuckerberg sued for involvement in data breach decision

Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, the parent company of US social media platform Facebook, has been indicted by US Attorney General Carl Racine in Washington, D.C., who has accused Zuckerberg of being directly involved in causing data related to Cambridge Analytica Disclosure decision. In a statement, Racine said there was evidence that Meta's subsidiary, Facebook, failed to protect the privacy and data of its users, and that Zuckerberg was personally involved in the data breach.

Apple iPhone 14 Pro HD rendering exposure

Recently, the whistleblower Jon Prosser exposed the rendering of the iPhone 14 Pro. The related renderings, made by Apple concept graphic designer Ian Zelbo, show a series of design changes rumored to be coming to this year's high-end iPhone models. It is observed that the front of the iPhone 14 Pro uses a centered "pill-shaped" and circular True Depth camera module with a narrower bezel.

Apple closes iOS 15.4.1 verification channel

It is reported that Apple has closed the iOS 15.4.1 system verification channel, which means that it cannot be downgraded from 15.5.

According to Apple, it is recommended that users update to iOS 15.5 as soon as possible. The version not only fixes more than 20 bugs (most of which can trigger remote execution vulnerabilities), but also upgrades the baseband version to improve the mobile phone signal, especially the iPhone 12/13. battery life, etc.

Win11 "Righteous Extermination": Control Function to Intercept Your Own Files

Earlier this year, Microsoft added a "Smart App Control" feature to Windows 11, which is based on artificial intelligence technology and able to block potentially malicious untrusted and unsigned apps. Recently, some users reported that this function intercepted the Windows SDK's harmless boot DLL file, which is Microsoft's own program file, but it was still intercepted.

A large number of Sohu employees suffered from "wage subsidy" fraud and suffered heavy losses

According to reports from the electronic technology media, a recent WeChat group chat record from the Internet shows that all Sohu employees received a fraudulent email from an internal domain name on the morning of May 18. The email came from the "Sohu Finance Department" named "May Notice of Employee Wage Subsidy", a large number of employees scanned the code according to the requirements of the attachment, and filled in the bank account number and other information. In the end, not only did they not wait for the so-called subsidy, but the balance in the salary card was also transferred. The chat records show that Sohu took quick action afterwards, including immediately deleting the relevant emails, and the ES department came forward to summarize the information of the employees who had been defrauded and reported the case to the police station. Some Sohu employees summed up the incident as "an Internet company whose home was stolen."

The iPhone 14 is expected to achieve an off-screen display, and the screen refresh rate can be reduced to 1Hz

According to display analyst Ross Young, the ProMotion display used in the iPhone 14 Pro will be able to drop to the same 1Hz. The technology could pave the way for longer battery life or off-screen displays. Last year, Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman said that Apple was expected to bring similar features to the iPhone 13 series, but it didn’t happen. At present, there are no other reliable leaks to suggest that the iPhone 14 Pro models have an always-on display. In this regard, many netizens said that the price of the iPhone 14 may increase due to this function. Some netizens said that with such a good function, the price must not be increased by eight or nine hundred.

Programmer coded to grab HPV vaccine number for profit of 400,000

Recently, Huzhou, Zhejiang. A hospital reported that its HPV vaccine appointment registration platform was always inaccessible. The police investigation locked and arrested Li Moubin, a technology developer. According to the investigation, Li Moubin, by writing computer scripts and other methods, frequently accessed the online platform reservation interface to grab the vaccine number, and grabbed more than 500 numbers on the nine-valent HPV vaccine reservation platform of hospitals in many provinces and cities, and illegally made more than 400,000 yuan. At present, the criminal suspect Li Moubin has been taken criminal compulsory measures by the police according to law, and the case is being further processed.

Manpower shortage, Intel cancels the rule not to hire former employees

About seven years ago, Intel embarked on a mass layoff that began in 2015 and continued through 2016, in which 13,000 employees were let go. In addition to initiating the layoffs, Brian Krzanich, Intel's CEO at the time, also approved a controversial policy of not rehiring former employees who were fired. That policy has now been quietly lifted, The Oregonian reported.

Latest technical developments

TypeScript 4.7 released

Major updates

• Add ECMAScript module support to Node.js
• Module detection control
• Control Flow Analysis of Element Access in Parentheses
• Improved functional reasoning in objects and methods
• instantiated expression
• Optional Variance Annotations for Type Parameters
• Resolution Customization with moduleSuffixes

JetBrains IDE announces new default UI

It is understood that the new UI will eventually be available in all IntelliJ-based products (except Rider and Android Studio), but some products may be delayed.

Major changes in the new UI

• Simplified main toolbar with new VCS, project and run widgets
• New tool window layout
• New light and dark themes
• Updated icon set

Visual Studio 2022 for Mac has been released

Major updates

• Replaced the IDE's front-end UI with a fully native macOS UI, greatly improving its speed
• Enables developers to build applications using .NET 6 and C# 10
• Support for Azure Functions v4
• Improve the development experience by enabling some familiar features of Visual Studio (Windows version) to improve consistency between this version and the Windows version

Linux Kernel 5.18 Stable Released

Major updates

• New Hardware Feedback Interface (HFI) driver for Intel Hybrid Processors
• NUMA Balanced Scheduler Update for AMD EPYC Servers
• AMD HSMP driver
• Various AMD Nested Virtualization Improvements
• Intel Xeon processor driver support
• FreeSync enabled by default in AMDGPU drivers
• Btrfs supports encoded I/O and faster fsync
• FN key mapping for MacBook Pro with Touch Bar

Chrome 102 has been released

Major updates

• Added a new capture handle mechanism
• New feature is the file handling interface
• Provides new speculative rules
• fix security program