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40s Newsletter

• Apple's response to system stealing traffic: it is recommended to restore factory settings
• Apple's new MacBook Air is expected to launch in June, equipped with M2 chip
• Attackers steal 100,000 npm user account login information
• One photo can crack face recognition
• Edge browser supports importing Chrome data
• Qualcomm CEO: May buy ARM directly
• Former OpenSea employee indicted in NFT insider trading case, or sentenced to 20 years in prison
• Tears of the times: iPhone 4S and 6S will be listed as obsolete products
• Musk: Employees stay at the company 40 hours a week to work from home, otherwise they will leave
• Docker Desktop 4.9.0 released
• IntelliJ IDEA 2022.1.2 released
• Spring Native 0.12.0 released
• Perl 5.36 released
• FileZilla Client 3.60 released

Industry News

Apple's response to system stealing traffic: it is recommended to restore factory settings

Recently, many users have reported that the background of iOS 15.5 will steal traffic, and some netizens even said that their iPhone 13 steals more than ten GB of traffic in three days. The culprit behind this is actually the "time and place" function that comes with the system. Apple's senior product experts said that they have received feedback on the same situation, and users can turn off location services or turn off network permissions in "Settings". The other party emphasized that some users will still sneak traffic after doing these operations, so it is recommended that you solve the problem by restoring the factory settings, which can fundamentally solve the problem.

Apple's new MacBook Air is expected to launch in June, equipped with M2 chip

According to reports, Apple has announced on May 24 that their 2022 Worldwide Developers Conference, also known as WWDC22, will officially start on June 6 Pacific Time, with four major operations: iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS and watchOS. The system is expected to be updated as usual. According to the latest reports from foreign media, in addition to the operating system, Apple is also expected to update the Mac product line and launch a new generation of MacBook Air equipped with M2 chips.

Attackers steal 100,000 npm user account login information

Recently, GitHub disclosed that hackers stole the login information of nearly 100,000 npm user accounts in a mid-April attack that used OAuth application tokens issued to Heroku and Travis-CI. The attackers accessed a 2015 archive of user information that contained nearly 100,000 npm usernames, password hashes, and email addresses. Although hashed passwords are generated with weak hashing algorithms such as salted SHA1 and thus are easy to crack, GitHub from Email verification is automatically enabled for all accounts starting March 1, and attempts to control accounts are automatically blocked. After analyzing and checking the hashes of all npm package versions, GitHub was confident that the attackers did not modify any publicly available packages or upload new versions of existing packages. GitHub reset the passwords of all affected users and sent notifications to affected organizations and users.

One photo can crack face recognition

According to the demonstration by the technicians, as long as you get a face picture and use the deep synthesis method, you can make people's faces move, and easily break through some face recognition systems. In the eyes of professional and technical personnel, most of the current face recognition technology algorithms are not unbreakable.

Edge browser supports importing Chrome data

The Microsoft Edge browser supports one-click import of data from Chrome, including history, favorites, passwords, open tabs, and other data.

To enable this feature, users need to click Import browser data - Import browser data on every startup - On in settings. It is understood that Edge Canary currently supports importing passwords, autofill settings, payment information, browsing history, cookies and open tabs at startup, and the imported tabs will be collected in a collection.

Qualcomm CEO: May buy ARM directly

It is understood that US chipmaker Qualcomm hopes to join rivals in taking a stake in ARM, forming a consortium to keep the British chip design company neutral in the fiercely competitive semiconductor market. Japanese conglomerate SoftBank plans to list ARM on the New York Stock Exchange after Nvidia's failed $66 billion acquisition of ARM earlier this year. However, given ARM's key role in the global tech industry, the IPO has raised concerns about the company's future ownership. "We're a stakeholder in this investment," Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon said in an interview. "It's a very important asset, and it's critical to the growth of our industry." Qualcomm is One of ARM's largest customers. He added that Qualcomm could join forces with other chipmakers to buy ARM outright if the consortium making the acquisition is "large enough."

Former OpenSea employee indicted in NFT insider trading case, or sentenced to 20 years in prison

Prosecutors in the Southern District of New York have charged and arrested Nathaniel Chastain, a former product manager at OpenSea, an online marketplace, according to reports. The 31-year-old suspect faces one count of wire fraud and one count of money laundering in relation to a scheme to conduct insider trading in unforgeable tokens (NFTs), which prosecutors say "uses information about which NFTs will be on OpenSea's homepage. Confidential information that emerges for personal financial gain”.

The suspect faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison for each count, the Justice Department said in a release. Justice Department officials said this is the first time they have pursued insider trading charges involving digital assets.

Tears of the times: iPhone 4S and 6S will be listed as obsolete products

Apple reportedly plans to add the first-generation iPad Pro to the list of obsolete products by the end of June, the company announced this week in an internal memo distributed to Apple Stores and Apple Authorized Service Providers. In addition, the iPhone 4S, the 32GB version of the iPhone 6s series will also be classified as obsolete by the end of June, the memo said.

Musk: Employees stay at the company 40 hours a week to work from home, otherwise they will leave

According to reports, Tesla CEO said in an email recently that Tesla employees who want to work from home must be in the office for at least 40 hours a week before they are eligible. He also wrote in the email that the office "must be Tesla's main office, not a remote branch that is not related to job responsibilities. For example, responsible for human relations at the Fremont factory, but in another state office. Work."

Latest technical developments

Docker Desktop 4.9.0 released

Major updates

• Added guides to the home page for: Elasticsearch, MariaDB, Memcached, MySQL, RabbitMQ, and Ubuntu
• Added a footer to the Docker Dashboard with general information about Docker Desktop update status and Docker Engine stats.

• Added the following to the container table:

  • A button to copy the container ID to the clipboard
  • Pause button for each container
  • Resizing of Columns of Container Tables
  • Persistence of sorting and resizing of container tables
  • Batch delete of container table

IntelliJ IDEA 2022.1.2 released

Major updates

• Fixed console skipping user input
• Search Everywhere will work as expected when the terminal is in focus
• IDE no longer returns Invalid value: -1 error when executing Gradle tasks
• Fixed icon size when using "Legacy Icon Pack"
• Fixed opening source code instead of diff when double-clicking in the Commit tool window
• Issue with "null" text not being inserted when pressing enter when working with Markdown files and keeping multiple projects open
• The document tool window has been fixed and now works as expected
• Data in the application dictionary is no longer lost
• When compiling a WSL based project, the build output window works as expected

Spring Native 0.12.0 released

Major updates

• Fix session-redis-webflux and session-without-security samples for GraalVM 22.1
• Update Batch schemas
• Fix Devtools developmentOnly dependency breaking Gradle's AOT generation
• Fix filename or extension too long
• Fix broken links and outdated plugin names
• Update GraalVM to 22.1.0
• Upgrade to Spring Boot 2.7.0
• Upgrade to Spring Cloud 2021.0.3

Perl 5.36 released

Major updates

• Stabilized Version bundles feature
• New command line flag -g is available
• Unicode 14.0 support
• Floating point exceptions are no longer delayed and can be delivered immediately
• stable boolean tracking

FileZilla Client 3.60 released

Major updates

• macOS clients can drag remote files into Finder
• Fixed file change detection when editing files
• Fix error handling when reading from child process fails
• Fixed transfer not starting after recursive operation when connection limit is set to 1 in site manager