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• Baidu programmer "deleted library" sentenced to 9 months in prison
• The EU will use the Type-C interface uniformly from 2024, and Apple may release the Type-C iPhone by the end of next year
• 77.5% of the world's websites use php
• Musk's efforts to raise new funding for Twitter takeover halted due to uncertainty
• Apple may launch larger Macbook Air and iPad Pro next year
• Luo Yonghao complained about WWDC22: I let myself go, and copied four or five in one go
• ByteDance employee "secretly" joined Kuaishou and was sentenced to pay nearly 380,000
• Say goodbye to Facebook forever: Meta starts using new ticker symbol
• Android 13 enters third beta
• The performance of Python 3.11 is up to 60% higher than that of 3.10
• OpenCV 4.6 released
• Linux 5.19-rc1 released, incorporating LoongArch architecture
• Docker Desktop 4.9.0 released

Industry information

Baidu programmer sentenced to 9 months for "deleting library"

It is understood that from August to September 2020, an employee of Baidu Company deleted the data in the database of Baidu Company's visualization project program because he was dissatisfied with the company sending other employees to take over the project, and then constituted the "crime of destroying computer information systems". In March last year, he was arrested by the public security organs and brought to justice.

In March of this year, the Haidian District People's Court made the first-instance judgment (sentenced to 9 months in prison, suspended for 1 year), and then the Baidu employee who was suspected of being involved in the case filed an appeal, asking the second-instance court to give a lighter sentence. In the end, the Beijing No. 1 Intermediate People's Court rejected the appeal and upheld the original judgment.

According to the ruling information exposed on the Internet, the Baidu employee suspected of being involved in the case is Jin XX, who has been working in Baidu since graduation, and his main work is platform testing and program development.

Because of his dissatisfaction with the company sending other employees to take over the project, Jin XX logged into the company's intranet server through his mobile phone at home, and deleted, locked, and modified the project table in the visual project program database two or three times, destroying the platform's data. and violated the law.

The EU will use the Type-C interface uniformly from 2024, and Apple may release the Type-C iPhone by the end of next year

The EU's common charger goal is one step closer after European Parliament and Council negotiators reached an interim agreement. By fall 2024, all small and medium-sized portable electronic devices sold in the EU, including mobile phones, tablets and wireless earphones with batteries, must be equipped with a USB-C charging port. All the major smartphone makers have now transitioned to USB-C, and while Apple's iPhone and its years-old Lightning port can confirm that time is numbered, Apple could theoretically do away with charging if it doesn't intend to compromise with the EU. port, and completely switch to wireless charging to avoid adding a USB-C port to its phones, but according to well-known Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, Apple may release a new iPhone with a Type-C port instead of a Lighting port in the second half of 2023. , Not only that, but also Apple products (AirPods, MagSafe chargers) based on the Lightning interface and accessories such as the Magic Keyboard/Mouse/Trackpad will also use the Type-C interface.

77.5% of the world's websites use PHP

Recently, foreign media released a statistical report on the use of PHP on websites, and the results showed: "77.5% of all websites for which we know their server-side programming language are using PHP."

Musk's efforts to raise new funding for Twitter takeover halted due to uncertainty

Tesla CEO Elon Musk's efforts to raise fresh capital to acquire Twitter have reportedly been halted due to uncertainty. Funding talks between Musk and Apollo Global Management have been put on hold until the prospect of a deal becomes clearer.

Apple may launch larger Macbook Air and iPad Pro next year

According to foreign media reports, Apple is planning to update new hardware products, focusing on the MacBook notebook computer product line and the iPad Pro high-end tablet computer series, and use a new generation of self-developed chips to seize a larger market share next year. Apple is developing a MacBook Air ultra-thin laptop with a larger 15-inch screen, which could be launched as soon as spring 2023, people familiar with the matter said, the first time the model has such a large screen size since it was released by Steve Jobs in 2008, people familiar with the matter said. .

Luo Yonghao complained about WWDC22: I let myself go, and copied four or five in one go

On June 7th, Apple released the latest macOS system. Some netizens pointed out the similarities with the One Step of SmartisanOS, and @Luo Yonghao. Luo Yonghao responded to the complaints, "Well, this year they let themselves go a bit, and they copied four or five in one go."

ByteDance employees "secretly" joined Kuaishou and were sentenced to nearly 380,000 in compensation

According to the Beijing Court Trial Information Network, the first-instance judgment of the labor dispute between Beijing ByteDance Co., Ltd. and former employee Ms. Ren was recently disclosed. Because she entered the Kuaishou job during the non-compete period, Ms. Ren was judged in the first instance and returned to Douyin about 378,100 yuan in compensation. According to the judgment, Ms. Ren joined Douyin in March 2015 as a senior business manager. In December 2019, Ms. Ren applied for resignation due to personal reasons. Ms. Ren and Douyin signed the "Competition Restriction Agreement" on February 2, 2020. The agreement stipulated that Douyin will pay the average monthly salary of Ms. Ren for the twelve months prior to her departure. 30% of the compensation for non-competition, and the amount of economic compensation (before tax) is about 14,300 yuan per month. Ms. Ren is not allowed to go to a unit that competes with Douyin within 6 months after the labor contract is terminated. Jobs, including Kuaishou.

Say goodbye to Facebook forever: Meta starts using new ticker symbol

After a decade of trading under the name "Facebook," the social media giant is reportedly shedding the last vestiges of its old corporate identity, starting Thursday under the new ticker symbol "META," ditching previous Always use the "FB" code.

Latest technical developments

Android 13 enters third beta

Recently, Google officially launched the third beta version of Android 13, and said that it has reached "platform stability", which indicates that Google has locked the main update, and the next work is to polish the details, fix bugs, and optimize performance. It also hit this milestone a full two months ahead of Android 12.

The performance of Python 3.11 is up to 60% higher than that of 3.10

Python 3.11 released its first beta version not long ago, and is expected to release the RC version in July and the official version in October.

According to Python official, the performance of Python 3.11 is significantly improved than that of 3.10, with a speed increase of 10-60%, and an average growth rate of 1.25 times in the standard benchmark suite. The new features of Python 3.11 include: syntax features include Exception Groups and except*, type features include mutable generics, Self types, arbitrary literal string types, and more. Phoronix tested Python 3.11 Beta, Python 3.10.4, Python 3.9.13, and Python 3.8.13 on AMD Ryzen 9 5950X development machines, and found that Python 3.11 Beta was 41% faster than Python 3.10 overall.

OpenCV 4.6 released

OpenCV is a well-known computer vision and machine learning software library that provides a large number of general libraries, and version 4.6 has been officially released.

Major updates

• Migration of OpenCV project infrastructure to GitHub Actions workflow for CI and release purposes
• Added support for GCC 12 and Clang 15
• Added support for FFmpeg 5.0

Linux 5.19-rc1 released, incorporating LoongArch architecture

Linus Torvalds announced the release of Linux 5.19-rc1 on the kernel developers mailing list, which also means the official closing of the 5.19 merge window.

Linux 5.19-rc1 added 1.04 million lines of code and removed 256,000 lines, most of which were display drivers.

Other major changes

• Intel TDX Preliminary Support
• ARM general core work largely complete after more than a decade
• AMD SEV-SNP
• Firmware Zstd compression support
• Loongson LoongArch Architecture
• NTFS3 driver fix
• Apple M1 NVMe support

Docker Desktop 4.9.0 released

Major updates

• Added Elasticsearch, MariaDB, Memcached, MySQL, RabbitMQ and Ubuntu Content Guide
• Added a footer to Docker Dashboard: contains general information about Docker Desktop update status and Docker Engine stats
• Redesign the container table
• Added a button to copy container ID to clipboard
• Added pause button for each container
• Resize the columns of the container table
• Batch delete of adder table