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• iOS 16 public beta released
• Elon Musk terminates Twitter acquisition, Twitter shares plummet
• Mainstream mobile phone models of domestic mobile phone manufacturers have switched to Type-C interface
• WeChat test chat picture sending limit is 99
• Sources say Apple's latest car design will use face-to-face seats, eliminate steering wheel and brake pedals
• Google Chrome OS officially renamed ChromeOS: just one space away
• Xiaomi accused of violating GPL agreement
• Microsoft launches Visual Studio Code Server remote development service
• Bill Gates: Will give away almost all of his wealth in the future
• Go 1.19 RC1 released
• Android 13 final beta released
• Dapr 1.8 released
• Redis 7.0.3 released
• Visual Studio 2022 v17.2.6 released

Industry information

iOS 16 public beta released

Recently, Apple pushed the iOS/iPadOS16 public beta Beta1 update for iPhone and iPad users. Available on iPhone 8 and later models. Here comes the much-anticipated custom lock screen, with widgets on the lock screen that give users a quick overview of the information they need, such as upcoming calendar events, weather, battery level, alarms, time zone, progress in the activity circle, and more content.

Elon Musk terminates Twitter acquisition, Twitter shares plummet

Twitter shares closed down 11.3% on Monday at $32.65, their biggest one-day drop since April 2021, wiping about $3.2 billion in market value. Tesla shares also fell on Monday, closing down 6.55% at $703.03. Twitter said after the market closed Monday that the alleged termination of the agreement by Musk and Musk’s representatives was “invalid and wrong.” Twitter has not violated any of its obligations under the agreement and will continue to provide information that Musk reasonably requests under the agreement and will endeavor to take all necessary steps to complete the transaction. Twitter's shares could plummet to $11 if Musk's deal to buy Twitter doesn't happen, analysts at Rosenblatt Securities said earlier Monday.

Mainstream mobile phone models of domestic mobile phone manufacturers have switched to Type-C interface

Recently, representatives of the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union reached an agreement that by 2024, the charging interface of all portable electronic devices in the EU region will be unified as USB Type-C. The reporter learned that, as of now, the mainstream models launched by domestic mobile phone manufacturers have all switched to the Type-C interface. The European Parliament communiqué also pointed out that the charging speed of devices that support fast charging should also be uniform. In my country, the standardization of mobile phone fast charging technology is also constantly advancing, with the participation of many mobile phone companies and chip companies to lay the foundation for the subsequent development of relevant national standards.

WeChat test chat picture sending limit is 99

Recently, some netizens have reported that WeChat is testing “the upper limit of sending chat pictures to 99.” For the same device and the same WeChat App, the upper limit of the number of photos sent and displayed by different accounts is different. In the official version of WeChat, the general prompt is to send a maximum of 9 chat pictures.

Sources say Apple's latest car design will use face-to-face seats, eliminate steering wheel and brake pedals

According to reports, the latest design of the Apple car will have four seats facing each other so that passengers can talk to each other; there will be no steering wheel or brake pedals, and there will be a curved roof similar to that of the Volkswagen Beetle. Apple is aiming to get a waiver from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to release vehicles without steering wheels and brake pedals. In addition, Apple's designers are experimenting with a trunk that automatically raises for easy access and lowers when not in use, and the designers are also said to have discussed large seatback screens that can be raised and lowered. It was previously reported that Apple's self-driving car is targeting a 2025 launch.

Google Chrome OS officially renamed ChromeOS: just one space away

Recently, Google made a small brand change to Chrome OS, the Linux-based operating system designed for Chromebook devices. Google's senior director of ChromeOS marketing, James Croom, confirmed to The Verge that they have renamed Chrome OS to ChromeOS. Also, the only difference is that they removed the space between "Chrome" and "OS".

Xiaomi accused of violating GPL agreement

At the end of June this year, less than a month after the developer questioned Xiaomi's violation of the GPL agreement, another developer posted a question on GitHub about Xiaomi's violation of the GPL agreement. One developer was the first to speak out on GitHub: "Can we see the source code for venus-s-oss? The first SKBMIXM has been released in October 2021, we are still waiting for the source code, including others that have gotten Android 12 updated equipment."

Another developer, who said he had reported it on the GPL, said: "It's a shame! They're making money, and time and time again, they don't publish the source. Profiting from copying other people's work without giving Anything in return, really smart business. They haven't updated most of their equipment in months."

Microsoft launches Visual Studio Code Server remote development service

Recently, Microsoft introduced a new backend service, Visual Studio Code Server, and a CLI that makes it easy to install, update, manage, and connect to the service. With Visual Studio Code Server, users can install the server anywhere on-premises or in the cloud, and use VS Code for Web to securely access it remotely in a browser without any SSH or https setup.

Bill Gates: Will give away almost all of his wealth in the future

Bill Gates tweeted on July 13 that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation plans to increase its annual investment from nearly $6 billion to $9 billion by 2026, "to help achieve this spending growth. , I will transfer $20 billion to the foundation's endowment this month." Going forward, Bill Gates plans to transfer nearly all of his wealth to the foundation and eventually withdraw from the world's richest list.

Latest technical developments

Go 1.19 RC1 released

The official version of Go 1.19 is expected to be released in August, and Go 1.19 RC1 is currently released.

Major updates

• Fix bugs for "generics"
• Added "unix" build tag
• The limit of open files will be increased by default at startup

Android 13 final beta released

Google recently officially released Android 13 Beta 4, which is also the last beta version of Android 13.

Major updates

• Fixed an issue where paired bluetooth devices could be observed quickly linking and disconnecting on some devices
• Fixed occasional crashes of the Google Camera app on Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro devices, etc.

Dapr 1.8 released

Major updates

• Distributed locks provide mutually exclusive access to shared resources from one application
• It is now possible to write Dapr middleware components using external WASM modules and extend Dapr using non-Go languages
• Continue the fault-tolerant elastic policy function of V1.7 version
• Dapr provides default retries for certain request failures and transient errors
• Certificate installation supported for Linux and Windows containers

Redis 7.0.3 released

Major updates

• Optimize zset transformation on large ZRANGESTORE
• Optimize the performance of sending PING in large clusters
• Add missing shard pubsub keychannel count to CLIENT LIST
• Add missing pubsubshard_channels field in INFO STATS
• Add missing cluster port support to redis-cli --cluster
• TLS: fix a lot of replies

Visual Studio 2022 v17.2.6 released

Major updates

• Removed authorization telemetry that in some cases caused Visual Studio to display a meaningless OS login dialog during startup
• Updated LibraryManager to accommodate cdnjs API changes
• Fixed an issue where Intelli awareness stopped working when reopening an F# project in the same edit session
• Fixed bug in VC++ runtime where linking with MFC OLE linking/embedding containers breaks
• Fixed SxS installations of VS2022 and VS2015 (or older) causing VS to fail to scan for extensions
• Improved container name validation when provisioning Azure Container Apps