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• Twitter confirms data breach of 5.4 million accounts
• The iPhone 14 Pro is likely to rise to 8,999 yuan
• GitLab will enforce storage limits for free users
• Google publicly slams Apple for hindering cross-platform communication
• WeChat supports mutual migration of chat records between computers and mobile phones
• 3 injured in explosion at Google data center
• Musk responded to cash out 46.5 billion yuan, or create a new social platform
• iPhone 14 may be released ahead of schedule
• Another cryptocurrency trading platform suspends trading
• Kali Linux 2022.3 Released
• Windows 11 encryption bug causes data loss to run slowly
• OpenSUSE considers removing reiserfs filesystem
• The new version of Vue 3 Chinese documentation is online
• Rust 1.63.0 released

Industry information

Twitter confirms data breach of 5.4 million accounts

On July 22, Restore Privacy reported that Twitter was hacked due to a security breach, and the contact information of a total of 5.4 million accounts was leaked. Sold on a hacking forum for $30,000 (about 202,800 yuan). Today, Twitter has officially confirmed that the attack has occurred and the 0-day vulnerability has been patched.

The iPhone 14 Pro is likely to rise to 8,999 yuan

According to China Economic Weekly, Apple has now started the recording of the conference video, and the final conference date will be set on September 13. As usual, the iPhone 14 series will be launched on September 23. According to recent supply chain news, the iPhone 14 standard version will not increase in price this time, and will still maintain the starting price of 5,999 yuan for the previous generation. The two models of the iPhone 14 Pro series will likely usher in price increases. The iPhone 14 Pro is expected to start at 8,999, and the iPhone 14 Pro Max is expected to start at 9,999.

GitLab will enforce storage limits for free users

Beginning October 19, 2022, GitLab will implement a storage limit of 5GB for the namespaces of all GitLab SaaS Edition free users.

If a user's total namespace storage exceeds the available storage quota, the namespace will continue to have read permissions, but will not be able to write any new data, all its items will be locked, and the user will not be able to change items pushed to the lock .

Affected users will be notified via email, and in-app notifications will be available starting August 22. "We've reached 30,000 users so far." GitLab staff recently discussed and responded to the new announcement publicly on the Hacker News forum.

According to the official schedule, for the namespace storage limit, GitLab will start from 45,000 GB, gradually reduce it, and finally limit it to 5 GB.

Google publicly slams Apple for hindering cross-platform communication

On August 9, Google took a public swipe at Apple for failing to improve the user experience between iPhone and Android users. Some users have long complained about the green message bubble problem that comes with cross-device messaging. Google says the problems exist because of Apple's refusal to adopt modern messaging standards.

WeChat supports mutual migration of chat records between computers and mobile phones

According to reports, WeChat Windows PC internal beta version 3.7.6 has ushered in an update, but this update is only for registered users. Added support for migrating chat records between computers and mobile phones. After migration, you can browse the merged chat records on your mobile phone or computer.

3 injured in explosion at Google data center

On August 9, according to comprehensive US media news, at noon local time on the 8th, an explosion occurred at the Google data center in Iowa, USA, injuring 3 people and has been sent to the hospital. The cause of the accident is still under investigation. There were media reports that an arc flash (electrical explosion) occurred while three electricians were working at a substation near the data center building. Google provided a statement to the media confirming the accident and stressing that the health and safety of all employees is the company's top priority, and is working closely with partners and local governments to thoroughly investigate the situation and provide necessary assistance.

Musk responded to cash out 46.5 billion yuan, or create a new social platform

Musk sold a total of 7.92 million Tesla shares from August 5 to 9, worth a total of about $6.89 billion (about 46.5 billion yuan). In response to this, Musk responded on Twitter on August 10 that he sold Tesla shares because he needed cash in case he was forced to continue the transaction to acquire Twitter. At the same time, he also said that if the acquisition of Twitter does not come through, he will buy back Tesla stock again. However, as recently as April of this year, Musk publicly stated on social media that he would not sell further Tesla shares after that. In addition, Musk gave an answer of "X.com" when asked if he was considering building his own social platform. It is reported that Musk founded a financial services brand called "X.com" in 1999. The company was merged by Confinity in 2000 and changed its name to PayPal in 2001. In 2017, Musk bought back the "X.com" domain name from PayPal.

iPhone 14 may be released ahead of schedule

Recently, according to overseas tweeter @Max Weinbach, according to an internal Apple document, Apple’s autumn conference may be brought forward to September 6 (Tuesday), but pre-orders will still start on September 16, and the first shipments and Official sales will start on the 23rd. It is reported that September 5 is Labor Day in the United States, which is a legal holiday and is usually the time for parties, gatherings and sports events. Earlier, Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman also said that Apple has begun recording its fall conference. If the launch is earlier, it means that Apple will give consumers a longer consideration time, possibly hoping to dynamically adjust the stocking situation of the new machine by observing the feedback from the market.

Another cryptocurrency trading platform suspends trading

Recently, the cryptocurrency trading platform Hotbit announced the suspension of trading, withdrawal and deposit functions, and the specific recovery time cannot be determined at present. Hotbit said this was due to a project last year by a former executive who left in April. At present, law enforcement believes that the project is suspected of violating criminal law.

The latest technological developments

Kali Linux 2022.3 Released

Major updates

• Improved virtual machine support
• New network analysis tool BruteShark
• New Open Source Application Vulnerability Correlation and Security Orchestration Tool DefectDojo
• New exploit framework phpsploit
• Password Spraying Toolkit for Lync/S4B/OWA/O365, shellfire
• Linux Kernel 5.18.5
• Improve ARM support

Windows 11 encryption bug causes data loss to run slowly

Microsoft has confirmed that Windows 11 has an encryption bug that can cause data loss to run slowly. The issue primarily affects recent Windows devices that support the Vector Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) (VAES) instruction set. VAES is part of the AVX-512 instruction set, which is supported on Intel's Ice Lake, Tiger Lake, Rocket Lake, and Alder Lake architecture processors. AMD's latest Zen 4 processors also support VAES, but it won't be released until the fall. Microsoft says it caused the problem when the Windows encryption library SymCrypt updated encryption instructions to introduce a new code path. It recommends that Windows 11 and Windows Server 2022 users install the June 2022 security update, which contains an initial fix for the bug by disabling cryptographic acceleration. The July 2022 security update will restore performance to previous levels.

OpenSUSE considers removing reiserfs filesystem

It is understood that on the OpenSUSE mailing list, maintainer Jeff Mahoney proposed to remove the reiserfs filesystem. When the SUSE distribution introduced reiserfs more than 20 years ago it was the leading filesystem at the time, introducing journal protection for Linux for the first time. But development and user interest in the filesystem stalled after reiserfs author Hans Reiser was convicted of murder. Jeff Mahoney pointed out that he has not touched it for over five years as the maintainer of the upstream reiserfs userspace project, that reiserfs now lacks many of the features that users expect, and that he recommends removing reiserfs from openSUSE Tumbleweed immediately. The Linux kernel community has also previously discussed removing reiserfs.

The new version of Vue 3 Chinese documentation is online

Recently, Vue founder Yuxi You announced that the new version of Vue 3 Chinese documentation has been launched.

Major updates

• The original Vue 2 documentation is now migrated to v2.cn.vuejs.org
• The previous temporary v3 documentation ( http://v3.cn.vuejs.org ) is no longer available and will redirect to the URL corresponding to the latest version
• http://staging-cn.vuejs.org also redirects to https://cn.vuejs.org after a while

Rust 1.63.0 released

Major updates

• The thread must currently have ownership of any arguments passed into its closure
• Provides wrapper types like BorrowedFd and OwnedFd and is marked as #[repr(transparent)]
• Condvar::new, Mutex::new and RwLock::new functions can be called in const context
• rustc completely removes the previous lexical borrow checker