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  • Musk’s company will breed dinosaurs: Breedable in 15 years, Jurassic Park is within reach
  • Qingju, a bike-sharing brand owned by Didi Chuxing, has unveiled a concept car called Qingju X
  • The hacker group behind the attacks on US oil pipelines has claimed to have stolen confidential information from Japan’s Toshiba
  • The company has sued Bytedance for copying extensive amounts of its code from six apps, including Tik Tok
  • WeChat: After May 20th, it no longer provides small program to open the APP service, which has been complained by a large number of users
  • Tesla will introduce a new test to help people learn how to use cars.
  • The 8 departments jointly interviewed 10 transportation platform enterprises such as Didi and Shouqi
  • Apple is No. 6 on Forbes’ list of the 2000 Global Companies of 2021, with Kuaishou making its debut
  • The end of the big factory is to build cars?
  • Microsoft Edge for Linux is now in Beta
  • GitHub Desktop has a new version 2.8 to improve the difference comparison experience
  • Distributed SQL engine Apache Trafodion has been retired
  • Microsoft introduced threat and vulnerability management capabilities to Linux
  • Microsoft has announced a new open source project, EBPF for Windows

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Musk’s company will breed dinosaurs: Breedable in 15 years, Jurassic Park is within reach

May 13 – We could breed and genetically engineer a “super alien” species — dinosaurs — within 15 years, Neuralink co-founder Max Hodak says, making the Jurassic Park of science fiction movies within reach. Neuralink is a new tech company founded by Elon Musk that aims to connect the human brain to machines by building micron-scale devices. Neuralink was incorporated in California in July 2016 as a “medical research” company, funded by Musk.

Qingju, a bike-sharing brand owned by Didi Chuxing, has unveiled a concept car called Qingju X

Qingju, a bike-sharing brand owned by Didi, has unveiled its two-wheeled concept scooter, Qingju X. The car has a semi-enclosed styling, with front and rear lights using through-through headlights. On the safety side, it is equipped with automobile-grade millimeter-wave radar for ADAS collision warning. At the same time, it supports boot health self-check, support face, fingerprint recognition, APP side health reminder. It will be equipped with a long life high density lithium-ion battery, support wireless fast charging. In the aspect of intelligent interconnection, including voice interaction, vehicle navigation, etc. It is understood that Didi hopes to achieve Qingju X on the road in five years.

The hacker group behind the attacks on US oil pipelines has claimed to have stolen confidential information from Japan’s Toshiba

May 14 – Kyodo News reported that hacker group Darkside posted a statement online claiming to have stolen confidential information from Toshiba Group. The group was allegedly involved in the cyber attack that shut down Colonial Pipeline, the largest oil and gas Pipeline in the United States. Toshiba Tiger admitted that its European unit had been hit by a cyber attack and said it was “highly likely that a data breach occurred”.

Darkside claimed on the highly anonymous “dark web” that it had stolen more than 740GB of confidential information from the French location of the Toshiba group. It is said to include information related to products and personnel, and that the group may have infected computers with a “ransomware” that demands money in return for restoring information.

Toshiba Tyger said it had “limited the impact to some parts of its business in Europe and had not identified any breach of customer information”.

The company has sued Bytedance for copying extensive amounts of its code from six apps, including Tik Tok

According to the company, through comparison, it has been found that a large number of software codes for video and audio editing have been copied from the copyrighted software of the company since the 3.0 version of Douyin on November 1, 2018. And more to our shock, contrast byte jitter of the remaining six APP “hit,” creative “huge amount”, “flash”, “Faceu shock of”, “bug”, “light yan camera”, we found that all the existing code plagiarism, including several functions are consistent, and even the spelling mistakes will get the perturbation function are copied from copying.

The company demanded that the companies immediately stop the infringement, make a full public apology on its own media platforms, and pay a total of 2.274 billion yuan in compensation for economic losses and reasonable expenses.

WeChat: After May 20th, it no longer provides small program to open the APP service, which has been complained by a large number of users

On May 15, the WeChat open community issued a notice, announcing that the “small program open App technology service” will no longer be available after May 20, 2021. WeChat said that recently received a large number of user complaints, in the small program use process, the normal use process was blocked, was guided to jump to the APP situation, such a situation seriously affected the small program user experience.

Tesla will introduce a new test to help people learn how to use cars.

Starting from May 14, Tesla’s official Weibo account opened some teaching modes about how to use cars, as well as a guide to how to use cars for Tesla beginners. Including the stop mode, three modes, each has its advantages; Energy recovery, clever use, assist driving; Safety distance, pay attention to the road conditions, maintain the distance; ABS system, timely intervention, efficient braking and so on. And also put this micro blog on the top.

The 8 departments jointly interviewed 10 transportation platform enterprises such as Didi and Shouqi

May 14th news. This morning, The 8 member units of the Interministerial Joint Conference of Ministry of Transport, Cyberspace Administration of the CPC Central Committee, National Development and Reform Commission, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Ministry of Public Security, Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, General Administration of Market Regulation, National Public Complaints and Proposals Administration and other departments to coordinate the supervision of new traffic and transportation business forms on Didi Chuxing, Shouqi Chuxing, Cao Cao Chuxing, Meituan Chuxing and T3 Chuxing, Gode, Didi Chuxing, Manbang, Hualala, Kuaogou Taxi and other 10 transportation new business platform companies to conduct joint interview.

Interview, points out that in the near future the social from all walks of life reflects the net platform about car company is proportional to the pump is high, the allocation mechanism is not transparent, adjust pricing rule, freight information, freight and Internet platform monopoly malicious problems such as lower rate rising, membership fees, alleged violations of the employees’ legitimate rights and interests, caused widespread concern. The interview required all platform companies to face up to their own problems, conscientiously implement the main responsibility of enterprises, and immediately carry out rectification.

Apple is No. 6 on Forbes’ list of the 2000 Global Companies of 2021, with Kuaishou making its debut

Today, Forbes released the 19th edition of its Global 2000 list. Each year, the list selects the world’s 2,000 largest and most valuable listed companies based on four criteria: sales, profits, assets and market capitalization.

The top five spots on the list changed slightly. Industrial and Commercial Bank of China topped the list for the ninth year in a row. JPMorgan Chase moved up a notch to second place. Berkshire Hathaway rose to third place from fourth in 2020. Last year’s No. 2, China Construction Bank, fell two places to No. 4. Saudi Aramco held on to its fifth position.

From the perspective of industry, many technology enterprises have made remarkable progress. Apple moved up three places from ninth a year ago to tie for sixth with Bank of America and Ping An. No. 9 was Agricultural Bank of China, which slipped from No. 5. Bank of China, which was No. 10 last year, was knocked out of the top 10 by Amazon this year. Amazon’s stock has soared over the past year, moving up 12 places in a row this year.

By region, the US has the most companies on the list, with 590. China (including Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan) is next, with 395 companies on the list.

The end of the big factory is to build cars?

Freightlabrador has started the vehicle building project to realize the closed logistics chain and the “digital intelligence” of the vehicle. At present, it has started to recruit talents in the manufacturing of new energy truck, including the position of new energy truck vehicle product expert and so on. Huolala, which officially announced a $515 million Series E financing in December, was reported earlier this year to be close to completing a $1.5 billion Series F financing at a valuation of $10 billion.

At 360 Group’s intelligent vehicle strategic media communication conference, Zhou Hongyi, founder and chairman of 360 Group, announced that he would officially become the product manager of Nezha Automobile and form a new “Product Manager CP” with Zhang Yong, CEO of Nezha Automobile. Zhou Hongyi said, “We chose to co-build rather than build our own cars.” In addition, Zhou Hongyi also said that it will work with Nezha to build a smart car for mass users with a target price of around 100,000 yuan.

Earlier there are Foxconn, Huawei, Apple, are ready to cut into the intelligent car industry, followed by Baidu millet, easy car announced to build a car, OPPO is also reported to be ready to build a car.

Latest Technology Trends

Microsoft Edge for Linux is now in Beta

Long term development of a Linux version based on Chromium’s Edge browser has been underway, Microsoft first teased it in Build 2019 and officially announced it later that year. However, it wasn’t until last October that the Dev channel planned by Edge Insider made its debut on Linux. After more than six months, Microsoft announced today that it’s time to open up the Beta channel to Linux users.

Long term development of a Linux version based on Chromium’s Edge browser has been underway, Microsoft first teased it in Build 2019 and officially announced it later that year. However, it wasn’t until last October that the Dev channel planned by Edge Insider made its debut on Linux. After more than six months, Microsoft announced today that it’s time to open up the Beta channel to Linux users.

GitHub Desktop has a new version 2.8 to improve the difference comparison experience

GitHub just released a new version of GitHub Desktop 2.8, which aims to make working on projects more seamless for developers. First, thanks to improvements to the Difference Comparison (DIFFS) feature, GitHub Desktop 2.8 now has the ability to better understand code changes, hide surrounding white space, and assign new aliases to local repositories.

By contrast, older versions of GitHub Desktop smartly looked at a few lines of code that they or others had changed, leading many developers to complain that it was difficult to fully understand a particular change.

But now, developers can click the “Extensions” button in GitHub Desktop 2.8 to see the rest of the changes around a particular file.

Second, users can clean up the Spaces around code changes. GitHub explains that sometimes not enough contextual information is displayed around changes, resulting in a somewhat large white space.

With this update, developers will be able to click on the pinion icon in the upper right corner of the differences window, and then choose to hide the white space to help you better understand the code changes.

Finally, there are updates related to local repository naming. According to GitHub, many developers keep multiple copies of a repository on GitHub Desktop, making it difficult to tell the difference.

The good news is that with the update to GitHub Desktop 2.8, users can now give each repository a different alias. And this change will only be made locally so developers can better identify it if necessary.

Distributed SQL engine Apache Trafodion has been retired

Apache Trafodion has been officially retired by a vote of its committers.

Apache Trafodion is a Webscale SQL-on-Hadoop solution for Hadoop that supports transactional or operational workloads on Hadoop. Trafodion builds on Hadoop’s scalability, resilience and flexibility to provide guaranteed transactional integrity that enables new big data applications to run on Hadoop. In February 2018, Apache Trafodion became Apache’s top project.

However, due to the inactivity of the project, Apache Trafodion moved into the Attic in April 2021 and officially retired on May 14 of this year. Decommissioning an Apache project does not directly shut down everything, as existing users need to both know about the project and retain access to the information necessary for their development work. As a result, the user mailing list will remain open, while the rest of the project’s resources, including the website, wikis, SVN, downloads, and bug trackers, will continue to be available in a read-only state, with the same URL.

Microsoft introduced threat and vulnerability management capabilities to Linux

Microsoft is bringing its own security software, Defender, to MacOS in 2019. Microsoft has announced that Defender’s Threat and Vulnerability Management (TVM) features are now available on Linux and MacOS.

According to Microsoft, TVM allows users to review recently discovered vulnerabilities in applications and potential misconfigurations of systems, and to remedy any affected managed and unmanaged devices.

It is currently available in Public Preview and supports MacOS, RHEL, CentOS, and Ubuntu, with Oracle Linux, SUSE, and Debian to be added soon.

In addition, Microsoft plans to bring TVM to Android and iOS this summer.

Microsoft has announced a new open source project, EBPF for Windows

Microsoft has released a new open source project, EBPF for Windows, to enable EBPF to work on Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016 and later.

EBPF is a new design introduced in Kernel 3.15, which develops the original BPF into a “kernel virtual machine” with more complex instruction set and wider application range. It supports the injection of a small piece of “kernel code” written in C language into the kernel in user mode, so as to provide more programmability, extensibility and agility. In order to prevent the injected code from causing the kernel to crash, EBPF will strictly check the injected code and reject the injection of unqualified code.

According to Microsoft, EBPF for Windows utilizes several existing EBPF open source projects, including Iovisor UBPF and PREVAiler, but is not a branch of EBPF. The project aims to allow developers to develop EBPF programs on top of existing versions of Windows using the familiar EBPF tool chain and application programming interface (API), and to allow EBPF programs to run in kernel mode or as a user-mode protected service. The project is currently hosted on a GitHub repository.