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- Honor responds to plagiarism hammer controversy
- Tencent League of Legends, Golden Shovel and other game servers crashed
- It is rumored that Microsoft has been discussing the departure of the Asia Research Institute for nearly a year: Gates supports it
- OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is married to same-sex boyfriend Oliver Mulherin in Hawaii
- 90% of coders believe that it will be difficult to find a job, and college students will have to adjust their career plans
- Microsoft has upgraded its cloud infrastructure so that EU user data can be stored and processed domestically
- Microsoft's market capitalization surpassed Apple's to $2.89 trillion
- Google's restructuring of hardware equipment teams such as Pixel, Nest, etc., will lay off hundreds of employees
- Meta has reproduced large-scale layoffs, and the number of Ins technical project managers has been laid off by more than 60
- Linux Kernel 4.14 ends support after six years
- Python 3.13 将引入 copy-and-patch JIT 编译器
Domestic news
Honor responds to plagiarism hammer controversy
At the recent Honor press conference, Honor officially launched the MagicOS8.0 operating system, and one of the features called "Arbitrary Gate" caused controversy. Luo Yonghao, the founder of Hammer Technology, publicly shouted to Zhao Ming, CEO of Honor, on Weibo: "This is the One Step of nakedly plagiarizing Hammer mobile phones, is Mr. Zhao deceived by the children who make products? I believe that your company will not be so shameless, and you are not Apple." 」
In this regard, Deng Bin, head of Honor R&D, said in an interview that "arbitrary door" is an interactive logic based on intent recognition independently developed by Honor, which was completely absent in that era. Previously, according to Honor's official introduction, the "Any Door" function is a new human-computer interaction experience, driven by platform-level AI, it intelligently predicts the user's interaction intention, realizes one-to-drag and one-drop service direct, and greatly simplifies the operation steps in the traditional interaction mode.
Tencent League of Legends, Golden Shovel and other game servers crashed
On January 11, some netizens reported that Tencent's game servers such as "League of Legends", "Crossfire", "League of Legends Mobile Game", "Dungeons and Warriors", "Battle of the Golden Shovel" and "Peace Elite" collapsed, and all online players were disconnected. Players have reported that there is a chance that they can be reconnected after being disconnected, but the server is still unstable at present. As of press time, Tencent has not responded. Try to open the official website of Tencent Games, and find that the content can no longer be displayed, the pop-up window shows "Sorry, the corresponding news was not found", and the page can only be opened with "Home", click to jump to the Tencent Game introduction page. (IT House)
It is rumored that Microsoft has been discussing the departure of the Asia Research Institute for nearly a year: Gates supports it
Microsoft's Asia Research in Beijing is one of the world's most important AI labs, but with tensions between China and the United States, Microsoft executives — including CEO Satya Nadella and President Brad Smith — have been discussing what to do with the institute for at least the past year. U.S. officials have questioned whether it is reasonable for Microsoft to maintain an 800-person advanced technology research institute in China, people familiar with the matter said.
Since its creation in 1998, Microsoft Research Asia has hired hundreds of researchers to lead Microsoft's research in the fields of speech, image, facial recognition, and artificial intelligence. Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has said Microsoft Research Asia provides an opportunity for the company to tap into China's "deep treasure trove of intellectual talent." On the question of where Microsoft Research Asia should go, there was an internal discussion about shutting down or relocating the lab, but the company's leadership supported the continued operation of the lab in China.
International news
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is married to same-sex boyfriend Oliver Mulherin in Hawaii
According to the fashion blog site Popfiltr, Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, a world-renowned artificial intelligence (AI) company, and his Australian-born programmer boyfriend Oliver Mulherin held a low-key wedding in Hawaii, USA, on the 10th.
According to the report, Oliver posted a post on his private Instagram platform, saying, "Married to my best friend and the love of my life. At present, well-known people, including Lauren Sanchez, the fiancée of Mason founder Jeff Bezos, have expressed their heartfelt wishes for this. According to sources, the wedding ceremony was very private, with only a few close family and friends in attendance, and the wedding ceremony was presided over by Altman's brother Jack Altman. Meanwhile, according to Business Insider, both Altman and Oliver want to have a baby as soon as possible. Previously, a person familiar with the matter saw the two appear together at the White House. From August 2020 to November 2022, Ollie worked as a software engineer at Meta AI's California headquarters, according to The Sun. As of now, Ollie works as a software engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area. 90% Code farmers think that it is more difficult to find a job, and college students also have to adjust their career plans, and a recent survey of more than 10,000 programmers abroad shows that it is more difficult to find a job now than before the epidemic, and nearly 90% of programmers agree with this, of which 66% believe that the difficulty has increased. Tech layoffs have spilled over into the industry, but software engineers are safer than other jobs. The development of AI technology has also had an impact on the recruitment of programmers, and most believe that companies will reduce the number of hires in the future. (New Zhiyuan)
Microsoft has upgraded its cloud infrastructure so that EU user data can be stored and processed domestically
Microsoft has announced an upgrade of its cloud infrastructure to meet the needs of EU customers to store and process personal data on-premises. The company's core cloud services, including Azure, Microsoft 365, Power Platform, and Dynamics 365, have all been applied to this change. The move is in response to pressure from EU regulators on technology companies around the world to ensure that data complies with the requirements of the EU's General Data Protection Regulation while being processed locally. Microsoft says its EU Data Boundary service has gone beyond European compliance requirements, demonstrating the importance that tech giants place on the privacy and security needs of EU users.
Microsoft's market capitalization surpassed Apple's to $2.89 trillion
At 9:43 ET on January 11 (22:43 GMT on January 11), Microsoft's stock price rose 1.39% to a market capitalization of $2,884.4 billion, while Apple's stock price fell 0.50% to a market capitalization of $2,881.3 billion. Microsoft's market capitalization once surpassed Apple's.
Google's restructuring of hardware equipment teams such as Pixel, Nest, etc., will lay off hundreds of employees
Google reorganizes the Pixel, Nest, and Fitbit hardware teams to move to a functional organizational model where the product will have a single leader. The restructuring resulted in hundreds of layoffs, primarily focused on first-party VR hardware teams. Fitbit's co-founder and leader are leaving, and Google may no longer develop its own augmented reality hardware. Meta reappears large-scale layoffs, Ins technical project manager was laid off by more than 60 people After announcing the layoff of 10,000 employees last year, Meta CEO Zuckerberg designated 2023 as the "year of efficiency", saying that the company will create a leaner organizational structure by reducing management. However, Meta's slimming program doesn't seem to be over yet. According to foreign media reports, Meta recently notified at least 60 technical project managers of its Instagram that their positions have been eliminated. Affected employees are primarily responsible for coordinating the work between technical staff such as engineers and senior product managers. According to anonymous workplace social platforms Blind and LinkedIn, laid-off employees have the opportunity to be interviewed for a product manager position, but if they fail to secure a new position, they will officially leave at the end of March this year. (IT House)
For programmers
Linux Kernel 4.14 ends support after six years
In 2017, the Linux kernel long-term support release (LTS) support period was increased from two years to six years. The first release to receive six years of support was 4.14. After six years of support, stable kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman has released 4.14.336, which will be the last update, and it has been marked as EOL (End of Life). Users using this version are encouraged to upgrade to a newer long-term support version. If you can only continue with 4.14, then you will need to get support from the vendor. At the Open Source Europe Summit held in the second half of last year, LTS support time was reduced to 2 years again. Python 3.13 will introduce copy-and-patch JIT compiler In late December 2023, CPython core developer Brandt Bucher submitted a small pull-request to the Python 3.13 branch to add a JIT compiler. Once accepted, this change will be one of the biggest changes to the CPython interpreter since the addition of a dedicated adaptive interpreter in Python 3.11. The JIT compiler uses a design called "copy-and-patch", which works by compiling bytecode into a set of "templates" that are then spliced and patched at runtime with the correct values. This means that the average Python user doesn't need to run complex JIT compiler architectures in their Python runtime. For more information, please refer to https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/113465