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Recently it emerged that the domain of the well-known Chinese blog Lu Songsong, lusongsong.com, had its DNS resolution suspended because the site carried content in violation of regulations. After the offending content was removed, the block was lifted and access restored.
Recently a user on the V2EX forum reported that their security software caught the PC version of WeChat scanning browser history, and that browser cookies were involved. They included a screen recording catching it in the act.
The Google Chrome team sent an email to Linux distribution developers: starting March 15, 2021, Chromium derivatives will no longer be able to use Google APIs such as Google Sync. For the sake of user account security, Google is cutting off third-party access to its APIs.
At the end of 2020 CentOS announced it would end support at the end of 2021, which sent shockwaves everywhere. Developers and users alike rejected it — even CentOS's founder started the Rocky Linux project that same month to build the next CentOS. Red Hat immediately adjusted course, publishing a post on its official blog on January 20, 2021.
Today Google officially released Chrome 88. The new version permanently drops support for Adobe Flash Player and FTP. Google also announced new password protection features for Chrome 88.
CentOS 8 support ends in 2021. CentOS 7, as the long-term support release, will continue to be supported until its own lifecycle ends, and CentOS Stream becomes the focus. At the end of 2021 CentOS 8 stops being maintained, while CentOS 7 stays supported until 2024.
On August 13, 2020 I got an email from Docker saying they had updated their terms of service, barring people prohibited from using the service under US law, including entities listed on any US Government Denied Party/Person List.
Any webmaster would be curious why Apple's China site moved from apple.com to apple.com.cn. What's good about a CN domain? Why does Apple like CN? Let me analyze it based on my own site-running experience.
Regarding this outage, some netizens claimed that, due to the pandemic, servers in various regions had been stolen. However, this claim has now been debunked — it was just a Photoshopped image.
Yesterday GitHub suffered a large-scale outage. Microsoft responded that, due to the pandemic, servers in various regions had been stolen. Microsoft also said it is doing everything it can to recover the servers and hopes to retrieve the servers and data as soon as possible.
