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On November 19, GitLab JiHu published 'Notes on GitLab.cn SaaS feature adjustments': all accounts will be set to a 90-day trial. If a user doesn't upgrade to a paid plan (Premium or Ultimate) within the free 90 days, the account will be barred from logging into the SaaS when the trial ends. User data won't be deleted immediately — it will be retained for three years, then permanently deleted.
On July 17, 2023, the Republic of Mali took back the .ml registry because the delegation agreement expired. Back in 2013, Dutch internet entrepreneur Johannes Zuurbier obtained the .ml registry rights, signing a 10-year agreement with the government of Mali.
Gabon's National Agency for Digital Infrastructures and Frequencies (ANINF) announced that from June 7, 2023, it is taking back the .ga registry from Freenom, and free .ga domains registered through Freenom will be forcibly reclaimed.
Freenom may be an unfamiliar name, but the free .tk/.ga/.ml/.cf/.gq domains certainly aren't. Freenom is the registry operator behind them, offering free domain registration that's recommended all over the internet. Well — today, it's in trouble.
Years ago people were already saying domains no longer matter — it's the mobile app era, a good domain isn't that important anymore. Yesterday, domain brokerage giant Saw.com announced on social media that it took part in the sale of the top-tier domain AI.com.
You've all heard of the viral AI ChatGPT by now. I'm not in the AI business and hadn't planned to write about it — but people from every industry kept asking me how to register ChatGPT, how to use it, and what it costs. So here's a dedicated post.
On December 18 Alibaba Cloud's Hong Kong Zone C suffered a massive service outage; on December 25 Alibaba Cloud published a post-incident analysis. Let's look at how this epic-level failure came about.
At the UOS Ecosystem Conference on December 20, Liu Wenhuan, General Manager of UnionTech Software Technology Co., Ltd., formally announced the company's new 2023 strategy and released a free usage license for the UOS V20 server operating system.
GitHub now scans public and private repositories for WeChat keys and tokens — including those for WeChat Official Accounts, Mini Programs, and WeChat Pay — and forwards them to Tencent. You'll get a key leak notification on Tencent's side.
On October 5, 2022, still during the National Day holiday, MacWk — the Mac cracked-software site — went offline. I'm in the official Telegram channel too, where everyone was muted. Word from all sides is that it went broke.
