Uninstalling the anti-fraud app almost resulted in a 25 million yuan scam, AMD Zen 5 new architecture officially announced, Tsinghua University established a new college, more big news today here

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Friday is here, and I plan to lie down at home and watch the new drama of Fairy Sister tomorrow.

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On the last working day of this week, what new things are worth paying attention to in the technology circle?

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Today's Big News

A woman was nearly defrauded of 25 million yuan after uninstalling the anti-fraud app

Recently, Ms. Sun from Hangzhou, Zhejiang, uninstalled an anti-fraud APP because she thought it took up too much memory on her phone, and she was almost defrauded of more than 25 million yuan in her bank account . Fortunately, the police from Hangzhou Xiaoshan Beigan Police Station arrived in time and stopped the behavior.

It is reported that on the afternoon of the day Ms. Sun was cheated, she received a fake customer service call claiming to be from a training institution.

Because Ms. Sun's child had enrolled in this training institution, and the institution later "lost contact" due to operational problems, and now the other party took the initiative to contact her to "refund the fee", Ms. Sun believed it to be true.

When the police called Ms. Sun, she had been tricked into joining a "refund" QQ group and sent photos of her bank card and ID card to the scammer. The police immediately guided her to report the loss and freeze the relevant bank card.

Finally, Ms. Sun downloaded the anti-fraud APP again under the guidance of the police who came offline, and expressed her gratitude:

I downloaded the National Anti-Fraud Center APP before, but deleted it because I thought it took up too much memory. Thanks to you, I have learned my lesson this time.

Tsinghua University established Weixian College to cultivate innovative scientific and technological talents

According to Tsinghua University’s WeChat official account, on the morning of June 6, Tsinghua University held a founding ceremony for the Weixian Academy . Ouyang Zheng, director of the Academic Affairs Office of Tsinghua University and professor of the Department of Precision Instruments, was appointed dean of the academy.

The word "first" comes from the Tsinghua University anthem: "Knowledge and ability come first, art and literature follow", which means "driven by mission, dare to be the first".

This is Tsinghua University's first engineering innovation talent training college, whose goal is to cultivate future technology leaders.

Priority is given to cultivating world-class academic, industrial, and management talents in engineering science; priority is given to developing core key technologies for China's scientific and technological innovation; and priority is given to exploring a model for cultivating innovative engineering talents in the new era at Tsinghua University.

Tsinghua University said that it plans to select 120 outstanding students through the college entrance examination in 2022 (limited to science students in non-reform provinces, limited to physics in reform provinces) .

The school will create a training system for students of Weixian College that integrates the three elements of "broad foundation - engineering practice - exploratory research" .

In addition, since 2020, Tsinghua has established five colleges, namely Zhili, Rixin, Weiyang, Tanwei, and Xingjian, to serve the talent training of the "Strengthening Basics Plan". Last year, Tsinghua established Qiuzhen College to promote the implementation of the "Qiu Chengtong Mathematical Science Leadership Talent Training Program".

AMD Zen 5 new architecture officially announced, planned to be launched in 2024

On June 9, AMD announced its CPU architecture plans for the next few years at its semi-annual financial analyst gathering and confirmed that it will launch the Zen5 architecture before 2024.

Zen5 will be based on 4nm and 3nm process nodes, and like Zen4 will also include three microarchitectures: Zen5, Zen5V-Cache and Zen5c.

Although the 5nm process has appeared in mobile phone chips and Apple M1, AMD's Zen4 marks the first time that the 5nm process has been applied to the x86 PC series , with an overall performance improvement of 35% over the previous generation Zen3.

Zen5 is called a "new microarchitecture" by AMD , which means that it is not just an incremental improvement on Zen4, but will also make major changes to Zen4's core CPU architecture to improve performance and energy efficiency.

Improvements will be made by rearranging the front end and increasing the transmit bandwidth.

It is reported that AMD is currently upgrading its Zen 4 architecture-based products, including the Ryzen 7000 (Raphael) client CPU and the fourth-generation EPYC (Genoa) server CPU. Both products will be launched later this year.

Musk said he ignored the Twitter acquisition farce and asked employees to return to the office, which was questioned by Germany's largest trade union

At an internal Tesla meeting on June 8, an employee asked Musk how he would handle the farce surrounding his acquisition of Twitter, and Musk responded: "Ignore it."

Musk reportedly sold billions of dollars worth of Tesla stock to finance the Twitter acquisition, which had a negative impact on the stock.

It also hurts morale among Tesla employees because it affects stock options, which can be a significant part of employee compensation.

In addition, according to Business Insider, Musk told Tesla executives in a company email last week that they must return to the office to work at least 40 hours a week or leave; and Germany's largest trade union IG Metall said it would support any German workers who were unwilling to comply with Musk's requirements.

Birgit Dietze, regional leader of IG Metall, said that in Germany, employers cannot set company rules at will, and if workers do not want to accept certain demands, they can seek help from trade unions.

He Xiaopeng shows off his flying car

On June 9, He Xiaopeng, chairman of Xpeng Motors, posted a video of a flying car on Weibo.

According to the video content, this flying car is powered by electricity.

When the wind speed is 2m/s, its travel speed is 5m/s and its flying height is 20m.

He Xiaopeng said that many people think that flying cars are not feasible because they have seen a lot of difficulties and failure cases; however, the company hopes to successfully launch flying cars in a few years.

Apple plans to launch a 15-inch MacBook Air as early as next spring

According to Bloomberg, Apple is developing a 15-inch MacBook Air that will be released as early as spring 2023.

The 15-inch MacBook Air is the first model ever to appear.

This week, Apple released the next-generation M2 chip at the 2022 Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) , and this 15-inch MacBook Air will also be equipped with M2.

People familiar with the matter said that Apple's plan to launch a new MacBook Air may be an attempt to compete for more market share. Since parting ways with Intel in 2020, Apple has driven a revival of its Mac series with its self-developed chips.

In addition, according to reports, Apple is also developing a new 12-inch laptop and is considering releasing it in late 2023 or early 2024.

If this laptop is released, it will be Apple's smallest laptop since it discontinued the 12-inch MacBook in 2019.

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