Weekly Tech Highlights: JD Seckill Script, Btrfs Performance Regression, Linux on N64, MuZero AI, Ruby 3.0 Release and More

Chinese developers released an open‑source JD seckill script that automatically logs in, schedules appointments and purchases Moutai on a major e‑commerce platform, gaining over 4.3 K stars and topping GitHub trends.

The Linux 5.10 LTS kernel shows a severe Btrfs performance regression, with some workloads slowing down by 500‑2000 %; users report extracting large .tar.zst files taking minutes instead of seconds.

UnionTech’s UOS now ships a native Linux‑compatible WeChat desktop client supporting domestic CPUs such as Loongson, Kunpeng and Kirin, with one‑click installation across multiple architectures.

Adobe Flash Player will be removed from Windows 10 via an optional update, following Adobe’s end‑of‑life schedule that ceased support on December 31 2020.

Mi 11’s kernel source (code‑named venus‑r‑oss) has been open‑sourced on GitHub, based on Android R and released under GPLv2.

Ruby 3.0 was released, promising three‑fold speed improvements and new features like MJIT, Ractor, Fiber scheduler and static type analysis.

2020 saw app‑store consumer spending exceed $100 billion, with Apple’s App Store and Google Play both reaching record revenues.

Developers ported the Linux kernel to Nintendo’s N64 console, publishing the bootloader on GitHub as a proof‑of‑concept.

DeepMind introduced MuZero, an AI algorithm that learns game rules without prior knowledge, achieving higher data efficiency than AlphaZero and exploring applications in video compression, autonomous driving and protein design.

Huawei contributed the most patches (1 434) to Linux 5.10, focusing on ARM64, ACPI, memory management, filesystems and HiSilicon support.