IT News Digest #14: Tech giants lost more than $1 trillion in value in the last three trading days, Instagram will begin testing NFTs this week, JetBrains introduces the Dependency Analyzer

Last week in news: cybersecurity services by Microsoft, Dependency Analyzer by JetBrains, Play Store blocks users in Russia.

Development:

• Java News Roundup: JEPs for Projects Loom and Panama, JobRunr 5.1.0, Kotlin 1.7.0 Preview.

• Red Hat has released Quarkus 2.8.0: it delivers integration with the RESTEasy Reactive REST layer and GraalVM 22.0 by default.

• JetBrains has released IntelliJ IDEA 2022.1 which introduces the Dependency Analyzer.

Career and IT market:

• Tech giants lost more than $1 trillion in value in the last three trading days.

• Instagram will begin testing NFTs this week. ‘Digital collectibles’ will be available to some US users.

• Ford files patent application for remote engine revving system. Should be a fun feature for auto shows.

• Play Store blocks users in Russia from purchasing or updating paid apps.

Online Security:

• Five Eyes alliance lists 2021’s top vulnerabilities.

• GitHub will require all code contributors to use two-factor authentication. The code hosting platform cited a responsibility to boost the security of the software supply chain overall.

• Microsoft launches cybersecurity services to help clients fight off ransomware and other attacks.