IT News Digest #16: Snap plans to slow hiring, YouTube removes more than 9,000 channels relating to Russia-Ukraine war, Airbnb to close in China

Last week in news: Airbnb says it will cease taking bookings for accommodation inside China from 30 July, Snap will only hire 500 more people this year.

Development:

• Java News Roundup: OpenJDK, Spring Updates and CVEs, Payara Platform, Apache Tomcat Updates.
• State of the Java Ecosystem Report from New Relic: Java 11 is the new standard for production environment.
• Google Jetpack brings updated architectural and UI components and improved performance tools.

Career and IT market:

• Airbnb to close in China amid repeated Covid lockdowns. Service says it will cease taking bookings for accommodation inside China from 30 July.
• YouTube removes more than 9,000 channels relating to Russia-Ukraine war. The platform is hugely popular in Russia.
• Snap plans to slow hiring, warns that revenue will grow slower than expected. Snap will only hire 500 more people this year versus 2,000 over the past 12 months.

Online Security:

• Google will start distributing a security-vetted collection of open-source software libraries.
• New unpatched bug could let attackers steal money from PayPal users.