Valve has announced an interactive advisor on Steam, a new feature designed to make it easier to find potentially interesting games. The technology is based on machine learning and constantly monitors what projects users launch on the site. The essence of an interactive advisor is to offer games that are in demand among people with similar tastes and habits. The system does not directly take into account [...]
The release of the Live-distribution FuryBSD 12.1, built on the basis of FreeBSD and supplied in assemblies with the Xfce (1.8 GB) and KDE (3.4 GB) desktops, has been published. The project is being developed by Joe Maloney of iXsystems, which oversees TrueOS and FreeNAS, but FuryBSD is positioned as a community-supported independent project not associated with iXsystems. The live image can be burned to a DVD, [...]
Firefox developers have presented a plan to completely stop supporting the FTP protocol, which will affect both the ability to download files via FTP and view the contents of directories on FTP servers. The June 77 release of Firefox 2 will disable FTP support by default, but will add a "network.ftp.enabled" setting to about:config to bring FTP back. ESR builds of Firefox 78 support FTP via […]
Corrective releases of the Tor toolkit (0.3.5.10, 0.4.1.9, 0.4.2.7, 0.4.3.3-alpha), used to organize the operation of the Tor anonymous network, are presented. The new versions eliminate two vulnerabilities: CVE-2020-10592 - can be used by any attacker to initiate a denial of service to relays. The attack can also be carried out by Tor directory servers to attack clients and hidden services. An attacker can create […]
Java SE 17 was released on March 14. The following changes were introduced: Switch statements in the form case VALUE -> {} were permanently added, which break the default condition and do not require a break statement. Text blocks delimited by three quotation marks """ have entered the second preliminary stage. Control sequences have been added, which do not add […]
On March 15, a beta version of the Devuan 3 Beowulf distribution was presented, which corresponds to Debian 10 Buster. Devuan is a fork of Debian GNU/Linux without systemd that "gives the user control over the system by avoiding unnecessary complexity and allowing freedom of choice of init system." Among the changes: Changed the behavior of su. Now the default call does not change the PATH variable. The old behavior now requires calling […]
Connection tracking (“conntrack”) is a core feature of the Linux kernel networking stack. It allows the kernel to keep track of all logical network connections or flows and thereby identify all the packets that make up each flow so that they can be sequentially processed together. Conntrack is an important kernel feature that is used in some basic cases: NAT relies on information from conntrack, […]
I posted a new project A Simple GPU Hash Table on Github. This is a simple GPU hash table capable of processing hundreds of millions of inserts per second. On my NVIDIA GTX 1060 laptop, the code inserts 64 million randomly generated key-value pairs in about 210ms and removes 32 million pairs in about 64ms. That is, the speed […]
Broadband satellite Internet available to any inhabitant of the Earth anywhere on the planet is a dream that is gradually becoming a reality. Satellite internet used to be expensive and slow, but that's about to change. They are engaged in the implementation of an ambitious project in a good sense, or rather, projects of the companies SpaceX, OneWeb. In addition, at various times the company announced the creation of its own network of Internet satellites […]
DOOM Eternal will be the first game in the series to not feature the classic multiplayer Deathmatch mode. In a recent interview, Bethesda Softworks Vice President of Marketing and Communications Pete Hines explained why they decided not to add him. According to the director, Deathmatch is not suitable for the series, and the developers do not want to implement the mode for the sake of maintaining traditions. As PCGamer reports […]
Apple will release stable versions of iOS 13.4 and iPadOS 13.4 on March 24. In addition to features like a revamped toolbar in the Mail app and iCloud folder sharing, iPadOS will feature trackpad support for the first time. This feature is due to the need to ensure that the iPad Pro introduced today can interact with the new keyboard. But also owners of other iPads […]
On the website of the Mexican branch of the Amazon online store, a page was found for Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition, which, among other things, indicated the release date of the game - May 29. If the above date seems familiar, it’s for good reason - as recently as January, the Danish retail store Cool Shop and the Swedish retailer Spelbutiken already listed it on their websites. WITH […]
