Author: ProHoster

Discord loosens Go Live restrictions to help coronavirus victims

Due to the coronavirus outbreak sweeping the world, Discord has relaxed the restrictions of its Go Live feature. Over the next few months, chat users will be able to broadcast their game to up to fifty viewers via voice chat. The company made this decision to support those who need to communicate more than ever during this difficult period. However, Discord performance is expected to deteriorate due to increased load […]

Video: special moves and customization of Spawn - the next guest fighter in Mortal Kombat 11

A video has appeared on the IGN YouTube channel demonstrating the fatality, brutality and Fatal Blow of Spawn, a new fighter in Mortal Kombat 11. The hero from the comics performs the same cruel and bloody moves as the other characters in the game. At the beginning of the video, users were shown several finishing blows. For example, Spawn impales an enemy with his chains, and then sends […]

Puzzle about repairing things and your own life Assemble with Care will be released on PC on March 26

Developers from ustwo games studio have kept their promise to release their originally mobile puzzle game Assemble with Care on PC in the first quarter of 2020 - the game will appear on Steam on March 26th. There is no information about this yet on Valve’s digital service, nor on the official channels or social networks of ustwo games, but the date is beyond doubt: […]

The MaxPatrol SIEM system for detecting cybersecurity incidents received an update

Positive Technologies company announced the release of a new version of the MaxPatrol SIEM 5.1 software package, designed for monitoring information security events and identifying various incidents in real time. The MaxPatrol SIEM platform collects data on current events and automatically detects threats, including previously unknown ones. The system helps information security services quickly respond to an attack, conduct a detailed investigation and […]

Google Introduces Input Substitution Blocker Through Malicious USB Devices

Google has published the ukip utility, which allows you to monitor and block attacks carried out using malicious USB devices that simulate a USB keyboard to covertly substitute fictitious keystrokes (for example, an attack can simulate a sequence of clicks leading to opening a terminal and executing arbitrary commands). The code is written in Python and distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. The utility starts […]

Mozilla will help update the KaiOS platform (a fork of Firefox OS)

Mozilla and KaiOS Technologies have announced a collaboration aimed at updating the browser engine used in the KaiOS mobile platform. KaiOS continues development of the Firefox OS mobile platform and is currently used on approximately 120 million devices sold in more than 100 countries. The problem is that KaiOS continues to use an outdated browser engine corresponding to Firefox 48, […]

Debian 8 will be supported for over 5 years

The LTS Team, responsible for generating updates for LTS branches of Debian, announced the possibility of receiving updates for Debian 8 after completing the regular five-year maintenance cycle. Initially, it was planned to stop supporting the LTS branch of Debian 8 in July 2020, but Freexian expressed its readiness to release updates on its own to eliminate vulnerabilities in packages as part of the extended “Extended LTS” program. […]

The Chinese have developed power capacitors that could change the idea of ​​electric transport

Almost unknown in the West, the Chinese company Toomen New Energy from Shenzhen has been able to develop technology for the production of power capacitors, which could become a compromise between supercapacitors and lithium-ion batteries. The development turned out to be unexpectedly unique even for sophisticated European engineers and scientists. In Europe, a small Belgian startup Kurt.Energy has become a partner of Toomen New Energy. Startup CEO Eric Verhulst […]

The announcement of the 5G smartphone Honor 10X on the Kirin 820 platform is coming

The Honor brand, owned by the Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei, is preparing to release a powerful smartphone 10X, as reported by knowledgeable network sources. It is alleged that the electronic “brain” of Honor 10X will be the proprietary Kirin 820 processor, which has not yet been officially presented. The integrated 5G modem will provide the ability to work in fifth generation mobile networks. The Honor 10X will replace the mid-range Honor […]

Motherboard based on the AMD B550 chipset poses for a photo

One of the longest stories in the news field in recent months is the preparation for the announcement of more affordable AMD 500 series chipsets. The flagship AMD X570 has already fulfilled its mission, and support for PCI Express 4.0 should descend to more affordable price niches. A photo of a motherboard based on AMD B550 has appeared. The VideoCardz resource published a photo of the motherboard […]

Proton 5.0-4 - new version of Windows game launcher

On March 11, Valve published on its project page on GitHub information about the release of a new version of the package for launching Windows games Proton 5.0-4. The project is based on Wine 5.0, and the main task is to launch games developed for Windows OS and placed in the Steam catalogs. Main changes in the new version: Fixed errors in the operation of the Electronic Arts Origin launcher. […]