Author: ProHoster

Horror The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope will be released this summer. First details and screenshots

Bandai Namco Entertainment and Supermassive Games have announced that the second installment of The Dark Pictures Anthology, The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope, will be released on PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One this summer. “We were delighted with the player response and the success of Man of Medan as the first part of The Dark Pictures Anthology,” […]

Alien Hominid Invasion at PAX East 2020: Target Platforms, Screenshots and Gameplay Trailer

As promised, as part of the PAX East 2020 festival, The Behemoth studio shared details and a gameplay video of Alien Hominid Invasion, a modernized version of its cooperative arcade game. First, The Behemoth has decided on the target platforms for Alien Hominid Invasion. The reimagining will go on sale for PC (Steam), Xbox One and Nintendo Switch. Whether the game will be released on PS4 is not specified. "Alien […]

Samsung is working on fixing issues with the Galaxy S20 camera

Galaxy S20, Samsung's new flagship, is not yet available on the market, but reviewers are already reporting the first problems with the smartphone. They complain about the slow and sometimes inaccurate operation of phase detection autofocus. There are also reports that the camera software processes captured images too aggressively, over-smoothing skin tones. Samsung said it is already working on a fix […]

Patriot Viper Gaming PXD: Fast USB Type-C SSD

The Viper Gaming By Patriot brand officially introduced the PXD external solid-state drive, the first information about which was released during the January CES 2020 exhibition. The new product is based on a PCIe M.2 module. To connect to a computer, use the USB 3.2 Type-C interface, which provides high throughput. The drive uses a Phison E13 controller. Buyers will be able to choose between versions with a capacity of 512 […]

SpaceX received permission to build a plant to assemble a spacecraft for flights to Mars

Private aerospace company SpaceX received final approval Tuesday to build a research and manufacturing facility on vacant land in the Los Angeles waterfront for its Starship spacecraft project. The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously 12–0 to build the facility. Activities at the facility will be limited to research, design and manufacturing of spacecraft components. The created spacecraft […]

Yandex.Market: fitness electronics are gaining popularity in Russia

Yandex.Market, as a large aggregator of prices, characteristics and reviews of products, shared new data on the demand for electronic devices from the world of fitness and sports and highlighted the most popular products for the entire past year. The analysis was carried out in three categories. Smart watches and bracelets In this category, users were mainly interested in the Xiaomi brand (30% of clicks), followed by […]

The Android-x86 project has released a build of Android 9 for the x86 platform

The developers of the Android-x86 project, within which an independent community is developing a port of the Android platform for the x86 architecture, have published the first stable release of the build based on the Android 9 platform (android-9.0.0_r53). The build includes fixes and additions that improve the performance of Android on x86 architecture. Universal Live builds of Android-x86 9 for x86 32-bit (706 MB) and x86_64 architectures have been prepared for download […]

Rostelecom began substituting its advertising into subscriber traffic

Rostelecom, the largest broadband access operator in the Russian Federation, serving about 13 million subscribers, has quietly introduced a system for substituting its advertising banners into subscribers’ unencrypted HTTP traffic. Since the JavaScript blocks inserted into the transit traffic included obfuscated code and access to dubious sites unaffiliated with Rostelecom (p.analytic.press, d.d1tracker.ru, dmd.digitaltarget.ru), at first there was a suspicion that the provider’s equipment had been compromised […]

Vulnerability in Cypress and Broadcom Wi-Fi chips that allows decrypting traffic

Researchers from Eset disclosed at the RSA 2020 conference taking place these days information about a vulnerability (CVE-2019-15126) in Cypress and Broadcom wireless chips that allows decryption of intercepted Wi-Fi traffic protected using the WPA2 protocol. The vulnerability has been codenamed Kr00k. The problem affects FullMAC chips (the Wi-Fi stack is implemented on the chip side, not the driver side), used in a wide range of […]

New rules for issuing SSL certificates for the .onion domain zone have been adopted

Завершилось голосование по поправке SC27v3 к Базовым Требованиям, согласно которым удостоверяющие центры выдают SSL-сертификаты. В итоге поправка, разрешающая при определенных условиях выписывать DV- или OV-сертификаты на доменные имена .onion для скрытых сервисов Tor, принята. Ранее допускалась только выдача EV-сертификатов из-за недостаточной криптографической стойкости алгоритмов, связанных с доменными именами скрытых сервисов. После вступления поправки в силу, […]

IBM developerWorks Connections dies

Под удар попали Wiki, форумы, блоги, деятельности и файлы, размещённые на этой платформе. Сохраните важную информацию. Удаление содержимого запланировано на 31 марта 2020 года. В качестве причины заявлено стремление уменьшить число дублирующих друг друга порталов для взаимодействия с клиентами и упростить пользовательский опыт с цифровой стороной IBM. В качестве альтернативы для размещения нового содержимого предлагается […]

Short Scholarship Programs for Programming Students (GSoC, SOCIS, Outreachy)

Стaртует новый раунд программ, нацеленных на вовлечение студентов в open-source разработку. Вот некоторые из них: https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/ — программа от Гугл, дающая студентам возможность поучаствовать в разработке open-source проектов под руководством менторов (3 месяца, стипендия 3000 USD для студентов из СНГ). Деньги выплачиваются на Payoneer. Интересная особенность программы в том, что студенты сами могут предлагать организациям […]