Crytek and the developers of space simulator Star Citizen, Cloud Imperium Games and Roberts Space Industries, have agreed to settle their long-running legal dispute, although the terms of the agreement have not been disclosed. The brief filed this week states that both parties will work together to have the case dismissed within 30 days of the settlement […]
A page for the online action game Grounded has appeared on Steam. Let us remind you that this is a game from Obsidian Entertainment, which will be released by Xbox Game Studios. It will be released as part of the Xbox Game Preview Early Access and will be distributed, in addition to direct sales in the store, through the Xbox Game Pass service. “Survivor” Grounded was announced last November during a broadcast as part of the X019 festival. Her […]
Google has been fined more than once by regulators for various violations in the United States. For example, in 2019, YouTube paid approximately $200 million for violating children's privacy laws. In December, Genius sued Google for copyright infringement. And now New Mexico officials are suing Google for collecting children's personal data. In a lawsuit filed in […]
The developers of the Nintendo Wii U emulator called CEMU have released a new version numbered 1.17.2. This build received improved performance when working with multi-core processors and an overall increase in performance. According to the release notes, CEMU 1.17.2 fixes an issue where the game list would show updates or DLC instead of the base game if the game was not found. A new version […]
Let's Encrypt, a non-profit certificate authority that is controlled by the community and provides certificates free of charge to everyone, has announced the introduction of a new scheme for verifying authority to obtain a certificate for a domain. Contacting the server that hosts the “/.well-known/acme-challenge/” directory used in the test will now be carried out using several HTTP requests sent from 4 different IP addresses located in different data centers and belonging to [ …]
After analyzing the OpenBSD project's patch for a vulnerability in the VMM hypervisor discovered last week, the researcher who discovered the problem concluded that the patch offered to users does not fix the problem. The researcher indicated that the problem does not occur due to contiguous allocation of guest physical addresses (GPA), as well as host physical addresses (HPA). When the structure of a memory page intersects the guest […]
Introduction This article looked at some techniques for optimizing LINQ queries. Here we also present some more approaches to code optimization related to LINQ queries. It is known that LINQ (Language-Integrated Query) is a simple and convenient language for querying a data source. And LINQ to SQL is a technology for accessing data in a DBMS. This is a powerful tool for working with data, where through declarative […]
LINQ entered .NET as a powerful new data manipulation language. LINQ to SQL as part of it allows you to communicate quite conveniently with a DBMS using, for example, Entity Framework. However, using it quite often, developers forget to look at what kind of SQL query the queryable provider, in your case Entity Framework, will generate. Let's look at two main points [...]
Foundation Fieldbus is a digital communication system used in automation along with Profibus, Modbus or HART. The technology appeared somewhat later than its competitors: the first edition of the standard dates back to 1996 and currently includes two protocols for information exchange between network participants - H1 and HSE (High Speed Ethernet). The H1 protocol is used for information […]
Moscow studio Enplex Games announced that the session MMO Population Zero will be released in Steam Early Access on May 5. “We are pleased to inform you that the game will be released into early access on Steam on May 5th. In response to the concerns and wishes of our fans, we have decided to release Population Zero as a buy-to-play,” the developer wrote. Previously Enplex […]
Netflix has announced the actors who will play the roles of new characters in the upcoming second season of The Witcher. It became known that the witcher Koyon, who taught Ciri how to wield a sword, will be played by black actor Yasen Atour. Previously, he appeared in several short films and TV series (Robin Hood: The Beginning, Tired of It, Dark Heart), as well as the film Ben-Hur. The role of Brooks Vereena from the story […]
Until artificial intelligence writes programs, administers databases, and configures network connections, finding human specialists for these jobs in Europe is becoming more difficult every year. In order not to be unfounded, let us turn to the latest statistics from the European Union. Recently, Eurostat published data for 2018 on the search and filling of vacancies for specialists in the field of […]
