Author: ProHoster

Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot sells over 1,5 million copies in first week

As part of a recent report to investors, Bandai Namco Entertainment announced that sales of action role-playing game Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot exceeded 1,5 million copies in the first week of release. According to the information in the document, the publisher's goal for the coming year was to sell 2 million copies of Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot, so the new CyberConnect2 creation is already close to […]

GTA V breaks into first place in the weekly sales rankings on Steam

The winter period of 2020 was marked by a lack of major game releases. This has had a definite impact on sales rankings on Steam, as demonstrated by a recent report from Valve. Last week, the list of the most profitable games was topped by Grand Theft Auto V. In previous ratings, the Rockstar Games hit also appeared on a regular basis, but has not taken the first position since November 2019 […]

Privacy? No, haven't heard

In the Chinese city of Suzhou (Anhui Province), street cameras were used to identify people wearing the "wrong" clothes. Using facial recognition software, officials identified the perpetrators and publicly shamed them by posting photos and personal details online. The department of city government believed that in this way it would be possible to eradicate the "uncivilized" habits of the inhabitants of the city. Cloud4Y tells how it all happened. Start […]

How to scale from 1 to 100 users

Many startups have gone through this: hordes of new users register every day, and the development team struggles to keep the service running. This is a nice challenge, but there is little clear information on the web on how to accurately scale a web application from zero to hundreds of thousands of users. Usually there are either fire solutions or debottlenecking (and often both). […]

Qualcomm: coronavirus poses a threat to the mobile industry

Chipmaker Qualcomm said on Wednesday that the coronavirus outbreak in China poses a potential threat to the mobile phone industry as it could have a negative impact on production and sales. Qualcomm CFO Akash Palkhiwala said on a conference call with investors following the release of its quarterly results that the company expects "significant uncertainty regarding the impact of […]

What is SAP?

What is SAP? And why the hell is it worth $163 billion? Each year, companies spend $41 billion on enterprise resource planning software, known by the acronym ERP. Today, almost every large business has implemented one or another ERP system. But most small companies don't usually buy ERP systems, and most developers probably haven't seen them in action. […]

Nintendo announces Switch production delay due to coronavirus

The Japanese company Nintendo has informed consumers in its home market that the production and delivery of the Switch console and related accessories will be delayed due to problems caused by the coronavirus, the outbreak of which is currently recorded in China. Due to this, pre-orders for the Animal Crossing-themed Switch version, which was officially unveiled last week, have been postponed to […]

WireGuard will "come" to the Linux kernel - why?

At the end of July, the developers of the WireGuard VPN tunnel proposed a set of patches that would make their VPN tunneling software part of the Linux kernel. However, the exact date of implementation of the "idea" is still unknown. Let's talk about this tool in more detail under the cut. / photo Tambako The Jaguar CC Project Brief WireGuard is a next-generation VPN tunnel created by Jason A. Donenfeld, […]

Huawei sues Verizon over patent infringement

Huawei announced that it has filed lawsuits against the telecommunications operator Verizon in the US District Courts of the Eastern and Western Districts of Texas in connection with violation of its copyrights. The company is seeking compensation for the operator's use of its technologies, including network solutions and video communications, protected by 12 patents registered in the United States. The company said that prior to filing […]

Why it's so important to let a candidate know what went wrong in an interview (and how to do it right)

One of the worst things about technical interviews is that it's a black box. Candidates are only told whether they have progressed to the next stage, without any details as to why this happened. The lack of feedback or constructive feedback doesn't just frustrate candidates. It's bad for business too. We conducted a whole study on the topic of feedback and [...]

8. Fortinet Getting Started v6.0. Working with users

Greetings! Welcome to lesson eight of the Fortinet Getting Started course. In the sixth and seventh lessons, we got acquainted with the basic security profiles; now we can release users to the Internet, protecting them from viruses, limiting access to web resources and applications. Now the question arises about administering user records. How to provide Internet access to only a certain group of users? […]