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). […]
A few days ago, I decided to reverse engineer my router's firmware using binwalk. I bought myself a TP-Link Archer C7 home router. Not the best router, but enough for my needs. Every time I buy a new router, I install OpenWRT. For what? As a rule, manufacturers do not care much about supporting their routers, and over time, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Studio Grounding Inc. announced the release date of Space Channel 5 VR: Kinda Funky News Flash on her microblog! — VR re-release of the Sega music game from 1999. Space Channel 5 VR Version: Kinda Funky News Flash! for PlayStation VR will go on sale on February 25 in the US and the next day in Europe, Japan […]
Publisher THQ Nordic announced the establishment of another controlled studio - Nine Rocks Games. The newly formed company is located in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia. Nine Rocks Games will be led by “industry veteran” David Durcak, and the team includes former developers of DayZ, Soldier of Fortune: Payback, Conan 2004 and Chaser. In a statement accompanying the announcement, THQ Nordic said […]
Yandex continues to expand the capabilities of Alice, its intelligent voice assistant, which “lives” inside various devices and is also included in a number of applications. This time, improvements have been made to the Alice camera, which is available in mobile applications with a voice assistant: Yandex, Browser and Launcher. Now, for example, the smart assistant is able to scan documents and read text on photographs aloud. […]
Faced with the threat of new restrictions on Chinese company Huawei, its main supplier of network equipment, German telecoms group Deutsche Telekom has decided to give Nokia another chance to strike a partnership, sources told Reuters. According to sources and according to available documents, Deutsche Telekom offered Nokia to improve its products and services in order to win the tender for the deployment of […]
The release of AMD graphics solutions with the second generation RDNA architecture this year has already been promised by the head of the company. They even left their mark on the new beta version of MacOS. In addition, Apple's operating system provides support for a range of AMD APUs. Since 2006, Apple has used Intel processors in its Mac line of personal computers. Last year, rumors persistently […]
The cost of launching a full payload using a Falcon 9 rocket reaches $60 million, which cuts off small companies from access to space. To make the launch of satellites into orbit accessible to a wider range of customers, SpaceX has reduced the cost of launch and made it possible to reserve a seat on the rocket using... ordering via the Internet! An interactive form has appeared on the SpaceX website [...]
The California Court of Appeal has ruled in a case between Open Source Security Inc. (develops the Grsecurity project) and Bruce Perens. The court rejected the appeal and affirmed the lower court's verdict, which dismissed all claims against Bruce Perens and ordered Open Source Security Inc to pay $259 in legal fees (Perens […]
Google has published a plan to add new protection mechanisms to Chrome against unsafe file downloads. In Chrome 86, which is scheduled for release on October 26, downloading all types of files via links from pages opened via HTTPS will only be possible if the files are served using the HTTPS protocol. It is noted that downloading files without encryption can be used to commit malicious […]
