Author: ProHoster

The Division 3 Episode 2 Story Trailer Showcases Coney Island

Next month, Tom Clancy's The Division 2 will release an update called Coney Island: The Hunt. As part of it, the developers will continue to develop the game and tell stories that unfold after the completion of the main plot. On this occasion, Ubisoft presented a new trailer. This will be the fourth and final major update in the first year of support for the co-op action RPG. Besides […]

US Senator Urges Tesla to Rename Autopilot Feature

Massachusetts Senator Edward Markey called on Tesla to change the name of its Autopilot driver assistance system because it could be misleading. According to the senator, the current name of the function may be misinterpreted by owners of Tesla electric vehicles, since turning on the driver assistance system does not make the vehicle truly autonomous. Incorrect interpretation of the name can lead to [...]

X2 Helios 300G Sync PC Case Gets a Hybrid Front Panel

X2 Products has announced the Helios 300G Sync computer case, designed to create a gaming desktop system based on an ATX motherboard. The new product is completely made in black. A special feature of the product is a hybrid front panel: its lower section has a mesh design, and the rest is covered with tempered glass. The side wall is also made of glass. The front is initially equipped with three [...]

Intel to give its GPUs hardware-accelerated ray tracing

Speculation that Intel may implement support for hardware acceleration of ray tracing in its future GPUs of the Intel Xe family has been around for a long time. The company then confirmed them, but only for data center GPUs. Now, clear evidence of support for ray tracing in Intel's consumer GPUs has been found in the drivers. An online source with a pseudonym […]

MSI Optix MAG322CR: Esports Monitor with 180Hz Refresh Rate

MSI has released the Optix MAG322CR monitor with a 31,5-inch VA matrix, designed for use in gaming-grade systems. The panel has a concave shape: the radius of curvature is 1500R. The resolution is 1920 × 1080 pixels, which corresponds to Full HD format. Viewing angles horizontally and vertically - up to 178 degrees. AMD FreeSync technology is responsible for ensuring smooth gameplay. Panel […]

How to overcome fear and start using Azure Machine Learning

I know many Data Scientists - and perhaps I am one of them - who work on GPU machines, local or virtual, located in the cloud, either through a Jupyter Notebook or through some kind of Python development environment. Working for 2 years as an AI/ML expert developer, I did exactly this, while preparing data on a regular server […]

USB Type-C port issue on Lenovo laptops may be caused by Thunderbolt firmware

According to online sources, problems with the USB Type-C interface that some owners of Lenovo ThinkPad laptops have encountered may be caused by the firmware of the Thunderbolt controller. Cases where the USB Type-C port on ThinkPad laptops completely or partially stops working have been recorded since August last year. Lenovo began releasing ThinkPad series laptops with built-in USB Type-C interface in 2017, […]

Save on Mikrotik CHR licenses

In the Telegram chat @router_os I often see questions about how to save money on buying a license from Mikrotik, or use RouterOS, in general, for free. Oddly enough, but such methods exist in the legal field. In this article, I will not touch upon the licensing of Mikrotik hardware devices, since they come from the factory with a maximum license that can be serviced […]

Speed ​​up OpenVPN for $9.99* or embed Orange Pi One into a router

Some of us do not use the Internet without a VPN for one reason or another: someone needs a dedicated IP, and it is easier and cheaper to buy a VPS with two IPs than buying an address from a provider, someone wants to access all websites, and not only permitted on the territory of the Russian Federation, others need IPv6, but the provider does not provide it... Most often […]

New IT infrastructure for Russian Post data center

I am sure that all Habr readers have at least once ordered goods from online stores abroad and then went to receive parcels at a Russian Post office. Can you imagine the scale of this task, from the point of view of organizing logistics? Multiply the number of buyers by the number of their purchases, imagine a map of our vast country, and on it there are more than 40 thousand post offices... By the way, in […]

Speeding up OpenVPN on an Openwrt router. Alternative version without soldering iron and hardware extremism

Hello everyone, I recently read an old article about how you can speed up OpenVPN on a router by moving the encryption to a separate piece of hardware that is soldered inside the router itself. I have a similar case to the author - TP-Link WDR3500 with 128 megabytes of RAM and a poor processor that is completely unable to cope with tunnel encryption. However, I categorically go into the router with a soldering iron [...]

WINE 5.0 release

The WINE team is pleased to present you the stable release of Wine 5.0. There were over 7400 changes and fixes in this release. Main changes: Built-in modules in PE format. Multiple monitor support. Reworking the XAudio2 audio API. Vulkan 1.1 graphics API support. The release is dedicated to the memory of Józef Kucia, who tragically died at the age of 30 while researching […]