The Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences has announced the nominees for the 23rd annual DICE Awards. The awards will take place on February 13 at the DICE Summit in Las Vegas. The hosts will be Jessica Chobot and Greg Miller. Control and Death Stranding received the most nominations (eight each), including a nomination in the Game of the Year category. Disco Elysium and […]
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I recently read an article in which Mark Zuckerberg made predictions about the next decade. I really like the topic of forecasts, I try to think along these lines myself. So, this article contains his words that every decade there is a change in the technology platform. In the 90s it was a personal computer, in the 10s it was the Internet, and in the XNUMXs it was a smartphone. On […]
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The organizers of the Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) have announced the Pwn2Own 2020 event, in which participants are invited to demonstrate working techniques for exploiting previously unknown vulnerabilities. The event will take place from March 18 to 20 as part of the CanSecWest conference in Vancouver. The total prize pool in 2020 will be more than $4 million, not including the new Tesla Model 3 […]
Security researchers from Lyrebirds have disclosed a vulnerability (CVE-2019-19494) in cable modems based on Broadcom chips that allows full control of the device. According to researchers, about 200 million devices in Europe, used by different cable operators, are affected by the problem. To check your modem, a script has been prepared that evaluates the activity of the problematic service, as well as a working prototype of an exploit for […]
A beta release of the OpenMandriva Lx 4.1 distribution has been created. The project is being developed by the community after Mandriva SA handed over the management of the project to the non-profit organization OpenMandriva Association. A 2.7 GB (x86_64) Live build is offered for download. In the new version, the Clang compiler used to build packages has been updated to the LLVM 9.0 branch. In addition to the stock Linux kernel compiled in […]
As you know, next Tuesday, January 14, Microsoft will release the latest set of security updates for Windows 7. After this, support for the 2009 OS will officially end. Unofficially, craftsmen will certainly be able to use updates provided as part of paid support, but this is not the topic now. Many users probably thought that with the end of OS support and the imminent appearance of a new […]
Microsoft announced a long time ago that it would no longer support the Windows Phone software platform. Since then, developers of various applications have gradually abandoned support for this operating system. Support for Windows 10 Mobile officially ends on January 14, 2020. A few days before this, the developers of the popular WhatsApp messenger decided to remind users of this. Last year it became known [...]
Almost every player is familiar with the DOOM franchise: some joined it from more recent games, while others enjoyed the extermination of sprite demons in the nineties. And now Bethesda has released an update that will slightly modernize the first two parts of the cult series. Let us remind you: on December 10, for the 26th anniversary of DOOM, Bethesda presented the DOOM: Slayers Collection with all […]
Valve has updated the beta version of the Steam game client, which has fixed a number of bugs. One of them was a problem with the client crashing on Linux. This occurred during the preparation of information about the user's environment, which was used to collect statistics. This data made it possible to calculate the number of Linux users who play Steam games. As of December, the share of […]
It has become known that Microsoft intends to add a Walkie Talkie feature to its Teams corporate messenger, which will allow employees to communicate with each other while working. The message states that the new feature will be available to users in test mode in the next few months. The Walkie Talkie function is supported on smartphones and tablets, the connection between […]
