Good afternoon. It was very interesting to listen to the opinion of Gaël Thomas (I don’t know the transcription) about improving programming skills. However, my personal experience tells me that this article misses the point. CLOSE THE HUB AND GO TO STUDY Actually, that's all. The whole secret: read the theory, do the practice. We don’t read articles about how to study better or how to be successful. If you are […]
After a year of development, the release of the spam filtering platform is available - SpamAssassin 3.4.3. SpamAssassin implements an integrated approach to deciding whether to block: the message is subjected to a number of checks (contextual analysis, DNSBL black and white lists, trained Bayesian classifiers, signature checking, sender authentication using SPF and DKIM, etc.). After evaluating a message using different methods, a certain weight […]
The December consolidated update of applications developed by the KDE project has been presented. Previously, applications were delivered as a set of KDE Applications, updated three times a year, but will now publish monthly reports of simultaneous updates to individual programs. In total, more than 120 programs, libraries and plugins were released as part of the December update. Information about the availability of Live builds with new application releases can be obtained […]
Security researchers from F-Secure analyzed KeyWe Smart Lock smart door locks and identified a serious vulnerability that allows, using an nRF sniffer for Bluetooth Low Energy and Wireshark, to intercept control traffic and extract from it a secret key used to open the lock from a smartphone. The problem is aggravated by the fact that the locks do not support firmware updates and the vulnerability will only be fixed […]
The release of the QEMU 4.2 project has been presented. As an emulator, QEMU allows you to run a program compiled for one hardware platform on a system with a completely different architecture, for example, run an ARM application on an x86-compatible PC. In virtualization mode in QEMU, the performance of code execution in an isolated environment is close to the native system due to direct execution of instructions on the CPU and […]
The Rambler company, where Igor Sysoev was employed during the development of the nginx project, filed a lawsuit in which it declared its exclusive rights to Nginx. The Moscow office of Nginx, which was recently sold to F5 Networks for $670 million, was searched and documents were seized. Judging by photographs of the search warrant that have appeared online, the former […]
The release of the free implementation of the OpenGL and Vulkan APIs - Mesa 19.3.0 - has been presented. The first release of the Mesa 19.3.0 branch has an experimental status - after the final stabilization of the code, a stable version 19.3.1 will be released. Mesa 19.3 includes full OpenGL 4.6 support for Intel GPUs (i965, iris drivers), OpenGL 4.5 support for AMD (r600, radeonsi) and NVIDIA (nvc0) GPUs, […]
Developers from Artificial Core have announced a Diablo-like MMORPG with a large open world, Corepunk. The project is being developed for PC using the Unity engine and should be released in the fourth quarter of next year. According to the authors, they want to create a mixture of “Diablo and Ultima Online in a large, seamless world with the fog of war and completely different locations.” In the video you can […]
A week earlier, Riot Games announced the establishment of a publishing division, Riot Forge, which, together with third-party developers, will create games that expand the League of Legends universe. During The Game Awards 2019, two such projects were presented at once - the turn-based RPG Ruined King: A League of Legends and Conv/rgence: A League of Legends Story. We are talking about the latter now [...]
LCG Entertainment, which purchased the assets of Telltale Games in August of this year, re-announced the continuation of the serial game The Wolf Among Us at The Game Awards 2019. The sequel was initially developed by Telltale Games, but as a result of bankruptcy the company closed and production had to be curtailed. Now, along with the reanimated Telltale, AdHoc is responsible for the creation of The Wolf Among Us 2 […]
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and NetherRealm studio have released a fresh update to the fighting game Mortal Kombat 11 on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, which introduced cross-platform multiplayer for both platforms. This is not yet available on PC, Nintendo Switch or Stadia. With Krossplay enabled, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One users will face each other in standard matchmaking […]
Banks and credit organizations proposed changing the system of working with money transfers. As planned, the new option should help prevent fraudulent activities. This was stated by the vice-president of the Association of Banks "Russia" (ADB) Alexey Voylukov following a meeting of employees responsible for security in large financial organizations. In particular, companies propose to increase the blocking period for a dubious transfer, as well as return funds […]
