One of the Nginx employees, Igor Ippolitov, posted a message on Twitter that the Nginx office was being searched. He was forced to delete the tweet and screenshots of the search warrant at the request of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, but a copy remained online. According to investigators, unidentified persons at an unspecified time (before October 2004) made the Nginx program publicly available, […]
While working on a remaster of the popular strategy game Command & Conquer, Electronic Arts discovered that it had lost the original voice recordings of the announcer from the first part of the franchise. Because of this, we had to re-record all the lines again. For authenticity, the publisher hired Kia Huntzinger, who did the voice acting in the first Command & Conquer. It was her voice that commented on in-game events. […]
The ld.so dynamic loader included with OpenBSD can, under certain conditions, leave the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable for a SUID/SGID application and thus allow third-party code to be loaded in the context of a process running with elevated privileges. Patches that fix the vulnerability are available for releases 6.5 and 6.6. Binary patches (syspatch) for the amd64, i386 and arm64 platforms have already been put into production and […]
Following confirmation that The Game Awards 2019 will show a full trailer for the samurai action game Ghost of Tsushima, the ceremony's host and producer Geoff Keighley shared some details of the upcoming demonstration. “I’m very happy for everyone who will see this trailer tomorrow! It will be the longest running on the show, a true cinematic adventure (don’t worry, there will be gameplay too!),” reassured […]
Google has unveiled the release of the Chrome 79 web browser. At the same time, a stable release of the free Chromium project, which serves as the basis of Chrome, is available. The Chrome browser is distinguished by the use of Google logos, the presence of a system for sending notifications in case of a crash, the ability to download a Flash module on request, modules for playing protected video content (DRM), a system for automatically installing updates, and transmitting RLZ parameters when searching. The next release of Chrome 80 […]
Research conducted by ESET suggests that approximately three-quarters (74%) of Russian web users connect to Wi-Fi hotspots in public places. The survey found that users most often connect to public hotspots in cafes (49%), hotels (42%), airports (34%) and shopping malls (35%). It should be emphasized that when answering this question, one could choose several [...]
After a year of development, Oracle has published the release of the VirtualBox 6.1 virtualization system. Ready-made installation packages are available for Linux (Ubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE, Debian, SLES, RHEL in builds for the AMD64 architecture), Solaris, macOS and Windows. Main changes: Added support for hardware mechanisms proposed in the fifth generation of Intel Core i (Broadwell) processors for organizing nested launch of virtual machines; The old […]
Autodesk has introduced new versions of Maya 2020 and Arnold 6, which introduce new hardware acceleration capabilities using GPUs. Arnold 6, together with NVIDIA RTX GPUs and RTX servers, can now be used for rendering at all stages of a project, from development to final rendering. NVIDIA also introduced the new NVIDIA Studio driver, which includes […]
Glass Bottom Games has announced that SkateBIRD will be released on Nintendo Switch, Xbox One and PC next year. This, of course, is not Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, but the gameplay, as the developers ironically wrote, will be appreciated by fans of Tiny Hawk's Pro Skater. In SkateBIRD, you are a lonely little bird whose big friend has stopped […]
Samsung, according to online sources, is considering the possibility of using 5G MediaTek processors in its Galaxy smartphones. We are talking about using MediaTek solutions in relatively inexpensive devices that support fifth generation networks. It is assumed that such devices will be included in the Galaxy A Series family and some other series of Samsung smartphones. The contract with MediaTek will allow the South Korean giant to reduce the cost of 5G smartphones and […]
Sony Corporation has announced that in the coming days, sales of a full-frame camera with interchangeable lenses, the Alpha 9 II, will begin on the Russian market, the official announcement of which took place in early October of this year. The new product (model ILCE-9M2) is aimed primarily at professionals working in the field of sports photography and photojournalism. The camera is equipped with an Exmor RS CMOS sensor (35,6 x 23,8 mm) with […]
Back in June, Xiaomi showed its own smartphone with a camera under the surface of the display (Mi 9 prototype without a screen cutout). There were rumors that a similar approach would be used in the Xiaomi Mi Mix 4. However, instead, we received a concept device wrapped in a screen, Xiaomi Mi Mix Alpha, costing $2800. However, it is claimed that Mi Mix 4 is still […]
