GitLab, which develops the collaborative development platform of the same name, has introduced a new agreement for the use of its products. All users of commercial products for enterprises (GitLab Enterprise Edition) and cloud hosting GitLab.com are asked to agree to the new terms without fail. Until the new terms are accepted, access to the web interface and Web API will be blocked. The change takes effect from [...]
Microsoft, in collaboration with Intel, Qualcomm and AMD, presented mobile systems with hardware protection against attacks through firmware. The company was forced to create such computing platforms by the increasing number of attacks on users by so-called “white hat hackers” - groups of hacking specialists subordinate to government agencies. In particular, ESET security experts attribute such actions to a group of Russian […]
Information has appeared in the Geekbench database about a new mid-level Samsung smartphone - a device coded SM-A515F. This device is expected to be released on the commercial market under the name Galaxy A51. The test data states that the smartphone will come with Android 10 operating system out of the box. The proprietary Exynos 9611 processor is used. It contains eight computing cores […]
The new Honor 20 Lite (Youth Edition) smartphone debuted, equipped with a 6,3-inch Full HD+ display with a resolution of 2400 × 1080 pixels. There is a small cutout at the top of the screen: a 16-megapixel selfie camera with artificial intelligence functions is installed here. A fingerprint scanner is integrated directly into the display area. The rear camera has a three-module configuration. The main unit contains a 48-megapixel sensor. It is complemented by sensors with 8 […]
First, a little history. Web 1.0 is a network for accessing content that was posted on sites by their owners. Static html pages, read-only access to information, the main joy is hyperlinks leading to the pages of this and other sites. The typical format of a site is an information resource. The era of transferring offline content to the network: digitizing books, scanning pictures (digital cameras were […]
The text summarizes the ideas expressed by the author in the report “Philosophy of Evolution and the Evolution of the Internet.” The main disadvantages and problems of the modern web: Catastrophic overload of the network with repeatedly duplicated content, in the absence of a reliable mechanism for searching for the original source. The dispersion and unrelatedness of the content means that it is impossible to make an exhaustive selection by topic and, even more so, by level of analysis. Dependency of the presentation form […]
GameReactor reported that studio Crystal Dynamics and publisher Square Enix held a preview screening of Marvel's Avengers in London. At the event, Senior Producer on the development team, Rose Hunt, shared more details about the game's structure. She told how cooperative missions work and what rewards users will receive for completing them. A Crystal Dynamics spokeswoman said: “The difference […]
Comedy hospital management sim Two Point Hospital was originally slated to release on consoles this year. Alas, publisher SEGA announced a postponement. Two Point Hospital will now release on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch in the first half of 2020. “Our players asked for console versions of Two Point Hospital, and we, in turn, […]
Comedy show host Conan O'Brien will also appear in Death Stranding, because it's Hideo Kojima's game, so anything can happen. According to Kojima, O'Brien plays one of the supporting characters in The Wondering MC, who loves cosplay and can give the player a sea otter costume if contacted. Conan O'Brien […]
It has become known that Facebook will not launch its own cryptocurrency, Libra, until the necessary approvals are received from American regulatory authorities. The head of the company, Mark Zuckerberg, stated this in a written opening statement to the hearings, which began today in the House of Representatives of the US Congress. In the letter, Mr. Zuckerberg makes it clear that Facebook […]
Deputy Head of the Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Communications Alexey Volin, according to RIA Novosti, clarified the situation with the blocking of Telegram in Russia. Let us recall that the decision to restrict access to Telegram in our country was made by the Tagansky District Court of Moscow at the request of Roskomnadzor. This is due to the messenger’s refusal to disclose encryption keys for the FSB to access correspondence […]
Mozilla developers have published a plan to implement support for add-ons in the Firefox Preview (Fenix) mobile browser, which is being developed to replace the Firefox edition for the Android platform. The new browser is based on the GeckoView engine and a set of Mozilla Android Components libraries, and does not initially provide the WebExtensions API for developing add-ons. In the first quarter of 2020, this deficiency is planned to be eliminated in GeckoView/Firefox […]
