Author: ProHoster

3CX V16 Update 3 and new 3CX mobile app for Android released

Last week we completed a large stage of work and released the final release of 3CX V16 Update 3. It contains new security technologies, an integration module with HubSpot CRM and other interesting new items. Let's talk about everything in order. Security Technologies In Update 3, we focused on more complete support for the TLS protocol in various system modules. TLS protocol layer […]

Public testing of Project xCloud streaming service launched

Microsoft has launched public testing of the Project xCloud streaming service. Users who applied to participate have already started receiving invitations. "Proud of the #ProjectxCloud team for launching public testing - it's an exciting time for Xbox," Xbox CEO Phil Spencer tweeted. — Invitations are already being distributed and will be sent over the coming weeks. We are glad, […]

Windows 10 November 2019 Update will improve search in File Explorer

The Windows 10 November 2019 (1909) update will be available for download in the coming weeks. This will approximately happen in the first or second week of November. Unlike other major updates, it will be presented as a monthly package. And this update will receive several improvements that, although they won’t change anything radically, will improve usability. It is reported that one of […]

Daybreak Game Company has been hit by a wave of layoffs, hitting Planetside 2 and Planetside Arena

Studio Daybreak Game Company (Z1 Battle Royale, Planetside) has laid off several employees. The company confirmed the layoffs after many of the affected employees discussed the job cuts on Twitter. It's unclear how many people were affected, although a Reddit thread dedicated to the topic suggested that the Planetside 2 and Planetside Arena teams were most affected. “We are taking steps to improve […]

Wargroove will receive a free add-on with a new campaign and other improvements

Chucklefish has announced a free addition to the turn-based strategy Wargroove with a new campaign and game features. The developer published details of the add-on, called Double Trouble, on the official blog. The main feature of the DLC is the story campaign, designed to be played in co-op mode (although it will also be available in single player). The story will revolve around a group of Robbers. Led by three […]

Do neural networks dream of Mona Lisa?

I would like, without going into technical details, to touch a little on the question of whether neural networks can achieve anything significant in art, literature, and whether this is creativity. Technical information is easy to find, and there are well-known applications as examples. Here is only an attempt to understand the very essence of the phenomenon; everything that is written here is far from […]

ScummVM 2.1.0 release subtitled "Electric Sheep"

Selling animals has become an extremely profitable and prestigious business since most of the real animals died in a nuclear war. There were also a lot of electric... Oh, I didn't notice you came in. The ScummVM team is pleased to present a new version of its interpreter. 2.1.0 is the culmination of two years of work, including support for 16 new games for 8 […]

qimgv 0.8.6 image viewer release

A new release of the open-source cross-platform image viewer qimgv, written in C++ using the Qt framework, is available. The program code is distributed under the GPLv3 license. The program is available for installation from the Arch, Debian, Gentoo, SUSE and Void Linux repositories, as well as in the form of binary builds for Windows. The new version speeds up the launch of the program by more than 10 times (in [...]

Release of the Python 3.8 programming language

After a year and a half of development, a significant release of the Python 3.8 programming language was presented. Corrective updates for the Python 3.8 branch are planned to be released within 18 months. Critical vulnerabilities will be fixed for 5 years until October 2024. Corrective updates for the 3.8 branch will be released every two months, with the first corrective release of Python 3.8.1 scheduled for December. Among the added innovations: [...]

KDE Plasma Desktop Release 5.17

A release of the KDE Plasma 5.17 custom shell is available, built using the KDE Frameworks 5 platform and the Qt 5 library using OpenGL/OpenGL ES to speed up rendering. You can evaluate the performance of the new version through a Live build from the openSUSE project and builds from the KDE Neon project. Packages for various distributions can be found on this page. Key improvements: In the window manager […]

High performance and native partitioning: Zabbix with TimescaleDB support

Zabbix is ​​a monitoring system. Like any other system, it faces three main problems of all monitoring systems: collecting and processing data, storing history, and cleaning it. The stages of receiving, processing and recording data take time. Not much, but for a large system this can result in large delays. The storage problem is a data access issue. They […]