Last week, Intel announced a new generation of high-performance desktop (HEDT) processors, Cascade Lake-X. The new products differ from last year's Skylake-X Refresh by almost half the cost and higher clock speeds. However, Intel claims that users will be able to independently increase the frequencies of the new chips. “You can overclock any of them and get really interesting results,” […]
It all started a little over a year ago, in July 2018, when the first hardware device of the Yandex company was presented - the YNDX.Station smart speaker was released under the symbol YNDX-0001. But before we had time to be properly surprised, devices of the YNDX series, equipped with the proprietary Alice voice assistant (or oriented to work with it), fell like a cornucopia. And now for testing […]
Once, during an interview, I was asked, what will you do if you find a service not working due to the fact that the disk has run out of space? Of course, I replied that I would see what was occupied by this place and, if possible, I would clean the place. Then the interviewer asked, what if there is no free space on the partition, but also files that would take up all […]
Cisco has published the release of Snort 2.9.15.0, a free attack detection and prevention system that combines signature matching techniques, protocol inspection tools, and anomaly detection mechanisms. The new release adds the ability to detect RAR archives and files in egg and alg formats in transit traffic. New debugging calls have been implemented to display information about the definition […]
As you know, at the recent Surface event, Microsoft introduced a version of Windows 10 for a completely new category of computing devices. We are talking about dual-screen foldable devices that combine the features of laptops and tablets. At the same time, according to experts, the Windows 10X operating system (Windows Core OS) is intended not only for this category. The fact is that Windows […]
Bandai Namco Entertainment has announced the release of farming simulator Doraemon Story of Seasons. Doraemon Story of Seasons is a heart-warming adventure based on the well-known manga and anime Doraemon for children. According to the plot of the work, the robot cat Doraemon moved from the 22nd century to our time to help a schoolboy. In the game, the mustachioed man and his friend […]
ARTE France and Le Belle Games have announced the adventure The Wanderer: Frankenstein's Creature for PC, Nintendo Switch, iOS and Android. In The Wanderer: Frankenstein's Creature, you'll play as the Creature, a wanderer with no memory or past whose virgin spirit is trapped in a stitched body. To forge the fate of this artificial monster, who knows neither good nor […]
D3 Publisher has announced the release date for third-person shooter Earth Defense Force: Iron Rain on PC. The release will take place next week, October 15th. Let us remind you that PlayStation 4 users were the first to receive the game; this happened on April 11th. On Metacritic, this version has an average score: journalists give the action movie 69 points out of 100, and […]
The release of KnotDNS 2.9.0 has been published, a high-performance authoritative DNS server (the recursor is designed as a separate application) that supports all modern DNS capabilities. The project is developed by the Czech name registry CZ.NIC, written in C and distributed under the GPLv3 license. KnotDNS is distinguished by its focus on high performance query processing, for which it uses a multi-threaded and mostly non-blocking implementation that scales well […]
I would like to share my impressions of the All-Russian Digital Breakthrough competition. After it, I had generally very good impressions (without any irony); it was my first hackathon in my life and I think it will be my last. I was interested in trying what it was - I tried it - not my thing. But first things first. Around the end of April 2019, I […]
Life seems to be easy for IT engineers. They earn good money and move freely between employers and countries. But this is all for a reason. The “typical IT guy” has been staring at the computer since school, and then at the university, master’s degree, graduate school... Then work, work, work, years of production, and only then the move. And then work again. Of course, from the outside it may seem [...]
A week ago, a 48-hour hackathon was held in Kazan - the final of the all-Russian Digital Breakthrough competition. I would like to share my impressions of this event and find out your opinion on whether it is worth holding such events in the future. What are we talking about? I think many of you have now heard the phrase “Digital Breakthrough” for the first time. I also had not heard about this competition until now. So I’ll start with [...]
