Author: ProHoster

Turning on two-factor authentication on your EA account can get you a free month of Origin Access

Electronic Arts has decided to take care of the safety of all users of its services. The publisher is giving away a month of free Origin Access if the player enables two-factor authentication on their EA account. To take part in the promotion, you must log in to the official Electronic Arts website. Then open the “Security” menu and find the “Username Confirmation” item there. To the specified email [...]

Firefox 69.0.2 update to fix YouTube issue on Linux

A corrective update for Firefox 69.0.2 has been published that fixes a crash that occurs on the Linux platform when the YouTube video playback speed is changed. In addition, the new release resolves issues with detecting whether parental controls are enabled in Windows 10 and fixes a crash when editing files on the Office 365 site. Source: opennet.ru

Announced psychological thriller Martha is Dead with a mystical plot and photorealistic environments

Studio LKA, known for the horror The Town of Light, with the support of the publishing house Wired Productions, announced its next game. It's called Martha is Dead and it's in the psychological thriller genre. The plot intertwines a detective story and mysticism, and one of the main features will be a photorealistic environment. The narrative in the project will tell about the events in Tuscany in 1944. After […]

Türkiye fines Facebook $282 for violating personal data confidentiality

Turkish authorities have fined the social network Facebook 1,6 million Turkish liras ($282) for violating the data protection law, which affected almost 000 people, Reuters writes, citing a report by the Turkish Personal Data Protection Authority (KVKK). . On Thursday, KVKK said it had decided to fine Facebook after personal information was leaked […]

Epic Games started giving away a "minute" adventure game Minit

The Epic Games Store has launched a free distribution of the indie adventure game about the duck Minit. The project can be picked up from the service until October 10. Minit is an indie game developed by Jan Willem Nijman. A distinctive feature of the project is the 60-second duration of each game session. The user plays as a duck who fights with a cursed sword. It is because of this that the levels are limited in duration. […]

Baikal-M processor introduced

The Baikal Electronics company at the Microelectronics 2019 Forum in Alushta presented its new Baikal-M processor, designed for a wide range of target devices in the consumer and B2B segments. Technical specifications: http://www.baikalelectronics.ru/products/238/ Source: linux.org.ru

Release ClamAV 0.102.0

An entry about the release of program 0.102.0 appeared on the blog of the ClamAV antivirus, developed by Cisco. Among the changes: transparent checking of opened files (on-access scanning) was moved from clamd to a separate clamonacc process, which made it possible to organize clamd operation without root privileges; The freshclam program has been redesigned, adding support for HTTPS and the ability to work with mirrors that process requests on […]

Firefox 69.0.2 Corrective Update

Mozilla has released a corrective update to Firefox 69.0.2. Three errors were fixed in it: a crash when editing files on the Office 365 website was fixed (bug 1579858); fixed errors related to enabling parental controls in Windows 10 (bug 1584613); Fixed a Linux-only bug that caused a crash when the video playback speed in YouTube was changed (bug 1582222). Source: […]

New side-channel attack technique to recover ECDSA keys

Researchers from the University. Masaryk disclosed information about vulnerabilities in various implementations of the ECDSA/EdDSA digital signature creation algorithm, which make it possible to restore the value of a private key based on an analysis of leaks of information about individual bits that emerge when using third-party analysis methods. The vulnerabilities were codenamed Minerva. The most well-known projects that are affected by the proposed attack method are OpenJDK/OracleJDK (CVE-2019-2894) and […]

PostgreSQL 12 release

After a year of development, a new stable branch of the PostgreSQL 12 DBMS has been published. Updates for the new branch will be released over five years until November 2024. Main innovations: Added support for “generated columns”, the value of which is calculated based on an expression covering the values ​​of other columns in the same table (analogous to views, but for individual columns). The generated columns can be of two […]

Disable local console when using x11vnc

Hello everyone, there are a lot of articles on the Internet on the topic of how to set up a remote connection to an existing Xorg session via x11vnc, but I haven’t found anywhere how to suppress the local monitor and input so that anyone sitting next to the remote computer does not watch what you do and did not press any buttons in your session. Below the cut is my […]

House with high-tech elements for a homeless cat

Recently I noticed that a skinny and very timid cat, with eternally sad eyes, had settled in the barn attic... He didn’t make contact, but he was watching us from afar. I decided to treat him with premium food, which our domestic cat-faces gobble up. Even after two months of treats, the cat still avoided all attempts to contact him. Perhaps he had previously suffered from [...]