Author: ProHoster

Incognito mode and additional protection will appear in the Google Play Store

According to online sources, one of the future versions of the Google Play Store digital content store will have new features. We are talking about incognito mode and a tool that will warn the user about the ability of a particular application to install additional components or programs. Mention of new features was found in the code of Play Store version 17.0.11. Regarding the regime [...]

Outer Wilds Space Adventure Coming to PS4 October 15th

Annapurna Interactive and Mobius Digital have announced that the detective adventure Outer Wilds will be released on PlayStation 4 on October 15. Outer Wilds went on sale on Xbox One and PC at the end of May. The game is a detective adventure in an open world where a certain star system is stuck in an endless time loop. You must find out for yourself [...]

Release of DBMS SQLite 3.30

The release of SQLite 3.30.0, a lightweight DBMS designed as a plug-in library, has been published. The SQLite code is distributed as a public domain, i.e. may be used without restrictions and free of charge for any purpose. Financial support for SQLite developers is provided by a specially created consortium, which includes companies such as Adobe, Oracle, Mozilla, Bentley and Bloomberg. Main changes: Added the ability to use the expression […]

PayPal becomes first member to leave Libra Association

PayPal, which owns the payment system of the same name, announced its intention to leave the Libra Association, an organization that plans to launch a new cryptocurrency, Libra. Let us recall that it was previously reported that many members of the Libra Association, including Visa and Mastercard, decided to reconsider the possibility of their participation in the project to launch a digital currency created by Facebook. PayPal representatives announced that […]

Sberbank identified the employee involved in the leak of customer data

It became known that Sberbank completed an internal investigation, which was carried out due to a data leak on the credit cards of clients of the financial institution. As a result, the bank's security service, interacting with representatives of law enforcement agencies, was able to identify an employee born in 1991 who was involved in this incident. The identity of the culprit is not disclosed; it is only known that he was the head of a sector in one of the business units […]

Release of Mastodon 3.0, a decentralized social networking platform

The release of a free platform for the deployment of decentralized social networks has been published - Mastodon 3.0, which allows you to create services on your own that are not controlled by individual providers. If the user is unable to run his own node, he can choose a trusted public service to connect to. Mastodon belongs to the category of federated networks, in which […]

Third beta release of FreeBSD 12.1

The third beta release of FreeBSD 12.1 has been published. The FreeBSD 12.1-BETA3 release is available for amd64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpcspe, sparc64 and armv6, armv7 and aarch64 architectures. Additionally, images have been prepared for virtualization systems (QCOW2, VHD, VMDK, raw) and Amazon EC2 cloud environments. FreeBSD 12.1 is scheduled for release on November 4th. An overview of the innovations can be found in the announcement of the first beta release. Compared […]

Can arbitrariness be programmed?

What is the difference between a person and a program? Neural networks, which now make up almost the entire field of artificial intelligence, can take into account many more factors in making a decision than a person, do it faster and, in most cases, more accurately. But programs operate only as they are programmed or trained. They can be very complex, take into account many factors and [...]

The first three days of the life of the post on Habré

Every author worries about the life of his publication; after publication, he looks at the statistics, waits and worries about comments, and wants the publication to get at least an average number of views. With Habr, these tools are cumulative and therefore it is quite difficult to imagine how the author’s publication begins its life against the background of other publications. As you know, the bulk of publications gain views in the first three […]

Russian Railway Simulator 1.0.3 is a free railway transport simulator

Russian Railway Simulator (RRS) is a free, open-source railway simulator project dedicated to 1520 mm gauge rolling stock (the so-called “Russian gauge”, common in Russia and neighboring countries). RRS is written in C++ and is a cross-platform project, that is, it can run on different operating systems. RRS is positioned by the developers as fully compatible with the […]

OpenBVE 1.7.0.1 - free rail transport simulator

OpenBVE is a free railway transport simulator written in the C# programming language. OpenBVE was created as an alternative to the railway simulator BVE Trainsim, and therefore most routes from BVE Trainsim (versions 2 and 4) are suitable for OpenBVE. The program is distinguished by motion physics and graphics that are close to real life, a side view of the train, animated surroundings and sound effects. 18 […]

Release of DBMS SQLite 3.30.0

The release of DBMS SQLite 3.30.0 took place. SQLite is a compact embedded DBMS. The library source code has been released into the public domain. What's new in version 3.30.0: added the ability to use the “FILTER” expression with aggregate functions, which made it possible to limit the coverage of data processed by the function to only records based on a given condition; in the “ORDER BY” block, support for the “NULLS FIRST” and “NULLS LAST” flags is provided […]