Most recently, Check Point presented a new scalable Maestro platform. We have already published a whole article about what it is and how it works. In short, it allows you to almost linearly increase the performance of the security gateway by combining multiple devices and balancing the load between them. Surprisingly, there is still a myth that this scalable platform is suitable […]
Check Point started 2019 quite quickly by making several announcements at once. It’s impossible to talk about everything in one article, so let’s start with the most important thing - Check Point Maestro Hyperscale Network Security. Maestro is a new scalable platform that allows you to increase the “power” of the security gateway to “indecent” numbers and almost linearly. This is achieved naturally by balancing [...]
Kojima Productions has announced a world tour to celebrate the launch of Death Stranding. This was reported on the studio's Twitter. The developers noted that Hideo Kojima will go on the journey with them. The studio will hold events in Paris, London, Berlin, New York, Tokyo, Osaka and other cities. Unfortunately, there are no Russian cities on the list, but Kojima has already presented Death Stranding […]
Registration is now open for the Peer-to-Peer Forum MSK-IX 2019, which will take place on December 5 in Moscow. According to established tradition, the annual meeting of clients, partners and friends of MSK-IX will be held in the Congress Hall of the World Trade Center. This year the forum is being held for the 15th time. More than 700 people are expected to take part. The event is held for those whose work is related to [...]
Google Stadia chief engineer Madj Bakar said that in a year or two, the game streaming system created under his leadership will be able to provide better performance and better response times compared to conventional gaming computers, no matter how powerful they are. At the heart of the technology that will provide an incredible cloud gaming environment are AI algorithms that predict […]
Publisher Wired Productions and developers from the studio KeokeN Interactive presented a trailer for the launch of their post-apocalyptic project Deliver Us The Moon, scheduled for October 10 on PC (on Steam, GOG and Utomik). The game will also be released on Xbox One and PlayStation 4, but in 2020. The video itself is very crumpled and shows a rocket launch, some kind of disaster on […]
Yesterday, Microsoft released a new patch in the form of a cumulative update for Windows 10 version 1903 and older builds. There are a lot of fixes for corporate and ordinary users. The patch numbered KB4517389 is said to resolve all printing related issues. Users confirm this. The fixes will also include security improvements for Internet Explorer and Microsoft […]
Representatives of the Blender project announced on Twitter that NVIDIA has joined the Blender Development Foundation at the level of the main sponsor (Patron). NVIDIA became the second sponsor of this level, another is Epic Games. NVIDIA donates more than $3 thousand a year for the development of the Blender 120D modeling system. In a tweet, Blender representatives say that this will allow two more specialists […]
On October 4, the console text editor nano 4.5 was released. It has fixed some bugs and made minor improvements. The new tabgives command allows you to define the Tab key behavior for different programming languages. The Tab key can be used to insert tabs, spaces, or anything else. Displaying help information using the --help command now aligns text equally […]
After the Free Software Foundation published a call to reconsider its interaction with the GNU Project, Richard Stallman announced that, as the current head of the GNU Project, he would be involved in building relations with the Free Software Foundation (the main problem is that all GNU developers sign an agreement transferring property rights to the code to the Free Software Foundation and he legally owns all GNU code). 18 maintainers and […]
The Gentoo Linux distribution is 20 years old. On October 4, 1999, Daniel Robbins registered the gentoo.org domain and began developing a new distribution, into which, together with Bob Mutch, he tried to transfer some ideas from the FreeBSD project, combining them with the Enoch Linux distribution that had been developing for about a year , in which experiments were conducted on building a distribution compiled from […]
After a year of development, the release of the VeraCrypt 1.24 project has been published, developing a fork of the TrueCrypt disk partition encryption system, which has ceased to exist. VeraCrypt is notable for replacing the RIPEMD-160 algorithm used in TrueCrypt with SHA-512 and SHA-256, increasing the number of hashing iterations, simplifying the build process for Linux and macOS, and eliminating problems identified during the audit of TrueCrypt source codes. At the same time, VeraCrypt provides a […]
