ASUS releases the ROG Crosshair VIII Impact motherboard based on the AMD X570 chipset. The new product is designed for assembling compact, but at the same time very productive systems on AMD Ryzen 3000 series processors. The new product is made in a non-standard form factor: its dimensions are 203 × 170 mm, that is, it is slightly longer than Mini-ITX boards. According to ASUS, this is not […]
Introduction The article describes the capabilities and architectural features of the Citrix Cloud cloud platform and the Citrix Workspace set of services. These solutions are the central element and basis for the implementation of the digital workspace concept from Citrix. In this article, I tried to understand and formulate the cause-and-effect relationships between cloud platforms, services and Citrix subscriptions, which are described in open […]
Let's start with the news. Yesterday Yandex.Cloud announced the launch of the serverless computing service Yandex Cloud Functions. This means: you only write the code for your service (for example, a web application or a chatbot), and the Cloud itself creates and maintains the virtual machines where it runs, and even replicates them if the load increases. You don’t need to think at all, it’s very convenient. And the payment is only for the time [...]
Intel and MY.GAMES (the gaming division of Mail.Ru Group) announced the signing of a strategic partnership agreement aimed at developing the gaming industry and supporting e-sports in Russia. As part of the cooperation, the companies intend to conduct joint campaigns in order to inform and expand the number of fans of computer games and e-sports. It is also planned to jointly develop educational and entertainment projects, and create […]
The personal data of millions of Sberbank clients, as reported by the Kommersant newspaper, ended up on the black market. Sberbank itself has already confirmed a possible information leak. According to available information, the data of 60 million Sberbank credit cards, both active and closed (the bank now has about 18 million active cards), fell into the hands of online fraudsters. Experts are already calling this leak the largest [...]
Polygon interviewed The Last of Us Part II game director Anthony Newman from Naughty Dog. The director shared new details regarding some game mechanics. According to the head, each character in the project has a heart rate that affects his behavior. Anthony Newman said: "Every aspect of the game has been updated to some level, […]
The DICE studio, with the support of Electronic Arts, has published a new trailer for Battlefield V. It is dedicated to the “Operation Metro” map, which was first added to the third part, and now in a reworked form will appear in the latest project of the series. The video demonstrates the main features of the battles in this location. The video begins with aircraft breaching the entrance to the metro and fighters bursting […]
The full launch of the newest cooperative action movie Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Breakpoint will take place on October 4 in versions for PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One (and later the game will drop on the Google Stadia cloud platform). The developers decided to remind you about the optimizations for PC that the project can offer. Ubisoft has a long-standing partnership with AMD, so its games like Far […]
Hacktoberfest 2019 Celebrate Hacktoberfest by getting involved in the open source community. We would like to ask you to help us translate openITCOCKPIT into as many languages as possible. Absolutely anyone can join the project; to participate, you only need an account on GitHub. About the project: openITCOCKPIT is a modern web interface for managing a monitoring environment based on Nagios or Naemon. Description of participation […]
Since version 3.34, GNOME has completely switched to systemd user session instrumentation. This change is completely transparent to both users and developers (XDG-autostart is supported) - apparently, that’s why it went unnoticed by ENT. Previously, only DBUS-activated ones were launched using user sessions, and the rest was done by gnome-session. Now they have finally gotten rid of this extra layer. Interestingly, [...]
Corrective releases of the Ruby programming language 2.6.5, 2.5.7 and 2.4.8 were generated, in which four vulnerabilities were eliminated. The most dangerous vulnerability (CVE-2019-16255) in the standard Shell library (lib/shell.rb), which allows code substitution. If data received from the user is processed in the first argument of the Shell#[] or Shell#test methods used to check the presence of a file, an attacker can cause an arbitrary Ruby method to be called. Other […]
Like Firefox, Chrome plans to soon stop supporting the TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 protocols, which are in the process of being deprecated and not recommended for use by the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force). Support for TLS 1.0 and 1.1 will be disabled in Chrome 81, scheduled for March 17, 2020. According to Google in […]
