Bobby Prince, the composer of Duke Nukem 3D, claims that his music was used without permission or compensation in the game's re-release. Prince's lawsuit stems from the 2016 release of Duke Nukem 3D: 20th Anniversary World Tour, an enhanced remake of Duke Nukem 3D released for PC, PS4 and Xbox One. It had eight new levels, updated resources […]
Adidas and Swedish audio manufacturer Zound Industries, which produces devices under the Urbanears and Marshall Headphones brands, announced a new series of Adidas Sport headphones. The series includes the FWD-01 wireless in-ear headphones, which can be used for running and while working out in the gym, and the RPT-01 full-size wireless headphones. Like many other sports brand products, new items were created […]
Blue Origin, founded by Jeff Bezos, still plans to operate in the space tourism industry using its own New Shepard rocket. However, before the first passengers take flight, the company will conduct at least two more test launches without a crew. This week, Blue Origin filed an application for its next test flight with the Federal […]
A few hours ago, without explanation, Richard Stallman announced on his personal website that he would immediately resign as director of the GNU Project. It is noteworthy that just two days ago he announced that the leadership of the GNU project remains with him and he does not intend to leave this post. It is possible that the said message is vandalism published by an outsider as a result of hacking […]
The second beta release of FreeBSD 12.1 has been published. The FreeBSD 12.1-BETA2 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 […]
Developers from Crystal Dynamics and Eidos Montreal continue to share information about the main characters of Marvel's Avengers. After a detailed demonstration of the gameplay for Black Widow, the authors presented a short teaser for Thor. The video shows basic information about the character, as well as some of his skills. The message accompanying the video reads: “Thor, the god of thunder, has arrived for his own Heroes Week. People of Midgard, look […]
Google has unveiled the release of the Chrome OS 77 operating system, based on the Linux kernel, the upstart system manager, the ebuild/portage assembly tools, open components and the Chrome 77 web browser. The Chrome OS user environment is limited to a web browser, and instead of standard programs, web browsers are used. apps, however, Chrome OS includes a full multi-window interface, desktop, and taskbar. Building Chrome […]
Google has unveiled the release of the Chrome OS 77 operating system, based on the Linux kernel, the upstart system manager, the ebuild/portage assembly tools, open components and the Chrome 77 web browser. The Chrome OS user environment is limited to a web browser, and instead of standard programs, web browsers are used. apps, however, Chrome OS includes a full multi-window interface, desktop, and taskbar. Building Chrome […]
The theme of moving your mortal body from one country to another is explored, it would seem, from all sides. Some say it's time. Someone says that the first ones don’t understand anything and it’s not time at all. Someone writes how to buy buckwheat in America, and someone writes how to find a job in London if you only know swear words in Russian. However, what does […]
The new browser with the self-explanatory name Next is focused on keyboard control, so it does not have a familiar interface as such. The keyboard shortcuts are similar to those used in Emacs and vi. The browser can be customized and supplemented with extensions in the Lisp language. There is the possibility of a “fuzzy” search - when you do not need to enter consecutive letters of a specific word/words, [...]
On September 24, 2019, an entry about the release of the KnotDNS 2.8.4 DNS server appeared on the developer’s website. The project developer is the Czech domain name registrar CZ.NIC. KnotDNS is a high-performance DNS server that supports all DNS features. Written in C and distributed under the GPLv3 license. To ensure high performance query processing, a multi-threaded and, for the most part, non-blocking implementation is used, highly scalable [...]
The final version of the cryproarmpkcs utility has been released. The fundamental difference from previous versions is the addition of functions related to the creation of self-signed certificates. Certificates can be created either by generating a key pair or using previously created certificate requests (PKCS#10). The created certificate, along with the generated key pair, is placed in a secure PKCS#12 container. The PKCS#12 container can be used when working with openssl […]
