Author: ProHoster

BioWare Extends Cataclysm to Anthem Due to Lack of Other Entertainment

After the end of Anthem's Cataclysm, many players began posting complaints on the Reddit forum. The essence of dissatisfaction comes down to the fact that there is simply nothing to do in the project. Shortly after this, a message from a BioWare representative was published. He wrote that the developers decided to partially leave the temporary event in Anthem. A statement on the forum said: “Many of you have noticed that Cataclysm has not disappeared. […]

Parrot 4.7 distribution release

On September 18, 2019, news appeared on the Parrot Project blog about the release of the Parrot 4.7 distribution. It is based on the Debian Testing package base. There are three iso image options available for download: two with the MATE desktop environment and one with the KDE desktop. New in Parrot 4.7: The menu structure of the security testing utilities has been redesigned; Added application launch mode in [...]

curl 7.66.0: concurrency and HTTP/3

On September 11, a new version of curl was released - a simple CLI utility and library for receiving and sending data over the network. Innovations: Experimental support for HTTP3 (disabled by default, requires rebuilding with quiche or ngtcp2+nghttp3) Improvements to authorization via SASL Parallel data transfer (-Z switch) Processing of the Retry-After header Replacement of curl_multi_wait() with curl_multi_poll(), which should prevent freezing when waiting. Corrections […]

Oracle Solaris 11.4 SRU 13 release

The company's official blog contains information about the next release of the Oracle Solaris 11.4 SRU 13 distribution. It contains a number of fixes and improvements for the Oracle Solaris 11.4 branch. So, among the changes, we can note: Inclusion of the Hotplug framework for hot removal of SR-IOV PCIe devices. To remove and replace devices, the “evacuate-io” and “restore-io” commands have been added to ldm; Oracle Explorer […]

Newsboat 2.17 console RSS reader release

A new version of newsboat has been released, a fork of newsbeuter - a console RSS reader for UNIX-like operating systems, including Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and macOS. Unlike newsbeuter, newsboat is actively developing, while the development of newbeuter is stopped. The project code is written in C++ using libraries in the Rust language and is distributed under the MIT license. Newsboat features include: RSS support […]

Unpatched critical vulnerability in the vBulletin web forum engine (updated)

Information has been disclosed about an uncorrected (0-day) critical vulnerability (CVE-2019-16759) in the proprietary engine for creating web forums vBulletin, which allows you to execute code on the server by sending a specially designed POST request. A working exploit is available for the problem. vBulletin is used by many open-source projects, including Ubuntu, openSUSE, BSD systems and Slackware forums based on this engine. The vulnerability is present in the "ajax/render/widget_php" handler, which […]

"Burned" employees: is there a way out?

You work in a good company. There are great professionals around you, you get a decent salary, you do important and necessary things every day. Elon Musk launches satellites, Sergei Semyonovich improves the already best city on Earth. The weather is great, the sun is shining, the trees are blooming - live and be happy! But in your team there is Sad Ignat. Ignat is always gloomy, cynical and tired. […]

I survived a burnout, or How to stop a hamster in a wheel

Hello, Habr. Not long ago, I read with great interest several articles here with sound recommendations to take care of employees before they “burn out”, stop producing the expected results and ultimately benefit the company. And not a single one - from the “other side of the barricades,” that is, from those who really burned out and, most importantly, coped with it. […]

Digital events in Moscow from 23 to 29 September

A selection of events for the week Figma Moscow Meetup September 23 (Monday) Bersenevskaya embankment 6с3 free At the meetup, co-founder and head of Figma Dylan Field will speak, and representatives from the Yandex, Miro, Digital October and MTS teams will share their experience. Most of the reports will be in English - an excellent opportunity to improve your language skills at the same time. Big expedition September 24 (Tuesday) We invite owners […]

IoT, fog and clouds: let's talk about technology?

The development of technologies in the field of software and hardware, the emergence of new communication protocols have led to the expansion of the Internet of Things (IoT). The number of devices is growing day by day and they are generating a huge amount of data. Therefore, there is a need for a convenient system architecture capable of processing, storing and transmitting this data. Now cloud services are used for these purposes. However, the increasingly popular [...]

WEB 3.0 - the second approach to the projectile

First, a little history. Web 1.0 is a network for accessing content that was posted on sites by their owners. Static html pages, read-only access to information, the main joy is hyperlinks leading to the pages of this and other sites. The typical format of a site is an information resource. The era of transferring offline content to the network: digitizing books, scanning pictures (digital cameras were […]

Vivo U10 smartphone spotted with Snapdragon 665 processor

Online sources have released information about the characteristics of the mid-level Vivo smartphone, which appears under the code designation V1928A. The new product is expected to debut on the commercial market under the name U10. This time the source of data was the popular Geekbench benchmark. The test suggests that the device uses a Snapdragon 665 processor (the chip is coded trinket). The solution combines eight computing […]