Author: ProHoster

Xiaomi novelties for smart home: smart speakers and AC2100 router

Xiaomi has announced three new devices for the modern smart home - the XiaoAI Speaker and XiaoAI Speaker PRO smart speakers, as well as the AC2100 Wi-Fi Router. The XiaoAI Speaker has a white cylindrical body with a mesh bottom half. There are controls at the top of the gadget. It is claimed that the new product is capable of forming a sound field with a coverage of 360 […]

Sales of new electric vehicles in Russia are growing: Nissan Leaf is in the lead

The analytical agency AUTOSTAT has published the results of a study of the Russian market for new cars with an all-electric powertrain. From January to August inclusive, 238 new electric cars were sold in our country. This is two and a half times more than the result for the same period in 2018, when sales were 86 units. Demand for electric cars without mileage […]

Kubernetes 1.16 - how to upgrade and not break anything

Today, September 18, the next version of Kubernetes is released - 1.16. As always, many improvements and new products await us. But I would like to draw your attention to the Action Required sections of the CHANGELOG-1.16.md file. These sections publish changes that may break your application, cluster maintenance tools, or require changes to configuration files. In general, they require [...]

Modder replaces Mr X in Resident Evil 2 remake with Pennywise from It

Interest in the Resident Evil 2 remake continues to grow in the modding community. Previously, the game received many modifications in which they stripped the characters, replaced their models with heroes from other projects, and inserted different music. But it is the work of the author under the nickname Marcos RC that can make the gameplay more intense, especially for those users who do not like clowns. Enthusiast replaced Mr. […]

The final addition to Hitman 2 will send us to the Maldives

Developers from IO Interactive talked about the final addition to the stealth action game Hitman 2 from the Expansion Pass. The final DLC, scheduled for release on September 24, will send Forty-Seven to the Maldives. The Haven Island location awaits us, which will offer a full-fledged story mission The Last Resort, Contracts mode tasks, as well as more than 75 new challenges, many unlockable starting points and items […]

OpenAI teaches teamwork to AI in a game of hide-and-seek

A good old-fashioned game of hide and seek can be a great test for artificial intelligence (AI) bots to demonstrate how they make decisions and interact with each other and various objects around them. In a new paper published by researchers from OpenAI, a non-profit artificial intelligence research organization famous for defeating world champions in […]

Sony IE chief on Ghost of Tsushima graphics: 'So beautiful I stopped playing'

For quite some time, news about Ghost of Tsushima from Sucker Punch Productions did not appear in the information field. The reason to remember the game being developed was provided by the head of Sony Interactive Entertainment, Shuhei Yoshida. He recently tested the latest version of the project and shared his impressions in an interview with Famitsu. The Wccftech portal, with reference to the original source, quotes the following words of the head: “Ghost […]

Smartphone Xiaomi Mi 9 Lite is officially presented in Europe

As expected, today the Chinese company Xiaomi presented the European version of the Mi CC9 smartphone, which was named Mi 9 Lite. Despite the fact that Xiaomi Mi CC9 was released in China in mid-summer, the device appeared in Europe only today. The device has a 6,39-inch display made using AMOLED technology and supporting a resolution of 2340 × 1080 pixels (corresponding to […]

Memcached 1.5.18 release with support for cache persistence between restarts

The release of the in-memory data caching system Memcached 1.5.18 was released, operating with data in a key/value format and characterized by ease of use. Memcached is usually used as a lightweight solution to speed up the work of high-load sites by caching access to the DBMS and intermediate data. The code is supplied under the BSD license. The new version adds support for saving cache state between restarts. Memcached is now […]

Clonezilla Live 2.6.3 distribution release

The release of the Linux distribution Clonezilla Live 2.6.3 is available, designed for fast disk cloning (only used blocks are copied). The tasks performed by the distribution are similar to the proprietary product Norton Ghost. The size of the iso image of the distribution is 265 MB (i686, amd64). The distribution is based on Debian GNU/Linux and uses code from projects such as DRBL, Partition Image, ntfsclone, partclone, udpcast. Can be downloaded from [...]

Corrective release of Chrome 77.0.3865.90 with a critical vulnerability fixed

Chrome browser update 77.0.3865.90 is available, which fixes four vulnerabilities, one of which has been assigned the status of a critical problem, which allows you to bypass all levels of browser protection and execute code on the system, outside the sandbox environment. Details about the critical vulnerability (CVE-2019-13685) have not yet been disclosed, it is only known that it is caused by accessing an already freed memory block in handlers associated with the […]

Players think they found the walking dead in Red Dead Online

Last week, Red Dead Online released a major role-based update, and users began to discover zombies, or so claims a post on the Reddit forum. Players say that in different parts of the world they encountered the suddenly revived bodies of NPCs. A user under the nickname indiethetvshow reported that he came to the zombies in the swamp because of a barking dog. […]