Author: ProHoster

Soyuz-2.1a rocket will launch Korean mini-satellites into space for plasma research

State-owned Roscosmos Corporation announces that the Soyuz-2.1a launch vehicle has been selected by the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI) to launch its small CubeSats as part of the SNIPE mission. The SNIPE program (Small scale magNetospheric and Ionospheric Plasma Experiment) - “Research of local properties of magnetospheric and ionospheric plasma” - provides for the deployment of a group of four 6U CubeSat spacecraft. […]

The first domestic ARM-processor "Baikal-M" will be on sale this year

The development of the first domestic high-performance ARM processor seems to be approaching its final point. According to the source, the Baikal Electronics company is preparing to begin sales of the Baikal-M processor before the end of this year. It is worth noting that the release of this chip was repeatedly postponed, but now, it seems, we are talking about the fact that all organizational, technical and production problems have finally been overcome, and the new product is about three years late […]

HP to Launch Chromebook x360 12 Laptop with Intel Gemini Lake Platform

HP, according to online sources, will soon announce the Chromebook x360 12 portable computer, which will replace the current 11-inch Chromebook x360 11 model running Chrome OS. The new product will receive a 12,3-inch HD+ display with an aspect ratio of 3:2. There is no word yet on touch control support. The hardware basis will be the Intel Gemini Lake platform. IN […]

Debian revisits support for multiple init systems

Sam Hartman, Debian project leader, tried to sort out the controversy surrounding the distribution of the elogind package as part of the distribution. In July, the team responsible for preparing releases blocked the inclusion of elogind in the testing branch, since this package conflicts with libsystemd. As a reminder, elogind provides the interfaces needed to run GNOME without installing systemd. The project was founded as an offshoot [...]

“Buka” will be shown at IgroMir 2019 Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2

The Buka company announced its participation in the IgroMir 2019 exhibition. At stand number F10, the publisher will present Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2, Iron Harvest, Wasteland 3, Blacksad: Under the Skin and Asterix & Obelix XXL 3. All games will be played on powerful PCs (with NVIDIA RTX video cards) assembled by iRU . Stand F10 will be located in the third […]

Polygon: Apex Legends will add a new hero, Crypto, and the Charge Rifle rifle in the third ranked season

Polygon journalists published information about the expected direction of development of Apex Legends. According to the publication, with the start of the new rating season, the developers will add the hero Crypto and the Charge Rifle rifle to the shooter. They will appear in the game no earlier than October 1st. It is expected that the appearance of a new character will be the biggest innovation in the game. Users have already found it in the current game client. Despite […]

Apple has released two new trailers showcasing children's series from TV+

Perhaps the main announcements during the recent presentation were not new Apple devices like the iPad 10,2″, Apple Watch Series 5 and the iPhone 11 family, but subscription services: the gaming Arcade and streaming television TV+. The monthly cost of both, quite unexpectedly for Apple, was only 199 rubles in Russia (for comparison, in the USA the price is $4,99), […]

Noir strategy John Wick Hex will be released in EGS on October 8

Good Shepherd Entertainment has announced that the noir turn-based strategy game John Wick Hex will be released on PC on October 8, 2019, exclusively on the Epic Games Store. The game can already be pre-ordered for 449 rubles. In John Wick Hex you must think and act like John Wick, a professional hitman. The game combines elements of strategy and dynamic […]

A vulnerability in vhost-net that allows bypassing isolation in systems based on QEMU-KVM

Information has been disclosed about a vulnerability (CVE-2019-14835) that allows you to escape the guest system in KVM (qemu-kvm) and execute your code on the host side in the context of the Linux kernel. The vulnerability has been codenamed V-gHost. The problem allows the guest system to create conditions for a buffer overflow in the vhost-net kernel module (network backend for virtio), executed on the side of the host environment. The attack could be […]

Chrome update 77.0.3865.90 fixes critical vulnerability

Google has released a corrective update to the Chrome browser 77.0.3865.90. It fixed four security vulnerabilities. One of the vulnerabilities had a critical status; it made it possible 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) are not yet disclosed until users install the update. Other vulnerabilities are classified as […]

What awaits participants in the Linux PIter 2019 program

The Linux Piter program was prepared for 9 months. Members of the conference program committee reviewed several dozen applications for reports, sent hundreds of invitations, listened and selected the most interesting and relevant ones. Russia, USA, Germany, Finland, Britain, Ukraine and many other parts of the world, from where speakers will flock and represent companies such as RedHat, Intel, CISCO, Samsung, Synopsys, Percona, Veeam, Nutanix, Dell EMC, […]