Author: ProHoster

Kaspersky Lab has entered the eSports market and will fight cheaters

Kaspersky Lab has developed a cloud solution for eSports, Kaspersky Anti-Cheat. It is designed to identify unscrupulous players who dishonestly receive prizes in the game, earn qualifications in competitions and in one way or another create an advantage for themselves using special software or equipment. The company entered the e-sports market and entered into its first contract with the Hong Kong platform Starladder, which organizes the e-sports event of the same name […]

Reviews of Borderlands 3 will be delayed: Western journalists complained about the strange decision of 2K Games

Yesterday, several online publications published their reviews of Borderlands 3 - the average rating for the role-playing shooter is currently 85 points - but, as it turns out, only a select handful of journalists got to play. All because of a strange decision by the game publisher, 2K Games. Let's explain: reviewers typically work with retail copies of games provided by the publisher. They can be either digital or [...]

Video: Borderlands 3 Cinematic Launch Trailer

The launch of co-op shooter Borderlands 3 is approaching - on September 13, the game will be released in versions for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC. Recently, the publisher, 2K Games, announced exactly what time players around the world will be able to return to Pandora and travel to other planets. Now Gearbox Software has released a launch trailer for the game, and SoftClub […]

Bug or feature? Players have discovered a first-person view in Gears 5

Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers have been playing Gears 5 for several days now and have discovered a rather interesting bug that gives an idea of ​​what the project would look like if it were not a third-person shooter, but a first-person shooter. The bug was first recorded by Twitter user ArturiusTheMage and then reproduced by other players. Some of them say they met […]

Lilocked (Lilu) — malware for linux systems

Lilocked is a Linux-oriented malware that encrypts files on your hard drive with a subsequent ransom demand (ransomware). According to ZDNet, the first reports of the malware appeared in mid-July, and since then more than 6700 servers have been affected. Lilocked encrypts HTML, SHTML, JS, CSS, PHP, INI files and various image formats while leaving system files untouched. Encrypted files receive […]

Google Releases Open Library for Differential Privacy

Google has released its differential privacy library under an open license on the company's GitHub page. The code is distributed under the Apache License 2.0. Developers will be able to use this library to build a data collection system without collecting personally identifiable information. “Whether you are a city planner, a small business owner or a developer […]

Vivaldi Android beta

The developers of the Vivaldi browser, based on the Blink engine and highly customizable (inspired by Opera from the Presto engine era), have released a beta version of the mobile version of their creation. Among the features they pay attention to: the ability to create notes; support for synchronizing favorites, passwords and notes between devices; creating screenshots, both of the visible area of ​​the page and of the page […]

Chrome includes support for blocking third-party cookies in incognito mode

Experimental builds of Chrome Canary for incognito mode include the ability to block all Cookies set by third-party sites, including advertising networks and web analytics systems. The mode is enabled via the flag “chrome://flags/#improved-cookie-controls” and also activates an advanced interface for controlling the installation of Cookies on sites. After activating the mode, a new icon appears in the address bar, when clicked on it […]

Release of the Mumble 1.3 voice communication platform

Almost ten years after the last significant release, the Mumble 1.3 platform was released, focused on creating voice chats that provide low latency and high quality voice transmission. A key area of ​​application for Mumble is organizing communication between players while playing computer games. The project code is written in C++ and distributed under the BSD license. The builds are prepared for Linux, [...]

Detailed analysis of AWS Lambda

The translation of the article was prepared specifically for students of the Cloud Services course. Interested in developing in this direction? Watch the master class by Egor Zuev (TeamLead at InBit) “AWS EC2 service” and join the next course group: starts on September 26. More people are migrating to AWS Lambda for scalability, performance, savings, and the ability to handle millions or even trillions of requests per month. […]

Slurm DevOps. Second day. IaC, Infrastructure Testing, and Slurm Gets Wings!

Outside the window there is classic positive autumn St. Petersburg weather, in the Selectel conference room it is warm, coffee, Coca-Cola and almost summer. In the world around us, September 5, 2019, we are on the second day of the start of DevOps Slurm. On the first day of the intensive, we covered the simplest topics: Git, CI/CD. On the second day, we prepared Infrastructure as Code and infrastructure testing for the participants - […]

General principles of QEMU-KVM operation

My current understanding: 1) KVM KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is a hypervisor (VMM - Virtual Machine Manager) running as a module on Linux OS. A hypervisor is needed in order to run some software in a non-existent (virtual) environment and at the same time hide from this software the real physical hardware on which this software runs. The hypervisor acts as a “pad” [...]