Author: ProHoster

The first exclusive Epic Games Store diabloid Hades will be released on Steam on December 10

Diabloid Hades, which became the first Epic Games Store exclusive, will be released on Steam on December 10, 2019. PC Gamer writes about this. A page for the game has already appeared on the Valve service, but it is not yet available for purchase. A year later, Hades is still in early access. During its existence, the project received six major updates. Studio representatives emphasized that […]

Linux 28 years old

28 years ago, Linus Torvalds announced on the comp.os.minix newsgroup that he had created a working prototype of a new Linux operating system. The system included ported bash 1.08 and gcc 1.40, which allowed it to be considered self-sufficient. Linux was created as a response to MINIX, the license of which did not allow the community to conveniently share developments (at the same time, MINIX of those years was positioned as an educational and […]

Android Studio 3.5

Android Studio 3.5, an integrated development environment (IDE) for working with the Android 10 Q platform, has been stable released. Read more about the changes in the release description and in the YouTube presentation. The developments received as part of the Project Marble initiative are presented. Source: linux.org.ru

Introduced low-memory-monitor, a new out-of-memory handler for GNOME

Bastien Nocera has announced a new out-of-memory handler for the GNOME desktop, low-memory-monitor. The daemon evaluates the lack of memory through /proc/pressure/memory and, if the threshold is exceeded, sends a proposal via DBus to processes about the need to moderate their appetites. The daemon may also try to keep the system responsive by writing to /proc/sysrq-trigger. In combination with the work done at Fedora on the use of zram […]

After cyberpunk: what you need to know about the current genres of modern science fiction

Everyone is familiar with works in the cyberpunk genre - new books, films and TV series about the dystopian world of future technology appear every year. However, cyberpunk is not the only genre of modern science fiction. Let's talk about trends in art that offer a variety of alternatives to it and force science fiction authors to turn to the most unexpected topics - from the traditions of the peoples of Africa to the “culture […]

Enlightenment v0.23

Enlightenment is a window manager for X11. Improvements in the new release: Additional option for creating screenshots. The build system is now Meson Build. Music Control now supports the rage mpris dbus protocol. Added support for Bluez5 with updated module and device. Added the ability to enable or disable the dpms option. When switching windows using Alt-Tab, you can now also move them. […]

New Huawei Smartphone Passes TENAA Certification

The Chinese company Huawei regularly releases new smartphones to the market. At a time when everyone is waiting for the arrival of the flagship devices of the Mate series, another Huawei smartphone has been spotted in the database of the China Telecommunications Equipment Certification Authority (TENAA). According to online sources, the new smartphone that was spotted in the TENAA database could be the Huawei Enjoy 10 Plus. Smartphone model […]

Smartphones Redmi Note 8 and Redmi Note 8 Pro will be presented on August 29

A teaser image has appeared on the Internet, which confirms the intention of the Redmi brand to officially announce new smartphones on August 29. The presentation will take place as part of a planned event, where the company's TVs called Redmi TV will also be presented. The presented image confirms that the Redmi Note 8 Pro will have a main camera with four sensors, the main one of which is a 64-megapixel image sensor. […]

Brain + VPS for 30 rubles =?

How nice it is when all the necessary little things are at hand: a good writing pen and notepad, a sharpened pencil, a comfortable mouse, a couple of extra wires, etc. These inconspicuous things do not attract attention, but add comfort to life. The same story with various mobile and desktop applications: for long screenshots, for reducing the size of the picture, for calculating personal finances, dictionaries, […]

Alive and Well: Ransomware in 2019

Ransomware viruses, like other types of malware, evolve and change over the years - from simple lockers that prevented the user from logging into the system, and “police” ransomware that frightened us with prosecution for fictitious violations of the law, we came to ransomware. These malware encrypt files on hard drives (or entire drives) and require a ransom not to […]

"Hacker"

In this humorous story, I wanted to fantasize about what a “hacking” of a washing machine might look like in the near future with the help of a voice interface, intelligent systems and the ubiquitous donation. Could not sleep. It’s 3:47 on a smartphone, but it’s already quite light outside the summer window. Yarik kicked off the edge of the blanket with his foot and sat down. * “I won’t get enough sleep again, I’ll […]

Video: archeology of a lost civilization in the story game Some Distant Memory for Switch and PC

Publisher Way Down Deep and developers from the Galvanic Games studio presented the project Some Distant Memory (in Russian localization - "Vague memories") - a story-driven game about exploring the world. The release is scheduled for the end of 2019 in versions for PC (Windows and macOS) and the Switch console. The Nintendo eShop does not yet have a corresponding page, but it already exists on Steam, […]