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gamescom 2019: Disintegration trailer looks like a mix of Halo and X-COM

A month ago, publishing house Private Division and studio V1 Interactive presented the sci-fi shooter Disintegration. It should be released next year on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC. And during the opening of the gaming exhibition gamescom 2019, the creators showed a more complete trailer for this project, which this time includes excerpts of the gameplay. It turns out that the vehicle from the first video […]

Online payments for taxi services, hotel reservations and transport tickets are growing in Russia

Mediascope conducted a study of the structure of online payments in Russia in 2018–2019. It turned out that over the year the share of users periodically making payments via the Internet has remained almost unchanged, including payments for mobile communication services (85,8%), purchases in online stores (81%) and housing and communal services (74%). At the same time, the number of people who pay online for a taxi, book […]

gamescom 2019: the journey of a keg of rum in the announcement of Port Royale 4

At the opening ceremony of gamescom 2019, held on the evening of August 19, there was an unexpected announcement of Port Royale 4. Publisher Kalypso Media and developer Gaming Minds presented a trailer in which a barrel of rum was lucky to overcome various vicissitudes of the journey and reach the island. Apparently, this location will become the starting location in the game. In the first seconds of the trailer, two people make a deal, and a drink […]

Disclosed equipment smartphones Samsung Galaxy M21, M31 and M41

Network sources have revealed the key characteristics of three new smartphones that Samsung is preparing to release: these are the Galaxy M21, Galaxy M31 and Galaxy M41 models. The Galaxy M21 will receive a proprietary Exynos 9609 processor, which contains eight processing cores with a clock frequency of up to 2,2 GHz and a Mali-G72 MP3 graphics accelerator. The amount of RAM will be 4 GB. It says […]

MemeTastic 1.6 is a mobile application for creating memes based on templates

MemeTastic is a simple meme generator for Android. Completely free of advertising and 'watermarks'. Memes can be created from template images placed in the /sdcard/Pictures/MemeTastic folder, images shared by other applications and images from the gallery, or take a photo with your camera and use this photo as a template. The application does not require network access to operate. Convenience […]

VLC 3.0.8 media player update with security fixes

A corrective release of the VLC 3.0.8 media player has been presented, which eliminates accumulated errors and eliminates 13 vulnerabilities, including three problems (CVE-2019-14970, CVE-2019-14777, CVE-2019-14533) that can lead to the execution of an attacker’s code when trying to playback of specially designed multimedia files in MKV and ASF formats (write buffer overflow and two problems with accessing memory after it is freed). Four […]

Release of new stable branch Tor 0.4.1

The release of the Tor 0.4.1.5 toolkit, used to organize the operation of the anonymous Tor network, has been presented. Tor 0.4.1.5 is recognized as the first stable release of the 0.4.1 branch, which has been in development for the past four months. The 0.4.1 branch will be maintained as part of the regular maintenance cycle - updates will be discontinued after 9 months or 3 months after the release of the 0.4.2.x branch. Long Time Support (LTS) is provided […]

Malicious code detected in rest-client and 10 other Ruby packages

In the popular rest-client gem package, with a total of 113 million downloads, malicious code substitution (CVE-2019-15224) was detected, which downloads executable commands and sends information to an external host. The attack was carried out by compromising the rest-client developer account in the rubygems.org repository, after which the attackers published releases 13-14 on August 1.6.10 and 1.6.13, which included malicious changes. Before malicious versions of them are blocked […]

THQ Nordic Resurrects Helicopter Simulator Comanche on PC

The gaming exhibition Gamescom 2019 in Cologne turned out to be rich in announcements. For example, during a live broadcast, the publishing house THQ Nordic announced the revival of the once famous helicopter simulator Comanche and showed a short video with excerpts of the gameplay of this interesting project. The trailer promises intense multiplayer dogfights with a focus on completing objectives. One of the most interesting details revealed by the teaser […]

How to solve the problems of aggregator sites using residential proxies

Image: Pexels For e-commerce aggregator sites, maintaining up-to-date information is critical. Otherwise, their main advantage disappears - the ability to see the most relevant data in one place. In order to solve this problem, it is necessary to use web scraping techniques. Its meaning is that a special software is created - a crawler, which bypasses the necessary sites from the list […]

Cisco Training 200-125 CCNA v3.0. Day 20 Static Routing

Today we'll talk about static routing and look at three topics: what static routing is, how it's configured, and what its alternative is. You see the network topology, which includes a computer with an IP address of 192.168.1.10, connected via a switch to a gateway, or router. For this connection, the router port f0/0 with the IP address 192.168.1.1 is used. The second port of this router […]

DevOps Deflope open mic, stories about Skyeng and Nvidia infrastructure and more

Hello, next Tuesday warm lamp gatherings are planned at Taganka: Artem Naumenko will be there with a story about infrastructure as a product, Vitaly Dobrovolsky with a report on balancing the Kafka cluster and the hosts of a specialized podcast with a still secret topic for discussion. We are also expecting a special guest from the northern capital - Vitaly Levchenko, organizer of the St. Petersburg SRE party. UPD. Locations in […]