With Stadia's November launch steadily approaching, Google unveiled a new slate of games at gamescom 2019 that will be part of the streaming service on launch day and beyond, including Cyberpunk 2077, Watch Dogs Legion, and more. When we last heard official word from Google regarding the upcoming service, it was revealed that Stadia would be available […]
Denuvo, a company engaged in the creation and development of DRM protection of the same name, has introduced a new program for mobile video games. According to the developers, it will help protect projects for mobile systems from hacking. The developers said that the new software will not allow hackers to study files in detail. Thanks to this, studios will be able to retain revenue from mobile video games. According to them, it will work around the clock, and its […]
The idea of import substitution does not leave the minds of officials in high offices. According to Vedomosti, the Central Bank can integrate its Fast Payment System (FPS) into the domestic messenger Seraphim. This program is developed for state-owned companies and is a kind of analogue of the Chinese WeChat. At the same time, it is curious that it allegedly involves only domestic crypto-algorithms. Whether this is true or not is unclear, but the app […]
The launch of the action movie Control from the studio Remedy Entertainment, which created Quantum Break and Alan Wake, will take place on August 27 in versions for PC, PS4 and Xbox One. During gamescom 2019, publisher 505 Games and NVIDIA showed a trailer dedicated to support for hybrid rendering effects using ray tracing on GeForce RTX series video cards. And a day later, the developers […]
During the Stadia Connect stream, Google teamed up with developers Robot Entertainment to reveal Orcs Must Die! 3. As the creators note, the action movie will be a temporary exclusive to the Google Stadia cloud gaming platform and will hit the market in the spring of 2020. For now, players can get acquainted with the project thanks to the announcement trailer: Robot Entertainment Executive Director Patrick Hudson described […]
The first (v1.0.0) version of out-of-tree, a toolkit for developing and testing exploits and Linux kernel modules, was released. out-of-tree allows you to automate some routine actions to create environments for debugging kernel modules and exploits, generating exploit reliability statistics, and also provides the ability to easily integrate into CI (Continuous Integration). Each kernel module or exploit is described by a file .out-of-tree.toml, where […]
Source code repository host bitbucket, known for supporting mercurial, is no longer supporting this version control system. Repositories will be deleted on June 1, 2020. The decision is explained by the fact that the share of hg users dropped to 1% and git became the de facto standard. Source: linux.org.ru
Collaborative development platform Bitbucket is ending support for the Mercurial source control system in favor of Git. Let us recall that initially the Bitbucket service focused only on Mercurial, but since 2011 it also began to provide support for Git. It is noted that Bitbucket has now evolved from a version control tool to a platform for managing the full software development cycle. This year the development [...]
The Xfce developers summed up the preparation of the Xfce 4.14 branch, the development of which took more than 4 years, and expressed a desire to adhere to the shorter six-month development cycle initially adopted by the project. Xfce 4.16 is not expected to change as dramatically as the transition to GTK3, so the intention seems quite realistic and is expected that, given that in the planning and […]
The first significant release of the out-of-tree 1.0 toolkit has been published, allowing you to automate the building and testing of kernel modules or checking the functionality of exploits with different versions of the Linux kernel. Out-of-tree creates a virtual environment (using QEMU and Docker) with an arbitrary kernel version and performs the specified actions to build, test and run modules or exploits. The test script can cover several kernel releases […]
At the beginning of the next decade, a special phantom mannequin will be delivered to the International Space Station (ISS) to study the effects of radiation on the human body. TASS reports this, citing statements by Vyacheslav Shurshakov, head of the radiation safety department for manned space flights at the Institute of Medical and Biological Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Now there is a so-called spherical phantom in orbit. Inside and on the surface of this Russian development […]
Logitech has announced the MK470 Slim Wireless Combo, which includes a wireless keyboard and mouse. Information is exchanged with a computer through a small transceiver with a USB interface, which operates in the 2,4 GHz frequency range. The declared range of action reaches ten meters. The keyboard has a compact design: dimensions are 373,5 × 143,9 × 21,3 mm, weight - 558 grams. […]
