The release of the system programming language Rust 1.37, founded by the Mozilla project, has been published. The language focuses on safe memory management, provides automatic memory management, and provides the means to achieve high job parallelism while avoiding the use of a garbage collector and runtime. Rust's automatic memory management saves the developer from manipulating pointers and protects against issues that arise from […]
The Federal Antimonopoly Service of Russia (FAS Russia) recognized contextual advertising of financial services in the Google AdWords service as violating the requirements of the Advertising Law. The violation was committed during the distribution of advertisements for financial services of the Ali Trade company, which received a complaint from the Federal Public Fund for the Protection of the Rights of Depositors and Shareholders. As reported on the FAS website, during the investigation it became clear that when recruiting […]
In June, at the E3 2019 gaming exhibition, the publishing house Kalypso Media announced that this year it would revive the legendary classic strategies from the Pyro studio, presenting re-releases in the form of Commandos 2 HD Remastered and Praetorians HD Remastered. The development of HD versions of the dust-covered games is carried out by the Yippee Entertainment and Torus Games teams, respectively. Now the company has presented trailers of both projects for the exhibition […]
This week, the Epic Games Store service is pleased with the distribution of two high-quality games at once - Hyper Light Drifter and Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden. Anyone with an account in the service can add these projects to their library. And next week, users will get the Fez puzzle for free. Hyper Light Drifter is considered a recognized indie hit, attracting […]
The shooter Borderlands 3 will be released using Denuvo DRM protection (Digital Rights Management). According to the PCGamesN portal, users noticed the use of protection after the redesign of the Epic Games Store library. The use of Denuvo has not been officially announced. The authors of the publication suggest that 2K Games will add protection to ensure a good level of sales in the first months. This is in line with current practice of using modern DRM technologies, [...]
The tale of how an “evil” magician and a “good” party almost drove the “democratic” master to the brink. But the game was still a success, despite everything. At the beginning of this story, there was no unicorn, and it wasn’t even particularly foreseen. And there was an invitation to participate in one of the regular role-playing games, where our master wanted to try out a new one for himself […]
How I hate all this. Work, boss, programming, development environment, tasks, the system in which they are recorded, subordinates with their snot, goals, email, the Internet, social networks where everyone is amazingly successful, ostentatious love for the company, slogans, meetings, corridors, toilets , faces, faces, dress code, planning. I hate everything that happens at work. I'm burned out. For a long time. Not really yet […]
A few words about the “golden ratio” in the traditional sense. It is believed that if a segment is divided into parts in such a way that the smaller part is related to the larger one, as the larger part is to the whole segment, then such a division gives a proportion of 1/1,618, which the ancient Greeks, having borrowed it from even more ancient Egyptians, they called it the “golden ratio”. And that many architectural structures […]
The release of the distributed source control system Git 2.23.0 has been announced. Git is one of the most popular, reliable and high-performance version control systems, providing flexible non-linear development tools based on branching and merging. To ensure the integrity of history and resistance to retroactive changes, implicit hashing of the entire previous history in each commit is used, and digital authentication is also possible […]
An experimental release of an open implementation of the Win32 API is available - Wine 4.14. Since the release of version 4.13, 18 bug reports have been closed and 255 changes have been made. The most important changes: The Mono engine has been updated to version 4.9.2, which has eliminated problems when launching DARK and DLC quests; DLLs in PE (Portable Executable) format are no longer tied to […]
The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said it would ban airline passengers from taking certain Apple MacBook Pro laptop models on flights after the company recalled a number of devices due to the risk of battery fires. “The FAA is aware of a recall of batteries used in certain Apple MacBook Pro notebook computers,” an agency spokesperson said Monday in an email […]
The European Space Agency (ESA) has confirmed earlier rumors, saying another test of parachutes to be used on the Russian-European ExoMars 2020 mission ended in failure last week, jeopardizing its schedule. missions. As part of the tests planned before the mission's launch, several tests of the lander's parachutes were carried out at the Esrange test site of the Swedish Space Corporation (SSC). First […]
