Author: ProHoster

Analysts: new 16-inch MacBook Pros will replace current 15-inch models

Already next month, if rumors are to be believed, Apple will introduce a completely new MacBook Pro equipped with a 16-inch display. Gradually, there are more and more rumors about the upcoming new product, and the next piece of information came from the analytical company IHS Markit. Experts report that shortly after the release of the 16-inch MacBook Pro, Apple will stop producing current MacBook Pros with a 15-inch display. That […]

Ubisoft will show Watch Dogs Legion and Ghost Recon Breakpoint at Gamescom 2019

Ubisoft spoke about its plans for Gamescom 2019. According to the publisher, you should not expect sensations at the event. Of the projects that have not yet been released, the most interesting will be Watch Dogs Legion and Ghost Recon Breakpoint. The company will also show new content for current projects such as Just Dance 2020 and Brawlhalla. New Ubisoft Games at Gamescom 2019: Watch […]

Remedy released two videos to briefly introduce the public to Control

Publisher 505 Games and developers Remedy Entertainment have begun publishing a series of short videos designed to introduce Control to the public without spoilers. The first video dedicated to the adventure with Metroidvania elements was a video that talks about the game and briefly demonstrates the environment: “Welcome to Control. This is modern New York, set in the Oldest House, the headquarters of a secret government organization known as […]

Vulnerabilities that allow taking control of Cisco, Zyxel and NETGEAR switches based on RTL83xx chips

In switches based on RTL83xx chips, including Cisco Small Business 220, Zyxel GS1900-24, NETGEAR GS75x, ALLNET ALL-SG8208M and more than a dozen devices from lesser-known manufacturers, critical vulnerabilities have been identified that allow an unauthenticated attacker to gain control of the switch. The problems are caused by errors in the Realtek Managed Switch Controller SDK, the code from which was used to prepare the firmware. The first vulnerability (CVE-2019-1913) […]

An attack on front-end-backend systems that allows you to break into third-party requests

Details of a new attack on sites using a front-end-back-end model, for example, working through content delivery networks, balancers or proxies, have been revealed. The attack allows, by sending certain requests, to wedge into the contents of other requests processed in the same thread between the frontend and backend. The proposed method was successfully used to organize an attack that made it possible to intercept the authentication parameters of users of the PayPal service, which paid […]

LibreOffice 6.3 office suite release

The Document Foundation presented the release of the office suite LibreOffice 6.3. Ready-made installation packages are prepared for various distributions of Linux, Windows and macOS, as well as an edition for deploying the online version in Docker. Key innovations: Writer and Calc performance has been significantly improved. Loading and saving some types of documents is up to 10 times faster than the previous release. Especially […]

FAS initiated a case against Apple based on a statement from Kaspersky Lab

The Federal Antimonopoly Service of Russia (FAS) initiated a case against Apple in connection with the company's actions in the distribution of applications for the iOS mobile operating system. An antimonopoly investigation was launched at the request of Kaspersky Lab. Back in March, a Russian antivirus software developer contacted the FAS with a complaint against the Apple empire. The reason was that Apple refused to publish the next version [...]

GreedFall's new trailer introduces the game's role-playing elements

In preparation for the September release of GreedFall, developers from the Spiders studio presented a new gameplay trailer demonstrating all the main role-playing elements of the game. Before you set off on a journey to the mysterious island of Tir Fradi, you will have to create your own character: you can customize in detail not only the appearance of the hero, but also his specialization. There are only three basic archetypes - warrior, technician […]

Fight of two yokozuna

There are less than 8 hours left before sales of new AMD EPYC™ Rome processors begin. In this article, we decided to recall how the history of the rivalry between the two largest CPU manufacturers began. The world's first 8008-bit commercially available processor was the Intel® i1972, released in 200. The processor had a clock frequency of 10 kHz, was made using 10000 micron (XNUMX nm) technology […]

Safety Helms

The gist of the story about the most popular package manager for Kubernetes could be depicted using an emoji: the box is Helm (this is the most appropriate thing in the latest Emoji release); lock - security; the little man is the solution to the problem. In reality, everything will be a little more complicated, and the story is full of technical details about how to make Helm safe. […]

Intern Cheat Sheet: Google Interview Problem Solving Step by Step

Last year, I spent the last couple of months preparing for an interview for an internship at Google (Google Internship). Everything went well: I got both a job and great experience. Now, two months after my internship, I want to share the document I used to prepare for interviews. For me it was something like a cheat sheet before the exam. But the process […]

LibreOffice 6.3 release

The Document Foundation announced the release of LibreOffice 6.3. Writer Writer table cells can now be set to have a background color from the Tables toolbar Index/Table of Contents updates can now be undone and the update does not clear the list of steps to undo Copying tables from Calc to existing Writer tables has been improved: only cells visible in Calc are copied and pasted Page background is now […]