As the developers promised, the 31st hero will actually appear in Overwatch soon. Blizzard presented an introductory story video in which it talked about the eccentric astrophysicist Sigma, who hoped to uncover the secrets of the universe and, without knowing it, became a living instrument. “Gravity is a law. I have dedicated my entire career—decades—to this idea! This... principle. If generalizing theories […]
Playtonic Games studio has published a new trailer for the platformer Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair, in which it introduced an “alternative level design” system. There will be 20 levels in total, but along the journey our heroes will discover secrets and solve puzzles that dynamically transform each location. Thus, their total number will increase to 40. “Rebuild the levels by connecting electricity, flood them with water […]
Ubisoft has joined the Blender Development Fund as a Corporate Gold Member. As reported on the Blender website, the French studio will provide serious financial support to the developers. The company will also use Blender tools in its Ubisoft Animation Studio division. The head of Ubisoft Animation Studio, Pierre Jacquet, noted that the studio chose Blender to work because of its strong and open community. […]
Bethesda announced changes in the release schedule of the shooter Wolfenstein: Youngblood. The studio will release the PC version a day earlier - July 25. On other platforms (Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch) the game will appear as planned on July 26. The reason for the postponement of the release is not disclosed. Previously, NVIDIA announced that the release version of the game will not have ray tracing in […]
Bad for you, fake programmer. And I am real. No, I'm also a programmer. Not 1C, but “whatever they say it in”: when they wrote C++, when they used Java, when they wrote Sharps, Python, even in godless Javascript. And yes, I work for “uncle”. A wonderful uncle: he brought us all together and makes unreal money. And I work for him for a salary. And also […]
The release of the CoreBoot 4.10 project has been published, within the framework of which a free alternative to proprietary firmware and BIOS is being developed. 198 developers took part in the creation of the new version, who prepared 2538 changes. Main innovations: Added support for 28 motherboards: ASROCK H110M-DVS ASUS H61M-CS, P5G41T-M-LX, P5QPL-AM, P8Z77-M-PRO FACEBOOK FBG1701 FOXCONN G41M GIGABYTE GA-H61MA-D3V GOOGLE BLOOG, FLAPJACK, GARG, HATCH-WHL, HELIOS, KINDRED, KODAMA, […]
The main branch of nginx 1.17.2 is available, within which the development of new features continues (in the parallel supported stable branch 1.16, only changes related to eliminating serious errors and vulnerabilities are made. Main changes: Added support for switching named “location” blocks using the $ method r->internal_redirect() provided by the built-in Perl interpreter. This method now assumes the processing of URIs with escaped characters; Requirement […]
The developers of the Exim mail server warned administrators of their intention to release update 25 on July 4.92.1, which will fix a critical vulnerability (CVE-2019-13917), which allows you to remotely execute your code with root rights if certain specific settings are present in the configuration. Details about the problem have not yet been disclosed; all mail server administrators are advised to prepare for the installation of an emergency update on July 25. IN […]
The series “Silicon Valley” is not only an exciting comedy about startups and programmers. It contains a lot of useful information for the development of a startup, presented in simple and accessible language. I always recommend watching this series to all aspiring startupers. For those who do not consider it necessary to spend time watching TV series, I have prepared a small selection of the most useful episodes […]
The Slovenian company EK Water Blocks, a well-known developer of liquid cooling systems, has announced a water block for the powerful MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Gaming X Trio graphics accelerator. The said video card was introduced last year. As standard, it is cooled by a massive Tri-Frozr cooler with five heat pipes and three Torx 3.0 fans of different diameters. EK Water Blocks offers […]
If we want to resist this destructive government trend of outlawing cryptography, one of the measures we can take is to use cryptography as much as we can while it is still legal to use. — F. Zimmerman Dear Community members! The Internet is seriously ill. Starting this Friday, we will publish weekly the most interesting notes about events […]
In July, music streaming pioneers Spotify announced that it would be removing access to a feature that allowed creators to upload their own music to the service. Those who managed to take advantage of it during the nine months of beta testing will be forced to republish their tracks through a supported third-party channel. Otherwise they will be removed from the platform. Photo by Paulette Wooten / Unsplash What happened Previously, behind rare […]
