Author: ProHoster

New article: What the fastest gaming PC of 2019 can do. Testing a system with two GeForce RTX 2080 Ti in 8K resolution

At the end of 2018, we published a material on our website entitled “Very nice, king: we are assembling a gaming PC with Core i9-9900K and GeForce RTX 2080 Ti,” in which we examined in detail the features and capabilities of extreme assembly - the most expensive system in the “Computer of the Month” section " More than six months have passed, but fundamentally (if we talk about performance in games) in this […]

DigiTimes: AMD and Intel will introduce new desktop processors in October

Despite the fact that competition in the processor market has not been as intense as it is now for a very long time, Intel and AMD do not plan to slow down. The Taiwanese resource DigiTimes, citing motherboard manufacturers, reports that in October of this year both AMD and Intel will release new processors for desktop systems. Intel will most likely […]

Advantages and disadvantages of HugePages

The translation of the article was prepared for students of the Linux Administrator course. Previously, I talked about how to test and enable the use of Hugepages on Linux. This article will only be useful if you actually have a place to use Hugepages. I've met a lot of people who are fooled by the prospect that Hugepages will magically improve productivity. However, hugepaging is a complex topic, […]

Kubernetes Operator in Python without frameworks and SDKs

Go currently has a monopoly on the programming languages ​​people choose to write statements for Kubernetes. There are objective reasons for this, such as: There is a powerful framework for developing operators in Go - Operator SDK. Game-changing applications like Docker and Kubernetes are written in Go. Writing your operator in Go means talking to the ecosystem in […]

Rust compiler added to Android source tree

Google has included a compiler for the Rust programming language in the Android platform source code, which allows you to use the language to build Android components or run tests. The android_rust repository with scripts for building Rust for Android and the byteorder, remain and libc crate packages have also been added. It should be noted that in a similar way, the repository with […]

Cybercriminals attack Russian healthcare organizations

Kaspersky Lab has identified a series of cyber attacks on Russian organizations working in the healthcare sector: the attackers’ goal is to collect financial data. Cybercriminals are reportedly using a previously unknown CloudMid malware with spyware functionality. The malware is sent by email under the guise of a VPN client from a well-known Russian company. It is important to note that the attacks are targeted. Email messages containing malware were received […]

Google Chrome is testing a system for monitoring the activity of extensions

Google is constantly working to improve the Chrome browser to keep it ahead of the competition. The company has already made several changes to the app in the past to improve usability. The developers have also improved security, although so far only in an early version. It is reported that the company is now trying to solve the problem of illegal and malicious extensions. One way to do [...]

Ray-traced trailer for Control showcases new enemies, locations and weapons

NVIDIA, together with developers from Remedy Entertainment, presented a new trailer for the upcoming action-adventure film Control. It demonstrates more of the heroine's abilities, different weapons and enemies - all this we will see as we dive into the nooks and crannies of the mysterious Oldest House, the headquarters of the Federal Bureau of Control in New York. The main goal of the video is to show the advantages of lighting (primarily in realistic reflections) using the […]

GreedFall Developers' First Video Diary: "Terra Incognita"

Back in February 2017, the Spiders studio, known for The Technomancer and Bound by Flame, presented its new project - a fantasy role-playing game GreedFall, inspired by the baroque style of Europe in the 3th century. This year, during E2019 XNUMX, the developers shared a story trailer, shedding light on the background of what is happening and telling about the clash of two cultures. And this month […]

Update DNS servers BIND 9.14.4 and Knot 2.8.3

Corrective updates have been published for the stable branches of the BIND DNS server 9.14.4 and 9.11.9, as well as the experimental branch 9.15.2, which is in development. The new releases address a race condition vulnerability (CVE-2019-6471) that can lead to a denial of service (process termination when assert is triggered) when a large number of incoming packets are blocked. In addition, the new version 9.14.4 adds support for the GeoIP2 API […]

Balancing writes and reads in the database

In a previous article, I described the concept and implementation of a database built on the basis of functions, rather than tables and fields as in relational databases. It provided many examples showing the advantages of this approach over the classical one. Many found them not convincing enough. In this article I will show how this concept allows you to quickly and conveniently balance […]

Is it time for game developers to stop listening to their fans?

There was a dispute over an article and I decided to post its translation for public viewing. On the one hand, the author says that developers should not indulge players in matters of the scenario. If you look at games as art, then I agree - no one will ask the community what ending to choose for their book. On the other side […]