Author: ProHoster

Introduced inexpensive professional accelerator AMD Radeon Pro WX 3200 based on Polaris

The professional graphics accelerator Radeon Pro WX 3200 is designed for entry-level workstations. AMD claims that this is the most affordable solution in its class, as the WX3200 is offered at a price of only $199. The accelerator has been certified for various professional software and packages: ACCA Software, Autodesk Inventor, Autodesk Revit, CGTech VERICUT and so on. The new product will be available both […]

Rumors about the Korean origin of NVIDIA Turing were premature

Yesterday, the management of the Korean representative office of NVIDIA admitted that Samsung will supply this company with 7-nm graphics processors of the new generation, although not a word was said about the timing of their appearance, nor about the involvement of rival TSMC in their production. In fact, it remains to be assumed that Samsung will start producing GPUs for NVIDIA in 2020 using lithography […]

How to Prepare Your Website for Heavy Loads: 5 Practical Tips and Useful Tools

Users really don’t like it when the online resource they need is slow. Survey data suggests that 57% of users will leave a web page if it takes longer than three seconds to load, while 47% are willing to wait only two seconds. A one second delay can cost 7% in conversions and 16% in reduced user satisfaction. Therefore, you need to prepare for increased load and traffic surges. […]

Transition from monolith to microservices: history and practice

In this article, I'll talk about how the project I'm working on transformed from a large monolith into a set of microservices. The project began its history quite a long time ago, at the beginning of 2000. The first versions were written in Visual Basic 6. Over time, it became clear that development in this language in the future would be difficult to support, since the IDE […]

Mozilla is testing a paid proxy service to browse sites without ads

Mozilla, as part of its paid services initiative, has begun testing a new product for Firefox that allows ad-free browsing and promotes an alternative way to finance content creation. The cost of using the service is $4.99 per month. The main idea is that users of the service are not shown advertising on websites, and content creation is financed through a paid subscription. […]

Video: presented One Piece: Pirate Warriors 4 based on the anime "Snatch"

Bandai Namco has announced a new action movie based on the manga and anime “Snatch” (One Piece) - One Piece: Pirate Warriors 4. The project is being created for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch, as well as for PC. The announcement was made during the presentation of Play Anime, which the publisher held at the Anime Expo 2019. At the same time, developers from […]

Two ten best games of the first half of 2019 according to Metacritic

The well-known ratings aggregator Metacritic has published a ranking of two dozen of the highest-rated games, movies, music and TV shows for the first half of 2019. We are primarily interested in games that have received the highest ratings from critics. Due to the fact that the resource selects only whole points, many projects are placed in one general position. For example, the lowest rating of the top 20 (84 […]

Third-party firmware update app for Samsung smartphones steals credit card information

According to online sources, a potentially dangerous Updates for Samsung application has been discovered in the Google Play digital content store. An unofficial application for updating the firmware of Samsung Android devices was downloaded more than 10 million times, which means millions of users could become victims. This software product was discovered by specialists from CSIS Security Group, which develops software in […]

Video: hand-drawn short film with a girl in a hat for the role-playing action Code Vein

Publisher Bandai Namco has unveiled a new animated video for its upcoming third-person action RPG Code Vein. The short film opens the game and is made in the style of a hand-drawn anime. It features a post-apocalyptic setting of a destroyed metropolis, a number of vampire story characters, their battles with monsters and the use of vampire weapons. In Code Vein, players take on the role of one of the Immortals - vampires […]

Mageia 7 distribution has been released

A little less than 2 years after the release of the 6th version of the Mageia distribution, the release of the 7th version of the distribution took place. In the new version: kernel 5.1.14 rpm 4.14.2 dnf 4.2.6 Mesa 19.1 Plasma 5.15.4 GNOME 3.32 Xfce 4.14pre Firefox 67 Chromium 73 LibreOffice 6.2.3 GCC 8.3.1 And also many patches and improvements. Source: linux.org.ru

Debian 10 "Buster" release

Members of the Debian community are pleased to announce the release of the next stable release of the Debian 10 operating system, codename buster. This release includes more than 57703 packages compiled for the following processor architectures: 32-bit PC (i386) and 64-bit PC (amd64) 64-bit ARM (arm64) ARM EABI (armel) ARMv7 (EABI hard-float ABI, armhf) MIPS (mips (big endian […]

The Snuffleupagus project develops a PHP module to block vulnerabilities

The Snuffleupagus project is developing a module for connecting to the PHP7 interpreter, designed to improve the security of the environment and block common errors that lead to vulnerabilities in running PHP applications. The module also allows you to create virtual patches to fix specific problems without changing the source code of the vulnerable application, which is convenient for use in mass hosting systems where […]