Author: ProHoster

Microsoft releases 'very strange' nostalgic Windows 1.11 game Stranger Things

Microsoft has been releasing teasers related to Windows 1 for a while now. As revealed on July 5 via an Instagram post, this unusual bout of nostalgia is tied to the launch of the third season of the hit Netflix series Stranger Things. Now Microsoft has released Stranger Things Edition 1.11 on its Windows Store. The description of this unique game reads: “Experience the nostalgia of 1985 […]

Smart TV market in Russia is growing rapidly

The IAB Russia association has published the results of a study of the Russian Connected TV market - televisions with the ability to connect to the Internet for interacting with various services and viewing content on the big screen. It is noted that in the case of Connected TV, connection to the Network can be made in various ways - through the smart TV itself, set-top boxes, media players or game consoles. So, it is reported that based on the results [...]

Mozilla launches website showing how users can be tracked

Mozilla has introduced the Track THIS service, which allows you to visually evaluate the methods of advertising networks that track visitor preferences. The service allows you to simulate four typical profiles of online behavior through the automated opening of about 100 tabs, after which advertising networks begin to offer content corresponding to the selected profile for several days. For example, if you select the profile of a very rich person, the advertisement will start to […]

OpenWrt release 18.06.04

An update to the OpenWrt 18.06.4 distribution has been prepared, aimed at use in various network devices such as routers and access points. OpenWrt supports many different platforms and architectures and has a build system that allows you to simply and conveniently cross-compile, including various components in the build, which makes it easy to create ready-made firmware or a disk image […]

Elea's space adventure is getting big updates and coming to PS4 soon

Soedesco Publishing and Kyodai Studio have decided to share news regarding the sci-fi adventure Elea, previously released on PC and Xbox One. Firstly, the surreal game will appear on PlayStation 25 on July 4. On this occasion, a story trailer is presented. The PS4 version will include all the updates and improvements made since its release on Xbox One and PC (including […]

Sberbank technology took first place in testing facial recognition algorithms

VisionLabs, part of the Sberbank ecosystem, came out on top for the second time in testing facial recognition algorithms at the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). VisionLabs technology won first place in the Mugshot category and entered the top 3 in the Visa category. In terms of recognition speed, its algorithm is twice as fast as similar solutions of other participants. During […]

Google Photos users will be able to tag people in photos

Lead Google Photos developer David Lieb, during a conversation with users on Twitter, revealed some details about the future of the popular service. Despite the fact that the purpose of the conversation was to collect feedback and suggestions, Mr. Lieb, answering questions, talked about what new functions will be added to Google Photos. It was announced that […]

Android Academy in Moscow: Advanced Course

Hi all! Summer is a great time of year. Google I/O, Mobius and AppsConf have come to an end, and many students have already closed or are about to finish their sessions, everyone is ready to exhale and enjoy the warmth and sun. But not us! We have been preparing for this moment long and hard, trying to complete our work and projects, […]

Pitfalls on the path to becoming a programmer

Hello, Habr! In my spare time, reading an interesting article about becoming a programmer, I thought that, in general, you and I are walking through the same minefield with a rake on our career path. It begins with hatred of the education system, which supposedly “should” make seniors out of us, and ends with the realization that the heavy burden of education falls only […]

Theory instead of heuristics: getting better as frontend developers

Translation Becoming a better front-end developer using fundamentals instead of heuristics Our experience shows that non-technical and self-taught developers often rely not on theoretical principles, but on heuristic methods. Heuristics are patterns and proven rules that the developer has learned from practice. They may not work perfectly or to a limited extent, but sufficiently and not […]

Rest 1.36

The development team is excited to introduce Rust 1.36! What's new in Rust 1.36? Future trait stabilized, from new: alloc crate, MaybeUninit , NLL for Rust 2015, new HashMap implementation and a new flag -offline for Cargo. And now in more detail: In Rust 1.36, the Future trait has finally been stabilized. Crate alloc. As of Rust 1.36, parts of the std that depend […]

75 vulnerabilities fixed in Magento e-commerce platform

In the open platform for organizing e-commerce Magento, which occupies about 20% of the market for systems for creating online stores, vulnerabilities have been identified, the combination of which allows you to carry out an attack to execute your code on the server, gain full control over the online store and organize payment redirection. The vulnerabilities were fixed in Magento releases 2.3.2, 2.2.9 and 2.1.18, which in total fixed 75 issues […]