Author: ProHoster

American chipmakers begin to count losses: Broadcom said goodbye to $ 2 billion

At the end of the week, the quarterly reporting conference of Broadcom, one of the leading manufacturers of chips for networking and telecommunications equipment, took place. This is one of the first companies to report revenue after Washington imposed sanctions against Chinese Huawei Technologies. In fact, it became the first example of what many still prefer not to talk about - the American sector of the economy is beginning to […]

device manager. Extend MIS to devices

An automated medical center uses many different devices, the operation of which must be controlled by a medical information system (MIS), as well as devices that do not accept commands, but must transmit the results of their work to the MIS. However, all devices have different connection options (USB, RS-232, Ethernet, etc.) and ways to interact with them. It is almost impossible to support them all in MIS, [...]

Digging graves, SQL Server, years of outsourcing, and my first project

Almost always we create our problems with our own hands… our picture of the world… our inaction… our laziness… our fears. That then it becomes very convenient to swim in the public stream of sewer patterns ... after all, it is warm and fun, and the rest is all the same - we sniff. But after a hard fail comes the realization of a simple truth - instead of generating an endless stream of reasons, […]

What do orgasms and Wi-Fi have in common?

Hedy Lamarr was not only the first to appear naked in a movie and fake an orgasm on camera, but also invented a radio communication system with protection against interception. I think people's brains are more interesting than their looks. Hollywood actress and inventor Hedy Lamarr said in 1990, 10 years before her death. Hedy Lamarr is a charming actress of the 40s […]

Early versions of Firefox 69 disabled Flash by default and added audio and video autoplay blocking.

In nightly builds of Firefox 69, Mozilla developers have disabled the ability to play Flash content by default. The release version is expected on September 3, where the ability to always enable Flash will be removed from the settings of the Adobe Flash Player plugin. The only option left is to disable Flash and activate it for specific sites. But in the ESR branches of Firefox, Flash support will remain until the end of next year. Such a decision [...]

US urged to update Windows

The US Cyber ​​Security Agency (CISA), part of the US Department of Homeland Security, announced the successful exploitation of the BlueKeep vulnerability. This flaw allows you to remotely run code on a computer running Windows 2000 to Windows 7, as well as Windows Server 2003 and 2008. The Microsoft Remote Desktop service is used for this. It was previously reported that at least a million devices in the world [...]

New Gwent expansion will send players to Novigrad

Developers from CD Projekt RED have presented a new free addition to the collectible card game GWENT: The Witcher Card Game. The addon, called Novigrad, will be released on PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on June 28. As the name implies, the central theme of the new product will be the large city of Novigrad, which is one of the main locations in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. IN […]

BenQ GL2780 monitor can work in "electronic paper" mode

BenQ has expanded its range of monitors by announcing the GL2780 model, which is suitable for various tasks - everyday work, games, reading, etc. The new product is based on a 27-inch diagonal TN matrix. The resolution is 1920 × 1080 pixels - Full HD format. Brightness, contrast and dynamic contrast ratios are 300 cd/m2, 1000:1 and 12:000. Horizontal viewing angles [...]

Wolfenstein: Youngblood will be the biggest game in the series

MachineGames is working on Wolfenstein: Youngblood, a spin-off of the series that tells the story of B.J. Blaskowitz's daughters. The completion of the project will be the longest in the entire family of Wolfenstein shooters from the Swedish team - to see the finale, users will have to spend from 25 to 30 hours. Wolfenstein: Youngblood executive producer Jerk Gustafsson told GamingBolt: “It seems a little strange that the game […]

Firefox 67.0.3 and 60.7.1 Updates Fix Vulnerability

Corrective releases of Firefox 67.0.3 and 60.7.1 have been published, which fixes a critical vulnerability (CVE-2019-11707) that can cause the browser to crash when executing malicious JavaScript code. The vulnerability is due to a type handling issue in the Array.pop method. Access to detailed information is currently limited. It is also unclear whether the problem is limited to the reported crash or could potentially be used to execute attacker code. Addition: […]

Firefox 67.0.3 and 60.7.1 Updates Fix Vulnerability

Corrective releases of Firefox 67.0.3 and 60.7.1 have been published, which fixes a critical vulnerability (CVE-2019-11707) that can cause the browser to crash when executing malicious JavaScript code. The vulnerability is due to a type handling issue in the Array.pop method. Access to detailed information is currently limited. It is also unclear whether the problem is limited to the reported crash or could potentially be used to execute attacker code. Addition: […]

Release of the GNU nano 4.3 text editor

A release of the console text editor GNU nano 4.3 is available, offered as the default editor in many user distributions whose developers find vim too difficult to master. In the new release: Renewed support for reading and writing through named pipes (FIFO); Reduced startup time by performing full syntax parsing only when necessary; Added the ability to stop downloading [...]