Author: ProHoster

Video: "letter" platformer Lost Words: Beyond the Page from Rihanna Pratchett will be released in December

Sketchbook Games, a studio made up of former developers of Fable 2 and the Harry Potter games, will invite players to immerse themselves in the whimsical watercolor world of Lost Words: Beyond the Page, immersed in themes of love, relationships, loss and grief. The story in this platformer was written by screenwriter Rhianna Pratchett, who is known, among other things, for her work on the Tomb Raider series. TO […]

E3 2019: Dying Light 2 will go on sale in the spring of 2020

The Xbox conference at E3 2019 provided users with new information about many games, including Dying Light 2. Viewers were shown another trailer for the project, which demonstrated all the dangers of the world around them. The main character's name is Aiden, he is infected with a virus and is forced to resist the disease so as not to turn into a zombie. The game will be released in spring 2020 on PC, [...]

Microsoft will add streaming to Xbox One in October

Microsoft has been talking about working on preparing the launch of its xCloud gaming streaming service since October last year, and thanks to its E3 2019 presentation, we got details on how it will work. As Microsoft notes, we are talking about two approaches being developed simultaneously: a full-fledged xCloud cloud service and a more local mode. With Console Streaming from your […]

ARM founder believes break with Huawei will hurt the British company

According to the founder of the British ARM Holdings, who previously worked at Acorn Computers, Hermann Hauser, the discord with Huawei will have incredibly destructive consequences for ARM. The Cambridge-based chip designer was forced to suspend its cooperation with Huawei after US President Donald Trump placed the Chinese company on the list of prohibited entities due to suspicions of […]

Opera, Brave and Vivaldi Developers Will Ignore Chrome's Ad Blocker Restrictions

Google intends to seriously reduce the capabilities of ad blockers in future versions of Chrome. However, the developers of the Brave, Opera and Vivaldi browsers have no plans to change their browsers, despite the common code base. They confirmed in public comments that they do not intend to support the change to the extension system, which the search giant announced in January of this year as part of Manifest V3. Wherein […]

Alexey Savvateev and game theory: “What is the probability that an atomic bomb will be dropped in the next five years?”

Transcript of video recording of lecture. Game theory is a discipline that lies firmly between mathematics and the social sciences. One rope to mathematics, the other rope to social sciences, firmly attached. It has theorems that are quite serious (the theorem of the existence of equilibrium), the film “A Beautiful Mind” was made about it, game theory is manifested in many works of art. If you look around, every now and then [...]

Distribution kit for the corporate sector ROSA Enterprise Desktop X4 has been published

The Rosa company presented the ROSA Enterprise Desktop X4 distribution, aimed at use in the corporate sector and based on the ROSA Desktop Fresh 2016.1 platform with the KDE4 desktop. When preparing the distribution, the main attention is paid to stability - only proven components that have been tested on ROSA Desktop Fresh users are included. Installation iso images are not publicly available and are provided […]

Release of LMMS 1.2 music production package

After four and a half years of development, the release of the free project LMMS 1.2 has been published, within which a cross-platform alternative to commercial programs for creating music, such as FL Studio and GarageBand, is being developed. The project code is written in C++ (Qt interface) and is distributed under the GPLv2 license. Ready-made assemblies are prepared for Linux (in AppImage format), macOS and Windows. Program […]

Vulnerabilities in HSMs that could lead to an attack on encryption keys

A team of researchers from Ledger, a company that produces hardware wallets for cryptocurrency, has identified several vulnerabilities in HSM (Hardware Security Module) devices that can be used to extract keys or carry out a remote attack to spoof the HSM device’s firmware. The issue report is currently only available in French, with an English report scheduled to be published in August during the Blackhat […]

E3 2019: Halo Infinite Coming With Project Scarlett Fall 2020

At the Microsoft press conference at E3 2019, a new trailer for Halo Infinite was shown. Unfortunately, there was no gameplay footage, but we learned something about the plot of the sixth part of the series. In the trailer, the ship's pilot accidentally stumbles upon the Master Chief drifting among space debris. Taking SPARTAN-117 on board, he attempts to launch the exoskeleton of the legendary […]

The success of a social experiment with a fake exploit for nginx

Note. transl.: The author of the original note, published on June 1, decided to conduct an experiment among those interested in information security. To do this, he prepared a fake exploit for an undisclosed vulnerability in a web server and posted it on his Twitter. His assumptions - to be instantly exposed by specialists who will see the obvious cheating in the code - not only did not materialize ... They exceeded all expectations, […]

High-level replication in Tarantool DBMS

Hello, I am developing applications for the Tarantool DBMS, a platform developed by the Mail.ru Group that combines a high-performance DBMS and an application server in the Lua language. The high speed of Tarantool-based solutions is achieved, in particular, by supporting the in-memory DBMS mode and the ability to execute the application's business logic in a single address space with the data. Wherein […]