Author: ProHoster

An ancient evil has broken through - Baldur's Gate 3 announced by Larian Studios

The hints turned out to be correct, and this evening a Google Stadia conference took place, at which the announcement of Baldur's Gate 3, the long-awaited continuation of the classic role-playing series, took place. The Belgian Larian Studios, known for Divinity, is responsible for the development and publication. The announcement is accompanied by a cinematic video. In the teaser, viewers were shown the city of Baldur's Gate, dilapidated as a result of the battle - one of the largest populated areas on […]

Acer unveils 4K FreeSync monitor with 1ms response time

Another new product from Acer in the monitor segment is a model with the hard-to-remember designation CB281HKAbmiiprx, made on a TN matrix measuring 28 inches diagonally. A 4K format panel with a resolution of 3840 × 2160 pixels is used. There is talk of HDR10 support; Provides 72% coverage of the NTSC color space. The new product features AMD FreeSync technology, which allows you to get rid of delays, blur and image tearing […]

Tesla electric pickup will cost less than $50

Tesla CEO Elon Musk continues to share details regarding the cost and functionality of the company's future pickup truck. Previously, the company was working on functions that could be added to the car being developed. Now Mr. Musk has made some new comments about the upcoming electric pickup truck. The message stated that the maximum starting price of a pickup truck should not exceed […]

Samsung Galaxy Note 10 5G showed up in the benchmark with 12 GB of RAM

In the third quarter of this year, the announcement of Samsung's flagship phablets - devices of the Galaxy Note 10 family is expected. According to web sources, the older model of the device appeared in the Geekbench benchmark. According to available data, the new product will be offered in versions with a 6,28-inch and a 6,75-inch screen. Both will be available in versions with support for mobile communications of the fourth (4G) or fifth (5G) […]

Critical vulnerability in Exim allowing code to be executed on a server as root

A critical vulnerability (CVE-2019-10149) has been identified in the Exim mail server, which can lead to remote code execution on the server with root rights when processing a specially crafted request. The possibility of exploitation of the problem was noted in versions from 4.87 to 4.91 inclusive or when building with the EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT option. In the default configuration, the attack can be carried out without unnecessary complications by a local user […]

Aerc multi-window console mail client introduced

After two years of development, the first preview release of the new Aerc 0.1 email client is available, providing a tabbed console interface optimized for developers using mailing lists and Git. Tabs are switched in tmux style and allow, for example, to check new messages and view discussion threads while writing a response and working in the terminal with Git. Project code […]

SpongeBob is back: THQ Nordic has announced a re-release of SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom with the subtitle Rehydrated

Publisher THQ Nordic announced two days ago that it would announce three announcements by Saturday. The first of them has already taken place, and this is a remaster of the game SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom with the subtitle Rehydrated. The project was presented only with a brief teaser, where the main character puts on a helmet and declares: “I’m ready.” Apparently, users will hear more details at E3 2019. The original SpongeBob […]

Metro Exodus PC Coming to Microsoft Store in Three Days

The release date has appeared on the Metro Exodus page in the Microsoft Store. The PC version of the game will become available in the mentioned store on June 9, and before that it can be purchased on PC exclusively from the Epic Games Store. The project will appear on Steam on February 15, 2020, which became clear after the announcement of the temporary exclusivity of the PC version of Metro Exodus on the […]

E3 2019: GreedFall RPG story trailer explores culture clash

The Spiders studio, known for the games The Technomancer and Bound by Flame, presented its new project back in 2017 - the fantasy role-playing game GreedFall, inspired by the baroque style of Europe in the 3th century. For the gaming exhibition E2019 XNUMX, the publishing house Focus Home Interactive released a story trailer for this project (Russian subtitles are present): In Greedfall, players will explore the magical island of Teer Fradee […]

Release of Zorin OS 15, a distribution for users accustomed to Windows

The release of the Linux distribution Zorin OS 15, based on the Ubuntu 18.04.2 package base, has been presented. The target audience of the distribution is novice users who are accustomed to working in Windows. To control the design, the distribution kit offers a special configurator that allows you to give the desktop a look characteristic of different versions of Windows, and the composition includes a selection of programs close to the programs that Windows users are accustomed to. The size of the boot iso image […]

5 common sense principles for building cloud-native apps

“Cloud native” or simply “cloud” applications are created specifically to work in cloud infrastructures. They are typically built as a set of loosely coupled microservices packaged in containers, which in turn are managed by a cloud platform. Such applications are prepared for failures by default, which means they work reliably and scale even in the event of serious infrastructure-level failures. But on the other hand - […]

How we put sampling at SIBUR on new rails

And what came out of it Hello! In production, it is important to monitor the quality of products, both those coming from suppliers and those that we issue at the output. To do this, we often conduct sampling - specially trained employees take samplers and, according to the available instructions, collect samples, which are then transferred to the laboratory, where they are […]