Author: ProHoster

Nissan backs Tesla in ditching lidars for robo-cars

Nissan Motor announced Thursday that it will rely on radar sensors and cameras instead of lidar or light sensors for its self-driving technology due to their high cost and limited capabilities. The Japanese automaker unveiled its updated self-driving technology a month after Tesla CEO Elon Musk called lidar a "futile idea," criticizing the technology for […]

ASUS cloud service spotted sending backdoors again

Less than two months have passed since computing platform security researchers again caught the ASUS cloud service sending backdoors. This time, the WebStorage service and software were compromised. With its help, the hacker group BlackTech Group installed Plead malware on victims’ computers. More precisely, Japanese cybersecurity specialist Trend Micro considers Plead software a […]

Comet Lake-U Generation Core i5-10210U First Tests: Slightly Faster than Current Chips

The next, tenth generation Intel Core i5-10210U mobile processor has been mentioned in the Geekbench and GFXBench performance test databases. This chip belongs to the Comet Lake-U family, although one of the tests attributed it to the current Whiskey Lake-U. The new product will be produced using the good old 14 nm process technology, perhaps with some further improvements. The Core i5-10210U processor has four cores and eight […]

Apple will release its own 5G modem only by 2025

There is no doubt that Apple is developing its own 5G modem, which will be used in future iPhones and iPads. However, it will take a few more years to create its own 5G modem. As The Information resource reports, citing sources from Apple itself, Apple will have its own 5G modem ready no earlier than 2025. Let us remind you that […]

Photo of the day: crash site of the Israeli lunar lander Beresheet

The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) presented photographs of the crash area of ​​the Beresheet robotic probe on the surface of the Moon. Let us recall that Beresheet is an Israeli device intended to study the natural satellite of our planet. The probe, created by the private company SpaceIL, was launched on February 22, 2019. Beresheet was scheduled to land on the Moon on April 11. TO […]

Serverless by racks

Serverless is not about the physical absence of servers. This is not a container killer or a fleeting trend. This is a new approach to building systems in the cloud. In today's article, we will touch on the architecture of Serverless applications, see what role the Serverless service provider and open-source projects play. In the end, let's talk about the use of Serverless. I want to write the server part of the application (yes, at least an online store). […]

Intel Tried to Mitigate or Delay Publication of MDS Vulnerabilities with $120 "Reward"

Our colleagues from the TechPowerUP website, citing a publication in the Dutch press, report that Intel made an attempt to bribe researchers who discovered MDS vulnerabilities. Microarchitectural data sampling (MDS) vulnerabilities have been found in Intel processors that have been on sale for the last 8 years. The vulnerabilities were discovered by security specialists from the Free University of Amsterdam (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, VU […]

The first OneWeb satellites will arrive at Baikonur in August–September

The first OneWeb satellites intended for launch from Baikonur should arrive at this cosmodrome in the third quarter, as reported by the online publication RIA Novosti. The OneWeb project, we recall, provides for the formation of a global satellite infrastructure to provide broadband Internet access around the world. Hundreds of small spacecraft will be responsible for data transmission. The first six OneWeb satellites have successfully launched […]

OPPO Equips A9x Performance Smartphone with 48MP Camera

The announcement of the productive smartphone OPPO A9x is expected in the near future: renderings and technical characteristics of the device have appeared on the World Wide Web. It is reported that the new product will be equipped with a 6,53-inch Full HD+ display. This panel will occupy about 91% of the front surface area. At the top of the screen there is a drop-shaped cutout for the 16-megapixel front camera. At the back there will be a dual camera. It will include [...]

Peppermint 10 Linux distribution release

The Linux distribution Peppermint 10 was released, based on the Ubuntu 18.04 LTS package base and offering a lightweight user environment based on the LXDE desktop, the Xfwm4 window manager and the Xfce panel, which are supplied instead of Openbox and lxpanel. The distribution is also notable for the delivery of the Site Specific Browser framework, which allows you to work with web applications as if they were separate programs. The project developed […] is available from the repositories.

RAGE 2 is officially getting rid of Denuvo protection

After an incident with the release of an unprotected version of the shooter RAGE 2, Bethesda Softworks got rid of Denuvo and the Steam version of the game. Let us remind you that RAGE 2 was released on May 14 on Steam and Bethesda’s own store. The latest version was released without protection, which pirates took advantage of by hacking the shooter on the same day. Well, since Steam users were outraged that only [...]

The French have proposed an inexpensive technology for the production of MicroLED screens of any size

It is expected that screens using MicroLED technology will be the next stage in the development of displays in all forms: from small screens for wearable electronics to large television panels. Unlike LCD and even OLED, MicroLED screens promise better resolution, color reproduction and energy efficiency. So far, the mass production of MicroLED screens is limited by the capabilities of production lines. If LCD and OLED screens are manufactured […]