Enthusiast Alfonso Torres, known under the pseudonym We1etu1n, posted a photo of a Nintendo Switch running Windows XP on Reddit. The operating system, which was already 18 years old, took 6 hours to install, but Pinball 3D was able to run at full speed. It is reported that the operation used the L4T Ubuntu operating system and the QEMU virtual machine, which allows you to emulate various […]
A few days ago, on Twitter, tipster Ishan Agarwal reported the cost of the OnePlus 7 Pro smartphone in India. According to his information, the configuration with 6 GB of RAM and 128 GB storage will cost 49 rupees (approximately $999), the 720/8 GB version will cost 256 rupees (~$52), and the 999/766 GB version will cost 12 rupees. (~$256). Now there is a new […]
As we have already reported, this month Huawei is announcing high-performance smartphones in the Honor 20 series. Online sources have obtained information about the configuration of the multi-module cameras of these devices. If you believe the published data, the standard Honor 20 model will receive a quad camera with a 48-megapixel main sensor (f/1,8). In addition, a 16 million pixel module (ultra-wide-angle optics; f/2,2) is mentioned, as well as […]
The AliExpress trading platform, owned by the Chinese Internet giant Alibaba, is now open for work not only for companies from China, but also for Russian retailers, as well as sellers from Turkey, Italy and Spain. Trudy Dai, president of Alibaba's wholesale markets division, said this in an interview with the Financial Times. Currently, the AliExpress platform provides the opportunity to sell [...]
AMD and Cray announced this week that by 2021 they will launch the world's most powerful supercomputing system, called Frontier. It is quite expected that the customer was the US Department of Energy, although AMD executive director Lisa Su, in comments to Barron's, listed quite peaceful tasks that this supercomputer will have to solve: biological research, decryption […]
As a rule, for psychological relief, techniques are used that are aimed at replacing negative emotions with positive ones. Meditation is widely used for these purposes, although watching a good family movie can also help. In psychotherapy, there is also treatment using the catharsis technique, which involves responding to a negative experience. This direction includes “poisoned pen therapy,” when the patient writes letters, pouring out his resentment [...]
Nintendo has announced that Donkey Kong Jr., VS. Excitebike and Clu Clu Land. With this addition, the total number of retro games in the application will exceed 15 titles. “Mario has finally managed to kidnap Donkey Kong! In this unique platformer where good and evil are reversed, […]
Linux kernel version 5.1 has been released. Among the significant innovations: io_uring - a new interface for asynchronous input/output. Supports polling, I/O buffering and much more. added the ability to select the compression level for the zstd algorithm of the Btrfs file system. TLS 1.3 support. Intel Fastboot mode is enabled by default for Skylake series processors and newer. support for new hardware: GPU Vega10/20, many […]
AeroCool has announced another new product - the Cylon Pro Tempered Glass computer case, which will be offered in black and white color options. The device belongs to the Mid Tower format solutions. Dimensions are 219 × 491 × 434 mm, weight - 6,2 kg. Installation of ATX, micro-ATX and mini-ITX motherboards is allowed. The new product has a side wall made of tempered glass, through which […]
VisionTek has announced the VT4500 docking station, which allows you to provide a wide range of interfaces to laptop computers with a limited number of I/O ports. The new product connects to a laptop via a symmetrical USB Type-C connector. This port allows data transfer and simultaneous charging of the laptop battery. The docking station has four USB 3.0 connectors and two USB Type-C connectors. There are standard headphone and microphone jacks, [...]
Network sources report that one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world, Binance, lost $40 million (7000 bitcoins) as a result of a hacker attack. The source says that the incident occurred due to a “major flaw in the security system” of the service. Hackers were able to gain access to a “hot wallet” that contained about 2% of all cryptocurrency reserves. Users of the service are not [...]
Security researchers from Cisco have disclosed a vulnerability (CVE-2019-5021) in Alpine builds for the Docker container isolation system. The essence of the identified problem is that the default password for the root user was set to an empty password without blocking direct login as root. Let us recall that Alpine is used to generate official images from the Docker project (previously official builds were based […]
