Author: ProHoster

Testing the division of the FreeBSD base system into packages

The TrueOS Project has announced testing of experimental builds of FreeBSD 12-STABLE and FreeBSD 13-CURRENT, which transform the monolithic base system into a set of interconnected packages. The builds are developed within the pkgbase project, which provides tools for using the native pkg package manager to manage the packages that make up the base system. Delivery in the form of separate packages allows you to significantly simplify the process of updating the basic […]

Blue Origin tweeted mysterious image of Shackleton's ship

A photograph of the ship of the famous explorer Ernest Shackleton, who was studying the Antarctic, appeared on the official Blue Origin Twitter page. 5.9.19 pic.twitter.com/BzvwCsDM2T — Blue Origin (@blueorigin) April 26, 2019 The photo is captioned with the date May 9 and there is no description, so we can only guess how Shackleton's expedition ship is connected to Jeff's space company Bezos. It can be assumed [...]

iPhone XI in-depth rendering - based on final CAD drawings

At the beginning of April, CashKaro.com published renders of the upcoming Motorola smartphone with a quad camera. And now, thanks to a partnership with trusted source OnLeaks, it has shared exclusive CAD renderings that purport to show the final look of Apple's next flagship, the iPhone XI. First of all, the design of the device, which has not changed at all over the year, with a redesigned and rather strange-looking triple camera module, […]

ASRock Z390 Phantom Gaming 4S: ATX Format Board for Gaming PC

ASRock has announced the Z390 Phantom Gaming 4S motherboard, which can be used to form a mid-range desktop gaming station. The new product is made in ATX format (305 × 213 mm) based on Intel Z390 system logic. Supports eighth and ninth generation Core processors in Socket 1151. Expansion capabilities are provided by two PCI Express 3.0 x16 slots […]

Before the end of the century, the number of dead Facebook users will exceed the number of living ones

Scientists from the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) conducted a study in which they found that by 2070, the number of dead Facebook users may exceed the number of living ones, and by 2100, 1,4 billion users of the social network will be dead. At the same time, the analysis is said to provide for two extreme scenarios. The first assumes that the number of users will remain at the 2018 level […]

The Apache Foundation moved its Git repositories to GitHub

The Apache Foundation announced that it has completed work on integrating its infrastructure with GitHub and migrating all of its git services to GitHub. Initially, two version control systems were offered for developing Apache projects: the centralized version control system Subversion and the decentralized system Git. Since 2014, Apache repository mirrors have been launched on GitHub, available in read-only mode. Now […]

The core frequency of the accelerator Palit GeForce GTX 1650 StormX OC reaches 1725 MHz

Palit Microsystems has released the GeForce GTX 1650 StormX OC graphics accelerator, information about the preparation of which has already appeared on the Internet. Let us briefly recall the key characteristics of GeForce GTX 1650 products. Such cards use the NVIDIA Turing architecture. The number of CUDA cores is 896, and the amount of GDDR5 memory with a 128-bit bus (effective frequency - 8000 MHz) is 4 GB. Basic clock […]

Stop Panic: Intel's XNUMX-core Desktop Processors Coming Early Next Year

Dell's presentation, which the well-known Dutch website relied on when describing Intel's immediate plans to announce new processors, initially focused on the segment of mobile and commercial products. As independent experts rightly noted, in the consumer segment the release schedule for new Intel products could be different, and yesterday this thesis was confirmed in a new publication on the pages of the Tweakers.net website. Slide title […]

The shortage of 14-nm Intel processors will gradually weaken

Intel CEO Robert Swan at the last quarterly reporting conference more often mentioned the shortage of production capacity in the context of increasing costs and a shift in the structure of the processor range towards more expensive models with a larger number of cores. Such metamorphoses allowed Intel to increase the average processor selling price by 13% in the mobile segment in the first quarter and […]

Apple was in talks with Intel to buy the modem business

Apple has been in talks with Intel about a possible acquisition of part of Intel's smartphone modem business, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported. Apple's interest in Intel technologies is explained by the desire to speed up the development of its own modem chips for smartphones. According to WSJ, Intel and Apple began negotiations last summer. Discussions continued for several months and ended […]

Fenix ​​will replace Firefox for Android

Mozilla is developing a new mobile browser called Fenix. It will appear in the Google Play Store in the future, replacing Firefox for Android. In addition, some details have become known about how the transition to the new browser will occur. Network sources report that Mozilla has decided on the future of the Firefox browser for Android and […]

Leakage of more than 2 million records of passport data was discovered on the trading floors of the Russian Federation

About 2,24 million records with passport data, information on employment of Russian citizens and SNILS numbers are publicly available. This conclusion was reached by the Chairman of the Association of Data Market Participants, Ivan Begtin, based on the study “Leaks of personal data from open sources. Electronic trading platforms." The work examined data from the largest electronic trading platforms in the Russian Federation, […]