Author: ProHoster

CD Projekt: "Cyberpunk 2077 has changed a lot since the last show"

The only demonstration of Cyberpunk 2077 gameplay took place in June 2018 at the E3 exhibition (the record appeared in the public domain in August). In a recent interview for the Spanish resource AreaJugones, the main quest designer Mateusz Tomaszkiewicz noted that since that time the game has changed markedly. Most likely, it will be possible to evaluate the efforts of the developers in June: according to him, at E3 2019, […]

Apex Legends has lost 90% of its audience on Twitch since its release

The release of Apex Legends came unexpectedly: the developers from Respawn Entertainment, with the support of Electronic Arts, announced and released the royal battle on February 4th. A few days before, there were rumors, but this marketing decision surprised many. In the first eight hours alone, a million users registered in the shooter, and soon the publisher announced that it had reached the 50 million mark. But now the game is actively […]

TSMC: Going from 7nm to 5nm Increases Transistor Density by 80%

TSMC this week has already announced the development of a new stage of lithographic technology, which received the symbol N6. The press release said that this stage of lithography will be brought to the stage of risky production by the first quarter of 2020, but only the transcript of the TSMC quarterly report conference revealed new details about the timing of the development of the so-called 6nm technology. It should be recalled that […]

LG is thinking about a smartphone with a triple selfie camera

We have already said that LG is designing smartphones with a triple front camera. Patent documentation describing another similar device was at the disposal of network sources. As you can see in the images, the optical selfie camera modules of the device will be located in a rather large cutout at the top of the display. There you can also see some additional sensor. Observers believe that the configuration of the multi-module […]

OPPO introduced OPPO A5s and A1k smartphones with powerful batteries in Russia

OPPO introduced an update to the A-series for the Russian market - OPPO A5s and A1k smartphones with a teardrop-shaped screen cutout and powerful batteries with a capacity of 4230 and 4000 mAh, respectively, providing up to 17 hours of active work offline. OPPO A5s features a 6,2-inch HD+ (1520 × 720 pixels) In-Cell screen with an area ratio of […]

Racing electric car Volkswagen ID. R prepares for new records

Racing car Volkswagen ID. R, equipped with an all-electric power plant, is preparing to complete a record run on the Nürburgring Nordschleife (Nürburgring-Nordschleife). Last year, the electric car Volkswagen ID. R, we recall, set several records at once. First, a car driven by French pilot Romain Dumas managed to overcome the Pikes Peak mountain track in a minimum time of 7 minutes 57,148 seconds. Previous […]

T+ Conf 2019 is just around the corner

On June 17 (Monday), the Mail.ru Group office will host the second annual Tarantool Conference, or T+ Conf in short. It is addressed to both beginners and experienced developers and architects in the corporate sector. You are waiting for new reports and workshops on using in-memory computing, Tarantool / Redis / Memcached, cooperative multitasking and the Lua language to create high-load […]

New in information security certification

About a year ago, on April 3, 2018, the FSTEC of Russia published Order No. 55. He approved the Regulations on the system of certification of information security. This determined who is a member of the certification system. It also clarified the organization and procedure for certification of products that are used to protect confidential information constituting a state secret, the means for protecting which also need to be certified through the specified system. […]

Creating a password policy in Linux

Hello again! Tomorrow classes begin in a new group of the “Linux Administrator” course, in connection with this we are publishing a useful article on the topic. In the last tutorial, we showed how to use pam_cracklib to make passwords stronger on Red Hat 6 or CentOS systems. In Red Hat 7, pam_pwquality replaced cracklib as the default pam module for checking […]

Kingdom of Night is an isometric ARPG in the spirit of Diablo and Earthbound about the invasion of the Demon Lord

Dangen Entertainment and Black Seven studio have announced Kingdom of Night, an isometric story-driven action RPG in the style of the eighties. Kingdom of Night is currently raising money on Kickstarter. The developers set a goal of $10 thousand, but exceeded it in less than 48 hours. Additional money will go towards the soundtrack, modes and more. As Kingdom of Night is described […]

Trailer: the third episode of Life is Strange 2 will throw the heroes on a hemp plantation

The third episode of Life is Strange 2, titled "The Wilderness", will be released on May 9, five months after the premiere of the second episode. Developers from Dontnod Entertainment presented a trailer announcing that in the new episode the main characters will end up with marijuana producers: everything that is shown in the video, besides the words of two brothers and some woman behind the scenes, is a greenhouse with hemp. […]

ZeroNet version rewritten in Python3

The version of ZeroNet, rewritten in Python3, is ready for testing. ZeroNet is a free and open software, peer-to-peer network that does not require servers. Uses BitTorrent technologies to exchange web pages and Bitcoin cryptography to sign sent data. Seen as a censorship-resistant method of delivering information without a single point of failure. The network is not anonymous due to the operating principle of the BitTorrent protocol. ZeroNet supports […]