Author: ProHoster

Video: ships go on the attack - World of Warships: Legends released on consoles

Team multiplayer action game World of Warships: Legends has reached consoles today. It was created by the St. Petersburg studio Wargaming, which previously presented the world with World of Warships for PC. Now on PS4 and Xbox One you can also go to conquer the seas on historical warships, participate in spectacular battles with players around the world, recruit legendary commanders and […]

Apex Legends update makes two of the weakest heroes more resilient

The Apex Legends audience quickly divided the heroes of this royal battle into useful and useless, and Gibraltar and Caustic belong to the second category. And it's not about their abilities, but about their size compared to other characters. Both fighters are much larger than the others, which makes them much easier to shoot. Patch 1.1.1 released today fixed […]

Video: release trailer for the Fate of Atlantis expansion for Assassin's Creed Odyssey

Add-ons for Assassin's Creed Odyssey are released in separate episodes, each large DLC is divided into three parts. Earlier this year, Ubisoft completed the story of Legacy of the First Blade, and the first chapter of The Fate of Atlantis will be released on April 23. As the developers say, players will have to discover their true power and the secrets of the First Civilization. They will travel to three worlds from ancient Greek myths: […]

The number of users of the public services portal reached 90 million people

The audience of users of the Gosuslugi.ru portal, which allows Russian citizens and organizations to receive services from federal, regional and municipal authorities in electronic form, has reached 90 million people. This is evidenced by statistical data published on the online service’s page on the social network Facebook. Representatives of the service call the mark of 90 million users a significant indicator for the public services portal. “This is more than half […]

Two approaches to structuring an Activity diagram

Comparison of two approaches to structuring an Activity diagram (based on “Squirrel”) In the 1st part of the article “From process modeling to designing an automated system,” we modeled the processes of a “fairytale” subject area - lines about a squirrel from “The Tale of Tsar Saltan, about his son the glorious and mighty hero Prince Gvidon Saltanovich and the beautiful Swan Princess" by A.S. Pushkin. And we started with [...]

Facebook is testing the fusion of news and stories

Analyst, blogger and developer Jane Manchun Wong tweeted that Facebook is currently testing a way to combine your News Feed and Stories into one. According to the specialist, this will be a kind of “carousel” that will combine both types of content. While this would be a fairly radical change, it is not entirely surprising given that […]

Video: two new Russian maps in the upcoming World War 3 update

The multiplayer action movie World War 3, released in early access on Steam, announced itself with mechanics in the spirit of the Battlefield series and themes dedicated to the modern world conflict. The independent Polish studio The Farm 51 continues to develop its brainchild and is preparing the release of a major update in April, Warzone Giga Patch 0.6, which is already being tested on PTE early access servers (Public Test […]

nginx 1.15.12 release

The release of the main branch of nginx 1.15.12 is available, within which the development of new features continues (only changes related to the elimination of serious errors and vulnerabilities are made in the parallel supported stable branch 1.14. Version 1.15.12 fixed a crash (segmentation fault) of the worker process, which could happen if variables were used in the ssl_certificate or ssl_certificate_key directives and OCSP stapling was enabled, […]

Published code for old Infocom games, including Zork

Jason Scott of the Internet Archive project published the source code for game applications released by Infocom, which existed from 1979 to 1989 and specialized in creating text quests. A total of 45 games have been published, including Zork Zero, Zork I, Zork II, Zork III, Arthur, Shōgun, Sherlock, Witness, Wishbringer, Trinity, and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the […]

Published code for old Infocom games, including Zork

Jason Scott of the Internet Archive project published the source code for game applications released by Infocom, which existed from 1979 to 1989 and specialized in creating text quests. A total of 45 games have been published, including Zork Zero, Zork I, Zork II, Zork III, Arthur, Shōgun, Sherlock, Witness, Wishbringer, Trinity, and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the […]

DARPA is developing an extremely secure messenger

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is developing its own secure communications platform. The project is called RACE and involves the creation of a distributed anonymous system for communication. RACE is based on the requirements for network stability and confidentiality of all its participants. Thus, DARPA puts security first. And although technical […]

Google Chrome introduces tab scrolling and incognito mode protection

Google has finally implemented the tab scrolling feature that Firefox has had for a long time. It allows you not to "pack" dozens of tabs in the width of the screen, but to show only a part. In this case, the function can be disabled. So far, this feature is implemented only in the test version of the Chrome Canary program. To enable it, you need to go to the flags section and activate it - chrome://flags/#scrollable-tabstrip. […]