Author: ProHoster

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 […]

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. […]

Vane about the adventure of a boy and his faithful bird will be released on PC

Friend & Foe Games has announced that its platforming adventure Vane is coming to PC soon. The game has a page in the Steam service, it is this platform that the developers have chosen to distribute products. A digital version of the soundtrack will be shipped with the game. Vane will be published by Friend & Foe itself, the PC version has no release date yet. On twitter […]

Kaspersky: 70 percent of attacks in 2018 were aimed at vulnerabilities in MS Office

Microsoft Office products are a top target for hackers today, according to data compiled by Kaspersky Lab. In its presentation at the Security Analyst Summit conference, the company said that about 70% of the attacks that its products detected in Q4 2018 attempted to exploit Microsoft Office vulnerabilities. This is more than four times the percentage […]

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, […]

Figma for Linux systems (design/interface design tool)

Figma is an online service for developing interfaces and prototyping with the ability to organize real-time collaboration. It is positioned by the creators as the main competitor to Adobe software products. Figma is suitable for creating simple prototypes and design systems, as well as complex projects (mobile applications, portals). In 2018, the platform has become one of the fastest growing tools for developers and designers. […]

XMage 1.4.34

There has been a big release of XMage 1.4.34 - a free client and server for playing Magic: The Gathering both online and against the computer. MTG is the world's first fantasy collectible card game, the ancestor of all modern CCGs like Hearthstone and Eternal. XMage is a client-server application written in Java using a graphical […]

Open Dylan 2019.1

On March 31, 2019, 5 years after the previous release, a new version of the Dylan language compiler was released - Open Dylan 2019.1. Dylan is a dynamic programming language that implements the ideas of Common Lisp and CLOS in a more familiar syntax without parentheses. The main features of this version: stabilization of the LLVM backend for i386 and x86_64 architectures on Linux, FreeBSD and macOS; added to the compiler [...]

Speedgate: a new sport created by artificial intelligence

Employees of the design agency AKQA from the USA presented a new sport, the development of which was carried out by a neural network. The rules for the new team ball game, called Speedgate, were created by an algorithm based on a neural network that studied text data about 400 sports. Ultimately, the system generated about 1000 new rules for various sports. Further processing […]