Author: ProHoster

Hackers released the personal data of thousands of US police officers and FBI agents

TechCrunch reported that a hacker group hacked into several FBI-related websites and uploaded their contents to the Internet, including dozens of files containing the personal details of thousands of federal agents and law enforcement officials. The hackers hacked into three websites associated with the FBI Association of National Academies, an alliance of various departments across the US that promotes training and leadership for agents and […]

Rust programming language 1.34 release

The system programming language Rust 1.34, developed by the Mozilla project, has been released. The language focuses on memory safety, provides automatic memory management, and provides a means to achieve high task parallelism without using a garbage collector or runtime. Rust's automatic memory management frees the developer from pointer manipulation and protects against problems caused by […]

Trailer for the launch of the cooperative zombie thriller World War Z

Publisher Focus Home Interactive and developers from Saber Interactive are preparing for the launch of World War Z, created based on the Paramount Pictures film of the same name ("World War Z" with Brad Pitt). The third-person co-op shooter will release on April 16 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC. It has already received a themed launch trailer. Under the song War […]

Acer ConceptD: a series of PCs, laptops and monitors for professionals

Acer today held a major presentation, which introduced many new products. Among them was the new ConceptD brand, under which laptops, computers and monitors intended for professional use will be produced. The novelties are aimed at graphic designers, directors, editors, engineers, architects, developers and other content creators. The ConceptD 900 desktop computer is the flagship of the new family. […]

Acer Chromebook 714/715: premium laptops for business users

Acer has announced the premium Chromebook 714 and Chromebook 715 laptops for enterprise customers, launching in the current quarter. Laptops operate under the operating system Chrome OS. The devices are housed in a durable aluminum housing that is shock resistant. Ruggedized construction meets military standard MIL-STD 810G, so laptops can withstand drops from heights of up to 122 […]

HTC mid-range smartphone with 6 GB of RAM lit up in the benchmark

Information about a mysterious smartphone with the code designation 2Q7A100 has appeared in the Geekbench benchmark database: the device is being prepared for release by the Taiwanese company HTC. It is known that the device uses a Qualcomm Snapdragon 710 processor. This chip combines eight 64-bit Kryo 360 cores with a clock speed of up to 2,2 GHz (the base frequency is 1,7 GHz in the benchmark) and […]

Release of GhostBSD 19.04

The release of the desktop-oriented distribution GhostBSD 19.04, built on the basis of TrueOS and offering the MATE user environment, took place. By default, GhostBSD uses the OpenRC init system and the ZFS file system. Both work in Live mode and installation on a hard drive are supported (using its own ginstall installer, written in Python). Boot images are created for amd64 architecture (2.7 GB). IN […]

Tinder tops non-gaming app rankings, overtaking Netflix for the first time

For a long time, the top of the ranking of the most profitable non-gaming applications was occupied by Netflix. According to the results of the first quarter of this year, the leading position in this rating was taken by the Tinder dating application, which managed to bypass all competitors. A significant role in this was played by the policy of the Netflix management, which at the end of last year limited the rights of users using gadgets based on iOS. Experts believe that […]

Lockheed Martin plans to build a spacecraft to take humans to the moon by 2024

Lockheed Martin, a NASA partner, is developing a spacecraft concept that can not only take people to the moon, but also return back. Representatives of the company say that such a project can be successfully implemented if there are enough resources. It is assumed that the future spacecraft will be formed from several modules. The developers intend to use detachable elements, […]

Acer unveils Nitro 7 gaming laptop and updated Nitro 5

Acer unveiled the new Nitro 7 gaming laptop and the updated Nitro 5 at its annual press conference in New York. The new Acer Nitro 7 laptop is housed in a sleek 19,9mm thick metal chassis. The diagonal of the IPS display is 15,6 inches, the resolution is Full HD, the refresh rate is 144 Hz, the response time is 3 ms. With narrow bezels, the screen area ratio […]

Israeli spacecraft crashed while landing on the moon

Beresheet is an Israeli lunar lander built by private company SpaceIL with support from the Israeli government. It could become the first private spacecraft to reach the surface of the moon, as previously only states could do this: the USA, the USSR and China. Unfortunately, today at about 22:25 Moscow time, the main engine of the vehicle failed during landing, which […]

Acer unveils updated Predator Helios 700 and 300 gaming laptops

The Acer Predator Helios 700 is the company's most powerful and most expensive gaming laptop. It includes: high-performance overclockable Intel Core i9 processor, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080/2070 graphics card, up to 64 GB DDR4 RAM and Killer DoubleShot Pro network adapter with Killer Wi-Fi 6AX 1650 modules and wired E3000 traffic distribution technologies, including […]