Author: ProHoster

Fortnite is over?

The entirety of Fortnite, including the menu and map, was sucked into a black hole during the Season 1 finale, appropriately titled "The End." The game's social media accounts, servers, and forums also went dark. Only the animation of the black hole is visible. This event likely marks the end of Chapter XNUMX and the change of the island players were trying to stay alive on. "The End" can be [...]

GeForce Now streaming games now available on Android

NVIDIA GeForce Now game streaming service is now available on Android devices. The company announced the preparation of this step just over a month ago, during the gaming exhibition Gamescom 2019. GeForce Now is designed to provide a rich gaming environment to the one billion computers that do not have enough power to run games locally. The new initiative significantly expands the target audience thanks to the emergence of support […]

CD Projekt RED co-lead hopes for Cyberpunk and The Witcher multiplayer games

The head of the CD Projekt RED branch in Krakow, John Mamais, said that he would like to see multiplayer projects in the Cyberpunk and The Witcher universes in the future. According to PCGamesN, citing an interview with GameSpot, the director likes the above-mentioned franchises and would like to work on them in the future. John Mamais asked about CD Projekt RED projects with […]

The American authorities suspended Pavel Durov's Telegram ICO

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced it has filed a lawsuit and obtained a temporary injunction against two offshore companies selling the Gram cryptocurrency in the US and other countries. At the time of receiving the court decision, the defendants had managed to raise more than $1,7 billion in investor funds. According to the SEC complaint, Telegram Group Inc. and its subsidiary TON […]

PS5 will be backward compatible, but the question is still in development

While many details regarding Sony's next-gen console appear to be firmly in place, the PS5's backwards compatibility feature is still in development. PS5 will be released at the end of 2020, but already there are a lot of questions regarding the future Japanese gaming system. Of course, one of them is support for a backwards compatibility feature on PS5, which would allow games for the system […]

Registration for Slurm DevOps in Moscow is open

TL;DR DevOps Slurm will be held in Moscow on January 30 - February 1. Again we will analyze DevOps tools in practice. Details and program under the cut. SRE was removed from the program because together with Ivan Kruglov we are preparing a separate Slurm SRE. The announcement will come later. Thanks to Selectel, our sponsors since the first Slurm! About philosophy, skepticism and unexpected success I […]

AMD to give PlayStation 5 GPU hardware ray tracing acceleration

Sony recently officially announced that its next-generation gaming console, PlayStation 5, will be released by the end of next year. Now, Mark Cerny, who is leading the development of Sony's next gaming console, has revealed some details regarding the PlayStation 5 hardware in an interview with Wired. Mark has officially confirmed that Sony's new gaming console will be able to handle ray tracing […]

Tigers will return to Kazakhstan - WWF-Russia printed a house for employees of the nature reserve

On the territory of the Ile-Balkhash natural reserve in the Almaty region of Kazakhstan, another center has opened for inspectors and researchers of the protected area. The yurt-shaped building is constructed from rounded polystyrene foam blocks printed on a 3D printer. The new inspection center, named after the nearby Karamergen settlement (XNUMXth–XNUMXth centuries), was built with funds from the Russian branch of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF Russia), […]

File descriptor in Linux with examples

Once, during an interview, I was asked, what will you do if you find a service not working due to the fact that the disk has run out of space? Of course, I replied that I would see what was occupied by this place and, if possible, I would clean the place. Then the interviewer asked, what if there is no free space on the partition, but also files that would take up all […]

New Galaxy Fold issue: Logo peels off on one of the sold smartphones

Probably the most controversial smartphone of this year can be considered the Samsung Galaxy Fold. The South Korean tech giant's first flexible display smartphone is under intense scrutiny and is regularly criticized. Most often, the criticism is deserved, since users who spent $1800 or 159 rubles have the right to expect that the smartphone will be reliable and durable. Despite the high cost, Galaxy […]

Discontinuing shipments of all Intel Kaby Lake processors

"Do not count your chickens before they are hatched". Guided by this principle, Intel this year began a large-scale release of the price list from outdated or limited-demand processors. The turn has reached the once mass-produced models of the Kaby Lake family, which is now dwindling almost entirely. The corporation did not disdain even a couple of surviving processors of the Skylake family: Core i7-6700 and Core i5-6500. About […]

Solving the task with pwnable.kr 25 - otp. Linux file size limit

In this article we will solve the 25th task from the site pwnable.kr. Organizational informationEspecially for those who want to learn something new and develop in any of the areas of information and computer security, I will write and talk about the following categories: PWN; cryptography (Crypto); network technologies (Network); reverse (Reverse Engineering); steganography (Stegano); search and exploitation of WEB vulnerabilities. In addition to this, I […]