Author: ProHoster

GitHub Named Defendant in Capital One Userbase Leak Case

The law firm Tycko & Zavareei filed a lawsuit related to the leak of personal data of more than 100 million clients of the banking holding company Capital One, including information about about 140 thousand Social Security numbers and 80 thousand bank account numbers. In addition to Capital One, the defendants include GitHub, which is charged with allowing the hosting, display and use of information obtained […]

Facebook Algorithms Help Internet Companies Find Duplicate Videos and Images to Fight Inappropriate Content

Facebook announced the open source code of two algorithms that can determine the degree of identity for photos and videos, even if they are made minor changes. The social network actively uses these algorithms to combat content containing materials related to the exploitation of children, terrorist propaganda and various forms of violence. Facebook notes that this is the first time it has shared such technology, and […]

Beyond's Major VR Update for No Man's Sky Coming August 14th

If at launch the ambitious No Man's Sky disappointed many, now thanks to the diligence of the developers from Hello Games, who roll up their sleeves and continue to work, the space project has received much of what was originally promised and is again attracting players. For example, with the release of the major NEXT update, the game about exploration and survival in a procedurally generated universe has become much richer and more attractive. We already […]

Immediate blocking of web resources will become possible within the framework of the Sovereign Runet project

The draft resolution on blocking Internet resources that violate Russian legislation in the field of personal data was developed by representatives of the Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation. The document was created as part of the implementation of the law “on the sovereign Runet”. In the process of implementing the Sovereign Runet project, more and more regulatory documents are appearing. Another similar result of the work of employees of the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications was a draft resolution [...]

Ubisoft talks about a lot of optimizations for Ghost Recon Breakpoint for PC

In May, Ubisoft unveiled the next game in its third-person military shooter series, Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Breakpoint. The project will be a development of the ideas of Ghost Recon Wildlands, but its action will be transferred to the near alternative future, to a mysterious and dangerous open world on the Auroa archipelago. And this time you will have to fight with other Ghosts - like [...]

Bypassing the LinkedIn search limit by playing with the API

Limit There is such a limitation on LinkedIn - Commercial Use Limit. It is extremely likely that you, like me until recently, have never encountered or heard of it. The essence of the limit is that if you use the search for people outside your contacts too often (there are no exact metrics, the algorithm decides, based on your actions, how often […]

How to stop doing the same thing

Do you like to repeat routine operations over and over again? So I don't. But every time in the SQL client when working with the Rostelecom storage, I had to register all the joins between the tables manually. And this despite the fact that in 90% of cases the fields and conditions for joining tables coincided from request to request! It would seem that any SQL client has autocomplete functions, but […]

Biostar X570GT motherboard allows you to create a compact PC

Biostar has announced the X570GT motherboard, designed for building computers based on AMD processors in the Socket AM4 version. The new product uses the AMD X570 system logic set. Processors with a maximum thermal dissipation value (TDP) of up to 105 W can be used. The use of DDR4-2933(OC)/3200(OC)/3600(OC)/4000+(OC) RAM is supported. The system can use up to 128 GB of RAM. To connect drives [...]

Technical support for one ... two ... three ...

Why do you need special software for technical support, especially if you already have a bug tracker, CRM and email? It’s unlikely that anyone has thought about this, because most likely companies with strong technical support have had a help desk system for a long time, and the rest deal with customer requests and requests “on the knee,” for example, using email. And this is fraught: [...]

AMD Quarterly Report: 7nm EPYC Processor Announcement Date Set

Even before the opening speech by AMD CEO Lisa Su at the quarterly reporting conference, it was announced that the formal debut of 7nm EPYC Rome generation processors is scheduled for August 27th. This date is fully consistent with the previously announced schedule, because AMD previously promised to introduce new EPYC processors in the third quarter. In addition, on August XNUMXth, AMD Vice President Forrest Norrod (Forrest […]

Riot Games is making a fighting game

Riot Games has started developing a fighting game. Tom Cannon, co-founder of Radiant Entertainment, spoke about this during the Evolution Championship Series tournament. “I want to reveal one of the secrets. We're actually working on a fighting game for Riot Games. When we made Rising Thunder, we felt the genre deserved to be seen by more people. No matter how grandiose [...]

10 Steps to YAML Zen

We all love Ansible, but Ansible is YAML. There are many formats for configuration files: lists of values, parameter-value pairs, INI files, YAML, JSON, XML and many others. However, for several reasons out of all of them, YAML is often considered particularly difficult. In particular, despite its refreshing minimalism and impressive capabilities for working with hierarchical values, YAML syntax […]