Author: ProHoster

Rumors: the Microsoft conference at E3 2019 will announce the release date of Cyberpunk 2077 and show many other games

Microsoft was able to surprise all game lovers with its press conference at E3 2018, where many interesting announcements were made. Everyone hopes that the scale of the show will not decrease in 2019, and this is confirmed by NeoGAF forum user under the nickname Braldryr. Citing reliable sources, he told us exactly what to expect from Microsoft’s presentation. During the event, users will see new gameplay […]

Weekly Habr. Meet the pilot release of the Habrapodcast

We've been wanting to try making a podcast for a long time. We have about 30 different podcast formats that we would be interested in recording: motivating and demotivating; interviews with hackers; thriller podcasts about how Winlocker infects your network of 6000 computers with XP on board; about emigration to and from Russia. There are a lot of ideas, and we want to understand which of all this will be interesting to you. We decided to look into the process. Meet the first episode of the Habr Weekly podcast. Once […]

Google wants to compete with Amazon in the field of trade

Google has announced the relaunch of its online trading services. From now on, Google Shopping, Google Express, YouTube, image search and others will help you find a product, purchase it and deliver it. It is reported that Google Shopping will unite all services and resources that can be used for shopping. They will be united by a “end-to-end” basket of goods, which will be displayed everywhere. Thus, the user […]

E3 2019: THQ Nordic Announces Return of Two Famous Franchises

THQ Nordic will present two unannounced projects at E3 2019. THQ Nordic's first project will be a remake and the hotly anticipated return of the "galaxy's favorite game/franchise." The company has almost 200 items under its belt. Perhaps this is a remake of Destroy All Humans!? The second project will also be something from long-standing series, a new vision of a certain franchise. Kingdoms of Amalur? TimeSplitters? Alone in […]

MSI equips MPG X570 Gaming Plus and Pro Carbon motherboards with fans

AMD will present its new Ryzen 2019 processors in a week at Computex 3000, and motherboard manufacturers will present their products for these processors based on the new AMD X570 chipset at the same exhibition. And traditionally, thanks to the VideoCardz resource, we can look at some boards even before the announcement. This time they published [...]

IPFire 2.23 release

A new version of the distribution kit for creating firewalls IPFire 2.23 has been presented. In the new version: SSH Agent Forwarding: can be enabled in the IPFire SSH service, this allows administrators to connect to the firewall, and use SSH agent authentication when using IPFire as a bastion node and then connecting to the backend server. When creating multiple hosts to rewrite the local DNS zone, a […]

Google Stadia graphics will rely on first generation AMD Vega

When Google announced its own ambitions in the field of game streaming and announced the development of the Stadia service, many questions arose about the equipment that the search giant plans to use in its new cloud platform. The fact is that Google itself gave an extremely vague description of the hardware configuration, especially its graphical part: in fact, it was only promised that systems that broadcast […]

How to enable micro-payments in your application

I spent the last week developing my first public program - a Telegram bot that works as a Bitcoin wallet and allows you to "throw coins" to other participants in group chats, as well as make external Bitcoin payments to yourself or others so-called. Lightning Apps. I mean that in general the reader is familiar with Bitcoin and Telegram, because I will try to write briefly, without going into details. […]

13. Check Point Getting Started R80.20. Licensing

Hello friends! And we finally got to the last, final lesson of Check Point Getting Started. Today we will talk about a very important topic - Licensing. I hasten to warn you that this lesson is not an exhaustive guide to choosing equipment or licenses. This is just a summary of the key points that any Check Point administrator should know. If you are really puzzled by the choice […]

Xigmatek Iris: Strict PC Case Supports ATX Boards

Xigmatek has released the elegant Iris computer case (model EN42227), which is part of the Mid Tower form factor. The solution is made in a strict style. A tempered glass panel is installed on the side, allowing you to see the interior of the system. Dimensions are 435 × 398 × 200 mm. The device has a classic black color. Installation of motherboards of ATX, Micro-ATX and Mini-ITX sizes is allowed. The computer can carry […]

Wallpaper Contest for KDE Plasma 5.16

In connection with the planned release of Plasma 5.16, the KDE team is announcing a competition for the best background image for the upcoming release. 5.16 is planned to polish many aspects of Plasma as well as add new functionality. There will be a “Do Not Disturb” mode, a more developed notification history and grouping, critical notifications can be shown even when a full-screen application is running, improvements to file operation notifications. Cherry […]

Gigabyte Adds PCI Express 4.0 Support to Select Socket AM4 Motherboards

Recently, many motherboard manufacturers have released BIOS updates for their products with the Socket AM4 processor socket, which provide support for the new Ryzen 3000 processors. Gigabyte was no exception, but its updates have one very interesting feature - they provide some motherboards with support for the new PCI interface Express 4.0. This feature was discovered by one of [...]