Author: ProHoster

South Korean authorities will financially stimulate the emergence of a new generation of batteries

According to South Korean sources, the government of the Republic of Korea intends to invest in the development of new generation batteries. This will take the form of direct funding for companies such as LG Chem and Samsung SDI, as well as facilitating a merger between battery and electric vehicle manufacturers. The South Korean authorities do not expect help from the “invisible hand of the market” and intend to use proven tools of protectionism and […]

Animated trailer for Hades roguelike is set to release this fall on PC and Switch

The Supergiant Games team presented a bright trailer for the Hades roguelike. The video includes hand-drawn animation and gameplay clips, and promises a fall launch on the Nintendo Switch console, with the game also leaving early access on PC (Steam and Epic Games Store). Cross-platform saves are supported. Hades from the creators of Bastion, Transistor and Pyre absorbs […]

"League of Enthusiasts-Losers" from a Russian lone developer will tell a story about friendship and happiness in the fall of 2021

A page has appeared on the Steam digital store for the “League Of Enthusiastic Losers,” the next project of Russian game designer Ian Basharin, also known under the pseudonym yookond. League of Loser Enthusiasts is a "story- and atmosphere-oriented" adventure. You can't pre-order the game yet, just add it to your wishlist. Release is scheduled for fall 2021. According to Basharin, over the “League […]

FritzFrog worm detected, infecting servers via SSH and building a decentralized botnet

Guardicore, a company specializing in protecting data centers and cloud systems, has identified a new high-tech malware called FritzFrog that affects Linux-based servers. FritzFrog combines a worm that spreads through a bruteforce attack on servers with an open SSH port, and components to build a decentralized botnet that operates without control nodes and has no single point of failure. To build a botnet, we use our own […]

What is Docker: a brief history and basic abstractions

On August 10, a video course on Docker started in Slurm, in which we analyze it completely - from basic abstractions to network parameters. In this article, we will talk about the history of Docker and its main abstractions: Image, Cli, Dockerfile. The lecture is designed for beginners, so it is unlikely to be of interest to experienced users. There will be no blood, appendix and deep diving. […]

How Google's BigQuery democratized data analysis. Part 2

Hey Habr! Right now, OTUS is open to enrollment for a new stream of the Data Engineer course. In anticipation of the start of the course, we continue to share useful material with you. Read Part One Data Governance Strong Data Governance is the core principle of Twitter Engineering. As we embed BigQuery into our platform, we are focusing on data discovery, access control, security […]

Solarwinds webinar and what's new in their latest version 2020.2

Solarwinds is very famous for its monitoring and remote management solutions (Dameware). In this article, we will talk about updates to the Orion Solarwinds monitoring platform version 2020.2 (released in June 2020) and invite you to a webinar. Let's talk about the tasks to be solved for monitoring network devices and infrastructure, monitoring flow- and span-traffic (and span Solarwinds can also […]

The release date of Crysis Remastered was again revealed ahead of time - the game will be released on PS4 on August 21

The series of leaks related to the updated version of the sci-fi shooter Crysis from the Crytek studio continues: the PlayStation Access YouTube channel ahead of time revealed the release date of the re-release on PS4. Let us remind you that the release of Crysis Remastered was expected on July 23, but as a result of the reaction to screenshots of the project version for all target platforms except Nintendo Switch that were leaked online, the release was postponed indefinitely. Edition […]

People's gaming PC from Xiaomi on the AMD Ryzen 5 2600 processor costs from $260

Xiaomi Youpin has launched the Ningmei Soul GI6 desktop computer powered by AMD Ryzen 5 2600 processor, which starts at $260. The device will be sold in Share, Fun and Enjoy versions, which differ in technical characteristics. The basic version will receive an AMD Ryzen 5 2600 central processor and a Radeon RX 550 video card with 4 GB of video memory. The computer will be equipped with 8 […]

Solaris 11.4 SRU24 available

An update to the Solaris 11.4 operating system SRU 24 (Support Repository Update) has been published, which offers a series of regular fixes and improvements for the Solaris 11.4 branch. To install the fixes offered in the update, just run the 'pkg update' command. In the new release: Oracle Explorer, a toolkit for building a detailed profile of the configuration and system state, has been updated to version 20.2; Added support for storage […]

Vulnerability in Icinga Web monitoring interface

Corrective releases of the Icinga Web 2.6.4, 2.7.4 and v2.8.2 package have been published, providing a web interface for the Icinga monitoring system. The proposed updates address a critical vulnerability (CVE-2020-24368) that allows an unauthenticated attacker to access files on the server with the privileges of the Icinga Web process (usually the user under which the http server or fpm is running). A successful attack requires the presence of one of the third-party modules supplied […]