Author: ProHoster

Inexpensive smartphone Xiaomi Redmi 9C will be released in a version with NFC support

At the end of June, the Chinese company Xiaomi introduced the budget smartphone Redmi 9C with a MediaTek Helio G35 processor and a 6,53-inch HD+ display (1600 × 720 pixels). Now it is reported that this device will be released in a new modification. This is a version equipped with support for NFC technology: thanks to this system, users will be able to make contactless payments. Press renderings and […]

MSI Creator PS321 Series monitors for content creators

MSI today, August 6, 2020, officially unveiled the Creator PS321 Series monitors, the first information about which was released during the January CES 2020 electronics exhibition. The panels of the named family are aimed primarily at content creators, designers and architects. It is noted that the appearance of the new products is inspired by the works of Leonardo da Vinci and Joan Miró. The monitors are based on [...]

New Article: Gigabyte G165QC 27Hz WQHD Gaming Monitor Review: A Budget Expansion of the Line

The recipes for conquering the desktop monitor market are known, all the cards have been revealed by the main players - take it and repeat it. ASUS has an affordable TUF gaming line with an excellent ratio of price, quality and features, Acer has the often even more affordable Nitro, MSI has a huge number of cheap models in the Optix series, and LG has some of the most affordable UltraGear solutions […]

PHP 8 beta testing has begun

The first beta release of the new branch of the PHP 8 programming language has been presented. The release is scheduled for November 26. At the same time, corrective releases of PHP 7.4.9, 7.3.21 and 7.2.33 were formed, in which accumulated errors and vulnerabilities were eliminated. The main innovations of PHP 8: Inclusion of a JIT compiler, the use of which will improve performance. Support for named function arguments, allowing you to pass values ​​to a function in relation to names, i.e. […]

Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS release

Canonical has released the first patch release of the Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS distribution, which includes updates to several hundred packages related to fixing vulnerabilities and stability issues. The new version also fixes bugs in the installer and bootloader. The release of Ubuntu 20.04.1 marked the passage of the basic stabilization of the LTS release - users of Ubuntu 18.04 will now be prompted to upgrade to […]

Jeffrey Knaut elected new president of the Free Software Foundation

The Free Software Foundation announced the election of a new president, following the resignation of Richard Stallman from this post following accusations of behavior unworthy of the leader of the Free Software movement and threats to sever relations with free software by some communities and organizations. The new president is Geoffrey Knauth, who has been on the board of directors of the Open Source Foundation since 1998 and is involved in the […]

Modern applications on OpenShift, part 2: chained builds

Hi all! This is the second post in our series where we show you how to deploy modern web applications on Red Hat OpenShift. In the previous post, we briefly touched on the capabilities of the new S2I (source-to-image) builder image, which is designed to build and deploy modern web applications on the OpenShift platform. Then we were interested in the topic of rapid application deployment, and today we will look at how […]

3. Check Point SandBlast Agent Management Platform. Threat Prevention Policy

Welcome to the third article in the series about the new cloud-based personal computer protection management console - Check Point SandBlast Agent Management Platform. Let me remind you that in the first article we got acquainted with the Infinity Portal and created a cloud-based agent management service Endpoint Management Service. In the second article, we explored the web-based management console interface and installed the agent with the default […]

Best in class: the history of the emergence of the AES encryption standard

Since May 2020, official sales of WD My Book external hard drives supporting AES hardware encryption with a 256-bit key have started in Russia. Due to legal restrictions, previously such devices could be purchased only in foreign online electronics stores or on the "gray" market, but now anyone can get a secure drive with a proprietary 3-year warranty from Western Digital. […]

AMD Unveils Radeon Pro 5000 Series Graphics Exclusively for Apple iMac

Yesterday, Apple introduced updated iMac all-in-one PCs that feature the latest Intel Comet Lake desktop processors and AMD Navi-based graphics accelerators. In total, four new Radeon Pro 5000 series video cards were presented along with the computers, which will be available exclusively in the new iMac. The youngest in the new series is the Radeon Pro 5300 video card, which is built […]

Rumors: Blizzard is giving staff bonuses in the form of in-game currency and items

The author of the YouTube channel Asmongold TV published a new video dedicated to Blizzard Entertainment. According to the blogger, the studio pays bonuses to its employees in the form of in-game currency. Confirmation of this also came from another source. In a recent article, Asmongold published a screenshot that was provided to him by an anonymous developer from Blizzard. The picture shows a letter from the company to the mentioned employee. The text of the message states that […]

Everyone Makes Mistakes: Impostor Factory Adventure Trailer (To the Moon 3)

Freebird Games studio has published the official trailer for the adventure Impostor Factory, which was announced in November 2019. This is the third full-fledged game in the To the Moon series and the continuation of Finding Paradise. The main characters of the series are doctors Rosalyn and Watts, who give people a second chance to live their lives the way they have always dreamed of. They immerse themselves in the memories of their dying […]