Author: ProHoster

AMD will introduce Ryzen 4000 (Renoir) on Tuesday, but is not going to sell them at retail

The announcement of the Ryzen 4000 hybrid processors, aimed at working in desktop systems and equipped with integrated graphics, will take place next week - July 21. However, it is assumed that these processors will not go on retail sale, at least in the near future. The entire Renoir desktop family will consist exclusively of solutions intended for the business segment and OEMs. According to the source, […]

BadPower is an attack on fast charging adapters that can cause a device to catch fire

Security researchers from the Chinese company Tencent presented (interview) a new class of BadPower attacks aimed at defeating chargers for smartphones and laptops that support the fast charging protocol. The attack allows the charger to transmit excessive power that the equipment is not designed to handle, which can lead to failure, melting of parts, or even fire of the device. The attack is carried out from a smartphone [...]

Release of KaOS 2020.07 and Laxer OS 1.0 distributions

New releases are available for two distributions that use Arch Linux developments: KaOS 2020.07 is a distribution with a rolling update model, aimed at providing a desktop based on the latest releases of KDE and applications using Qt, such as the Calligra office suite. The distribution is developed with an eye on Arch Linux, but maintains its own independent repository of about 1500 packages. Builds are published for [...]

Rust programming language 1.45 release

Release 1.45 of the Rust system programming language, founded by the Mozilla project, has been published. The language focuses on memory safety, provides automatic memory management, and provides a means to achieve high task parallelism without using a garbage collector or runtime. Automatic memory management in Rust saves the developer from errors when manipulating pointers and protects against problems […]

Citizenship by investment: how to buy a passport? (part 2 of 3)

As economic citizenship becomes more popular, new players are entering the golden passport market. This stimulates competition and increases the range. What can you choose from right now? Let's try to figure it out. This is the second part of a series of three articles that was created as a complete guide for Russians, Belarusians and Ukrainians who would like to apply for economic citizenship. First part, […]

Citizenship by investment: how to buy a passport? (part 1 of 3)

There are many ways to get a second passport. If you want the fastest and easiest option, use Citizenship by Investment. This three-part article series is a complete guide for Russians, Belarusians and Ukrainians who would like to apply for economic citizenship. With its help, you can find out what citizenship for money is, what it gives, where and how […]

Raspberry Pi Foundation hosted its site on Raspberry Pi 4. Now this hosting is available to everyone

The Raspberry Pi mini computer was built for learning and experimentation. But since 2012, the "raspberry" has become much more powerful and functional. The board is used not only for education, but also for creating desktop PCs, media centers, smart TVs, players, retro consoles, private clouds and other purposes. Now new cases have appeared, and not from third-party developers, but from […]

Nio ES6 and ES8 electric cars have traveled more than 800 million km in total: more than from Jupiter to the Sun

While “cheater” Elon Musk is launching Tesla electric cars straight into space, Chinese motorists are clocking record kilometers on Mother Earth. This is a joke, but the electric cars of the Chinese company Nio have driven over 800 million km in total over three years, which is more than the average distance from the Sun to Jupiter. Yesterday, Nio published statistics on the use of electric vehicles ES6 and ES8 […]

California allows AutoX to test autonomous cars without a driver behind the wheel

Hong Kong-based Chinese startup AutoX, which is developing autonomous driving technology backed by e-commerce giant Alibaba, has received permission from the California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) to test driverless vehicles on the streets within a certain area. San Jose. AutoX has had DMV approval to test self-driving cars with drivers since 2017. New license […]

Google to ban ads linked to coronavirus conspiracy theories

Google has announced it is stepping up its fight against misinformation about the coronavirus. As part of this, advertising that "contradicts the authoritative scientific consensus" on the pandemic will be banned. This means websites and apps will no longer be able to make money from ads promoting conspiracy theories related to the coronavirus. We are talking about theories whose authors believe that dangerous [...]

Chrome is experimenting with stopping autofill on forms submitted without encryption

The codebase used to build the Chrome 86 release added a setting called "chrome://flags#mixed-forms-disable-autofill" to disable autofill of input forms on pages loaded over HTTPS but sending data over HTTP. Autofilling of authentication forms on pages opened via HTTP has been disabled in Chrome and Firefox for quite some time, but until now the sign for disabling was the opening of a page with a form via […]

xtables-addons: filter packages by country

The task of blocking traffic from certain countries seems simple, but first impressions are deceiving. Today we will show you how this can be done. Background The results of Google searches on this topic are disappointing: most of the solutions have long been “rotten” and sometimes it seems that this topic has been shelved and forgotten about forever. We have gone through a lot of old records and are ready to share […]