In this series of articles, we want to address the questions that people have when dealing with hosting providers and dedicated servers in particular. We conducted most of the discussions on English-language forums, trying to help users first of all with advice, and not self-promotion, giving the most detailed and impartial answer, because our experience in the field has been over 14 years, hundreds of […]
Honda Motor announced on Tuesday it was suspending production of certain car and motorcycle models around the world in connection with a cyberattack on Monday. According to a spokesman for the automaker, the hack affected Honda on a global scale, forcing the company to shut down some factories due to lack of assurance that quality control systems would be fully functional after the hackers intervened. The hacker attack affected […]
Last month, Microsoft announced Xbox 20/20, a series of monthly events focused on Xbox Series X, Xbox Game Pass, upcoming games, and more. One of them was supposed to take place in June, but it seems that the postponement of Sony's broadcast of the demonstration of PlayStation 5 projects has changed the publisher's plans. The June event has been moved to August. With the July event […]
Xenoblade Chronicles has become a major franchise for Nintendo over the past decade, thanks to two numbered installments and one offshoot. Luckily for fans, neither publisher nor studio Monolith Soft has plans to abandon the series in the coming years. Speaking to Vandal, Monolith Soft CEO and Xenoblade Chronicles series creator Tetsuya Takahashi said the studio is focused on […]
Team17 and Veewo Games have announced that the action-platformer Neon Abyss is coming to PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch on July 14th. A time-limited demo is available on Steam right now, which offers 15 minutes on Easy, 18 minutes on Medium, and 24 minutes on Hard. In Neon Abyss […]
Studios developing multi-platform games will find a way to work around the limitations of the slower SSD in the Xbox Series X relative to the PlayStation 5. This topic was discussed by Windows Mixed Reality Program Manager William Stillwell, who has previously worked on Xbox backwards compatibility, Project xCloud and others for several years. platform services. Stillwell was a guest on the Iron Lords Podcast where he was asked […]
It seems that the next generation of AMD Radeon graphics cards will no longer have graphics accelerators with 4 GB of video memory, even at the entry level. The company devoted the last publication on its blog to the conversation that in many modern games 4 GB is clearly not enough. A number of new high-end projects really benefit greatly from having a large amount of video memory to store the necessary […]
The State Corporation Roscosmos announces the completion of accepting applications for participation in an open competition for the selection of candidates for a new cosmonaut corps of the Russian Federation. The selection started in June last year. Very stringent requirements will be imposed on potential astronauts. They must be in good health, professionally fit and have a certain body of knowledge. Only […]
DeepCool has released GamerStorm DQ-M power supplies suitable for use in gaming grade desktops. The family includes three models - with a capacity of 650, 750 and 850 watts. They are 80 Plus Gold certified. The design uses high-quality Japanese-made capacitors. The devices received a fully modular cable system. This allows you to use only the connections you need without creating […]
A group of researchers from the Free University of Amsterdam has identified a new vulnerability (CVE-2020-0543) in the microarchitectural structures of Intel processors, notable for the fact that it allows you to recover the results of certain instructions executed on another CPU core. This is the first vulnerability in the speculative instruction execution mechanism that allows data leakage between individual CPU cores (previously, leaks were limited to different threads of the same core). The researchers named the problem […]
Information has been disclosed about a vulnerability (CVE-2020-12695) in the UPnP protocol that allows sending traffic to an arbitrary recipient using the SUBSCRIBE operation provided for in the standard. The vulnerability has been given the code name CallStranger. The vulnerability can be exploited to extract data from networks protected by data leakage prevention (DLP) systems, organize port scanning of computers on the internal network, and also to amplify DDoS attacks using millions of […]
The KDE Plasma 5.19 custom shell release is available, built using the KDE Frameworks 5 platform and the Qt 5 library using OpenGL / OpenGL ES for faster rendering. You can evaluate the work of the new version through a Live build from the openSUSE project and a build from the KDE Neon User Edition project. Packages for various distributions can be found on this page. Key improvements: Updated […]
