Author: ProHoster

The acceptance of applications for the selection of participants in the new cosmonaut corps has been completed

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 GamerStorm DQ-M PSUs are 80 Plus Gold Certified

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 […]

CROSSTalk - Vulnerability in Intel CPUs leading to data leakage between cores

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 […]

Vulnerability in UPnP suitable for amplifying DDoS attacks and scanning the internal network

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 […]

KDE Plasma Desktop Release 5.19

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 […]

GhostBSD 20.04

The GhostBSD project creates a desktop-oriented operating system based on FreeBSD. The project has published a new version of GhostBSD 20.04 that fixes a number of installation and ZFS issues during installation. New: Replacing gnome-mount and hald with FreeBSD devd and Vermaden automount which make external device automount and unmount more stable and […]

Full-fledged pseudo-3D shooter for the terminal

A new version of a full-fledged pseudo-3D shooter for the Linux terminal has been released. The game is designed as close as possible to the big games. Separate data (ascii textures, levels, etc.) that the engine loads. From the dependencies of the rendering library, the json parser, the test system created by the developer, and the ncurses standard library. The Ts3d game can offer the player: beautiful (by the standards of ascii art and terminal) graphics full-fledged shooter […]

4 engineers, 7000 servers and one global pandemic

Hey Habr! I present to your attention the translation of the article “4 Engineers, 7000 Servers, And One Global Pandemic” by Adib Daw. If this headline didn't send a little shivers down your spine, you should skip to the next paragraph or go to our company careers page - we'd love to talk. Who we are We are a team of 4 penguins who […]

How and why the noatime option improves Linux system performance

The atime update affects system performance. What is happening there and what to do about it - read the article. Whenever I update Linux on my home computer, I have to perform certain tasks. It's become a habit over the years: I back up my files, wipe the system, install everything from scratch, restore my files, […]

HCI: turnkey solutions for building a flexible corporate IT infrastructure

In IT, there is such a thing as End User Computing - calculations for end users. How, where and in what ways can such solutions help, what should they be? With today's demands, employees want to be able to work securely from any device, anywhere. Technological aspects account for up to 30% of incentives for engaged employees, […]

Persona 5 Publisher Launches Steam Page, Promises 'Exciting News' at PC Gaming Show 2020

The Japanese publisher Atlus commented on the news of participation in the PC Gaming Show 2020 in their microblog and announced the establishment of their own page on Steam. Both events excited the fans to the limit. As reported last night, Atlus will be one of several dozen studios that will bring their announcements to the PC Gaming Show 2020. The company has now admitted that […]

Spotify is negotiating cooperation with Russian telecom operators

According to Kommersant, the world's largest music streaming service Spotify is negotiating with several Russian mobile operators at once on cooperation as part of the launch of the service in Russia. As a possible date for the launch of Spotify in the Russian market, autumn 2020 is called. As one of the interlocutors of the publication points out, cooperation with local telecom operators […]