Author: ProHoster

Problem with Sectigo certificates after May 30, 2020 and solution method

On Saturday May 30, 2020, a not immediately clear problem arose with popular SSL / TLS certificates from the vendor Sectigo (former Comodo). The certificates themselves continued to be in perfect order, however, one of the intermediate CA certificates in the chains with which these certificates were supplied went rotten. The situation is not to say fatal, but unpleasant: the current versions of browsers did not notice anything, but […]

ZFS Basics: Storage and Performance

We've already covered some introductory topics this spring, such as how to test the speed of your drives and what RAID is. In the second of them, we even promised to continue studying the performance of various multi-disk topologies in ZFS. This is the next generation file system that is now being implemented everywhere from Apple to Ubuntu. Well, today is the best day to meet [...]

The head of Take-Two said that Google over-praised its technology when promoting Stadia

Take-Two Interactive chief executive Strauss Zelnick said Google overhyped the capabilities of its game streaming technology when launching the Stadia platform. Speaking at Bernstein's annual Strategic Solutions Conference, Mr. Zelnick explained that Google's over-promises about its powerful next-generation streaming technology have only led to disappointment. “The launch of Stadia has been slow,” he said […]

Total War: Warhammer II and Civilization VI Season Pass topped Steam last week

Valve continues to share sales information on Steam. Last week, the New Frontier Pass for Civilization VI retained its lead. The strategy Total War: Warhammer II, which recently set a new record for simultaneous online, unexpectedly jumped into second position. Third place went to Monster Train, a new product that mixed the features of a bagel, strategy and card game. On the fourth […]

Dota 2 players criticized the battle pass for The International 10

Dota 2 users criticized Valve for the system of issuing rewards in the battle pass. The Loadout writes about this. Players called it a “multi-level payment system.” The Dota 2 Battle Pass has a host of new cosmetics, including three Arcana rarities and two new character skins. According to players, valuable items are located too far away to earn them without […]

Alibaba will attract a million bloggers to promote products on AliExpress

The Chinese company Alibaba Group intends to change the development strategy of social and e-commerce in the coming years, attracting popular bloggers from all over the world to promote goods sold through the AliExpress platform. This year, the company plans to recruit 100 bloggers to use its recently launched AliExpress Connect service. In three years, the number of bloggers using this platform should increase to 000 […]

The story of a merchant from Hansa and an experienced stalker: for Metro 2033, the story mode "Explorer" was released

In March 2020, a team of enthusiasts presented a trailer for the “Explorer” project, the first story modification for Metro 2033. And now anyone can download the mod, since the authors have completed development and made it freely available. Users will find a new story, two locations, notes and other content. In their official group “Mods: Metro 2033”, enthusiasts detail […]

New Article: ID-Cooling ZoomFlow 240X ARGB Liquid Cooling System Review and Test

In the previous review, we talked about the large, 360mm liquid cooling system ID-Cooling ZoomFlow 360X, which left a very pleasant impression. Today we will get acquainted with the mid-class model ZoomFlow 240X ARGB. It differs from the older system in having a smaller radiator - measuring 240 × 120 mm - and only two 120 mm fans versus three. As we said in [...]

Honor 30 and Honor 30S smartphones officially presented in Russia

In mid-April, Huawei, under the Honor brand, introduced three Honor 30 series devices to the Chinese market: the flagship Honor 30 Pro+, as well as the Honor 30 and Honor 30S models. And now all three have officially reached the Russian market. The Honor 30 model became the first smartphone of the brand to receive a 7-nm Kirin 985 processor with support for 5G networks. […]

Possible leak of the user base of the Joomla project

The developers of the free content management system Joomla warned about the discovery of the fact that full backup copies of the resources.joomla.org site, including the JRD (Joomla Resources Directory) user database, were placed in a third-party storage. The backups were not encrypted and included data from 2700 members registered on resources.joomla.org, a site that collects information about developers and vendors who create Joomla-based websites. […]

Linux 5.7 kernel release

After two months of development, Linus Torvalds presented the release of the Linux kernel 5.7. Among the most notable changes: a new implementation of the exFAT file system, a bareudp module for creating UDP tunnels, protection based on pointer authentication for ARM64, the ability to attach BPF programs to LSM handlers, a new implementation of Curve25519, a split-lock detector, BPF compatibility with PREEMPT_RT, removing the limit on the 80-character line size in the code, taking into account […]