Statistics show that, following the participants in video conferences during the pandemic, citizens with criminal inclinations also rushed into the virtual environment. The Zoom service in this sense has more than once become the object of criticism, since it made joining someone else’s video conference too easy. This problem may soon be fixed at the expense of customers. As reported by Reuters with reference to […]
Organizers Guerrilla Collective announced that fourteen companies will join the independent games event, including the developers of the System Shock remake, Cyanide & Happiness - Freakpocalypse, The Flame in the Flood and Dwarf Fortress. The broadcasts will take place from June 6 to 8. You can find the previously announced list of participating companies in our previous material. In addition, Larian […]
Kalypso Media and Realmforge studio have announced the release date for the economic strategy Spacebase Startopia. It will be available on PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on October 23, 2020. On Nintendo Switch, players will have to wait until 2021 for release. Earlier this week, Kalypso Media and Realmforge Studios announced a closed beta for Spacebase Startopia on PC, […]
The head of the state corporation Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, on the YouTube channel Solovyov Live, announced that the Russian segment of the International Space Station (ISS) was equipped with special video surveillance cameras after the incident that occurred with the Soyuz spacecraft in 2018. We are talking about the Soyuz MS-09 manned spacecraft, which went to the ISS in June 2018. While being part of the orbital complex in [...]
Today at 19:00 Moscow time, the popular Chinese company Xiaomi will hold the so-called X-Conference 2020. This is an important presentation for the manufacturer, at which new products will be presented en masse. The company must show six new products at once. First of all, Xiaomi is expected to present new smartphones - the update of the model range will affect several series at once. The company also promises […]
New American sanctions have cut off Huawei Technologies from services for the production of processors of its own design, but this does not prevent it from using the time remaining until September to build up stocks of the necessary components. Sources say that for some items these stocks already reach two years' requirement. According to the Nikkei Asian Review, Huawei Technologies began stocking up on American components back in […]
The experimental browser Firefox Preview 5.1 has been released for the Android platform, developed under the code name Fenix as a replacement for the Firefox edition for Android. The release will be published in the Google Play catalog in the near future (Android 5 or later is required for operation). Firefox Preview uses the GeckoView engine, built on Firefox Quantum technologies, and a set of Mozilla Android […]
The developers of the free game engine Godot have unveiled the initial version of the Godot Editor, a graphical environment for developing and designing games that can run in a web browser. The Godot engine has long provided game export support for the HTML5 platform, and has now added the ability to run in a browser and game development environment. It is noted that the primary attention in the development, as before, will be given to the classic […]
Alpine Linux 3.12 has been released, a minimalistic distribution based on the Musl system library and the BusyBox utility set. The distribution is distinguished by increased security requirements and is built with SSP (Stack Smashing Protection) protection. OpenRC is used as an initialization system, and its own apk package manager is used for package management. Alpine is used to build official Docker container images. Boot […]
The release of the Google Chrome 83 browser and the corresponding free version of Chromium, which acts as the basis, took place. The previous release, the 82nd, was skipped due to the transfer of developers to a remote work mode. New: DNS over HTTPS (DoH) is now enabled by default if the user's DNS provider supports it. Additional security checks: Now you can check if the login and password are compromised, […]
On May 20, the SRU 21 update package for Oracle Solaris 11.4 was released. Updates are available with the pkg update command. Added: Mellanox ConnectX-100 and ConnectX-4 5Gb NIC support package, without ConnectX-6 support. The driver does not support SR-IOV. fribidi, a free implementation of the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm, an algorithm for working with text in right-to-left languages (such as Hebrew). libsass […]
A stable release of Android Studio 4.0, an integrated development environment (IDE) for working with the Android platform, has taken place. Read more about the changes in the release description and YouTube presentation. Along with this announcement, Google has extended an invitation to developers to the Android 11 beta 1 online presentation on June 3, 2020. List of changes in the development environment: Changes to work […]
