Author: ProHoster

More developers need to know this about databases

Note. transl.: Jaana Dogan is an experienced engineer from Google, who is currently working on the observability of the company's production services written in Go. In this article, which has gained great popularity among the English-speaking audience, she collected in 17 points important technical details regarding DBMS (and sometimes distributed systems in general) that developers of large / demanding applications can usefully consider. Overwhelming majority […]

Horror Amnesia: Rebirth will take the best elements of Amnesia: The Dark Descent and SOMA

Frictional Games creative director Thomas Grip spoke in an interview with GameSpot about what the developers focus on when creating the horror Amnesia: Rebirth. The game was announced this spring, and its plot will unfold ten years after the events of Amnesia: The Dark Descent. Amnesia: The Dark Descent is one of the best examples of psychological horror. She is gradually catching up [...]

Apple has fixed a bug that prevented apps from opening on iPhone and iPad

A few days ago it became known that iPhone and iPad users encountered problems opening some applications. Now, online sources say that Apple has fixed an issue that caused the message “This app is no longer available to you” to appear when launching some apps on devices running iOS 13.4.1 and 13.5. To use it you must buy it […]

Spotify has removed the limit on the number of songs in the library

Music service Spotify has removed the 10 song limit for personal libraries. The developers reported this on the company's website. Now users can add an unlimited number of tracks to themselves. Spotify users have complained for years about limits on the number of songs they can add to their personal library. At the same time, the service contained more than 50 million compositions. In 2017, company representatives stated […]

Bethesda: Starfield received an age rating by mistake - the game is not yet complete

This morning, rumors began to spread on the Internet that development of the space RPG Starfield from Bethesda Game Studios has come to an end and the game will soon appear on store shelves. Users made this conclusion based on assigning an age rating to the project from the German organization USK (Unterhaltungssoftware Selbstkontrolle). However, before fans had time to rejoice, Bethesda denied information about the readiness […]

Former creators of Apple HomePod will release a revolutionary audio system

Two former Apple specialists, according to the Financial Times, expect to announce a “revolutionary” audio system that has no analogues on the commercial market this year. The device is being developed by the startup Syng, founded by former employees of the Apple empire - designer Christopher Stringer and engineer Afrooz Family. Both of them took part in the creation of the Apple HomePod smart speaker. It is reported […]

Poor relative: AMD will dilute the Navi 2X family with the Navi 10 video chip

AMD has long made no secret of its intentions to introduce graphics solutions with RDNA 2 architecture in the second half of the year, which will provide support for ray tracing at the hardware level. The breadth of the range of new products has still remained a mystery, but now sources report that the new family will also include products from the previous generation. Well-known blogger rogame from the pages of the HardwareLeaks resource shared information about […]

Will not become less: Tesla is not going to cut the dimensions of the Cybertruck pickup truck

Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced that the dimensions of the production version of the Cybertruck electric pickup truck will almost completely correspond to the dimensions of the demonstrated prototype. Let us remind you that the debut of the Cybertruck took place in November last year. The car received an angular design that many observers considered controversial. Three versions are available for order - with one, two and three electric motors. Price starts from [...]

Reiser5 announces support for Burst Buffers (Data Tiering)

Eduard Shishkin announced new features being developed as part of the Reiser5 project. Reiser5 is a significantly redesigned version of the ReiserFS file system, in which support for parallel scalable logical volumes is implemented at the file system level, rather than at the block device level, allowing you to efficiently distribute data across a logical volume. Among the innovations developed recently, it is noted that the user is given the opportunity to add a small high-performance […]

RangeAmp is a series of CDN attacks that manipulates the Range HTTP header.

A team of researchers from Peking University, Tsinghua University and the University of Texas at Dallas has identified a new class of DoS attacks - RangeAmp, based on the use of the Range HTTP header to amplify traffic through content delivery networks (CDNs). The essence of the method is that due to the way Range headers are processed in many CDNs, an attacker can request one byte from a large file via the CDN, but […]

New releases of I2P anonymous network 0.9.46 and i2pd 2.32 C++ client

Anonymous network I2P 0.9.46 and C++ client i2pd 2.32.0 have been released. Recall that I2P is a multi-layer anonymous distributed network operating on top of the regular Internet, actively using end-to-end encryption, which guarantees anonymity and isolation. On the I2P network, you can anonymously create websites and blogs, send instant messages and e-mails, exchange files, and organize P2P networks. The basic I2P client is written […]