Author: ProHoster

Release of the pre-release version of Protox 1.5beta_pre, the Tox client for mobile platforms.

An update has been published for Protox, a mobile application for exchanging messages between users without a server, implemented based on the Tox protocol (c-toxcore). At the moment, only Android OS is supported, however, since the program is written on the cross-platform Qt framework using QML, in the future it is possible to port the application to other platforms. The program is an alternative to Tox clients Antox, Trifa. Project code […]

Matrix receives another $4.6 million in funding from WordPress contributors

New Vector, which also leads the non-profit organization behind the Matrix protocol and the network's client/server reference implementations, announced a $4.6 million strategic funding commitment from WordPress CMS developer Automattic. Matrix is ​​a free protocol for implementing a federated network based on a linear history of events within an acyclic graph (DAG). Basic […]

Coronavirus cyberattacks: all the salt in social engineering

Attackers continue to exploit the topic of COVID-19, creating more and more new threats for users who are keenly interested in everything related to the epidemic. In the last post, we already talked about what types of malware appeared in the wake of the coronavirus, and today we will talk about social engineering techniques that users in different countries have already encountered, including […]

Digital coronavirus - a combination of Ransomware and Infostealer

Various threats using the theme of coronavirus continue to appear on the network. And today we want to share information about one interesting instance, which clearly demonstrates the desire of attackers to maximize their profits. A 2-in-1 threat calls itself CoronaVirus. Detailed information about the malware is under the cut. Exploitation of the topic of coronavirus began more than a month ago. The attackers took advantage of […]

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 […]