Author: ProHoster

The Wonderful 101: Remastered runs worst on Switch and suffers from issues on PC

Action-adventure game The Wonderful 101: Remastered appears to be running poorly on Nintendo Switch. Digital Foundry published testing of the game, which provided information about its performance on various platforms. According to Digital Foundry, The Wonderful performs worst on Nintendo Switch (the game will also be released on PC and PlayStation 4). This version plays in 1080p […]

The final stage of CBT action RPG Genshin Impact will be available on PS4 with crossplay support

Studio miHoYo announced that the shareware anime action role-playing game Genshin Impact will enter the final closed beta stage in the third quarter of 2020. In addition, PlayStation 4 has been added to the list of platforms being tested, and the project will support cross-platform cooperative play. According to Genshin Impact producer Hugh Tsai, the studio plans to make some changes and optimizations to the final […]

Windows 10 May 2020 Update Confirms Fall OS Update Won't Be Massive

Microsoft is expected to begin distributing Windows 10 May 2020 Update (20H1) between May 26 and May 28. The second major update to the software platform should be released in the fall. Not much is known about Windows 10 20H2 (version 2009), but online sources say that the update will not bring any new features and will mainly focus on improving […]

AMD makes Radeon Rays 4.0 ray tracing technology open

We already told you that AMD, following the relaunch of its GPUOpen program with new tools and an expanded FidelityFX package, also released a new version of the AMD ProRender renderer, including an updated Radeon Rays 4.0 ray tracing acceleration library (formerly known as FireRays). Previously, Radeon Rays could only run via OpenCL on a CPU or GPU, which was a pretty serious limitation. […]

Firefox 84 scheduled to remove code to support Adobe Flash

Mozilla plans to remove support for Adobe Flash in the release of Firefox 84, expected this December. Additionally, it is noted that Flash may also be disabled earlier for certain categories of users participating in the test enablement of Fission's strict page isolation mode (a modernized multi-process architecture that involves segregation of isolated processes not based on tabs, but separated by […]

Release of DXVK 1.7, Direct3D 9/10/11 implementations on top of the Vulkan API

The DXVK 1.7 layer has been released, providing an implementation of DXGI (DirectX Graphics Infrastructure), Direct3D 9, 10 and 11, working through the translation of calls to the Vulkan API. DXVK requires drivers that support the Vulkan API 1.1, such as AMD RADV 19.2, NVIDIA 415.22, Intel ANV 19.0, and AMDVLK. DXVK can be used to run 3D applications and games […]

XMPP client UWPX 0.25.0 for Windows 10X released

A new version of the XMPP client UWPX 0.25.0 has been released for devices based on the UWP (Universal Windows Platform) architecture. The project code is distributed under the free MPL 2.0 license. The new version of UWPX brings dual screen support to Windows 10X through an update to the MasterDetailsView control provided by the Windows Community Toolkit (PR). UWPX has also added support for push operations. Client author […]

Thanos - Scalable Prometheus

The translation of the article was prepared specifically for students of the DevOps Practices and Tools course. Fabian Reinartz is a software developer, Go fanatic, and problem solver. He is also the maintainer of Prometheus and co-founder of Kubernetes SIG instrumentation. In the past, he was a production engineer at SoundCloud and led the monitoring team at CoreOS. Currently works at Google. Bartek […]

Security and DBMS: what to remember when choosing protection tools

My name is Denis Rozhkov, I am the head of software development at Gazinformservice, in the Jatoba product team. Legislation and corporate regulations impose certain requirements for the security of data storage. No one wants third parties to gain access to confidential information, so the following issues are important for any project: identification and authentication, data access control, ensuring the integrity of information in […]

Azure for All: Introductory Course

On May 26, we invite you to the online event "Azure for everyone: an introductory course" - this is a great opportunity to get acquainted with the possibilities of Microsoft cloud technologies online in just a couple of hours. Microsoft experts will help you unlock the full potential of the cloud by sharing their knowledge, offering exclusive insights and hands-on labs. During the two-hour webinar, you will learn about the general concepts of cloud [...]