Author: ProHoster

The player found that since the release of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare has greatly deteriorated graphics

Reddit forum user joshg125 posted a selection of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare screenshots. On them, he compared the same places from different versions of the game and demonstrated a significant deterioration in graphics. Since its release, the project has started to look worse, especially in terms of detail and color scheme. In his comparison, the enthusiast used images from versions of CoD: Modern Warfare “before [...]

Sales of games in the Dark Souls series exceeded 27 million copies, more than 10 million accounts for the third part

Publisher Bandai Namco Entertainment in a new press release spoke about the success of Dark Souls in general and specifically the third part of the series of dark action role-playing games From Software. Since the original Dark Souls hit the shelves in 2011, the franchise's games have sold 27 million copies worldwide. From Software also commented on the achievement. “It’s big for us [...]

In Europe, the Scandinavian countries lead in the field of online learning

During the current coronavirus pandemic, when people are asked to limit their social contacts as much as possible, online courses provide a safe alternative for education and training. Is this interesting to the population, in which countries the process is gaining momentum, which age groups are active - these and other questions were clarified by Eurostat officials. The survey covered European Union citizens aged 16 to […]

Media: in early June, Sony will introduce games for the PlayStation 5, and the console itself - a little later

Some time ago, Venture Beat journalist Jeff Grubb said that on June 4, Sony would hold its own event with a demonstration of the PlayStation 5 console. According to later statements by the reporter, the event should be marked by the display of many games. However, now some of Sony's plans have changed, as Jeff Grubb wrote about in his latest material. The journalist said that the PS5 demonstration was not […]

Ryzen 4000 gaming laptops coming this summer

The laptop market has been hit quite hard by the coronavirus. The closure of Chinese manufacturing plants for quarantine came at a time when distributors were supposed to be placing orders for the supply of laptops built on the new Ryzen 4000 mobile platform. As a result, mobile gaming systems with these processors are still not widely available. At the same time, the first […]

Thermalright Introduces TY-121BP Fan for Coolant Heatsinks

Thermalright has expanded its range of fans for computer cooling systems with the new model TY-121BP. The new product is distinguished by its ability to provide increased static pressure of the air flow, due to which it is better suited for radiators of liquid cooling systems with dense placement of fins. And the new product is also suitable as a replacement for air cooler fans. The TY-121BP fan is made in a standard 120 mm format and has […]

The United States extended the temporary license of Huawei and blocked its supply of semiconductors

The US Commerce Department announced on Friday an extension of the Temporary General License, which allows US companies to carry out certain transactions with Huawei Technologies for an additional 90 days, despite its being on the blacklist. At the same time, the Trump administration has moved to block the supply of semiconductors to Huawei from global chip manufacturers, which could […]

Release of free flight simulator FlightGear 2020.1

The release of the FlightGear 2020.1 project has been presented, developing a realistic flight simulator distributed in source code under the GPL license. The project was founded in 1997 by a group of aviation enthusiasts who were dissatisfied with the lack of realism and scalability of commercial flight simulators. FlightGear's main goal is to provide flexible extension tools that allow people to easily implement their ideas for improving the simulator. The simulator simulates more than 500 […]

Password leak from encrypted partitions in Ubuntu Server installer log

Canonical has published a maintenance release of the Subiquity 20.05.2 installer, which is the default installer for Ubuntu Server installations starting with the 18.04 release when installing in Live mode. The new release fixes a security issue (CVE-2020-11932) caused by storing in the log the password specified by the user to access the encrypted LUKS partition created during installation. Updates of iso images that eliminate the vulnerability have not yet […]

Release of BackBox Linux 7, Security Testing Distribution

Presented is the release of the Linux distribution BackBox Linux 7, based on Ubuntu 20.04 and supplied with a collection of tools for checking system security, testing exploits, reverse engineering, analyzing network traffic and wireless networks, studying malware, stress testing, identifying hidden or lost data. The user environment is based on Xfce. The iso image size is 2.5 GB (x86_64). The new version has updated system components [...]

SMR: new recording technology makes HDDs unsuitable for RAID

To increase the recording density, HDD manufacturers switched to SMR (Shingled Magnetic Recording) technology. Unfortunately, the new technology makes it difficult to use disks as part of a RAID. And what's worse, manufacturers do not mention the use of SMR in the specifications for hdd. Be careful when choosing hard drives sources: Habr Tom's Hardware Nix opennet 3DNews Xakep Source: linux.org.ru

illumination 0.24

The Enlightenment 0.24 window manager has been released, known for its impressive appearance and low consumption of computing resources based on EFL. Among the announced improvements: New screenshot module with editor and cropping Many setuid utilities have been combined into one Adjustment of monitor brightness is done via (lib)ddctil Thumbnail size in EFM has been increased to 256x256 by default Improved handling of meditation errors […]