Author: ProHoster

Rumors: Civilization VI, Borderlands: The Handsome Collection and ARK: Survival Evolved will be given away in EGS

Yesterday, Epic Games greatly surprised players by organizing a Grand Theft Auto V giveaway in its store. There were so many people willing to receive the hit from Rockstar Games for free that the EGS website went down for nine hours. After such a promotion, everyone was probably interested in what games Epic Games was going to give away in the future. Information about this was provided by a Reddit forum user […]

Xiaomi Mi Router AX1800 router supports Wi-Fi 6

The Chinese company Xiaomi has released the Mi Router AX1800, which can be purchased at an estimated price of $45. Sales will begin this week - May 15. The new product supports the Wi-Fi 6 standard, or IEEE 802.11ax. Of course, compatibility with previous generations of Wi-Fi standards is implemented, including IEEE 802.11ac. The router can operate in frequency ranges 2,4 and […]

Vivo is developing its own system-on-a-chip

What do Samsung, Huawei and Apple have in common besides the fact that they make mobile devices? All of these companies are developing and producing their own mobile processors. There are other smartphone manufacturers that also produce chips for mobile devices, but their volumes are much smaller. As blogger Digital Chat Station found out, vivo is working on creating its own chipsets. Blogger […]

Tests of an AI system for non-contact temperature measurement in passenger traffic began in Moscow

The Rostec State Corporation reports that pilot tests of a Russian system for remote temperature measurement of people in passenger traffic have begun at Leningradsky Station in Moscow. The complex, developed by the Shvabe holding, is manufactured in Krasnogorsk under the Zenit brand. Testing of the advanced system was organized with the support of Russian Railways. The key components of the complex are a thermal imager and a video camera, controlled by a unique algorithm with artificial intelligence (AI). […]

The new version of the Russian distribution Astra Linux Common Edition 2.12.29

RusBITech-Astra LLC has published the release of the Astra Linux Common Edition 2.12.29 distribution kit, built on the Debian GNU/Linux package base and supplied with its own proprietary Fly desktop (interactive demonstration) using the Qt library. Iso images are not yet available for download, but a binary repository and package sources are offered. The distribution is distributed under a license agreement, which imposes a number of restrictions on […]

The twelfth update of the Ubuntu Touch firmware

The UBports project, which took over the development of the Ubuntu Touch mobile platform after Canonical pulled away from it, published an OTA-12 (over-the-air) firmware update for all officially supported smartphones and tablets that were equipped with firmware based on Ubuntu. The update is for OnePlus One, Fairphone 2, Nexus 4, Nexus 5, Nexus 7 2013, Meizu […]

Erlang/OTP release 23

The Erlang 23 functional programming language was released, aimed at developing distributed, fault-tolerant applications that provide parallel processing of requests in real time. The language has become widespread in areas such as telecommunications, banking systems, e-commerce, computer telephony and instant messaging. At the same time, the release of OTP 23 (Open Telecom Platform) was released - a companion set of libraries and components for […]

A few tips on how to speed up building Docker images. For example, up to 30 seconds

In today's time of complex orchestrators and CI/CD, there is a long way to go from commit to tests to delivery before a feature gets to production. Previously, you could upload new files via FTP (nobody does that anymore, right?), And the “deploy” process took seconds. Now we need to create a merge request and wait for a considerable time until the […]

Fine-tuning routing for MetalLB in L2 mode

Not so long ago, I ran into a very non-standard task of setting up routing for MetalLB. Everything would be fine, because Usually MetalLB does not require any additional steps, but in our case we have a fairly large cluster with a very simple network configuration. In this article, I will tell you how to configure source-based and policy-based routing for the external network of your cluster. I […]

May 15 RU-Center can add you a paid service without your participation

If you have a non-zero balance on your RU Center account, then you may be charged 99 rubles / month. Service as a gift. On April 15, I received spam from the RU Center company with the heading: “Personal manager service as a gift.” Text of the letter Dear client! From April 15 to May 15, 2020, RU‑CENTER has a promotion, within which we activated […]

Mandrake malware can take full control of an Android device

Software security research company Bitdefenter Labs has revealed details of new malware targeting Android devices. According to experts, it behaves somewhat differently than most common threats, since it does not attack all devices. Instead, the virus selects users from whom it can obtain the most useful data. The malware developers have prohibited it from attacking users in certain […]