Author: ProHoster

Video: Stonehenge, ax throwing and the siege of the fortress in the new Assassin's Creed Valhalla trailer

At the Inside Xbox digital show, viewers were presented with a new trailer for Assassin's Creed Valhalla. It showed several locations that can be seen when traveling through the game world, elements of the combat system and shots from the siege of the fortress. The video begins with a demonstration of a Viking feast, after which the main character Eivor appears on the screen, already armed with a hidden blade. Then the audience was shown […]

The launch of the TON blockchain platform took place without the participation of Pavel Durov and Telegram

The Free TON Community (consisting of developers and potential users of the TON platform) launched the Free TON blockchain platform. This is reported by RBC with reference to a community statement, which says that the founder of Telegram, Pavel Durov, who was banned by the US authorities from issuing cryptocurrency, did not participate in the launch of the platform. According to available data, instead of Gram tokens, project participants will receive […]

Coronavirus: Paris Games Week 2020 event canceled

Paris Games Week organizers SELL (Syndicat des Editeurs de Logiciels de Loisirs) have announced that the event will not take place this year. The reason, as in the case of E3 2020, is the COVID-19 pandemic. The latest official statement says that the event was supposed to be an anniversary and be marked by many announcements of new projects. As the resource is reported by Gematsu citing […]

Zadak Twist DDR4 memory modules are low profile

Zadak has announced Twist DDR4 memory modules suitable for use in computers with limited space inside the case. Products have a low profile design: height is 35 mm. Cooling is handled by an aluminum alloy heatsink finished in grey-black. The Twist DDR4 family includes modules with a frequency of 2666, 3000, 3200, 3600, 4000 and 4133 MHz. Supply voltage […]

Qualcomm's flagship Snapdragon 875 chip will get a built-in X60 5G modem

Internet sources have released information about the technical characteristics of Qualcomm's upcoming flagship processor, the Snapdragon 875 chip, which will replace the current Snapdragon 865 product. Let's briefly recall the characteristics of the Snapdragon 865 chip. These are eight Kryo 585 cores with a clock speed of up to 2,84 GHz and an Adreno graphics accelerator 650. The processor is manufactured using 7nm technology. In conjunction with it can work […]

NVIDIA Ampere may not be in time for the third quarter

Yesterday, DigiTimes reported that TSMC and Samsung will be involved to varying degrees in the production of NVIDIA video chips of future generations, but that's not all the news. Ampere architecture graphics solutions may not meet the announcement in the third quarter due to the coronavirus, and production of 5nm Hopper GPUs will begin next year. Having access to paid source materials […]

Oracle Linux 8.2 distribution available

The Oracle company published release of the industrial distribution kit of Oracle Linux 8.2 created on the basis of package base of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2. For download without restrictions, but after free registration, an installation iso-image is available, 6.6 GB in size, prepared for x86_64 and ARM64 architectures. For Oracle Linux, unlimited and free access to the yum repository with binary updates of packages with […]

UbuntuDDE 20.04 distribution release with Deepin desktop

The release of the UbuntuDDE 20.04 distribution has been published, based on the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS codebase and shipped with the DDE (Deepin Desktop Environment) graphical environment. The project is still an unofficial edition of Ubuntu, but the developers are in talks with Canonical about including UbuntuDDE in official Ubuntu distributions. The size of the iso image is 2.2 GB. UbuntuDDE proposes the release of the Deepin 5.0 desktop and […]

Microsoft awards up to $100000 for vulnerability discovery in Azure Sphere Linux platform

Microsoft has announced its willingness to pay a bonus of up to one hundred thousand dollars for identifying a flaw in the Azure Sphere IoT platform, built on the Linux kernel and using sandbox isolation for core services and applications. The prize is promised for demonstrating vulnerabilities in the Pluton subsystem (root of trust implemented on the chip) or Secure World (sandbox). The award is part of a three-month research program […]

Buttplug: open source software suite for teledildonics

Buttplug is an open standard and set of software for controlling intimate devices such as dildos, sex machines, electrical stimulators, and more. Features: A set of libraries for Rust, C#, Javascript/Typescript and other popular programming languages; Support for Kiiroo, Lovense, Erostek and other devices. Full list here; Supports control via Bluetooth, USB, HID, Serial interfaces, as well as sound control; The source code is open […]

The Story of the First Paralysis of the Internet: The Curse of the Busy Signal

Many of the early ISPs, notably AOL, weren't ready to offer unlimited access in the mid-90s. This state of affairs persisted until an unexpected rule-breaker appeared: AT&T. Recently, in the context of the Internet, its "bottlenecks" have been actively discussed. Obviously, this makes perfect sense, because everyone is sitting at home right now, trying to connect to Zoom from a 12-year-old cable modem. […]