Author: ProHoster

Data Management Platforms: Edge to Cloud

Today, for most companies and organizations, data is one of the strategic assets. And with the expansion of analytics capabilities, the value of data collected and accumulated by companies is constantly increasing. At the same time, there is often talk of an explosive, exponential growth in the volume of generated corporate data. It is noted that 90% of all data was created in the last two years. The growth in data volumes is accompanied by an increase in their […]

Electronic Arts will host a digital show EA Play Live 2020 instead of a presentation at the canceled E3 2020

The publishing house Electronic Arts has announced its own digital show, EA Play Live 2020. It will begin on June 12 at 02:00 Moscow time and will replace the company’s presentation as part of the canceled E3 2020 exhibition. At the moment, it is unknown what games Electronic Arts plans to show at the upcoming event, but Several assumptions can be made about this account. Surely the publishing house will present new parts [...]

Oculus Exclusive Action Vader Immortal Coming to PlayStation VR This Summer

Lucasfilm-owned ILMxLAB has announced that its Oculus virtual reality headset exclusive, Vader Immortal, a Star Wars series released last May, will be coming to Sony's PlayStation VR platform this summer. There's no word on whether any changes were required in technical aspects, but at least the game won't have to be purchased in parts: the studio announced […]

Telegram has been downloaded from the Play Store over 500 million times

Most often, the impressive numbers of downloads of a particular application from the Google Play Store digital content store directly depend on how many smartphones this product was pre-installed by the manufacturer itself. However, the same cannot be said about the Telegram messenger, because none of the manufacturers pre-installs it on their smartphones. Despite this, Telegram was downloaded […]

The Guardian: Russian, Chinese and Iranian hackers attack coronavirus vaccine developers

The Guardian newspaper reported that Russian, Chinese and Iranian hackers are actively targeting coronavirus vaccine developers to steal sensitive research data. The message says that recently there has been an increase in the number of hacker attacks directed against British universities and scientific organizations involved in COVID-19 research. This statement is made with reference to [...]

Trailer and discounts for the launch of the horror movie Close To The Sun on Steam and GOG

Last year's horror film Close To The Sun has already been released on all current consoles and was even given away for free in the Epic Games store. Now the time has come for it to appear in the digital stores Steam and GOG. Publisher Wired Productions and studio Storm in a Teacup announced that the launch will take place on May 4, and also presented a trailer. “The gigantic ship “Helios” and […]

Xiaomi introduced a smart mobile air conditioner for $226

Most homes do not have air conditioning in their kitchens. Because of this, cooking in the hot summer turns into real torture. To solve this problem, Xiaomi has launched a portable compact air conditioner. The product was developed by the Chinese startup New Widetech. The new mobile air conditioner has dimensions similar to the Mi Air Purifier humidifier. Thus, the device can be easily transferred to the kitchen while cooking [...]

Biostar Introduces Intel H410, B460 and Z490 Motherboards for Comet Lake-S

Biostar, along with larger motherboard manufacturers, today introduced a range of new products designed for use with 10th generation Intel Core processors. The Taiwanese manufacturer presented motherboards based on Intel H410, B460 and Z490 chipsets. There are three boards based on the older Intel Z490 system logic: Racing Z490GTA Evo, Racing Z490GTA and Racing Z490GTN. The first two […]

A new version of the decentralized platform for sharing media files MediaGoblin 0.10

More than four years since the last release, a new version of the decentralized media file sharing platform MediaGoblin 0.10 has been published, designed for hosting and sharing media content, including photos, videos, sound files, videos, three-dimensional models and PDF documents. Unlike centralized services like Flickr and Picasa, the MediaGoblin platform is aimed at organizing the exchange of content […]

Hacking the LineageOS infrastructure through a vulnerability in SaltStack

The developers of the LineageOS mobile platform, which replaced CyanogenMod, warned of identifying traces of hacking of the project’s infrastructure. It is noted that at 6 a.m. (MSK) on May 3, the attacker managed to gain access to the main server of the SaltStack centralized configuration management system through exploitation of an unpatched vulnerability. The incident is currently being analyzed and details are not yet available. It is only reported that the attack was not [...]

Firefox 77 will support AVIF images

The code base used to prepare for the release of Firefox 77 has added experimental support for the AV1 Image Format, which leverages the intra-frame compression technologies from the AV1 video encoding format (supported starting with Firefox 55). To enable AVIF in about:config there is an option image.avif.enabled. The container for distributing compressed data in AVIF is completely similar to HEIF. AVIF supports both […]