Author: ProHoster

The announcement is just around the corner: the OPPO A52 smartphone flaunts high-quality renders

Online sources have provided press images of the mid-range smartphone OPPO A52, the official presentation of which is expected in the coming days. As you can see in the renders, the device is equipped with a screen with perforation in the upper left corner: a small hole will house the front 8-megapixel camera. The display size will be 6,5 inches diagonally, resolution – Full HD+ (2400 × 1080 pixels). At the rear there is a quad camera in the form of [...]

Smartphone Realme X50 Youth Edition is credited with the presence of six cameras

As we recently reported, the Realme X50 5G and Realme X50 Pro 5G smartphones will soon have a brother in the form of the Realme X50 Youth Edition. Now Internet sources have new information about this model at their disposal. In particular, data on the configuration of the device’s cameras was made public. It is said that the new product will receive a total of six image sensors. In […]

Git update to fix yet another vulnerability

Corrective releases of the distributed source control system Git 2.26.2, 2.25.4, 2.24.3, 2.23.3, 2.22.4, 2.21.3, 2.20.4, 2.19.5, 2.18.4 and 2.17.5 have been published, in which have been patched with a vulnerability (CVE-2020-11008) similar to the issue fixed last week. The new vulnerability also affects "credential.helper" handlers and is exploited when passing a specially formatted URL containing a newline character, an empty host, or an unspecified request scheme. […]

Scientific Linux 7.8 distribution release

Presented is the release of the Scientific Linux 7.8 distribution, built on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.8 package base and supplemented with tools aimed at use in scientific institutions. The distribution is supplied for x86_64 architecture, in the form of DVD assemblies (9.9 GB and 8.1 GB), and a shortened image for network installation (627 MB). Publishing Live builds is delayed. The main differences from RHEL are [...]

Python 2.7.18 published, latest release of the Python 2 branch

The latest final release of Python 2.7.18 was introduced, which marked the complete end of support for the Python 2 branch. Updates for Python 2 will no longer be generated and all users are recommended to switch to using Python 3. The Python 2.7 branch was formed in 2010 and was originally planned to be supported stop in 2015, but due to insufficiently active migration of projects […]

UNIGINE: Community edition free 3D engine released

Along with the release of UNIGINE SDK 2.11, UNIGINE 2 Community, a free version of this cross-platform 3D engine, became available. Supported platforms are Windows and Linux (starting from Debian 8; including the domestic Astra Linux distribution used in the defense industry). It also supports working with a variety of VR equipment. Both the engine itself and the included one work 100% under Linux [...]

Exploring the Mediastreamer2 VoIP engine. Part 9

The material of the article is taken from my Zen channel. Duplex intercom In the last article, a duplex intercom was announced, and in this we will do it. The scheme is shown in the title figure. The bottom filter chain forms the transmission path that starts with the sound card. It gives samples of the signal from the microphone. By default, this happens at a tempo of 8000 samples per second. […]

DevOps tools are not just for DevOps. The process of building a test automation infrastructure from scratch

Part 1: Web / Android Note: this article is a translation into Russian of the original article “DevOps tools are not only for DevOps. Building test automation infrastructure from scratch. However, all illustrations, references, quotations and terms are kept in the original language in order to avoid distortion of meaning when translated into Russian. I wish you a pleasant study! Currently specializing […]

SMR (tiled) hard drives with no indication of the availability of SMR went to sales channels

All three manufacturers started selling relatively small, from 2TB HDD SMR disks (tiled), without indicating it in the specs: WD, Seagate, Toshiba In the English-speaking Internet and media, such actions are criticized and, I think, justly. In Russia, the resource THG was noted by the article Western Digital uses DM-SMR, making WD Red drives suitable for NAS and RAID. This article on […]

Samsung TV Plus video streaming service will be available for free on the company's smartphones

According to online sources, the South Korean company Samsung intends to bring its TV Plus streaming service to mobile devices. An application is currently being developed that will allow the functions of TV Plus, available to owners of compatible Samsung smart TVs, to be transferred to mobile gadgets. Let us remind you that the streaming service TV Plus, launched last year, is free and available on smart TVs that were […]

FBI announces explosive growth in cybercrime during coronavirus pandemic

According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the number of incidents related to various types of cybercrime has jumped by 300% during the coronavirus pandemic. Just last week, the department received from 3 to 4 thousand complaints daily about various cybercrimes, whereas before the coronavirus pandemic the number of such complaints did not exceed 1000 per day. First of all, so […]

“It’s unlikely that we will work together again”: DOOM Eternal composer about his participation in the future of the series

A Reddit user under the pseudonym MedicalMilk posted a screenshot of a correspondence with DOOM Eternal composer Mick Gordon, from which it follows that someone else may be responsible for the music for DOOM in the future. When asked by MedicalMilk if Gordon would agree to contribute to the soundtrack for the next installment of id Software's acclaimed shooter series, the composer responded gloomily: "It's unlikely we'll […]