Wizards of the Coast has announced on the official forum of its collectible card game that Magic: The Gathering Arena has premiered Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths. Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths includes 274 cards - you can see the full list on the official website. In addition, Godzilla and other monsters from his universe were added to the game […]
The Japanese weekly magazine Famitsu shared information on sales of boxed versions of games in the Land of the Rising Sun from April 6 to April 12. The leader of the chart was predictably taken by the remake of Final Fantasy VII. In three days from the start of sales, 702 thousand copies of the first episode of the remake were sold in the region. The closest competitor to the updated Final Fantasy VII […]
Oracle announced the expansion of the functionality of the Oracle Academy distance learning platform and the transfer of a number of online educational courses to the category of free. Oracle Academy's free training resources are designed to teach you how to use databases, SQL fundamentals, Java programming, and software development using artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies. Courses are available in different languages, [...]
In March, after the presentation of the Xbox Series X console, Microsoft introduced a new version of its API - DirectX 12 Ultimate. It promises DirectX Raytracing (DXR) 1.1, Variable Rate Shading 2 (VRS 2), Mesh Shaders and Sampler Feedback. All this will bring significant performance gains in next-generation games. Now NVIDIA has released a developer preview driver for GeForce 450.82 […]
Conspiracy theorists who see a connection between the launch of next-generation networks and the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic continue to set fire to 5G cell towers in the UK. More than 50 towers have already been affected by this, including 3G and 4G towers. One arson even forced the evacuation of several buildings, while another caused damage to the tower that provides […]
Huawei has officially introduced the high-performance mobile processor Hisilicon Kirin 985, information about the preparation of which has previously appeared on the Internet several times. The new product is manufactured using 7-nanometer technology at the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC). The chip contains eight computing cores in a “1+3+4” configuration. This is one ARM Cortex-A76 core clocked at 2,58 GHz, three ARM […]
Sharkoon has announced the SHP Bronz series power supplies: 500 W and 600 W models are presented, which will be offered at an estimated price of 45 euros and 50 euros, respectively. New items are certified 80 PLUS Bronze. Claimed efficiency is at least 85% at 50% load, and at least 82% at 20 and 100% load. The devices are enclosed […]
Valve has published the release of the Proton 5.0-6 project, which is based on the developments of the Wine project and is aimed at enabling gaming applications created for Windows and presented in the Steam catalog to run on Linux. The developments of the project are distributed under the BSD license. Proton allows you to directly run Windows-only game applications on the Steam Linux client. The package includes a DirectX implementation […]
A vulnerability (CVE-2020-10942) has been identified in the vhost-net driver, which ensures the operation of virtio net on the host environment side, allowing a local user to initiate a kernel stack overflow by sending a specially formatted ioctl (VHOST_NET_SET_BACKEND) to the /dev/vhost-net device. The problem is caused by the lack of proper validation of the contents of the sk_family field in the get_raw_socket() function code. According to preliminary data, the vulnerability can be used to carry out a local DoS attack by causing a kernel crash (information […]
GitHub Inc, owned by Microsoft and operating as an independent business unit, announced the successful completion of the acquisition of the business of NPM Inc, which controls the development of the NPM package manager and maintains the NPM repository. The NPM repository serves more than 1.3 million packages, used by approximately 12 million developers. About 75 billion downloads are recorded per month. The transaction amount is not [...]
Guix System is a Linux distribution based on the GNU Guix package manager. The distribution provides advanced package management features such as transactional updates and rollbacks, reproducible build environments, unprivileged package management, and per-user profiles. The latest release of the project is Guix System 1.1.0, which introduces a number of new features and improvements, including the ability to perform large-scale deployments […]
I present to your attention a tutorial for generating access to a Kubernetes cluster using Dex, dex-k8s-authenticator and GitHub. Local meme from the Russian-language Kubernetes Telegram chat Introduction We use Kubernetes to create dynamic environments for the development team and QA. So we want to give them access to the cluster for both the dashboard and kubectl. Unlike […]
