Author: ProHoster

Wine 5.6 and Wine Staging 5.6 Release

An experimental release of an open implementation of WinAPI - Wine 5.6 - took place. Since the release of version 5.5, 38 bug reports have been closed and 458 changes have been made. The most important changes: New calls to the Media Foundation framework have been implemented; Active Directory support has been improved, problems with wldap32 compilation on systems without LDAP support installed have been resolved; Conversion of modules to PE format continued; Improved […]

ReactOS 0.4.13 release

A new release of ReactOS 0.4.13 has been introduced, an operating system aimed at ensuring compatibility with Microsoft Windows programs and drivers. Main changes: Synchronization with the Wine Staging codebase. Updated versions of Btrfs 1.4, ACPICA 20190816, UniATA 0.47a, mbedTLS 2.7.11, libpng 1.6.37. Enhances the new USB stack to provide support for input devices (HID) and USB storage. Optimization of the FreeLoader loader, reducing the time […]

The US is urgently looking for COBOL experts due to the coronavirus. And they can't find it.

Authorities in the American state of New Jersey have begun searching for programmers who know the COBOL language due to the increased load on old PCs in the American employment system due to the coronavirus. As The Register writes, specialists will need to update software on 40-year-old mainframes, which can no longer cope with the load that has grown sharply amid the increased number of unemployed due to the CoVID-19 pandemic. The problem of lack of knowledgeable [...]

Microsoft Azure Virtual Training Day: Artificial Intelligence for Developers

We invite you to the “AI for Developers” webinar, which will introduce you to Microsoft solutions for developers in the field of Machine Learning. We'll look at the theory and practice of using off-the-shelf Azure ML technologies and demonstrate how to develop your own models. We will also touch on the issues of integrating models into DevOps practices. The webinar will take place on April 16 from 10.00 to 12.00. Register. And the program […]

IPIP IPsec VPN tunnel between Linux machine and Mikrotik behind NAT provider

Linux: Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS (GNU/Linux 4.15.0-91-generic x86_64) Eth0 1.1.1.1/32 external IP ipip-ipsec0 192.168.0.1/30 will be our tunnel Miktoik: CCR 1009, RouterOS 6.46.5 Eth0 10.0.0.2 .30/0 internal IP from the provider. The provider's external NAT IP is dynamic. ipip-ipsec192.168.0.2 30/XNUMX will be our IPsec tunnel; we will raise the tunnel on a Linux machine using racoon. I won’t describe the details, there is a good article [...]

The story of how hCaptcha broke avito.ru

hCaptcha comes to us and the connection is invigorating, we have a real dance with tambourines Hello, Habr! Sit back comfortably and make yourself some tea, because I am writing a little drawn out and through my right ear. So, are you ready? Great, then let's get started. ATTENTION! The article written below may contain unnecessary information, links, pictures, etc. and so on. I'll start from afar, perhaps. A few days ago […]

Ghost Gunner and the Dark West: The First 15 Minutes of a Stylish West of Dead Shooter

The IGN portal published a recording of the first 15 minutes of the isometric shooter West of Dead. The game is being developed by Upstream Arcade and published by Raw Fury. An IGN journalist played the West of Dead beta on a controller based on the developers' recommendation. As he described it, it wasn't long before he really got a feel for the combat system, where you have […]

Stretching and tracking: Riot Games introduced one of the heroes of Valorant - the catcher of Cypher

Riot Games continues to introduce the characters of the shooter Valorant. This time the developer introduced gamers to Cypher, an information collector. Cypher is a Moroccan catcher. The hero's main ability is stretching with an invisible wire. When enemy players activate it, their location is revealed to Cypher. In addition, the trap stuns enemies for a while. Creating walls is quite common among Valorant heroes […]

Epic Pictures will release a collection of interactive trailers inspired by Kojima's PT

Independent film studio Epic Pictures plans to launch a new platform for distributing game “teasers” created by indie developers. According to The Hollywood Reporter, The Dread X Collection will feature ten interactive trailers highlighting creations from developers affected by COVID-19. The teams from Snowrunner Games, Mayelyk, Lovely Hellplace, Torple Dook, Strange Scaffold, Oddbreeze and the creator of Dusk […]

Over 50 million people have played CoD: Warzone

Activision reported on the number of players in Call of Duty: Warzone. According to the company, the battle royale audience exceeded 50 million people within a month. This was reported on the official Call of Duty Twitter. Call of Duty: Warzone was released on March 10th. Within 20 hours, the audience of the battle royale exceeded six million users, and by March 30 it reached XNUMX million people. Current […]

Facebook will have a function of rest from the social network

It has become known that Facebook will soon have a feature that will help users take a break from the social network. We are talking about the Quiet Mode for mobile applications of the social network, after activating which the user will stop receiving almost all notifications from Facebook. According to reports, Quiet Mode will allow you to set a schedule when the user wants to receive notifications from the social network. […]

EIZO ColorEdge CS2740-X: a monitor for video processing professionals

EIZO has announced the ColorEdge CS2740-X professional monitor, designed primarily for professionals in the field of high-quality video processing. The panel complies with the 4K format: the resolution is 3840 × 2160 pixels. It talks about HDR support. Claims 91 percent coverage of the DCI-P3 color space and 99 percent coverage of the Adobe RGB color space. An optional calibration sensor is available for the monitor. Accurate color rendering can be adjusted in one and a half [...]