Author: ProHoster

RPG Outward Developer Video Diary on The Soroboreans DLC

A role-playing adventure with elements of the survival simulator Outward from the Canadian studio Nine Dots was released a year ago, and publisher Deep Silver recently reported sales of more than 600 thousand copies. The developers do not intend to stop there and will soon release the first paid add-on, The Soroboreans. This DLC was revealed in February, and now a video diary of its making has been released. The creators promise that […]

The Americans proposed to collect energy for the Internet of things from the magnetic fields of the nearest electrical wiring

The topic of extracting electricity from “air” - from electromagnetic noise, vibrations, light, humidity and much more - worries both civilian researchers and their colleagues in uniform. Scientists from Pennsylvania State University contributed to this topic. From the magnetic fields of nearby electrical wiring, they were able to extract electricity with a power of several milliwatts, which is enough, for example, […]

Ubuntu 20.04 beta release

The beta release of the Ubuntu 20.04 “Focal Fossa” distribution was presented, which marked the complete freezing of the package database and moved on to final testing and bug fixes. The release, which is classified as a long-term support (LTS) release, for which updates are generated over a period of 5 years, is scheduled for April 23. Ready-made test images were created for Ubuntu, Ubuntu Server, Lubuntu, Kubuntu, Ubuntu […]

Google Rescinds Proposed Chrome 80 Tightening of Third-Party Cookie Handling

Google has announced that it is reversing a change to tighten restrictions on cookie transfers between sites that do not use HTTPS. Starting in February, this change was gradually brought to users of Chrome 80. It is noted that despite the fact that most sites were adapted for this limitation, due to the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus pandemic, Google decided to delay […]

Firefox 74.0.1 and 68.6.1 update with 0-day fixes

Corrective updates for Firefox 74.0.1 and 68.6.1 have been published, which fix two critical vulnerabilities that can lead to the execution of attacker code when processing content formatted in a certain way. It is warned that facts of using these vulnerabilities to carry out attacks have already been identified on the network. The problems are caused by accessing already freed memory areas (use-after-free) when processing ReadableStream (CVE-2020-6820) and when executing […]

A Brief Introduction to BPF and eBPF

Hello, Habr! We would like to inform you that we are preparing to release the book “Linux Observability with BPF”. Since the BPF virtual machine continues to evolve and is actively used in practice, we have translated for you an article describing its main capabilities and current state. In recent years, programming tools and techniques have become increasingly popular to compensate for the limitations of the Linux kernel […]

Content-based tagging in the werf builder: why and how does it work?

werf is our open source GitOps CLI utility for building and delivering applications to Kubernetes. The v1.1 release introduced a new feature in the image collector: tagging images by content or content-based tagging. Until now, the typical tagging scheme in werf involved tagging Docker images by Git tag, Git branch or Git commit. But all these schemes have drawbacks, [...]

werf 1.1 release: builder improvements today and plans for the future

werf is our open source GitOps CLI utility for building and delivering applications to Kubernetes. As promised, the release of version v1.0 marked the beginning of adding new features to werf and revising traditional approaches. Now we are pleased to present the release of v1.1, which is a big step in development and a foundation for the future of the werf builder. The version is currently available [...]

Video: AMD on Resident Evil 3 Radeon Optimizations and Best Settings

The launch of the remake of Resident Evil 3 from the publishing house Capcom has taken place. Critics and gamers generally responded positively to the game, although slightly less favorably than the reimagining of Resident Evil 2. On ratings aggregator OpenCritic, the average rating for Resident Evil 3, based on 99 reviews, was 81 out of 100. AMD has traditionally partnered with Capcom and released her video [...]

Mixer gives away $100 to partner streamers to help weather the pandemic

As noted by PC Gamer, the Mixer service (owned by Microsoft) distributed $100 to all or almost all partner streamers. In this way, the platform is trying to support people during the COVID-19 pandemic and quarantine. For platform superstars like Michael shroud Grzesiek and Tyler Ninja Blevins, an extra $100 won't make a difference—these guys make millions of dollars—but […]