Author: ProHoster

Over one million users play Warface on Nintendo Switch

My.Games announced that Warface on Nintendo Switch has reached one million registered players. The project was released on the platform only a month ago. To celebrate this, Allods Team has revealed some in-game statistics. Thus, it became known that during the month, players on Nintendo Switch participated in 485 Warface matches. The total time spent in the project on the console […]

WSJ: US authorities use mobile ad location data to spy on people amid pandemic

Using geolocation functionality on smartphones to track Covid-19 is becoming increasingly common - and it appears the US is no exception. The Wall Street Journal reports that federal (through the CDC), state and local governments are receiving mobile ad location data to help plan their response. Anonymous information helps officials understand […]

Facebook launches tools to make live streaming accessible to a wider audience

The Covid-19 pandemic and resulting social distancing measures have encouraged many people to turn to live streaming. So Facebook said it will be launching various features over the next couple of weeks to make Facebook Live more accessible and easier to use, especially for people who may have limited access to mobile data. The updates will be global. In particular, the team […]

Huawei MindSpore AI Computing Platform Goes Open

Huawei MindSpore computing platform is similar to Google TensorFlow. But the latter has the advantage of being an open source platform. Following in the footsteps of its competitor, Huawei has also made Mindspore open source. The company announced this during the Huawei Developer Conference Cloud 2020 event. Chinese technology giant Huawei first introduced the MindSpore platform for AI computing […]

Square Enix Announces NieR RepliCant Remaster, NieR: Automata Backstories

Square Enix and Toylogic studio have announced NieR RepliCant ver.1.22474487139... - an updated version of the Japanese action role-playing game released on PlayStation 3 in 2010. This is the backstory of NieR: Automata and the continuation of the fifth ending of Drakengard. And it will go on sale on PC, Xbox One and PlayStation 4. The story of the game begins in 2053. Due to the prolonged cold spell, the few survivors […]

AirPods Pro in Danger: Qualcomm Launches QCC514x and QCC304x Chips for TWS Noise Canceling Headphones

Qualcomm has announced the release of two new chips, QCC514x and QCC304x, designed to create truly wireless earbuds (TWS) and offer high-end features. Both solutions support Qualcomm's TrueWireless Mirroring technology for more reliable connections, and also feature dedicated Qualcomm Hybrid Active Noise Canceling hardware. Qualcomm TrueWireless Mirroring technology handles phone connections in one […]

Flagship smartphone Huawei P40 Pro revealed shortly before the announcement

In just a few hours, the official presentation of the powerful Huawei P40 smartphones will take place. Meanwhile, online sources published promotional images and a video dedicated to the Huawei P40 Pro model. The device will receive a proprietary Kirin 990 processor. The device will be able to operate in fifth-generation 5G mobile networks. An OLED display measuring 6,58 inches diagonally will be used. The panel resolution will be 2640 × 1200 pixels. Directly […]

MegaFon increases quarterly revenue and profit

The MegaFon company reported on its work in the last quarter of 2019: the key financial indicators of one of the largest Russian cellular operators are growing. Revenue for the three-month period increased by 5,4% and amounted to 93,2 billion rubles. Service revenue increased by 1,3%, reaching 80,4 billion rubles. Adjusted net profit increased by 78,5% to RUB 2,0 billion. OIBDA indicator […]

Cloudflare has prepared patches that dramatically speed up disk encryption in Linux

Developers from Cloudflare talked about their work to optimize the performance of disk encryption in the Linux kernel. As a result, patches were prepared for the dm-crypt subsystem and the Crypto API, which made it possible to more than double the read and write throughput in the synthetic test, as well as halve the latency. When tested on real hardware […]

First release of OpenRGB, a toolkit for managing RGB devices

After a year of development, the first release of the OpenRGB project has been published, aimed at providing a universal open toolkit for controlling devices with color backlighting, allowing you to do without installing official proprietary applications tied to a specific manufacturer and, as a rule, supplied only for Windows. The code is written in C/C++ and distributed under the GPLv2 license. The program is multi-platform and available for Linux and Windows. […]

Cloud gaming: a first-hand assessment of the possibilities of services for playing on weak PCs

I present a continuation of my article “Cloud services for gaming on weak PCs, relevant in 2019.” Last time we assessed their advantages and disadvantages using open sources. Now I have tested each of the services that were mentioned last time. The results of this assessment are below. I would like to note that to evaluate absolutely all the capabilities of these products for a reasonable price [...]

About one vulnerability in…

A year ago, on March 21, 2019, a very good bug report from maxarr came to the Mail.Ru bug bounty program on HackerOne. When introducing a zero byte (ASCII 0) into the POST parameter of one of the webmail API requests that returned an HTTP redirect, pieces of uninitialized memory were visible in the redirect data, in which fragments from GET parameters and headers of other requests to also […]