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Grasshopper Manufacture is working on No More Heroes III—the third installment of the well-known series, directed by game designer Suda51. The project will be exclusive to Nintendo Switch and is set to release in 2020. The main character will once again be Travis Touchdown, and events will unfold ten years after the conclusion of the first No More Heroes. The character will return to his […]
The Shazam service has been around for a long time and is quite useful in situations like ‘what song is playing on the radio?’ However, until now, the app couldn’t ‘listen’ to music played through headphones. Instead, the sound had to be played through speakers, which wasn’t always convenient. This has now changed. The Pop-up Shazam feature in the latest version of the app for […]
The release of the Linux distribution BackBox Linux 6 is now available, based on Ubuntu 18.04 and bundled with a collection of tools for system security checks, exploit testing, reverse engineering, network traffic analysis, wireless networks, malware investigation, stress testing, and data recovery. The user environment is based on Xfce. The ISO image size is 2.5 GB (i386, x86_64). The new version features system updates […]
After a year of development, the independent lightweight Linux distribution CRUX 3.5 has been released. Developed since 2001 under the KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid) concept and aimed at experienced users, the project seeks to create a simple and transparent distribution with BSD-like initialization scripts and a highly simplified structure containing a relatively small number of ready-made binary packages. […]
An interim release of Firefox 67.0.2 has been introduced, addressing a vulnerability (CVE-2019-11702) specific to the Windows platform that allows opening a local file in Internet Explorer through manipulated links indicating the ‘IE.HTTP:’ protocol. In addition to the vulnerability, this release also fixes several non-security-related issues: Fixed a JavaScript console error output of ‘TypeError: data is null in PrivacyFilter.jsm’, […]
Whoever finds a ‘set’ here will get a chocolate from me. Set is a brilliant game we played about 5 years ago. Shouting, screaming, photographing combinations. The rules state that it was invented in 1991 by geneticist Marsha Falco while taking notes during her research on epilepsy in German Shepherds in 1974. For those whose brain […]
4-3 How do we recognize Consciousness? Student: You still haven't answered my question: if ‘consciousness’ is just a polysemous word, what makes it such a specific thing? Here is a theory explaining why this is the case: Most of our mental activities occur, to a greater or lesser extent, ‘unconsciously’ — in the sense that we are barely aware of them […]
The first update for Luminance HDR in two years has been released, a free program for assembling HDR photographs from exposure bracketing with subsequent tone mapping. In this version: Four new tone mapping operators: ferwerda, kimkautz, lischinski, and vanhateren. All operators have been accelerated and now use less memory (patches from the RawTherapee developer). Gamma correction and adjustment can now be performed in post-processing […]
The BusyBox 1.31 package has been released, implementing a set of standard UNIX utilities packaged in a single executable file and optimized for minimal system resource consumption with the package size being less than 1 MB. The first release of the new 1.31 branch is positioned as unstable, with full stabilization expected in version 1.31.1, which is anticipated in about a month. The project's code is distributed under the […]
Openclipart.org, the largest repository of public domain vector images, has been under a continuous strong distributed DDoS attack since the end of April. It is unknown who is behind this attack or its reasons. The project website has been inaccessible for more than a month, but a few hours ago the developers announced they are testing protections against the attack, which they obtained through […]
Hello! I wanted to mention that our third book was released yesterday, and the posts from Habr were really helpful (some of them even made it into the book). Here's the story: for about five years, people would approach us who lacked project thinking, didn't understand various business issues, and kept asking the same questions. We used to brush them off. In […]
On June 5th, a new version of the distribution was presented — Zorin OS 15. This distribution is aimed at novice users accustomed to working in Windows. It is available in several editions — core (a slightly trimmed functionality, with two pre-installed layouts — windows and touch, fewer pre-installed programs, available for free download) and ultimate (with six pre-installed layouts — macOS, windows, touch, windows classic, Gnome 3, and Ubuntu, […]