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Focus Home Interactive and developers from Saber Interactive announced that their cooperative shooter World War Z, inspired by the eponymous film from Paramount Pictures ('World War Z' featuring Brad Pitt), sold nearly 2 million copies worldwide within a month. On this occasion, a trailer showcasing gameplay snippets has been released.
The release of the web browser Firefox 67 has been announced, along with the mobile version for the Android platform. Additionally, an update for the long-term support branch 60.7.0 has been formed. Soon, the Firefox 68 branch will enter beta testing, with a release slated for July 9. Key innovations include: Automatic unloading of tabs to free up resources, which activates when memory is low […]
Last month, Microsoft announced the first preview builds of the new Chromium-based Microsoft Edge for Windows 10. Now, the version for macOS has also become available for download. It is reported that Microsoft Edge for macOS will offer the same new browsing features as the Windows version. The user interface will be optimized for the Mac design. […]
A frame from the movie 'Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.' The problem with this world is that the educated are full of doubts, while the idiotic are full of confidence. Charles Bukowski. Recently, I conducted another individual programming session. Unlike the usual lessons, the topic was not about the language structure or problem-solving. The student shared his concerns about the future […]
This article has also been translated into English and published on Medium. When summer arrives in Chicago, the shoreline of Lake Michigan transforms into a picturesque scene. Miles of volleyball nets, bike paths, baseball fields, and sandy beaches. Fluffy white clouds in the high sky. The blue of the lake adorned with white streaks of boats of all shapes and sizes, accompanied by colorful lights, cheerful music, and happy […]
Donald Knuth is a computer science scholar who cares so much about the correctness of his books that he offers a hexadecimal dollar ($2.56, 0x$1.00) for any found "mistake," where a mistake is anything that is "technically, historically, typographically, or politically incorrect." I really wanted to receive a check from Knuth, so I decided to look for errors in his outstanding work "The Art of Computer Programming" (TAOCP). I managed to find […]
AMD's CEO Lisa Su stated at the annual shareholders' meeting that advanced packaging solutions, such as the use of 'chiplets', will be one of the foundations of the company's success in the future. Chief Technology Officer Mark Papermaster highlighted current issues facing the semiconductor industry in the latest episode of The Bring Up series created by AMD's press service. Mark stated, […]
Jerry Gamblin decided to investigate how widespread a recently identified issue is in the Docker images of the Alpine distribution, related to setting an empty password for the root user. Analysis of a thousand of the most popular containers from the Docker Hub catalog showed that in 194 of them (19.4%), the root user has an empty password without the account being locked ("root:::0:::::" instead of "root:!::0:::::"). In case of usage in […]
The release of the in-memory data caching system Memcached 1.5.15 has taken place, which operates with data in key/value format and is characterized by its ease of use. Memcached is commonly used as a lightweight solution to speed up the performance of high-load websites by caching access to databases and intermediate data. The code is distributed under the BSD license. The new version features experimental support for authentication with the ASCII protocol. Authentication is enabled […]
It has been over a year since the discovery of Spectre and Meltdown, and the processor market has been in turmoil due to the discovery of new vulnerabilities related to speculative execution. The most affected were Intel chips, including the latest ZombieLoad. Of course, AMD seized the opportunity to emphasize the security of its CPUs. On the page dedicated to Spectre-like vulnerabilities, the company proudly stated: “We at AMD […]
This publication complements the series of articles "What’s currently in the airwaves?" with a topic about broadcasting on short waves. The mass amateur radio movement in our country began with the assembly of simple radios for listening to transmissions from broadcasting stations. The first design of a crystal receiver was published in the magazine "Radio Amateur," No. 7, 1924. Mass broadcasting in the USSR began in 1922 on the "three thousand wave" […]
The final part of the trilogy about hackathons. In the first part, I discussed the motivation to participate in such events. The second part focused on the mistakes of the organizers and their outcomes. The final part will answer questions that did not fit into the first two parts. Share how you started participating in hackathons. I was studying for my master's degree at Lappeenranta University while simultaneously participating in competitions on […]