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Crytek has revealed details about its recent demonstration of real-time ray tracing on the Radeon RX Vega 56 graphics card. Recall that in mid-March of this year, the developer published a video showcasing real-time ray tracing on the CryEngine 5.5 engine using an AMD graphics card. At the time of the video release, Crytek did not […].
Ten years ago, on May 11, 2009, Mikhail Zaripov (MikhailZ) announced the first modular build based on Mandriva repositories, which became the first release of MagOS. MagOS is a Linux distribution preconfigured for Russian-speaking users, combining a modular architecture (like Slax) with the repositories of a 'donor' distribution. The first donor was the Mandriva project; currently, Rosa (fresh and red) repositories are used. The 'modularity' makes […].
The Japanese corporation Sharp has introduced a rather interesting novelty — the flagship smartphone Aquos R3 running Android 9 Pie. The device features a high-quality 6.2-inch diagonal Pro IGZO display. The panel has a resolution of Quad HD+, or 3120 × 1440 pixels. Interestingly, the screen has two notches — at the top and the bottom. The top teardrop notch houses the selfie camera […].
The Intel processor shortage, which has been troubling the market for several months, is apparently going to start easing soon. Last year, Intel invested an additional $1.5 billion to expand its 14nm manufacturing capabilities, and it seems that these emergency measures are finally going to produce visible effects. At least, the company plans to resume shipments of entry-level processors in June […].
Those who don’t listen to metal are lacking in intelligence! — Folk Saying. Hello, %username%. gjf is back in touch. Today, I’ll keep it short because I need to get up in six hours and travel. What I want to talk about today is metal. But not the kind that’s music — we can discuss that over a beer sometime, and […].
Hello, dear. I have bad news. Unfortunately, I've been fired again. I know you'll scold me – you'll say it wasn't me who got fired, but that I am a pathetic and hopeless jerk – but this time it’s not about me. It's all the fault of that damn programmer. It's all because of him. I'll tell you everything right now. The first point of the plan you created worked […]
In the classic sense, arc protection in Russia is a fast-acting protection against short circuits, based on the registration of the light spectrum of an open electrical arc in switchgear. The most common method of spectrum registration is through fiber-optic sensors, which are primarily used in the industrial sector. However, with the emergence of new products for arc protection in residential areas, specifically modular AFDDs, […]
A vulnerability (CVE-2019-11831) has been identified in the PharStreamWrapper library, which provides handlers to protect against file injection attacks using the "Phar" format. This vulnerability allows attackers to bypass code deserialization protection through the substitution of the ".." character in paths. For example, an attacker can use a URL like "phar:///path/bad.phar/../good.phar" for the attack, and the library will extract the base name as "\/path\/good.phar" during validation, although further processing of such a path will be […]
The first launches of the heavy launch vehicle "Angara" under commercial contracts will be organized no earlier than the middle of the next decade. This was announced by International Launch Services (ILS), as reported by TASS. It is worth noting that ILS has exclusive rights to market and commercially operate the Russian heavy-class launch vehicle "Proton" and the promising space rocket complex "Angara." ILS is registered in the USA, […]
Translator's note: for the convenience of readers, dates are given in Moscow time. Recently, we missed the expiration date of one of the certificates used to sign the extensions. This led to the deactivation of extensions for users. Now that the majority of the issue has been resolved, I would like to share the details of what happened and the work that has been done. Background: extensions and signatures. While many […]
An experimental release of the open implementation of Win32 API — Wine 4.8 is now available. Since the release of version 4.7, 38 bug reports have been closed and 315 changes have been made. The most important changes include: support for building in PE format for most programs has been added; Unicode data has been updated to version 12.0; support for MSI patch files has been added; support for the '-fno-PIC' flag has been incorporated into build scripts […]
Official Docker Alpine Linux images, starting from version 3.3, contain an empty root user password. When using PAM or another authentication mechanism that utilizes the /etc/shadow file as a source, the system may allow the root user to log in with an empty password. Update the base image version or manually change the /etc/shadow file. The vulnerability has been fixed in versions: edge (20190228 snapshot) v3.9.2 v3.8.4 v3.7.3 v3.6.5 […]