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Ubisoft continues to develop its tactical shooter Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege. This time, the focus is on the new operator Nøkk from the assault team, who will be part of the second season of the game's fourth year of support. She has long been a dark horse—few outside the Rainbow team know anything about her. A new teaser is dedicated to this character. Nøkk […]
Mozilla developers announced the removal of user-accessible settings in the Firefox codebase for disabling the multiprocess mode (e10s). The reason for discontinuing support for reverting to single-process mode is its low security and potential stability issues due to inadequate coverage during testing. Single-process mode is marked as unsuitable for everyday use. Starting with Firefox 68 […]
Intel unveiled several new experimental open projects at the ongoing OSTS (Open Source Technology Summit) conference. As part of the ModernFW initiative, work is being done to create a scalable and secure replacement for UEFI and BIOS firmware. The project is in its early stages of development, but the proposed prototype already includes enough capabilities for organization […]
If, after the previous news about ZombieLoad, you are in a panic trying to figure out how to disable Intel Hyper-Threading to prevent the exploitation of a new vulnerability similar to Spectre and Meltdown, take a deep breath — Intel's official guidance actually does not recommend doing this in most cases. ZombieLoad is akin to previous attacks via 'side-channel attacks' that compel Intel processors to expose […]
Fujitsu has announced the Lifebook U939X, a convertible laptop primarily aimed at corporate users. The new device features a 13.3-inch touchscreen display. It utilizes a Full HD panel with a resolution of 1920 × 1080 pixels. The screen lid can be rotated 360 degrees to switch the device to tablet mode. The maximum configuration includes an Intel Core i7-8665U processor. This chip […]
TP-Link has released the Deco W2400 system, designed to deploy a Wi-Fi network in a large private house or apartment. The kit includes two routers. It is claimed that they can cover an area of up to 280 square meters with a quality Wi-Fi signal. If needed, the system can be supplemented with additional routers. The devices can operate in two frequency bands — 2.4 GHz and […]
It seemed that after the vulnerabilities Meltdown and Spectre discovered over a year ago, nothing could surprise fans and users of Intel processors anymore. Yet again, the company managed to astonish us. More precisely, it was the researchers of vulnerabilities in Intel's microarchitecture that surprised us. A new set of vulnerabilities collectively known as microarchitectural data sampling (MDS) threatens to put a halt to the technology of multithreaded computing or […]
An update for the virtualization system VirtualBox 6.0.8 has been released. Among the main changes: Fixes for errors during kernel module builds with non-standard configurations. Fixes for errors when attempting to restore from a saved VM state. UI change: full paths to files are now displayed in the New Medium window. UI change: fixes for issues with mouse click passthrough in multi-monitor VM configurations. […]
The future 'father' of Soviet cosmonautics, Sergey Korolev — in the center. His passion for aviation began in his youth when he joined a glider club. He will face many challenges ahead, but his youthful enthusiasm will stay with him for life. Note: the photograph has been colorized using a service from Mail.ru. Their neural network performed much better than, for example, […]
In 2017, more than a hundred countries became targets of the WannaCry virus. It hit Russia and Ukraine the hardest. At that time, computers running OS Windows 7 and server versions were affected. On Windows 8, 8.1, and 10, the built-in antivirus managed to neutralize WannaCry. The malware was a ransomware that demanded a ransom for access to data. By the way, […]
Oracle has released a corrective update for the VirtualBox virtualization system version 6.0.8, which includes 11 fixes. The addition of protection against attacks using the vulnerabilities from the MDS (Microarchitectural Data Sampling) class, disclosed yesterday, is not mentioned in the change log, despite VirtualBox being listed among the hypervisors susceptible to the attack. The fixes are likely included but, as before, are not reflected in the […]
Valve has released a build of the Proton 4.2-4 project, which is based on the work of the Wine project and aims to enable the running of gaming applications created for Windows on Linux, available in the Steam catalog. The project developments are distributed under the BSD license. As original Wine and related projects, such as DXVK and vkd3d, become ready, the changes developed in Proton are transferred. […]