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Video: The kamikaze drone DroneBullet takes down an enemy drone.

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The military-industrial company AerialX from Vancouver, Canada, specializing in the manufacture of unmanned aerial vehicles, has developed the AerialX kamikaze drone, which will help prevent terrorist acts involving drones. AerialX CEO Noam Kenig describes the new device as a "hybrid of a missile and a quadcopter." Essentially, it's a kamikaze drone that looks like a miniature missile but has the maneuverability of a quadcopter. With a takeoff weight of 910 grams, this pocket-sized […]

Network slasher Mordhau: 500 thousand copies in the first week and plans for further support

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The medieval network slasher Mordhau has attracted a large audience for an independent game. The studio Triternion announced on the official website that sales of the new title reached 500,000 copies in just over a week. The developers admitted that the launch was not entirely smooth, as there were regular server issues due to the high number of users. The team continues to fix bugs and work towards stabilizing Mordhau […]

The production of the legendary Samsung B-die memory chips has been halted

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Memory modules based on Samsung B-die chips are arguably one of the most popular choices among enthusiasts. However, the South Korean manufacturer considers them outdated and is currently halting their production, offering newer DDR4 memory chips that utilize more advanced processes instead. This means that the life cycle of unbuffered DDR4 memory modules from Samsung, based on these chips, is coming to an end […]

Original Xbox emulator launched on Nintendo Switch

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A developer and Xbox fan under the pseudonym Voxel9 recently shared a video showing the launch of the XQEMU emulator (which emulates the original Xbox console) on the Nintendo Switch. Voxel9 also demonstrated that the system can run some games, including Halo: Combat Evolved. Although there are currently issues with low frame rates, the emulation is functional. The entire process has been implemented […]

About yellow phosphorus and the panicked nature of humans

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Hello, %username%. As promised, here's a story about yellow phosphorus and how it famously burned near Lviv in Ukraine relatively recently. Yes, I know — Google provides a lot of information about this incident. Unfortunately, most of what it returns is untrue, or as witnesses say, nonsense. Let's sort it out! But first — […]

Microsoft has introduced the unified .NET 5 platform with support for Linux and Android

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Microsoft announced that after the release of .NET Core 3.0, the .NET 5 platform will be launched, which will support not only Windows but also Linux, macOS, iOS, Android, tvOS, watchOS, and WebAssembly. Additionally, the fifth preview release of the open .NET Core 3.0 platform has been published, whose functionality is closer to .NET Framework 4.8 thanks to the inclusion of previously opened components […]

Windows 10 will receive a built-in Linux kernel from Microsoft

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Over the past years, Microsoft has implemented several of its own Linux projects. There were Linux-based operating systems for network switches in data centers and Linux-based OS for microcontrollers created for the embedded security service Azure Sphere. And now there's news of another Linux-based project that Microsoft specialists have been working on for some time. In the first […]

Top 7 Ways to Quickly Check IT Professionals' Skills Before the Interview

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Hiring IT specialists is a challenging task. Firstly, there is currently a shortage of experienced professionals in the market, and they know it. Candidates are often not willing to spend a lot of time on "selection activities" from employers unless they're initially interested. The previously popular practice of "giving a test for 8+ hours" is no longer effective. For an initial assessment of knowledge and screening candidates before conducting a full-scale […]

Microsoft announced the WSL2 subsystem with a native Linux kernel

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Microsoft unveiled the updated WSL2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux) at the ongoing Microsoft Build 2019 conference, designed to run Linux executables on Windows. A key feature of the second edition is the delivery of a full Linux kernel, instead of a layer that translates Linux system calls to Windows system calls on the fly. The test release of WSL2 will be available at the end […]

Release of GNU LibreJS 7.20, an add-on for blocking non-free JavaScript in Firefox

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The release of the Firefox add-on LibreJS 7.20.1 has been announced, which allows users to avoid running non-free JavaScript code. Richard Stallman believes that the issue with JavaScript is that the code is loaded without the user's knowledge, leaving them unable to assess the level of its freedom before it is loaded and preventing the execution of proprietary JavaScript code. The license applied to the JavaScript code is determined through special markers on the website or through […]

Release of Tails distribution 3.13.2 and Tor Browser 8.0.9

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The release of the specialized distribution Tails 3.13.2 (The Amnesic Incognito Live System), based on the Debian package base and designed for anonymous internet access, is now available. Anonymous access in Tails is provided by the Tor network. By default, all connections other than traffic through the Tor network are blocked by a packet filter. User data is stored in persistent mode between sessions using […]

The Fedora project has warned about the removal of unsupported packages

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Fedora developers have published a list of 170 packages that have remained unmaintained and are scheduled for removal from the repository after 6 weeks of inactivity unless maintainers are found for them soon. The list includes packages with libraries for Node.js (133 packages), python (4 packages), and ruby (11 packages), as well as packages such as gpart, system-config-firewall, thermald, pywebkitgtk, […]

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