Category: Internet News

Cross-platform play has arrived in the arcade basketball game NBA 2K Playgrounds 2

Released on October 16 last year, the basketball arcade NBA 2K Playgrounds 2 now supports cross-platform play, the developers announced on the project's Twitter. Saber Interactive has rolled out another update, adding Mars Playground, a new form, and items for editing game arenas. But the main innovation is the cross-platform play between Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, and PC. Unfortunately, while the arcade is also available […]

The new version of the NVIDIA graphics driver causes high CPU load.

Not long ago, NVIDIA released version 430.39 of its graphics driver for the Windows platform, supporting Microsoft's May OS update. Among other things, the new driver version includes support for new processors compatible with G-Sync monitors, among others. The driver contains important updates, but some users have noted that its use leads to high […]

Uber: New Investments and Preparation for IPO

It seems that things are going better than ever for Uber. Yesterday, the American company set its stock price range between $44 and $50 per share, according to updated information from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Uber plans to offer 180 million shares and raise about $9 billion during its IPO. […]

From process modeling to designing automated systems (Part 2)

"A Day in the Life of a Squirrel" or from Modeling Processes to Designing the Automated System for Accounting Material Values 'Belka-1.0' (Part 2) Illustrations from "The Tale of Tsar Saltan" by A.S. Pushkin, published by 'Children's Literature', Moscow, 1949, Leningrad, illustrations by K. Kuznetsov. Brief Summary of the Previous Series In part 1, we used a 'fairy tale' subject area, inspired by examples of studying UML diagrams with a focus on […]

Refining the description of system functions using a Sequence diagram

Clarifying the description of system functions with a Sequence Diagram (continuation of 'Squirrels') In this article, we will discuss how to detail (clarify) the description of an automated function using a UML Sequence Diagram. In this example, I am using the Enterprise Architect environment from the Australian company Sparx Systems [1]. For the complete UML specification, see here [2]. First, let me explain what we will be […]

Windows 10 will 'inflate' to at least 32 GB

Microsoft once announced that it would use about 7 GB of user hard drive space to store update files. The advantage of this approach is that it ensures that space does not run out during the middle of an update. The downside is simple — inexpensive tablets and laptops may simply not have enough space. If earlier the minimum requirement […]

Testing the separation of the FreeBSD base system into packages

The TrueOS project has announced the testing of experimental builds of FreeBSD 12-STABLE and FreeBSD 13-CURRENT, in which the monolithic base system has been transformed into a set of interconnected packages. The builds are developed within the pkgbase project, which provides tools for using the native package manager pkg to manage the packages that make up the base system. Delivering it as separate packages significantly simplifies the process of updating the base […]

The Apache Foundation has moved its Git repositories to GitHub.

The Apache Foundation has announced the completion of its integration with GitHub and the migration of all its Git services to GitHub. Initially, two version control systems were offered for Apache project development: the centralized version control system Subversion and the decentralized system Git. Since 2014, read-only mirrors of Apache repositories have been launched on GitHub. Now […]

No need to panic: Intel's ten-core desktop processors will be released early next year.

The presentation by Dell, which the well-known Dutch website referenced when discussing Intel's upcoming announcements of new processors, initially focused on the mobile and commercial product segment. As independent experts rightly pointed out, the timeline for new product releases from Intel could differ in the consumer segment, and yesterday this notion was confirmed in a new publication on the pages of Tweakers.net. The title of the slide […]

The shortage of Intel's 14nm processors will gradually ease.

Intel's CEO Robert Swan frequently mentioned the shortage of manufacturing capacity during the recent quarterly earnings conference, in the context of rising costs and a shift in the processor lineup towards more expensive models with more cores. Such changes allowed Intel to increase the average selling price of processors by 13% in the mobile segment in the first quarter and […]

Fenix will replace Firefox for Android.

Mozilla is developing a new mobile browser called Fenix. It will soon be available in the Google Play Store, replacing Firefox for Android. Additionally, some details have emerged about how the transition to the new browser will take place. Sources report that Mozilla has made decisions regarding the future of the Firefox browser for Android and […]

A leak of over 2 million passport data records has been detected on trading platforms in the Russian Federation.

Approximately 2.24 million records containing passport data, employment information of Russian citizens, and SNILS numbers are publicly available. This conclusion was drawn by Ivan Begtin, chairman of the Data Market Participants Association, based on a study titled 'Leaks of Personal Data from Open Sources. Electronic Trading Platforms.' The study examined data from the largest electronic trading platforms in the Russian Federation, focusing on […]

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