Rubric Internet news
When Grand Theft Auto IV returned to Steam after a short absence due to problems with key generation, the game began to be sold in the Complete Edition along with all the add-ons. Then users noticed that several songs were removed from the project. In the latest update, Rockstar Games returned the missing compositions, but at the same time serious errors crept into the game. As conveyed […]
A 5-minute gameplay video of The Ascent, an action game with RPG elements and a top-down view from the Neon Giant studio and Curve Digital publisher, has appeared on the IGN YouTube channel. The latest video is entirely dedicated to high-level battles in small open spaces. The material also shows the individual skills of the main character, a variety of enemies and several locations in the style of cyberpunk. Judging by the video presented, [...]
The intro is one of the most famous moments in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. A trip to the place of execution in the same carriage with Ulfric Stormcloak gave rise to a lot of jokes and memes. The developers from ZeniMax Online Studios seem to know about the love of users for the initial stage of the fifth part, as they very successfully parodied it in the latest Greymoor add-on to The […]
Microsoft recently began the full rollout of its major May update. Windows 10 (version 2004) As usual, the build comes with a bunch of new features, such as Windows Subsystem for Linux 2, the new Cortana app, and so on. There are numerous known issues that the company will work to fix soon. And now Microsoft has published a list of features that have been deprecated or removed in […]
The Google Home smart speaker was introduced in 2016. By modern standards, this is a fairly old device. And now, a few weeks after the price of the speaker was temporarily reduced to the absolute minimum, which was $29, information appeared in the official Google online store that the device was no longer available. Despite its advanced age, Google Home enjoyed […]
The Raspberry Pi Project has announced an enhanced version of the Raspberry Pi 4 board, shipping with 8GB of RAM. The cost of the new board option is $75. For comparison, boards with 2 and 4 GB of RAM sell for $35 and $55, respectively. The BCM2711 chip used in the board allows you to address up to 16 GB of memory, but at the time of development of the board […]
Devolver Digital kept its promise and, three days before the end of spring, finally released the comedy hooligan simulator Sludge Life. The release happened without warning, but that's not even the most interesting thing. Today Sludge Life is released only on PC (Epic Games Store), where it will be available absolutely free for exactly 12 months. To take ownership of the game forever, all you have to do is [...]
With the release macOS With Catalina 10.15.5 and the latest security updates for Mojave and High Sierra earlier this week, Apple has made it much more difficult for users to ignore available software updates and the operating system itself. The changelog for macOS Catalina 10.15.5 has the following item: "New Releases macOS are no longer hidden when using the softwareupdate (8) command with the --ignore flag" […]
Google is trying to improve the performance of Progressive Web Apps in its Chrome browser with each update. Last month, the company replaced some Android- applications for Chrome OS users with PWA versions. Now Google has released a new build of the Chrome Canary browser, which allows PWAs to launch on startup. WindowsThis feature was first discovered by specialists from the online resource Techdows and is currently hidden. To […]
The Apache Software Foundation has published the release of the version control system Subversion 1.14.0, which is classified as a long-term support (LTS) release, updates for which will be released until 2024. Despite the development of decentralized systems, Subversion continues to be popular in commercial companies and projects that use a centralized approach to version and configuration management of software systems. Of those using Subversion […]
Google has announced that it will include protection against intrusive notifications, such as push notification spam, in the July 84 release of Chrome 14. Since such requests interrupt the user's work and distract attention from actions in confirmation dialogs, instead of a separate dialog, an information prompt that does not require user action will be displayed in the address bar […]
The release of the distributed DBMS TiDB 4.0, developed under the influence of Google Spanner and F1 technologies, is available. TiDB belongs to the category of hybrid HTAP (Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing) systems, capable of both providing real-time transactions (OLTP) and processing analytical queries. The project is written in Go and distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. TiDB Features: SQL support […]