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HPE SSD Firmware Bug Causing Data Loss After 32768 Hours of Operation

Hewlett Packard Enterprise has published a firmware update for SAS SSD drives sold under the HPE brand. The update resolves a critical issue that causes all data to be lost due to a crash after 32768 hours of drive operation (3 years, 270 days, and 8 hours). The problem appears in firmware versions up to HPD8. After updating the firmware, a server reboot is not required. Before expiration [...]

Battle.net has started its Black Friday sale

Discounts in honor of Black Friday have already appeared in almost all gaming stores. The list includes PlayStation Store, Uplay, Steam, Epic Games Store, Origin, and now Battle.net. The promotion in the Activision Blizzard store did not affect all projects. For example, discounts on the standard version of the new Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and pre-orders of Warcraft III: Reforged do not […]

Mario creator wants to expand the character's audience and challenge Disney

Mario has long been the world's most famous video game character, but the mustachioed savior of princesses is about to become a true multimedia superstar. Super Nintendo World will open next year at the Universal Studios Japan theme park, and Illumination Entertainment (Despicable Me, The Secret Life of Pets) is currently developing a Super Mario movie. But the ambitions of Super Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto […]

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare discovered a new bug - players die from falling at the beginning of the match

More than a month has passed since the launch of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, but players continue to encounter various errors. Recently, users discovered several similar problems at once. The first is that at the start of the match, fighters fall from the sky and die. As reported by Eurogamer, the video of the fatal landing was first shared by a forum user […]

Hundreds of thousands of Russians mine cryptocurrency for criminals

ESET reports that hundreds of thousands of Russian Internet users may be involved in a hidden criminal scheme for mining the Monero cryptocurrency. Experts have discovered the CoinMiner cryptomining module, which is distributed and installed through the Stantinko botnet. This malicious network has been active since at least 2012. For a long time, Stantinko operators managed to remain undetected thanks to the use of code encryption and complex […]

The action movie Stranglehold from John Woo is back on sale - for now only on GOG

The action thriller Stranglehold from Hard Boiled director John Woo is back on PC. The game became available in the GOG.com digital store at a price of 249 rubles. β€œShe [Stranglehold] is again ready to show herself in all her fighting glory and show the world β€œballet with pistols.” It's time to remember what it's like to be Inspector Tequila Ian and openly fight the criminal […]

Video: Ubisoft has released Might & Magic: Era of Chaos - the mobile offshoot of "Heroes"

At the beginning of the month, Ubisoft announced the return to life of the legendary series of turn-based strategies Might and Magic (the rights to it belong to the French since 2003). Unfortunately for long-time fans, this is a free mobile game with characters drawn in a children's cartoon style (the developers call it "anime style"). One way or another, but Might […]

EA thinks cloud computing could benefit DICE games' destruction physics

DICE (developer of the Battlefield series, Mirror's Edge and the last two Star Wars Battlefronts) is largely known for its technical prowess. For example, the team created the Frostbite engine and physics-based destruction system that you've seen in Battlefield since Bad Company. According to Electronic Arts chief technology officer Ken Moss, DICE could […]

Cooler Master Hyper H410R RGB: Direct Contact Tower Cooler

Cooler Master has added the Hyper H410R RGB cooler to its assortment - a universal solution suitable for removing heat from AMD and Intel processors. The new product is of the tower type: the height is 136 mm. The cooler is equipped with an aluminum radiator through which four U-shaped heat pipes pass. They are made using Direct Contact technology, which provides direct contact with the processor cover. On […]

uBlock Origin adds protection against a new tracking method that manipulates DNS names

Users of uBlock Origin have noticed the use by advertising networks and web analytics systems of a new technique for tracking movements and substituting ad units, which is not blocked in uBlock Origin and other add-ons to filter out unwanted content. The essence of the method is that site owners who want to place code for tracking or displaying advertising create a separate subdomain in the DNS that links to the ad […]

Serial production of the Russian electric car Zetta will begin in 2020

The head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation Denis Manturov announced plans to begin mass production of the first Russian electric car Zetta in the first quarter of 2020. According to him, the certification of the machine is at the final stage. Previously, the launch of production of Russian electric cars was announced in 2019. N Earlier, the Head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade noted the uniqueness of this electric car, which lies in its universal, energy-efficient traction electric motor. Zetta represents […]