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Electronic Arts announced in a report to investors that The Sims series, consisting of four main games and several spin-offs, has sold $5 billion in products over nearly two decades. “The Sims 4 also continues to be an incredible long-term service with a growing audience,” said CEO Andrew Wilson. — The monthly average number of players has risen […]
Last time we touched upon such problems of education as the scholastic approach to learning, and also talked a little about the vicious practice of training skills to the detriment of acquiring knowledge. Now is the time to discuss these two fundamental categories in more detail and understand what the fundamental difference is between them. So, both definitions: skills and knowledge, as well as much […]
Imagine a problem: two people disappeared in the forest. One of them is still mobile, the other lies in place and cannot move. The point where they were last seen is known. The search radius around it is 10 kilometers. This results in an area of 314 km2. You have ten hours to search using the latest technology. Having heard the condition for the first […]
The creator of Python, who spent the last six and a half years at Dropbox, is retiring. For these 6,5 years, Guido worked on Python and developed the Dropbox development culture, which was going through the transition stage from a startup to a large company: he was a mentor, mentoring developers to write clear code and cover it with good tests. He also put together a plan to translate the codebase […]
A corrective release of the package for creating virtual private networks has been created OpenVPN 2.4.8. This new version restores the ability to build with the LibreSSL cryptographic library and provides support for building with OpenSSL 1.1 without deprecated APIs. Processing of additional PSS (Probabilistic Signature Scheme) padding in cryptoapicert has been implemented (required for TLS 1.2 and 1.3). The size of the queue of incoming connections waiting to be processed (backlog in […]
Due to a caching error in the content delivery system, when trying to download one of the builds of the Python 3.5.8 maintenance release published the day before yesterday, a pre-release build was distributed that did not contain all the fixes. The problem affected only the Python-3.5.8.tar.xz archive; the Python-3.5.8.tgz assembly was distributed correctly. All users who downloaded the file “Python-3.5.8.tar.xz” in the first 12 hours after the release are recommended to check the correctness of the downloaded data using the control […]
On November 15-16, 2019, the international business hackathon Baltic Sea Digital Event will be held at the University of Latvia (Riga). The hackathon is focused on the use of the following technologies: distributed registry systems, big data, wireless communications, industrial Internet, virtual and augmented reality. Hurry: online registration of participants closes on October 31, that is TOMORROW, at 23:59. You have a little more than a day to [...]
Hackers are celebrating another victory over Denuvo. The Codex group has hacked the latest version of DRM protection in Borderlands 3. The game is already freely available on the relevant resources. The same anti-piracy protection is used in Mortal Kombat 11, Anno 1800 and a number of other games that have not yet appeared on torrent trackers. The hackers did not say whether they would make the remaining projects […]
The head of the Kojima Productions studio, Hideo Kojima, gave an interview to representatives of the YouTube channel Rocket Beans Gaming. The conversation turned to the potential creation of a VR game. The well-known developer said that he would like to take on such a project, but he currently “doesn’t have enough time for it.” Hideo Kojima stated: “I’m really interested in VR, but right now there’s no way to be distracted by something […]
Cooling system companies must have the "investment courage" to offer highly specialized solutions that are only compatible with one specific motherboard or graphics card. True, all development costs and market risks are usually included in the cost of such exotic products: for a water block, for example, you have to pay up to a third of the cost of the video card or motherboard itself. There is also […]
After six years at Dropbox, Guido van Rossum, creator of the Python programming language, is quitting and planning to retire. Last year, Guido also announced his intention to step down as Benign Dictator for Life (BDFL) of the Python project and step away from the decision-making process, but continue to work on the project as a developer and mentor. […]
The release of the Wi-Fi daemon IWD 1.0 (iNet Wireless Daemon), developed by Intel as an alternative to wpa_supplicant for establishing a connection, is available. Linux-systems to a wireless network. IWD can act as a backend for network configurators such as Network Manager and ConnMan. A key goal in developing the new Wifi daemon is to optimize resource consumption, such as memory and disk space. IWD […]