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An experimental release of an open implementation of the Win32 API is available - Wine 4.14. Since the release of version 4.13, 18 bug reports have been closed and 255 changes have been made. The most important changes: The Mono engine has been updated to version 4.9.2, which has eliminated problems when launching DARK and DLC quests; DLLs in PE (Portable Executable) format are no longer tied to […]
The release of the system programming language Rust 1.37, founded by the Mozilla project, has been published. The language focuses on safe memory management, provides automatic memory management, and provides the means to achieve high job parallelism while avoiding the use of a garbage collector and runtime. Rust's automatic memory management saves the developer from manipulating pointers and protects against issues that arise from […]
The Federal Antimonopoly Service of Russia (FAS Russia) recognized contextual advertising of financial services in the Google AdWords service as violating the requirements of the Advertising Law. The violation was committed during the distribution of advertisements for financial services of the Ali Trade company, which received a complaint from the Federal Public Fund for the Protection of the Rights of Depositors and Shareholders. As reported on the FAS website, during the investigation it became clear that when recruiting […]
The release of KDE Applications 19.08 is available, which includes a selection of custom applications adapted to work with KDE Frameworks 5. Information about the availability of Live builds with the new release can be found on this page. Key innovations: The Dolphin file manager has implemented and enabled by default the ability to open a new tab in an existing file manager window (instead of opening a new window with a separate […]
The release of the Apache HTTP server 2.4.41 has been published (release 2.4.40 was skipped), which introduces 23 changes and eliminates 6 vulnerabilities: CVE-2019-10081 - an issue in mod_http2 that can lead to memory corruption when sending push requests to very early stage. When using the "H2PushResource" setting, it is possible to overwrite memory in the request processing pool, but the problem is limited to a crash because the writes […]
In June, at the E3 2019 gaming exhibition, the publishing house Kalypso Media announced that this year it would revive the legendary classic strategies from the Pyro studio, presenting re-releases in the form of Commandos 2 HD Remastered and Praetorians HD Remastered. The development of HD versions of the dust-covered games is carried out by the Yippee Entertainment and Torus Games teams, respectively. Now the company has presented trailers of both projects for the exhibition […]
One of the upcoming updates to the Chrome browser will completely lose support for the FTP protocol. This is stated in a special Google document addressed to this topic. However, the “innovations” will come into force only in a year or even later. Correct support for the FTP protocol in the Chrome browser has always been a sore subject for Google developers. One of the reasons for abandoning FTP is […]
This week, the Epic Games Store service is pleased with the distribution of two high-quality games at once - Hyper Light Drifter and Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden. Anyone with an account in the service can add these projects to their library. And next week, users will get the Fez puzzle for free. Hyper Light Drifter is considered a recognized indie hit, attracting […]
Before demonstrating the press version of Borderlands 3, DualShockers spoke with the game's leading writers. Sam Winkler and Danny Homan said that the third part will tell a lot about the world of the franchise and tie together different storylines. However, Borderlands 3 will not be the last work in the series. The authors did not directly state the planned continuation, but quite […]
The shooter Borderlands 3 will be released using Denuvo DRM protection (Digital Rights Management). According to the PCGamesN portal, users noticed the use of protection after the redesign of the Epic Games Store library. The use of Denuvo has not been officially announced. The authors of the publication suggest that 2K Games will add protection to ensure a good level of sales in the first months. This is in line with current practice of using modern DRM technologies, [...]
Some time ago, it became known that on computers with AMD Zen 2 processors, the game Destiny 2 may not launch, and the latest Linux distributions may not load. The problem was related to the instruction for generating the random number RdRand. And although the BIOS update solved the problem for the latest “red” chips, the company decided not to take risks and no longer plans […]
The Taiwanese company HTC has announced a mid-level smartphone Wildfire X, running the Android 9.0 Pie operating system. The device is equipped with a display measuring 6,22 inches diagonally. An HD+ format panel with a resolution of 1520 × 720 pixels is used. There is a small teardrop-shaped cutout at the top of this screen: the front camera based on an 8-megapixel sensor is located here. At the rear of the case there is […]
