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If you travel a lot and are a developer of websites, games, video effects or anything similar, then you probably know that startups from this field are welcomed in many countries. There are even specially adopted venture capital programs in India, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, China and other countries. But it’s one thing to announce a program, and another thing to analyze what has been done […]
Oracle has announced work to push DTrace-related changes upstream and plans to implement DTrace dynamic debugging technology on top of the native Linux kernel infrastructure, namely using subsystems such as eBPF. Initially, the main problem with using DTrace on Linux was incompatibility at the license level, but in 2018 Oracle relicensed the code […]
At the beginning of the year, I felt like I had hit a ceiling as an engineer. It seems like you read thick books, solve complex problems at work, speak at conferences. But that’s not the case. Therefore, I decided to return to the roots and, one by one, cover the skills that I once considered as a child to be basic for a programmer. First on the list was touch printing, which had long been [...]
The series of vulnerabilities (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) in Ghostscript, a set of tools for processing, converting and generating documents in PostScript and PDF formats, continues. Like previous vulnerabilities, the new problem (CVE-2019-10216) allows, when processing specially designed documents, to bypass the “-dSAFER” isolation mode (through manipulations with “.buildfont1”) and gain access to the contents of the file system, which can be used […]
The publication of package updates for the stable branch of OpenBSD has been announced. Previously, when using the "-stable" branch, it was only possible to receive binary updates to the base system via syspatch. The packages were built once for the release branch and were no longer updated. Now it is planned to support three branches: “-release”: a frozen branch, packages from which are collected once for release and no longer […]
The sequel to indie game Spelunky 2 may not be released until the end of 2019. Project designer Derek Yu announced this on Twitter. He noted that the studio is actively engaged in its creation, but the final goal is still far away. “Greetings to all Spelunky 2 fans. Unfortunately, I have to report that most likely the game will not be released until the end of this year. […]
A corrective update for Firefox 68.0.2 has been published, which fixes several problems: A vulnerability (CVE-2019-11733) that allows you to copy saved passwords without entering the master password has been fixed. When using the ‘copy password’ option in the Saved Logins dialog (‘Page Info/ Security/ View Saved Password)’, copying to the clipboard is carried out without the need to enter a password (the password entry dialog is displayed, but the data is copied […]
Valve will rework the rating calculation system in Dota 2 Underlords at the rank of “Lords of the White Spire”. The developers will add an Elo rating system to the game, thanks to which users will receive a number of points depending on the level of opponents. Thus, in case you receive a large reward when fighting with players whose rating is significantly higher and vice versa. Company […]
The EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) project, which maintains a repository of additional packages for RHEL and CentOS, announced that the EPEL 8 repository is ready for release. The repository was created two weeks ago and is now considered ready for implementation. Through EPEL, users of distributions compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux are offered an additional set of community-supported packages from Fedora Linux […]
Valve has allowed Steam users to hide uninteresting projects at their discretion. An employee of the company, Alden Kroll, spoke about this. The developers did this so that players could additionally filter the platform’s recommendations. There are currently two hiding options available in the service: “default” and “run on another platform.” The latter will tell the Steam creators that the player has purchased the project […]
Kaspersky Lab reports that the majority of Russian smartphone owners receive spam calls with unnecessary promotional offers. It is said that “junk” calls are received by 72% of Russian subscribers. In other words, three out of four Russian owners of “smart” cellular devices receive unnecessary voice calls. The most common spam calls are with offers of loans and credits. Russian subscribers often receive calls [...]
Yesterday, THQ Nordic published a financial report in which it separately noted the success of Metro Exodus. The game managed to increase the overall sales figures of the publisher Deep Silver by 10%. Simultaneously with the appearance of the document, THQ Nordic CEO Lars Wingefors held a meeting with investors, where he stated that the next part of Metro was in development. He continues to work on the series [...]
