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Story-driven adventure The Uncertain: Last Quiet Day, set in a post-apocalyptic world of robots, has become free on Steam. Developers from the ComonGames studio announced that everyone can not only download the adventure completely free of charge, but also save it forever. The only condition is to arrive before March 9 at 9 a.m. Moscow time before the promotion ends. […]
MIPT, together with the Foundation for the Development of Physics and Technology Schools, with the support of the Presidential Grants Fund, has opened enrollment for a free online course “Quick Start in Sports Programming” for junior students of technical specialties, as well as for anyone who has basic programming skills. The open course is the first stage of the RuCode intensive training project for sports programming. You can register for it until March 15. […]
The GeForce NOW catalog continues to explode. NVIDIA announced that 2K Games games have left the service. “We are working with 2K Games to re-include its games in the future,” the company said. 2K Games is the publisher of games such as XCOM 2, Borderlands 3, Sid Meier's Civilization VI and NBA 2K. They all left GeForce NOW immediately after […]
The Min 1.13 web browser was released, offering a minimalistic interface built around manipulation of the address bar. The browser is created using the Electron platform, which allows you to create stand-alone applications based on the Chromium engine and the Node.js platform. The Min interface is written in JavaScript, CSS and HTML. The code is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. Builds are created for Linux, macOS and Windows. Min supports navigation […]
A vulnerability has been identified in the pppd package (CVE-2020-8597), which allows its code to be executed by sending specially crafted authentication requests to systems using the PPP (Point-to-Point Protocol) or PPPoE (PPP over Ethernet) protocol. These protocols are usually used by providers to organize connections via Ethernet or DSL, and are also used in some VPNs (for example, pptpd and openfortivpn). To check the exposure of your […]
Former Google employee Anthony Levandowski (pictured below) filed for bankruptcy on Wednesday after a court ordered him to pay Google a $179 million fine for breach of contract. Levandowski left Google in 2016 to start his own self-driving truck company, which was soon acquired by Uber for $680 million. […]
This may be hard for many to believe, but the PlayStation 2 is 20 years old, the console that turned millions of people into forever gamers. For many people, the PlayStation 2 became the first DVD player - it was perhaps the cheapest way to get such a player and at the same time justify the purchase of a new game console. Sony has released the successor to its original PlayStation in Japan […]
The private Russian company Sputniks intends to launch a spacecraft into orbit for detailed observation of the Earth's surface. According to RIA Novosti, the general director of the company, Vladislav Ivanenko, spoke about the project. One of the enterprises of the state corporation Roscosmos, the Russian Space Systems (RSS) holding, will take part in the initiative. The launch of a new Earth remote sensing (ERS) satellite is tentatively scheduled for 2024. […]
Hello, Habr! You may have heard that a new Windows Terminal is coming out very soon. We have already written about this here. Our colleague Scott Hanselman has prepared some tips on how to work with the new terminal. Join us! So you've downloaded Windows Terminal and... what now? You may not be thrilled at first. It's still a Terminal, and it's not [...]
Windows Terminal version 0.9 has been released. This is the last version of the Terminal, which will include new features until v1. You can download Windows Terminal from the Microsoft Store or from the GitHub releases page. Let's take a closer look at the update details! Command Line Arguments The wt alias now supports command line arguments. You can now launch the Terminal with […]
Helmfile is a wrapper for Helm that allows you to describe multiple Helm releases in one place, parameterize their charts for multiple environments, and specify their deployment order. You can read about Helmfile itself and examples of its use in the readme and best practices guide. We'll explore non-obvious ways to describe releases in Helmfile. Let's say we have […]
Over the past few weeks, Frictional Games has been posting teasers of its new project, and now it’s time for a full announcement. The developers presented Amnesia: Rebirth - a continuation of the famous series of narrative horror games. The authors published the first trailer for the game, a selection of screenshots and a synopsis. Frictional Games wrote about the plot on the project’s official Steam page: “In Amnesia: Rebirth, you are Tasi […]