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Sega Trailer for ChuChu Rocket Launch! Universe and Sonic Racing for Apple Arcade

Sega is listed as one of the publishers supporting the Apple Arcade gaming service. After the launch of the service, the company decided to remind about two of its creations, already available to owners of Apple electronics if they subscribe for 199 ₽ per month, and presented a small but dynamic trailer: First of all, it should be said about the arcade super-fast racing Sonic Racing, created by the HARDlight studio. “Hedgehogs come out […]

Chrome adds experimental HTTP/3 support

Experimental builds of Chrome Canary have added support for the HTTP/3 protocol, which implements an add-on to enable HTTP to work over the QUIC protocol. The QUIC protocol itself was added to the browser five years ago and has since been used to optimize work with Google services. At the same time, the version of Google's QUIC used in Chrome differed in some details from the version from […]

Slurm DevOps. 3rd day. ELK, ChatOps, SRE. And the developer's secret prayer

The third and final day of the first, but not the last, DevOps Slurm has arrived. We didn't expect to be able to replicate Slurm DevOps. But unexpectedly for us, all the speakers agreed to come to Slurm in February, and the feedback showed us exactly how to finalize the program. There is an understanding of how to make the intensive program more holistic and detailed, and some topics more practical. So […]

Genesis?). Reflections on the nature of the mind. Part I

• What is mind, consciousness. • How does cognition differ from awareness? • Are consciousness and self-awareness the same thing? • Thought – what is thought? • Creativity, imagination - something mysterious, inherent in man, or... • How the mind works. • Motivation, goal setting - why do anything at all. Artificial intelligence is the Holy Grail of any person who has connected his […]

HP to Launch Chromebook x360 12 Laptop with Intel Gemini Lake Platform

HP, according to online sources, will soon announce the Chromebook x360 12 portable computer, which will replace the current 11-inch Chromebook x360 11 model running Chrome OS. The new product will receive a 12,3-inch HD+ display with an aspect ratio of 3:2. There is no word yet on touch control support. The hardware basis will be the Intel Gemini Lake platform. IN […]

The story of one hypothetical robot

In the last article, I carelessly announced the second part, especially since it seemed that the material was already available and even partially completed. But everything turned out to be somewhat more complicated than at first glance. This was partly facilitated by discussions in the comments, partly by the insufficient clarity of the presentation of thoughts that I myself think are damn important... We can say that so far the material does not miss my […]

Chrome update 77.0.3865.90 fixes critical vulnerability

Google has released a corrective update to the Chrome browser 77.0.3865.90. It fixed four security vulnerabilities. One of the vulnerabilities had a critical status; it made it possible to bypass all levels of browser protection and execute code on the system outside the sandbox environment. Details about the critical vulnerability (CVE-2019-13685) are not yet disclosed until users install the update. Other vulnerabilities are classified as […]

What awaits participants in the Linux PIter 2019 program

The Linux Piter program was prepared for 9 months. Members of the conference program committee reviewed several dozen applications for reports, sent hundreds of invitations, listened and selected the most interesting and relevant ones. Russia, USA, Germany, Finland, Britain, Ukraine and many other parts of the world, from where speakers will flock and represent companies such as RedHat, Intel, CISCO, Samsung, Synopsys, Percona, Veeam, Nutanix, Dell EMC, […]

Announcement of the start of sales of BeagleBone AI

Today we announced the start of sales of a new board from the BeagleBoard.org Foundation: BeagleBone AI based on the Texas Instruments Sitara AM5729 processor. “This board is a response to our community's demand to see the next big improvement in the BeagleBone family,” says Jason Kridner, co-founder of the BeagleBoard.org Foundation. “Its feature set is overflowing and has capabilities unparalleled anywhere […]

Release of Lakka 2.3, a distribution for creating game consoles

The Lakka 2.3 distribution has been released, allowing you to turn computers, set-top boxes or boards like Raspberry Pi into a full-fledged gaming console for running retro games. The project is built in the form of a modification of the LibreELEC distribution, originally designed for creating home theaters. Lakka builds are generated for platforms i386, x86_64 (GPU Intel, NVIDIA or AMD), Raspberry Pi 1-4, Orange Pi, Cubieboard, Cubieboard2, Cubietruck, […]

A vulnerability in vhost-net that allows bypassing isolation in systems based on QEMU-KVM

Information has been disclosed about a vulnerability (CVE-2019-14835) that allows you to escape the guest system in KVM (qemu-kvm) and execute your code on the host side in the context of the Linux kernel. The vulnerability has been codenamed V-gHost. The problem allows the guest system to create conditions for a buffer overflow in the vhost-net kernel module (network backend for virtio), executed on the side of the host environment. The attack could be […]