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- So, what do we have? – asked Evgeny Viktorovich. – Svetlana Vladimirovna, what’s the agenda? During my vacation, I must have fallen far behind in my work? — I can’t say that it’s really strong. You know the basics. Now everything is according to protocol, colleagues make short reports on the state of affairs, ask each other questions, I set instructions. Everything is as usual. - Seriously? […]

Seven out of ten Russian teenagers were participants or victims of online bullying

The non-profit organization “Russian Quality System” (Roskachestvo) reports that many teenagers in our country are subject to so-called cyberbullying. Cyberbullying is online bullying. It can have various manifestations: in particular, children can be subjected to unfounded criticism in the form of comments and messages, threats, blackmail, extortion, etc. It is reported that about 70% of Russian teenagers have been […]

Scientific Linux 7.7 distribution release

Presented is the release of the Scientific Linux 7.7 distribution, built on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 package base and supplemented with tools aimed at use in scientific institutions. The distribution is supplied for the x86_64 architecture, in the form of DVD assemblies (9.8 GB and 8 GB), and a shortened image for installation over the network (496 MB). Publishing Live builds is delayed. The main differences from RHEL are [...]

FreeBSD Development Report Q2019 XNUMX

A report on the development of the FreeBSD project from April to June 2019 has been published. Among the changes we can note: General and system issues The Core team decided to establish a working group to study the possibility of transferring source codes from the centralized source control system Subversion to the decentralized Git system. Conducted fuzz testing of the FreeBSD kernel using the syzkaller system and fixed […]

Sony continues to optimize AMD Jaguar support for PS4 in LLVM Clang compiler

AMD continues to improve the Btver2/Jaguar compiler code to optimize performance. And in this, oddly enough, there is a huge merit of Sony. After all, it is the Japanese corporation that uses LLVM Clang as the default set of tools for its PlayStation 4. And the console, we recall, is based on a hybrid “red” Jaguar chip. Last week, the Jaguar/Btver2 target code was […]

rclone 1.49 backup utility available

The release of the rclone 1.49 utility has been published, which is an analogue of rsync, designed for copying and synchronizing data between the local system and various cloud storages, such as Google Drive, Amazon Drive, S3, Dropbox, Backblaze B2, One Drive, Swift, Hubic, Cloudfiles, Google Cloud Storage and Yandex.Disk. The project code is written in Go and distributed under the MIT license. IN […]

Update packages for running games Proton 4.11-2, RetroArch 1.7.8 and Roberta 0.1

Valve has published a new release of the Proton 4.11-3 project, which builds on the work of the Wine project and aims to run gaming applications created for Windows and presented in the Steam catalog on Linux. The developments of the project are distributed under the BSD license. Proton allows you to directly run Windows-only game applications on the Steam Linux client. The package includes the implementation […]

OG won The International 2019 and earned $15,6 million

Team OG beat Team Liquid in the finals of The International 2019 Dota 2 championship. The meeting ended with a score of 3:1. Esports players earned $15,6 million, which is the largest win in the history of the industry. OG became the first two-time Dota 2 world champion in the nine years of the tournament's existence. Let's remember: the team also won the title in 2018, beating […]

The passage of Blair Witch will take up to 6 hours, but there will be several endings

Studio Bloober Team talked about how long it will take to complete the upcoming horror game Blair Witch. Blair Witch was announced at E3 2019. It is a horror game based on the Blair Witch Project film franchise. The game is about the search for a little boy who disappeared in the Black Hills forest. The former policeman went to look for him, but instead of the usual investigation he encountered otherworldly forces. They are developing […]

Video: battle in the middle of a snowy camp in Wasteland 3

A 2-minute video dedicated to Wasteland 3 has appeared on the YouTube channel of the Gematsu portal. The video shows travel through the snowy expanses of Colorado and the battle of the Desert Rangers with a squad of “crazy people”. The presented material allows you to evaluate some of the innovations of the combat system. In the video, a squad of characters rides through the wild areas of Colorado on their armored snowmobile. There are many destroyed buildings around, and winter has tenaciously enveloped [...]

Action-RPG Ashen Coming to Steam, GOG, PS4, and Switch in December

The role-playing action game Ashen was released late last year on Xbox One and PC (on the Epic Games Store). And on December 9 it will appear on PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch, as well as on Steam and GOG. The ash-covered world of Ashen at some point begins to see the light, and the main character will have to help its inhabitants fight off the filth that prefers […]

Terminator in Mortal Kombat 11 will lose the voice of Arnold Schwarzenegger

Recent news about the upcoming addition of the Terminator in the guise of Arnold Schwarzenegger to Mortal Kombat 11 is somewhat overshadowed by a clarifying message about the defective transfer of the T-800 to the game. The beloved deadly machine designed to exterminate humanity will not receive the original voice of the Austrian superstar. According to the Hollywood Reporter, MK11 director Ed Boon hired an actor […]