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The Chinese company Huawei regularly releases new smartphones to the market. At a time when everyone is waiting for the arrival of the flagship devices of the Mate series, another Huawei smartphone has been spotted in the database of the China Telecommunications Equipment Certification Authority (TENAA). According to online sources, the new smartphone that was spotted in the TENAA database could be the Huawei Enjoy 10 Plus. Smartphone model [β¦]
A teaser image has appeared on the Internet, which confirms the intention of the Redmi brand to officially announce new smartphones on August 29. The presentation will take place as part of a planned event, where the company's TVs called Redmi TV will also be presented. The presented image confirms that the Redmi Note 8 Pro will have a main camera with four sensors, the main one of which is a 64-megapixel image sensor. [β¦]
Details of a critical vulnerability (CVE-2019-14378) in the SLIRP handler, which is used by default in QEMU to establish a communication channel between the virtual network adapter in the guest system and the network backend on the QEMU side, have been disclosed. The problem also affects virtualization systems based on KVM (in Usermode) and Virtualbox, which use the slirp backend from QEMU, as well as applications using network [β¦]
The Document Liberation project, founded by LibreOffice developers to move tools for working with various file formats into separate libraries, presented two new releases of libraries for working with Microsoft Visio and AbiWord formats. Thanks to their separate delivery, the libraries developed by the project allow you to organize work with various formats not only in LibreOffice, but also in any third-party open project. For example, [β¦]
The Linux Foundation announced the founding of the Confidential Computing Consortium, aimed at developing open technologies and standards related to secure in-memory processing and confidential computing. The joint project has already been joined by companies such as Alibaba, Arm, Baidu, Google, IBM, Intel, Tencent and Microsoft, which intend to jointly develop technologies for data isolation [β¦]
LG Electronics (LG) announced the development of a new mobile application, ThinQ (formerly SmartThinQ), for interacting with smart home devices. The main feature of the program is support for voice commands in natural language. This system uses Google Assistant voice recognition technology. Using common phrases, users will be able to interact with any smart device connected to the Internet via Wi-Fi. [β¦]
During the gaming exhibition gamescom 2019, developers from the studio 4A Games presented a trailer and launched the first addition βThe Two Colonelsβ to their action game Metro Exodus. But this is not all the news concerning the Metro universe, created by Dmitry Alekseevich Glukhovsky. During a broadcast on TV-3 on VKontakte (and then on Instagram), the writer announced the preparation of the film Metro 2033. [β¦]
A study conducted by Kaspersky Lab suggests that almost every tenth Russian has lost a large amount of money as a result of telephone fraud. Typically, telephone scammers act on behalf of a financial institution, say a bank. The classic scheme of such an attack is as follows: attackers call from a fake number or from a number that previously really belonged to the bank, introduce themselves as its employees and [β¦]
Publisher SEGA and developers from Two Point Studios have presented a new downloadable addition to the comedy hospital simulator Two Point Hospital. The DLC, entitled "Close Encounters", will go on sale on August 29th. You can pre-order on Steam, and with a 10 percent discount (valid until September 5): the price is not 399, but 359 rubles. How can you guess [β¦]
Valve reported that Russian developer Vasily Kravets was mistakenly denied an award under the HackerOne program. According to The Register, the studio will fix the discovered vulnerabilities and will consider issuing an award to Kravets. On August 7, 2019, security specialist Vasily Kravets published an article about Steam local privilege escalation vulnerabilities. This allows anyone harmful [β¦]
The executive director of Ubisoft in the EMEA region, Alain Corre, shared plans for the development of the studio. He told the MCV portal that the current state of the industry is conducive to the development of new franchises. As prerequisites, Corr noted the upcoming releases of a new generation of consoles and the development of cloud gaming. βFreedom is fantastic. We are now an independent company and want to remain [...]
Recently, fans often use neural networks to improve old cult projects. This includes Doom, Final Fantasy VII, and now a bit of Counter-Strike 1.6. The author of the YouTube channel 3kliksphilip used artificial intelligence to increase the resolution of the textures of the Dust 2 map, one of the most popular locations in the old competitive shooter from Valve. The modder recorded a video demonstrating the changes. [β¦]
