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Blizzard studio co-founder Frank Pearce has resigned. This is reported on the company's website. He worked at Blizzard for 28 years. Pierce did not talk about his future plans, but noted that he wants to spend more time in nature and learn to play a musical instrument. “My journey as a part of the Blizzard community began over 28 years ago. […]
The number of attacks in the corporate sector is growing every year: for example, in 2017, 13% more unique incidents were recorded than in 2016, and at the end of 2018, 27% more incidents were recorded than in the previous period. Including those where the main working tool is the Windows operating system. In 2017-2018, APT Dragonfly groups, […]
The streaming platform Twitch announced the Twitch Rivals Sea of Thieves Showdown championship for Sea of Thieves. Popular streamers of the service will take part in the competition. The competition will take place from July 23 to 24 online. Participants will compete for a prize pool of $100 thousand. Fans of the game will be able to watch the broadcast on the channels of participating streamers or on the official Twitch Rivals channel. Spectators of the event […]
Most recently, from July 8 to 12, two significant events took place simultaneously - the Hydra conference and the SPTDC school. In this post I would like to highlight several features that we noticed during the conference. The biggest pride of Hydra and the School are the speakers. Three Dijkstra Prize winners: Leslie Lamport, Maurice Herlihy and Michael Scott. Moreover, Maurice received […]
Developers from the Remedy studio have published the system requirements of the third-person shooter Control, including taking into account RTX technology. To enjoy real-time ray tracing, you need NVIDIA graphics cards labeled as such. Moreover, RTX support is provided in both recommended and minimum configurations. The authors also stated that the game will not have a limit on […]
Cisco DevNet is a program for programmers and engineers that helps developers and IT professionals who want to write applications and develop integrations with Cisco products, platforms, and interfaces. DevNet has been with the company for less than five years. During this time, the company’s specialists and the programming community have created programs, applications, SDKs, libraries, frameworks for working with equipment/solutions […]
Developers from Anshar Studios announced the release of their shooter Telefrag VR for virtual reality platforms on Steam, Oculus Store and PlayStation Store. We are talking about a classic arena shooter, with commentary on what is happening and weapons from similar games of the nineties: a laser pistol, a plasma rifle, a rocket launcher, and so on. Moreover, each weapon has two firing modes and [...]
We have collected books that Hacker News residents recommend to their colleagues. There are no reference books or programming manuals here, but there are interesting publications about cryptography and theoretical computer science, about the founders of IT companies, there is also science fiction written by developers and about developers - just what you can take on vacation. Photo: Max Delsid / Unsplash.com Science […]
Xiaomi has officially launched the Mi A3 mid-range smartphone in Spain. As previously reported, we are indeed talking about a renamed Mi CC9e model for the European market. The phone retains all aspects of its CC9e sibling, with the exception of the software, which has been replaced with the reference Android 9 Pie shell, as befits smartphones released under Google's Android One program. Because the […]
The Openwall project has published the release of the kernel module LKRG 0.7 (Linux Kernel Runtime Guard), which provides detection of unauthorized changes to the running kernel (integrity check) or attempts to change the permissions of user processes (exploit detection). The module is suitable both for organizing protection against already known exploits for the Linux kernel (for example, in situations where it is problematic to update the kernel in the system), and […]
A study conducted by VimpelCom (Beeline brand) suggests that residents of our country have become much more likely to purchase expensive smartphones costing over 30 thousand rubles. Thus, sales of cellular devices in the specified price category in the first half of this year jumped by 50% compared to the same period in 2018. The largest increase in demand was recorded in the category of smartphones costing 30–35 thousand […]
An unedited version of this article was originally published on haydenjames.io and is republished here with permission from the author. I'll tell you in a nutshell how best to configure PHP-FPM to increase throughput, reduce latency, and use CPU and memory more consistently. By default, the PM (process manager) line in PHP-FPM is set to dynamic, and if you […]
