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Firefox 69 will disable Flash by default

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Mozilla developers have disabled the ability to play Flash content by default in nightly builds of Firefox. Starting with Firefox 69, scheduled for September 3, the option for permanently activating Flash will be removed from the settings of the Adobe Flash Player plugin and only the options will be left to disable Flash and individually enable it for specific sites (activation by explicit click) without remembering the selected mode. In Firefox ESR branches […]

Cloudflare introduced a distributed random number generator

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Cloudflare introduced the League of Entropy service, to ensure the operation of which a consortium of several organizations interested in providing high-quality random numbers has been formed. Unlike existing centralized systems, League of Entropy does not rely on a single source and uses entropy from multiple unrelated generators controlled by different project participants to generate a random sequence. […]

DragonFly BSD 5.6 operating system release

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The release of DragonFlyBSD 5.6 is available, an operating system with a hybrid kernel created in 2003 for the purpose of alternative development of the FreeBSD 4.x branch. Among the features of DragonFly BSD, we can highlight the distributed versioned file system HAMMER, support for loading “virtual” system kernels as user processes, the ability to cache data and FS metadata on SSD drives, context-sensitive variant symbolic links, the ability to freeze processes […]

Control Developer Video Diary: How to deal with Hiss?

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In the latest installment of Control's dev diaries, director Mikael Kasurinen, lead designer Paul Ehreth, senior game designer Thomas Hudson, and game designer Sergey Mohov revealed the main enemy players will face in upcoming action movie. According to the game's story, after the Hiss appeared in the Oldest House (the skyscraper where […]

Vulnerabilities in Linux and FreeBSD TCP stacks leading to remote denial of service

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Netflix has identified several critical vulnerabilities in the TCP stacks of Linux and FreeBSD that can remotely trigger a kernel crash or cause excessive resource consumption when processing specially crafted TCP packets (packet-of-death). The problems are caused by errors in the handlers for the maximum size of a data block in a TCP packet (MSS, Maximum segment size) and the mechanism for selective acknowledgment of connections (SACK, TCP Selective Acknowledgment). CVE-2019-11477 (SACK Panic) […]

Facebook to launch Calibra cryptocurrency wallet in 2020

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After months of rumors and speculation, Facebook has finally made it official about its plans to get in on the cryptocurrency pie. We are talking about the Calibra digital wallet, which will be built on the basis of the new Libra cryptocurrency. Calibra, a subsidiary of Facebook, is designed to provide financial services that will allow people to access and participate in the Libra network. It is worth noting that […]

Bitcoin breaks $9000 for the first time this year

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Last Sunday, Bitcoin surpassed $9000 for the first time this year. According to the CoinMarketCap resource, the last time the price of the largest cryptocurrency on the market was more than $9000 was more than a year ago, at the beginning of May 2018. This year, Bitcoin began to gain momentum again. This is not the first time it has set a new annual value record. More […]

Amazon Game Studios continues to fail

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Amazon's video game division has laid off dozens of Amazon Game Studios employees and canceled some unsubmitted projects. Amazon Game Studios is currently developing online games Crucible and New World. These projects were not affected by the recent cuts, but others were affected. The affected employees were told last week on Thursday that they had 60 days to find a new […]

Yandex will train developers of efficient and reliable services in Python

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Yandex announced the launch of two educational projects for backend developers using the high-level general-purpose programming language Python. The full-time School of Backend Development is waiting for beginners, and the online specialization in Yandex.Practice is for beginners who want to master the profession from scratch. It is noted that the new school will open its doors this fall in Moscow. The training program lasts two months. Students will listen [...]

Processors Intel Coffee Lake Refresh stepping R0 began to go on sale

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Since the beginning of May, motherboard manufacturers began preparing consumers for the release of Intel Coffee Lake Refresh (“ninth generation”) processors of the new R0 stepping, urging them to update the BIOS in advance to ensure their full support. The technical characteristics of the new processors remained the same, and one of the visible changes was the introduction of protection against vulnerabilities of the ZombieLoad family at the hardware level. In Japanese retail, OEM versions of the new […]

In Cyberpunk 2077, you can dive into cyberspace and go beyond Night City

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The Eurogamer portal interviewed the lead quest designer in Cyberpunk 2077, Pawel Sasko. He told some details about the structure of the game world. Thus, the territory available for exploration is not limited only to Night City - other interesting locations await users. Pavel Sasko told more about the immersion of the main character V into the virtual universe: “Cyberspace is a very dangerous place. IN […]

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