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Cisco has published the release of Snort 2.9.14.0, a free attack detection and prevention system that combines signature matching techniques, protocol inspection tools, and anomaly detection mechanisms. Main innovations: Added support for port number masks in the host cache and the ability to override the binding of application identifiers to network ports; New client software templates have been added to display the […]
Google has announced an increase in the amounts awarded under the bounty program for identifying vulnerabilities in the Chrome browser and its underlying components. The maximum payout for creating an exploit to get out of the sandbox environment has been increased from $15 to $30, for a JavaScript access control (XSS) bypass method from $7.5 to $20, […]
Valve has published a list of planned changes to Dota Underlords ahead of schedule. The patch will be released in the middle of the gaming season. It will add tips to the game, increase reward experience for owners of the battle pass, and change the balance. List of upcoming changes General: will add tips for beginners; will fix a performance bug on macOS; will increase the stability of the game. Mobile version: improve performance on mobile […]
Microsoft is working on new global media controls in its Chromium-based Edge browser. The control, activated by clicking the Media button in the address bar, will now reportedly be able to display not only a list of currently playing audio or video files, but also other active media sessions, which can then be switched and controlled individually. […]
The Double Damage Games team announced that the space adventure Rebel Galaxy Outlaw will go on sale on August 13. For now, the game will only be available on PC in the Epic Games Store, with a release on consoles coming at a later date. The project will appear on Steam twelve months later. “Money is zero, prospects are zero, and luck is also zero. Juneau Markev […]
Bethesda Game Studios recently released a patch for Fallout 76, designed to improve power armor, add positive changes to the Adventure and Nuclear Winter modes, and make it easier for low-level players to level up. After the update was released, users began to complain about new errors. The number of bugs has increased, some of them funny, others critical. Most of the problems are related to power armor, although the authors wanted to improve the interaction […]
Valve has launched a sale in honor of the anniversary of the first man landing on the moon. Discounts apply to games with a space theme. The promotional list includes the horror Dead Space, the strategy Planetary Annihilation: TITANS, Astroneer, Anno 2205, No Man's Sky and others. Discounts in honor of the anniversary of the first landing of man on the Moon: Dead Space - 99 rubles (-75%); Dead […]
Sony Corporation has announced a mirrorless camera with interchangeable lenses a7R IV (Alpha 7R IV), which will be available for purchase in September of this year. Sony says the a7R IV is a new step in the evolution of mirrorless cameras. The device received a full-frame (35,8 × 23,8 mm) BSI-CMOS sensor with 61 million effective pixels. The high-performance Bionz X processor is responsible for data processing. The camera […]
Blogger Ice Universe, who has previously repeatedly published reliable data about upcoming new products from the mobile world, predicts the appearance of smartphones with ultra-high-resolution cameras. It is alleged, in particular, that cameras with a 108-megapixel matrix will appear in cellular devices. Support for such high-resolution sensors has already been announced for a number of Qualcomm processors, including the mid-range Snapdragon 675 and Snapdragon 710 chips, and […]
Operating with IDC data and demand curves for Intel, AMD and NVIDIA products, Kwan-Chen Ma, a regular blog author on the Seeking Alpha website, could not calm down until he got to the analysis of the relationship between AMD and NVIDIA in the video card market. In contrast to the competition between Intel and AMD in the processor market, according to the author, the situation in the video card market […]
I recently came across a not-so-popular beast in the DevOps world, Azure DevOps pipelines. I immediately felt the lack of any clear instructions or articles on the topic, I don’t know what this is connected with, but Microsoft clearly has something to work on in terms of popularizing the tool. Today we will build a pipeline for automated testing inside the Azure cloud. So, […]
The world of databases has long been dominated by relational DBMSs, which use the SQL language. So much so that emerging variants are called NoSQL. They managed to carve out a certain place for themselves in this market, but relational DBMSs are not going to die, and continue to be actively used for their purposes. In this article I want to describe the concept of a functional database. For better understanding, I […]