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Microsoft has announced updates in DirectX 12: simplified ray tracing and distance-based detailing.

Microsoft has introduced updated DirectX 12 APIs as part of the Windows Insider preview early access program and detailed the new features. These capabilities will be available in the release next year and include three main functions. The first feature concerns ray tracing. It was initially included in DirectX 12, but now it has been expanded. Specifically, additional shaders have been added to […]

How we use Markov chains in decision evaluation and bug finding. With a Python script

It is important for us to understand what is happening with our students during their education and how these events impact the outcomes, which is why we are building the Customer Journey Map. After all, the learning process is not a continuous and cohesive whole; it is a chain of interconnected events and actions taken by the student, and these actions can vary significantly among different learners. Here it is […]

Release of Fedora 31

Today, October 29, Fedora 31 was released. The release was delayed by one week due to issues with multi-architecture support in dnf and conflicts during the libgit2 package update. Installation options include: Fedora Workstation for x86_64 in DVD and netinstall images. Fedora Server for x86_64, AArch64, ppc64le, and s390x. Fedora Silverblue, Fedora CoreOS, and Fedora IoT […]

New article: What laptop is needed for photo and video editing and 3D rendering?

If one needs to choose the most striking testament to progress in computer technology, compelling not only in the eyes of specialists but also to the general public, it would undoubtedly be the mobile gadget—smartphone or tablet. At the same time, even the more conservative class of devices—laptops—has come a long way: from an addition to the desktop PC, with its limitations, to something that is now indispensable […]

In the first review, the Core i9-10980XE showed mixed results

Next month, Intel is expected to release the next generation of HEDT processors, Cascade Lake-X. Also, reviews of the new products are set to be published in November, but the Lab501 resource decided not to wait for the specified deadlines and published the results of its own tests of the flagship Core i9-10980XE processor. Firstly, it is worth mentioning that the Core i9-10980XE processor has 18 cores and 36 threads, just like its predecessor […]

Video: dismembering enemies and a grim atmosphere in Negative Atmosphere — the spiritual successor to Dead Space

Sunscorched Studios has released several gameplay videos for Negative Atmosphere on their YouTube channel — a horror game with survival elements, inspired by the Dead Space series. In the new gameplay segments, you can assess gunfire from various weapons, see the dark corridors of the space station, and observe how bodily damage affects the main character's condition. The first video demonstrates how the protagonist uses […]

Release of the Fedora 31 Linux distribution

The release of the Linux distribution Fedora 31 has been announced. Products available for download include Fedora Workstation, Fedora Server, Fedora Silverblue, Fedore IoT Edition, as well as a set of 'spins' featuring Live builds of desktop environments KDE Plasma 5, Xfce, MATE, Cinnamon, LXDE, and LXQt. The builds are available for x86, x86_64, Power64, ARM64 (AArch64) architectures, and various devices with 32-bit ARM processors. The most notable improvements in Fedora […]

We are writing protection against DDoS attacks on XDP. Core part

The eXpress Data Path (XDP) technology allows for arbitrary traffic processing on Linux interfaces before packets reach the kernel's network stack. Applications of XDP include DDoS attack protection (CloudFlare), complex filtering, and statistics collection (Netflix). XDP programs are executed by the eBPF virtual machine, which imposes limitations on both their code and the available kernel functions depending on […]

Phone surveys and CRM search in 3CX CFD, new WP-Live Chat Support plugin, Android app update

In the past couple of weeks, we have introduced several interesting updates and one new product. All these new features and improvements align with 3CX's policy of creating an affordable multi-channel call center based on UC PBX. The 3CX CFD Update includes new Survey and CRM Search components. The fresh release of the 3CX Call Flow Designer (CFD) Update 3 has received a new Survey component […]

Installation and configuration of Nexus Sonatype using an infrastructure as code approach

Sonatype Nexus is an integrated platform that allows developers to proxy, store, and manage Java dependencies (Maven), Docker images, Python, Ruby, NPM, Bower, RPM packages, gitlfs, Apt, Go, Nuget, and distribute their software. Why use Sonatype Nexus? For storing private artifacts; for caching artifacts downloaded from the internet; artifacts supported in the base install of Sonatype […]

Google is developing a modular build system Soong for Android

Google is advancing the Soong build system, which aims to replace the old Android platform build scripts based on the make utility. Soong proposes the use of simple declarative descriptions of module build rules specified in files with the '.bp' (blueprints) extension. The file format is similar to JSON and closely mirrors the syntax and semantics of Bazel build files. The code is written in Go […]

Release of the backup utility rclone 1.50

The release of rclone version 1.50 has been published. This utility is an alternative to rsync, intended for copying and synchronizing data between a local system and various cloud storage services such as Google Drive, Amazon Drive, S3, Dropbox, Backblaze B2, One Drive, Swift, Hubic, Cloudfiles, Google Cloud Storage, Mail.ru Cloud, and Yandex.Disk. The project's code is written in Go and is distributed under the […]

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