Summary of the week of July 3, 2023

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The front page returns after a long break:

New 12V-2x6 power connector

The new 12V-2x6 power connector comes with the intention of polishing the design flaws of the newly launched 12VHPWR. The 12V-2x6 allows moving up to 600W.

An AI designs a processor

An artificial intelligence has managed to create a processor compatible with the 486SX. This CPU can run Linux.

SSH command list

In this entry, someone has created a list of commands related to ssh and the commands related to the management of scp and sftp files.

Intel publishes its new instruction set

Intel has published the instruction set of its upcoming Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake architectures. In this batch, the company has focused, as expected, on instructions focused on the creation and training of neural networks.

Device notifier for Linux

Someone has created a tool called devify that serves to show a notification every time a device is connected in Linux. It provides the name of both USB and Bluetooth devices.

Firefox 115 available

The hundred and fifteenth version of Firefox for Linux comes with hardware video decoding on Intel GPUs enabled by default.

Microsoft has sold 21 million XBox

Microsoft says it has sold 21 million Xbox Series S and X. To put the figure into perspective, Sony has sold 38 million PS5 and Nintendo 126 million Switch.

AMD begins to support Zen 5 in Linux

The first AMD patches to support the future Zen 5 in Linux have already begun to appear. The changes have focused on the temperature sensor and the EDAC controller for memory error correction.