Summary of the last two weeks of May 2024

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The last two weeks have been incredibly slow. I don't know if it's because of personal bias, lack of sources or if the topic is really stuck in general:

Linux on a Motorola 68000

Someone has managed to run Linux on a Motorola 68k plugged into a protoboard along with 512kB of SRAM and 512kB of storage.

Installing Linux from Windows

Someone has created a tool that allows you to install Linux Mint from Windows without needing to prepare a USB drive.

CAMM2 on the desktop

The new CAMM2 RAM format, which was initially conceived for laptops, is coming to the desktop. There is already a manufacturer that has announced a model where the classic memory slots disappear.

Microsoft presents AutoSR

Microsft has announced a list of 12 games that have support for its Automatic Super Resolution. For now, AutoSR will only work on future laptops with Snapdragon X CPU. It is a technique that allows you to reduce the resolution at times when the game demands more GPU power to maintain a constant frame rate.

First biological processor

A Swiss company has presented a biological processor using something they have called wetware: a mix of hardware and biological tissue. These processors have a lifespan of 100 days and present as a great advantage a consumption 6 orders of magnitude lower than an electronic chip in the training of an LLM.

An LLM for Raspberry Pi

picoLLM is a language model engine designed to run on relatively limited hardware like a Raspberry Pi 5. The developer has left the SDK code along with examples on their GitHub page.

Transmission 4.0.6 available

The sixth revision of Transmission 4 comes with improvements in communication with trackers and a large number of bugs fixed, both in the multiple interfaces and in the internal functioning.