Summary of the week of October 28, 2024

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Storing data in DNA

A group of researchers has developed a method that can be used to store data in DNA. In theory, 215,000TB per gram can be stored, although for now, they have achieved a transfer rate of only 40 bits/s.

Firefox 132 available

The one hundred and thirty-second version of Firefox comes with hardware acceleration in WebRender for SVG filters, which improves performance when displaying content with a significant graphic load.

Core Ultra 9 285K

Xevipiu has broken the multi-thread speed record with his Core Ultra 9 285K. The Arrow Lake has managed to surpass the ephemeral record of the Ryzen 9 9950X reaching 2.2 million points. However, in single-thread performance it remains in third position where the 9950X continues to reign.