Summary of the week of January 25, 2021

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Nvidia has problems buying ARM

Nvidia's plans to have a general-purpose ISA are being thwarted by antitrust laws.

Deskreen creates screens in web browsers

This interesting tool is capable of creating a second screen for the PC using the browser of any device, such as a mobile, tablet or another PC.

TSMC will prioritize automotive electronics

The automotive-focused integrated circuits account for 3% of TSMC's manufacturing. Car manufacturers decided to reduce production due to low demand and now that they are trying to restore it, they have found that TSMC is using their lines for other products.

AMD Threadripper Pro comes with up to 64 cores

3 models have been announced with 16, 32 and 64 cores, all with SMT. The price ranges from €1100 for the smaller model to €5500 for the larger model.

Firefox 85 protects against supercookies

For a few hours now, a new version of the Mozilla browser has been available for download, which comes with protection against supercookies, a type of cookie that remains in the browser even when you delete it. There are also improvements regarding bookmarks and the password manager.

Why Red Hat has ended CentOS

A member of the CentOS team explains that the company wanted either profits or a large enough community. Not achieving either, they closed the blinds.

Intel GPUs will not work on AMD

Intel's discrete graphics cards have raised expectations by adding some competition to a market dominated by only two brands. Unfortunately, Intel people will cripple the cards so they don't work on AMD platforms.

exeCute runs exe and bat on Linux

This small tool facilitates the execution of DOS and Windows programs on Linux. Essentially, the program chooses whether to use DosBox or Wine to run the program in question and adds parameters to improve compatibility.

Backblaze statistics 2020

The company has published a comprehensive report on the failure rates of the hard drives they use in their data centers. It seems that they have made some changes in their facilities that have reduced the number of defective disks. As usual, Seagate has the models that are most likely to fail.

Ubuntu will try again to use Wayland

The graphical protocol that has been a promise of a substitute for X for years could come by default in Ubuntu 21.04. Wayland is still not mature enough in KDE and Nvidia graphics cards.