Summary of the week of June 7, 2021

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Nvidia and Valve work to bring DLSS to Linux

The technique that allows the image to be scaled to a higher resolution without much loss of fps will arrive on Linux through its creator and the game distributor.

Gestures on Linux touchpad like on Mac

Someone has been working on an implementation of gestures on the touchpad in the style of Macbook. The driver already has support for Qt, X.org and Gimp.

Intel updates its microcode for security flaws

These are 3 vulnerabilities related to the VT-d virtualization repertoire, a flaw in the isolation of shared resources and a flaw related to the information leak in Atoms.

Microsoft halts Preview Builds

Microsoft's marketing machine has been set in motion to create expectations about the redesign of Windows that will appear at the end of the month. To avoid leaking details, it has temporarily stopped distributing its test version.

176-layer memories for that year

Samsung continues to increase the density of its V-NAND memories for which it will release PCIe 4 and 5 drives.

Hynix admits defect in batch of memories

The manufacturer confirms that a batch of 240,000 wafers are defective. In total, it manufactures about two million per month.

Plasma Mobile continues its development

The version of the graphical environment aimed at phones and tablets developed by KDE continues to introduce changes. The May update comes mainly with new apps and improvements to existing ones.