Summary of the week of January 24, 2022

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GPU prices are dropping

The GeForce RTX 30 series has gone from costing 185% of the recommended price to 177% while AMD graphics have gone from 178% to 167%.

Ryzen 5 5500U

Rico714 has brought us a Zen 2 laptop with 6 cores and SMT. With its TDP of 15W, the Ryzen 5500U is in last but one position in the architecture ranking. Despite its low consumption, it manages to enter the top 100 in single-thread, achieving position 94.

Corporation sues cURL developer

A company whose name has not been disclosed has sued the developer of the free cURL tool for saying that if they want support, they should pay for it.

Nvidia will not buy ARM

Finally, the marriage between Nvidia and ARM will not happen.

Chip supply still does not meet demand

The chip shortage has reached the point where suppliers' inventories have material for 5 days. In comparison, in 2019 there was 40 days of supply.

Security flaw in Linux

A security flaw has been found in Linux that allows escalation to root privileges using a pkexec vulnerability. The affected distros are Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, and CentOS among others.

fTPM causes performance issues in Windows 11

The fTPM module, necessary to run Windows 11 on AMD platforms, is causing performance issues that manifest in games jumping.

A pseudo 3D game for the console

pseudo3dbash is a pseudo 3d game (like DOOM) that runs on the Linux console. The program is contained in a 55kB Bash script.

Author levels: Tomb Raider I

I plan to bring to the games section of the forum a series of posts about author levels from the famous and mythical Tomb Raider saga.