Summary of the week of January 31, 2022

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Using the GPU to track users

A new way of tracking users on the Internet has been found through their GPU, where it is possible to uniquely identify two machines with identical hardware.

Screen at 500Hz

BOE has presented a 27-inch FHD screen with a refresh rate of 500Hz.

Core i3-10105

Namiga has brought us a Comet Lake with 4 cores and HT. The i3-10105 gets the 42nd position in the single-thread ranking and is in twelfth place in the ranking of the 17 CPUs of the architecture that we have.

The cheapest graphics card

The GeForce GT 1010 is a graphics card based on the GP108 GPU, from 4 years ago. It is the cheapest dedicated graphics card. It costs about €70 and is suitable for games up to 2008.

A lightweight notifier for Linux

Dunst is a notifier for Linux desktops that has low resource consumption.

Germany prevents the sale of a semiconductor manufacturer

The German government has halted the sale of the semiconductor manufacturer Siltronic to the Taiwanese company GlobalWafers, arguing that national security is being compromised by the chip shortage.

The EU is concerned about chip supply

The EU is going to invest billions of euros in the development of new semiconductor technologies, build megafactories, and reduce dependence on the USA and Asia.

Ryzen 7 5800H

Someone has brought us a Zen 3 laptop with 8 cores and SMT. The Ryzen 7 5800H has a performance practically identical to the Ryzen 7 3700X and with its TDP of 45W gets the 22nd position in the overall ranking.

Tiny Core Linux 13.0 available

A new version of Tiny Core has appeared, a distro intended for x86 PCs with very limited resources. Just started, the system consumes 30MB of RAM.

Author Levels: Tomb Raider Unfinished Business (Remake)

Neptunno has brought us an author level of Tomb Raider: "I invite you to play the remake of TR1 Gold (Unfinished Business)".

Author Levels: Himalayan Mysteries (Full Version)

Since I had the idea of bringing the author levels of the classic Tomb Raiders, the first level that came to mind was the one I am going to comment on now, Himalayan Mysteries.