Summary of the week of February 28, 2022

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DLSS source code leaked

As a result of the cyber attack that Nvidia received this weekend, the DLSS source code has been leaked.

VESA finishes DisplayPort UHBR standard

VESA has finished writing the DisplayPort UHBR (Ultra-High Bit Rate) standard and has begun certifying cables that can carry 8K video at 60Hz with HDR.

Nokia announces its new Android phones

Nokia has presented its low-cost Android phones that come with micro-USB connectors and a replaceable battery for 80€.

ARM continues to gain ground

Lenovo is going to release ARM laptops with Windows 11. It comes with a 13.3" screen at 1920x120, a battery life of 28 hours, and up to 32GB of RAM with 1TB of SSD.

Core i5-1135G7

Namiga brought us a Core i5-1135G7 a few days ago. It is a portable Tiger Lake with 4 cores at 4.2GHz. Its performance is very similar to the Core i5-1035G1 and it is in third position of the 4 Tiger Lakes we have. It barely enters the general ranking, achieving position 96.

Raspberry Pi turns 10

Yesterday, Raspberry Pi celebrated its tenth anniversary. The first board went on sale on February 29, 2012.

Random number generation unified in Linux

Starting with Linux 5.18, all interfaces that provide random numbers in Linux will be powered by RNG. As a result, all daemons that need a random number during startup will have to wait a second for the seed to start.

Intel removes AVX-512 from Alder Lake

Initially, Intel said that Alder Lake would not have AVX-512, but motherboard manufacturers managed to enable it. Now Intel has decided to remove the instruction set from the chip, so the new CPUs of the architecture will not have the possibility to use the vector extension.

Linux with a Windows 95 look

Chicago95 is a desktop theme for XFCE that mimics the look of Windows 95 almost perfectly. There are packages available for Debian and Ubuntu.