Summary of the week of March 21, 2021

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Addressing criticism of RISC-V

RISC-V is an architecture that people either hate or love. To be more specific, there seems to be some rivalry between ARM and RISC-V developers.

The single charger in the EU by the end of the year

A European parliamentarian has said that by the end of this year, it may be approved that it is mandatory to have a single type of charging port for mobile phones in the EU. The idea has been around since 2011.

Linux 5.17 available

Linux 5.17 is now available which, among many other new features, comes with a new random number generator that practically doubles the performance of the previous one.

Rexaura (Mod Portal)

Neptunno presents us in this forum thread Rexaura, a Portal mod with 20 chambers focused on energy pellets for which you don't need to have the game.

Booting Linux on a Nintendo 3DS

Someone has written a bootloader that allows Linux to boot on a Nintendo 3DS.

Nvidia presents a 144-core CPU

Nvidia has presented Grace, a processor with 144 Arm v9 cores that they say surpasses AMD's EPYC Rome by 50% in performance.

Intel presents a new power supply standard

Intel has presented ATX 3.0, a new standard for power supplies that aims to replace ATX 2.0 which appeared in 2003. The new version will coexist with the ATX12VO 2.0 specification.

Firefox now has AV1 acceleration

Hardware acceleration for AV1 will come with Firefox 100. It will require an RTX 30 or Radeon RX 6000 and Windows 10 1909, which meets 2% of the computer park that uses Mozilla's browser.

Gnome 42 available

Version 42 of Gnome comes with a new option that enables dark mode in all programs that have that color scheme. It also brings improvements in screenshots and minor changes in the apps of the environment.