Summary of the week of April 25, 2022

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AM5 will only come with DDR5 support

According to rumors, AMD's next socket that will support the future 5nm Ryzen 7000, will only come with support for DDR5 memory. AM5 will also come with support for PCIe 5.0.

JPEG XL support comes to FFMpeg

The famous video and image encoder FFMpeg has included JPEG XL support, something that will arrive in the next version. JPEG XL is a lossy compression format that offers similar performance to AVIF. It aims to be the replacement for JPEG and allows you to convert files from the old format to the new one without loss of quality and with a reduction in size from 15 to 25%.

The NTFS3 module for Linux is abandoned

The most advanced NTFS driver for Linux is the one maintained by Paragon, but since kernel 5.15 was released, the person responsible for its maintenance has not given any signs of life.

Security flaw in Linux's D-Bus

A security flaw has been found that allows privilege escalation in Linux through D-Bus. Desktop-Bus offers a communication mechanism between processes both through methods and signals.

Web server on a 486

Someone has put a web server in operation on an IBM Palm Top PC 110 that comes with a 486SL at 33MHz and 20MB of RAM using AOSC OS/Retro. The service has been active for a year without interruption.

They give away Paradigm and Just Die Already

Once again they are giving away games on Epic Games: Paradigm (2017) and Just Die Already (2021). Salu2! Jugones!